Contemporary Paintings
CONTEMPORARY STYLE
Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.
Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.
The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.
Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.
Find a collection of Contemporary prints, photography, paintings, sculptures and other art on 1stDibs.
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Style: Contemporary
“Japanese Anemone Study”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on panel painting of a still life of Japanese anemones by the very well known Irish artist, Martin Mooney. Signed with artist monogram signature lower right. Titled, si...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Bruma Two - Contemporary Geometric Abstract Gray Brown Beige Stripes, 2018
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary abstract painting in flashe on canvas, stripes and blocks of color in soft gray blue, pale sage green, beige and golden brown are clean, precise and carefully or...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Vinyl
When I Choose To Be Myself 2 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Nature
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gal...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
$1,480 Sale Price
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"Boardwalk", Contemporary, Abstract, Seaside, Green, Purple, Oil Painting, 2025
By Anita Loomis
Located in Franklin, MA
“Boardwalk” is a robust 30 x 40 x 1.5 inch oil painting on canvas by Anita Loomis that offers a playful and dreamlike abstract seaside view. With her own highly developed style of pa...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Synthetic Songbird - Contemporary Still Life Animal Painting Bird Flower, 2024
By Peter Hamlin
Located in Kent, CT
A futuristic looking canary is the focus of this fantastical still life painting in acrylic ink on canvas by Peter Hamlin. The golden yellow bird is whimsical and surreal, sitting in...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Screen
Silver and Gold (Abstract Landscape in Blue & Yellow Encaustic by Regina Quinn)
By Regina Quinn
Located in Hudson, NY
Silver and Gold (Abstract Landscape of Winter Forest in Blue & Yellow Encaustic) by Regina Quinn
2024
encaustic, India ink, and oil with wax on panel
6 x 6 unframed / 8 x 8 framed
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Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Encaustic, Oil, Panel
I'll en Rigault, José Salvaggio 21st Century Contemporary Painting
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
José Salvaggio, pedal artist from France, at Galerie Bonnard! The French artist José Salvaggio finds his subject in the French world around him. You do...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tathagata: Contemporary Mixed Media Buddha Painting by Sax Berlin
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Tathagata - a Pali or Sanscrit word used primarily by Siddartha Gautama Buddha to refer to himself. However it also the term for one who has reached enlightenment through Buddhist principles & has as many as eight different meanings. Generally accepted is the translation one who has thus arrived. And this vivid painting from Berlin has arrived! Drawing on his knowledge of the faith & his research into the theme this is a beautiful & informed rendition of Buddha. The colours are vibrant but enable one to look deep and take the essence of tranquility from the image. This Buddha would sit happily on an altar or a home corner of peace and tranquility, giving an essence of calm & preparedness to those who stand before it.
Oil paint using hand ground pigments, 24 ct gold and silver...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf, Silver Leaf
"Heart Spin Painting" inscribed acrylic on paper painting by artist Damien Hirst
By Damien Hirst
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Heart Spin Painting" acrylic on paper painting by artist Damien Hirst. Created with public collaboration at the Damien Hirst Spin Workshop to celebrate the opening of "Requiem" at t...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Triptych. Grandmother's memories of love, 100x240cm, acrylic on canvas
Located in Yerevan, AM
Triptych. Grandmother's memories of love, 100x240cm
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$3,975 Sale Price
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¿Quien es la Mas Bella III?
By Felix Mas
Located in Greenwich, CT
¿Quien es la Mas Bella III? is an oil on canvas painting with a canvas size of 44.5 x 39.25 inches, signed 'felix mas' lower right and framed in a Spanish-style, closed-corner, gold ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
No title - 21st Century Contemporary Painting of a woman
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Alejandro Casanova (Spanish artist)
No title
80 x 80 cm
Oil paint on canvas
Alejandro (Ale) Casanova was born in Valencia (Spain) in 1981. In the capital of Turia, he studied Fine ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mythological II (Faun) - 21st Century, Red, Blue, Flower, Myth, Contemporary Art
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Mythological II (Faun), 2016
Acrylic marker on canvas sheet (signed and dated front left corner)
23 5/8 H x 17 3/4 W in.
60 H x 45 W cm
(reproduced at page 23, in the catalogue 'Myth...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Summer Clouds
By Martha Mans
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Martha Mans
lavender gray white blue green yellow peach brown orange
framed in brown frame
The painting process has been an evolving experience for me from the time I was very young...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Landscape" Abstract painting, large size, seascape by Marilina Marchica Italy
Located in Agrigento, AG
Landscape
oil on cotton canvas
120x120 cm
the painting is stretched out on a handcrafted wooden frame and is ready to hang
it is shipped with a certificate of authenticity
Marilin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Graphite
Stai Fuori dal Mio Giardino Numero 3 (Botanicals, Burgundy, Butterflies 50% OFF)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Katrina Revenaugh
Stai Fuori dal Mio Giardino Numero 3
Archival Pigment Ink, Acrylic, Spray Paint and Gold Leaf on Birch Panel
Year: 2024
Size: 10 x 8 x 1.75 inches
Signed: On Verso
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Coastal Landscape with Figures on Beach & Pink Wild Flowers English Countryside
Located in Preston, GB
Coastal Landscape with Figures on the Beach with Pink Wild Flowers in the English Countryside, by British Artist.
Art measures 10 x 6 inches
Frame measures 14 x 10 inches
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Board
Underneath It All
Located in Burlingame, CA
Elizabeth Geisler is best known for her dazzling contemporary water reflection paintings that bridge realism with abstraction. Up close, the paintings appear ambiguous and loose, yet...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
''Landscape Miniature 0621''Contemporary Dutch Landscape Miniature Oil Painting
Located in Utrecht, NL
Frank Dekkers (1961) is a landscape painter par excellence. Full of dedication and diligence he always works on location outdoors, defying the elements. ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Peaceful morning, "Moments" series
Located in Zofingen, AG
The "Moments" series tells a visual story of life’s events—both big and small—that stay with us and warm the soul
Each painting is available individually, yet all the works in this ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Hunt Slonem "Castle Grounds" Butterflies
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Castle Grounds
Date: 2024
Medium: Oil on Wood
Unframed Dimensions: 21" x 30"
Framed Dimensions: 23.5" x 32.5"
Signature: Signed Verso
Edition: Uniq...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Summer 2 - Contemporary Expressive, Figurative Oil Painting, Male Nude Series
Located in Salzburg, AT
Bartosz Kolata was born in Torun, Poland in 1979. In 2006 he graduated in Art Conservation and Restoration from Nicolas Copernicus University UMK, secur...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hunt Slonem "Flight" Butterflies
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Flight
Date: 2024
Medium: Oil on Wood
Unframed Dimensions: 14" x 11"
Framed Dimensions: 18.5" x 15.5"
Signature: Signed Verso
Edition: Unique
Proven...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Silhouettes and Shadows I
Located in Atlanta, GA
Gwen Wong's work is both painterly and allegorical, caught somewhere in the middle between the representational painter and the narrator. "I am inspired by the idea of a childhood re...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Tiers
Located in Dallas, TX
David Collins was raised in Dallas, received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and currently lives and works in New York City. Collins has had numerous solo exhibitions i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Linen
$6,000
Dancer in green. Acrylic on board mounted on stretcher Painting.
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Movies, TV and magazines are constant source of inspiration. Fame, as fleckring and shallow it can be sometimes, is very intriguing to him.
The worlds of fashion, society and pop cu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Board
Palisades Series, Orange and Blue Trees
Located in Palm Desert, CA
The Palisades Series was inspired during a walk where I was struck by the graceful dancing movement of trees over looking the Pacific Ocean.
My long-term involvement with mysticism,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$2,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Pac World - Abstract Colorful Retro Inspired Graffiti Mixed Media Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles artist Amber Goldhammer paints dramatic abstract compositions in acrylic on canvas featuring energetic brushstrokes. Goldhammer uses her contemporary paintings to express...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Latex, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic
The Wind Whipped Up and They Welcomed Its Offering
Located in Burlingame, CA
'The Wind Whipped Up and They Welcomed Its Offering' - seagulls stand against an abstracted beach scene in this contemporary oil on canvas painting, 'Contemplating Progress II', by ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cornish Light, original painting, landscape, contemporary art, coastal
Located in Deddington, GB
Cornish Light captures the time of the setting sun at low tide on a favourite part of the Cornish coast. Gold leaf reflecting the natural colours from cloud cover. Layering and textu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Cornbread The King Of Graffiti Shield (Blue)", Acrylic on Street Sign, Graffiti
By Cornbread
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This artwork titled "Cornbread The King Of Graffiti Shield (Blue)" is an original artwork by Cornbread made of acrylic paint on a retired Amsterdam street sign. The piece measures 80...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Found Objects, Acrylic
Fishing in the Itaya River
Located in Paris, FR
Fishing in the Itaya River is a painting by contemporary Spanish artist Calo Carratalá from the “Jungle” series. It represents two fishermen on the Itaya river in Peru.
In the series...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Trio Portal: Part of the Becoming - 21st Century, Contemporary, Miniature
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, this is not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Her First Love" Playing Piano at Chateau de Chambo Impressionist Interior Scene
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
A charming depiction of an interior scene with a woman playing the piano passionately. A cozy impressionistic scene with warmth and feeling. Whimsical details through out and beautif...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mast Of Iceland - Modern Expressive Nature Oil Painting, Lightness, Clouds, Sky
Located in Salzburg, AT
Wiktor Jackowski's biography is reflected in the varied motifs of his works. After completing his academic study on the Academy of Art in Krakow and an Erasmus year at L'Ecole Etienn...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fly High - Abstract Soft Palette Bird Painting on Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Columbus, Georgia (USA) based artist Kellie Newsome specializes in dynamic and abstracted still-life artworks. Her expressive style emphasizes line structure, creating vibrant painti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Pencil
Beach House, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Vibrant flowers spill from a deep purple vase, their colorful petals popping against a neutral backdrop. The abstract floral details evoke the tranquil sunshi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Mixed flowers in a green vase
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Mixed flowers in a green vase' watercolor on paper. Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth, intensity, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Sunrise Japanese Maple II ( 36 x 36 inch Oil painting)
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a painting of the Japanese maple in my front yard. The red of the branches is a thin, sheer under layer and the creamy robin’s egg blue sky light-filled sky was painted on to...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Oil, Acrylic, Graphite
Across the Universe, Original Painting
By Nava Lundy
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A young woman closes her eyes in serene reflection, holding a delicate pink flower against her face. The background, filled with flowing handwritten lyrics from...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Afobaje (King Maker)
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
The central figure in Afobaje is a majestic and regal woman, representing the embodiment of motherhood. She exudes an aura of wisdom, strength, and grace. Adorned in traditional Afri...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Charcoal, Mixed Media
$4,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Bellflowers by Chen Yiching - Contemporary nihonga painting, flowers
By Yiching Chen
Located in Paris, FR
Bellflowers is a unique painting by contemporary artist Chen Yiching. The painting is made with mineral pigments, Japanese paper mounted on wood, dimensions are 61 × 50 cm (24 × 19.7...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Pigment
I choose my inner freedom
Located in Zofingen, AG
The painting "I Choose My Inner Freedom" conveys a moment of deep awareness and personal choice. The woman is depicted in a calm, contemplative pose — as if she is immersed in a mome...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Calla Lily
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Calla Lily' watercolor on paper. Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth, intensity, and size.
Internat...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
New Jersey Skyline with Sailboat (Hudson River Scene at Sunset by Bull Sullivan)
Located in Hudson, NY
New Jersey Skyline with Sailboat (Cloudy Hudson River Scene at Sunset) by Bill Sullivan
c. 1980
oil on canvas
36.5 x 60 inches
The late painter and...
Category
1980s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Flowing Sound #10 by Maho Maeda - Abstract painting, blue flowers, wood, canvas
Located in Paris, FR
Flowing Sound #10 is a unique painting by contemporary artist Maho Maeda. This painting is made with acrylic, coloured pencil and ink on cotton canvas and carved wood, dimensions are...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Wood, Cotton Canvas, Ink, Acrylic, Pencil
"Millions", Contemporary, Skull, Plastic Bag, Black, Oil Painting, 2024
By Dalvin Byron
Located in Franklin, MA
Dalvin Byron’s “Millions” is a 24 x 36 x 1.5 inch oil painting on canvas. It presents a stark and haunting image: a human skull encased in a sheer plastic bag, suspended in a black v...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Craig Mooney, "Sky Aglow" 40x60 Sunset Sailboat Seascape Oil Painting on Canvas
By Craig Mooney
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This contemporary landscape painting, "Sky Aglow", by artist Craig Mooney is a 40x60 oil painting on canvas featuring a vibrant sunset over a large body water. A line of sailboats ar...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sunset to Kyo by Lumi Mizutani - Japanese style painting, landscape, tree, sky
Located in Paris, FR
Sunset to Kyo is a unique painting by Japanese contemporary artist Lumi Mizutani. This painting is made with India ink, Japanese pigments and gold leaves on cardboard, dimensions are...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Object painting, inflatable painting on canvas, red color with nuances, texture
Located in Carballo, ES
This year, 2024, the artist Ruth Vidal (1998, Isla de Arousa) launches her latest research into painting and games. These works are based on the references that the artist draws from...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cotton, Polymer
Contrapuntal (6/23) by James Lumsden - Abstract colour painting, blue and red
Located in Paris, FR
Contrapuntal (6/23) is a unique acrylic on panel, gloss finish painting by contemporary artist James Lumsden, dimensions are 60 × 50 cm (23.6 × 19.7 in).
The artwork is signed, sold...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
From A Window Seat Two - Skyscape Oil Painting Ivory Gray Clouds Blue Sky, 2021
Located in Kent, CT
In this dramatic skyscape in oil on canvas, the drama and sublime beauty of the vast sky in New York State's Hudson Valley is masterfully captured. David Konigsberg is widely recogni...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
New Leaf 4658
Located in Napa, CA
Surrounded by artistic inspiration from a very early age, Kate Salenfriend learned most of her technical skills from her great-grandfather, Stewart Robertson, the registered Californ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Light Refraction #23, Abstract painting on canvas mounted in a stretcher
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Natasha Zupan beautifully unites the old and new, combining the innovation of her highly crafted technique with her wonder for tradition and the great Masters. This body of work expl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gold
Hunt Slonem "Hutch 7 Bunnies" Bunnies
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Hutch 7 Bunnies
Date: 2025
Medium: Oil on Wood
Unframed Dimensions: 23.5" x 31.5"
Framed Dimensions: 35" x 33"
Signature: Signed Verso
Edition: Uni...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Autographique 1, Contemporary Geometric Abstract Acrylic Painting on Canvas
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
"Autographique 1" by Antony Squizzato is a captivating geometric abstract painting featuring bold shapes and vibrant colors. This acrylic on canvas artwork measures 19.7 x 19.7 inche...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Eclipse (Oil Painting, Impasto, Impressionism, Colorful, Vibrant, Dark, Glossy)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Genevieve Hamel
Eclipse
Oil on Wood Panel
Year: 2024
Size: 24 x 24 x 1.625 inches
Signed by hand
COA provided
*wired and ready to hang
Genevieve Hamel’s passions for design and na...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Resilience, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A poppy in full bloom pairs with a closed bud. Written fragments from books layer the background, adding a narrative depth to the composition. The vivid red con...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Tjintjintjin
Located in Miami, FL
As one of the last generation to remember a childhood lived in the desert hunting and gathering with her family, Walangkura Napanangka's paintings recall the stories of country and the location of specific sites in her traditional homeland west of the salt lake of Karrkurutinjinya (Lake Macdonald).
Born around 1946, at Tjitururrnga west of Kintore, in the remote and arid country between the Northern Territory and Western Australia, she lived with her father Rantji Tjapangati and mother Inyuwa Nampitjinpa and later, while still a teenager, travelled by foot with her family over the hundreds of kilometres from their remote desert home eventually joining Uta Uta Tjangala's group as they walked in to the settlements of Haasts Bluff and then Papunya.
The lure of settlement life with its promise of plentiful food and water belied the harsh conversion they would make to an alien lifestyle with its many problems and unfamiliar demands. The upheaval however, was ameliorated to some degree by the proximity of her immediate family including her mother Inyuwa, adoptive father Tutuma Tjapangati, and sister Pirrmangka Napanangka (now deceased) all of whom became artists.
Relocated to the community of Kintore in 1981 when the outstation movement began, Walangkura participated in the historic women's collaborative painting project (1994) that was initiated by the older women as a means of re-affirming their own spiritual and ancestral roots. It was a time of specifically female singing, ceremony and painting, away from the gaze of outsiders and men folk. The huge and colourful canvases that emerged from the women's camp were 'alive with the ritual excitement and narrative intensity of the occasion' (Johnson 2000: 197).
Within a year, Papunya Tula Artists, now established at Kintore, had taken on many of these women as full-time artists, revitalising the company after the deaths of many of the original 'painting men'. While individual women forged their own stylistic trajectory, these paintings were immediately distinguishable from the men's more cerebral and symmetrical style. They radiated an exuberant and vibrant energy, the felt heart-beat of women's affinity to country and spirit.
Walangkura's early works, created from 1996 onward, are characterized by masses of small markings and motifs covering large areas of canvas. Her favorite colour, a deep sandy orange predominates, accentuated against more somber blacks and reds and dusky greens or yellows. More recent works show a gestural quality though still tightly packed with an intensity of geometric line work representing sandhills. In a sense this provides a strong visual and contextual link to the men's linear style as exemplified by the works of George Tjungurrayi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Linen, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
117 Green Gold Dotson Orange - Large Abstract Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
Since 2008, Tina Bluefield has been drawn to the world of large-scale abstraction, exploring the relationship between color, form, and the natural landscapes that inspire her.
She g...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
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