Abstract Still-life Photography
ABSTRACT STYLE
Beginning in the early 20th century, abstract art became a leading style of modernism. Rather than portray the world in a way that represented reality, as had been the dominating style of Western art in the previous centuries, abstract paintings, prints and sculptures are marked by a shift to geometric forms, gestural shapes and experimentation with color to express ideas, subject matter and scenes.
Although abstract art flourished in the early 1900s, propelled by movements like Fauvism and Cubism, it was rooted in the 19th century. In the 1840s, J.M.W. Turner emphasized light and motion for atmospheric paintings in which concrete details were blurred, and Paul Cézanne challenged traditional expectations of perspective in the 1890s.
Some of the earliest abstract artists — Wassily Kandinsky and Hilma af Klint — expanded on these breakthroughs while using vivid colors and forms to channel spiritual concepts. Painter Piet Mondrian, a Dutch pioneer of the art movement, explored geometric abstraction partly owing to his belief in Theosophy, which is grounded in a search for higher spiritual truths and embraces philosophers of the Renaissance period and medieval mystics. Black Square, a daringly simple 1913 work by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich, was a watershed statement on creating art that was free “from the dead weight of the real world,” as he later wrote.
Surrealism in the 1920s, led by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Meret Oppenheim and others, saw painters creating abstract pieces in order to connect to the subconscious. When Abstract Expressionism emerged in New York during the mid-20th century, it similarly centered on the process of creation, in which Helen Frankenthaler’s expressive “soak-stain” technique, Jackson Pollock’s drips of paint, and Mark Rothko’s planes of color were a radical new type of abstraction.
Conceptual art, Pop art, Hard-Edge painting and many other movements offered fresh approaches to abstraction that continued into the 21st century, with major contemporary artists now exploring it, including Anish Kapoor, Mark Bradford, El Anatsui and Julie Mehretu.
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Style: Abstract
Untitled (2155): still life photograph w/ antler, bone & abstract shadow pattern
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is an archival pigment print depicting an abstracted still life printed on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag 308 gsm by artist Paul Cava. It is from the "Table Top" ...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Untitled (2159): still life photograph with antler and abstract shadow patterns
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is an archival pigment print depicting an abstracted still life printed on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag 308 gsm by artist Paul Cava. It is from the "Table Top" series, which is one of t...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Eugene 6 - Floral landscape white dominant contemporary abstract color photo
Located in New York, NY
Belgian photographer Isabelle Menin creates portraits of flowers that are not only gorgeous in form and color, but also uniquely expressive. Fresh blossoms and withering blooms melt ...
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2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Floral Study 13: still life color photograph w/ dried flowers on black field
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is an archival pigment print depicting an abstracted still life printed on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag 308 gsm by artist Paul Cava. It is from the "Flora" seri...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Tentation #9 Floral landscape soft pastel color contemporary abstract photograph
Located in New York, NY
This abstract floral landscape photography has pastel soft dominant color of grey, pink and white.
Belgian photographer Isabelle Menin creates portraits of flowers that are not on...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Tentation #12- Floral landscape soft pastel color contemporary abstract photo
Located in New York, NY
Belgian photographer Isabelle Menin creates portraits of flowers that are not only gorgeous in form and color, but also uniquely expressive. Fresh blossoms and withering blooms melt ...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Changing Moods 5- Floral landscape cyan blue color contemporary abstract photo
Located in New York, NY
Belgian photographer Isabelle Menin creates portraits of flowers that are not only gorgeous in form and color, but also uniquely expressive. Fresh blossoms and withering blooms melt ...
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2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Mandala 8A, From the Mandalas series. Color Photographs
By Emma Anna
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Mandala 8A by Emma Anna
From The Mandalas Series
Archival pigment print on Photo Rag 308gsm
Image size: 19.5 H x 19.5 W inches
Sheet size: 22 H x 22 W inches
Frame size: 24.5 H x 24...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Changing Moods 2- Floral landscape orange color contemporary abstract photo
Located in New York, NY
Belgian photographer Isabelle Menin creates portraits of flowers that are not only gorgeous in form and color, but also uniquely expressive. Fresh blossoms and withering blooms melt ...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Tentation#11 Floral landscape soft pastel color contemporary abstract photograph
Located in New York, NY
This abstract floral landscape photography has pastel soft dominant color of grey, pink and white.
Belgian photographer Isabelle Menin creates portraits of flowers that are not on...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Changing Moods bright green 2- Floral landscape contemporary abstract photo
Located in New York, NY
Belgian photographer Isabelle Menin creates portraits of flowers that are not only gorgeous in form and color, but also uniquely expressive. Fresh blossoms and withering blooms melt ...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
'Istan Petals' Hand Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
'Istan Petals' Hand Signed Limited Edition
Stuart Möller
Two fallen bougainvillea petals floating on water in Istan, Spain.
Beautiful Archival Pigment Print.
40 x 30 inches / 101 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Songs For Dead Heroes # 6 soft color floral abstract landscape photo composition
Located in New York, NY
This abstract floral landscape photography has a dramatic sense of composition which recalls the careful arrangements of Dutch and Flemish still life paintings from the 17-18 century...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Songs For Dead Heroes # 9 abstract pastel color floral landscape photo montage
Located in New York, NY
This pastel color abstract floral landscape photography has a dramatic sense of composition which recalls the careful arrangements of Dutch and Flemish still life paintings from the ...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Song for dead heroes #2 dark color abstract floral landscape photo composition
Located in New York, NY
This abstract floral landscape photography has a dramatic sense of composition which recalls the careful arrangements of Dutch and Flemish still life paintings from the 17-18 century...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Song for dead heroes #1 Floral abstract landscape dark color photo composition
Located in New York, NY
This abstract floral landscape photography has a dramatic sense of composition which recalls the careful arrangements of Dutch and Flemish still life paintings from the 17-18 century...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Songs For Dead Heroes #8 blue yellow floral abstract landscape photo composition
Located in New York, NY
This floral blue white yellow dominant color abstract landscape photography has a dramatic sense of composition which recalls the careful arrangements of Dutch and Flemish still life...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Tentation #8 Floral landscape soft pastel color contemporary abstract photograph
Located in New York, NY
This abstract floral landscape photography has pastel soft dominant color of grey, pink and white.
Belgian photographer Isabelle Menin creates portraits of flowers that are not on...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Phragmites Panorama, black and white, long exposure, waterscape, photograph
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art long exposure waterscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Gerald Bergh...
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2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Songs For Dead Heroes # 9 abstract pastel color floral landscape photo montage
Located in New York, NY
This pastel color abstract floral landscape photography has a dramatic sense of composition which recalls the careful arrangements of Dutch and Flemish still life paintings from the ...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Tentation #12- Floral landscape soft pastel color contemporary abstract photo
Located in New York, NY
This abstract floral photography has dominant grey and pink colors.
Belgian photographer Isabelle Menin creates portraits of flowers that are not only gorgeous in form and color, b...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Path #1 multi color abstract floral photo composition
Located in New York, NY
This floral photography has a dramatic sense of composition which recalls the careful arrangements of Dutch and Flemish still life paintings from the 17-18 century.
Belgian photog...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Song for dead heroes #2 dark color abstract floral landscape photo composition
Located in New York, NY
This abstract floral landscape photography has a dramatic sense of composition which recalls the careful arrangements of Dutch and Flemish still life paintings from the 17-18 century...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Path # 3 gray white yellow floral abstract photo composition
Located in New York, NY
This floral photography has a dramatic sense of composition which recalls the careful arrangements of Dutch and Flemish still life paintings from the 17-18 century.
Belgian photog...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
In Between the shadows
Located in London, GB
In Between the Shadows 3
Giclee Print on Hahnemuhle Pearl Fine Art Paper
Print Size: 37x 30cm , Framed: 44 x 37 cm
Edition of 7 + 2 AP, Currently available of the edition: 5-7
The series ‘In Between the Shadows’ consists of structural and geometric photographs that take their inspiration from the cubist movement.
The works aim to challenge the conventional perception of depth within the medium of photography by showing different viewpoints at the same time and within the same space. The chiaroscuro lighting embraces shadows and light as juxta- positional tools to deconstruct familiar objects and transform them into surreal compositions.
Sander Vos...
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2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White, Color, Archival Pigment
Songs # 6 soft color white dominant floral abstract landscape photo
Located in New York, NY
This white dominant abstract floral landscape photography has a dramatic sense of composition which recalls the careful arrangements of Dutch and Flemish still life paintings from th...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
' Fire Escape ' signed Oversize Silver Gelatin Print
Located in London, GB
Exquisite oversize silver gelatine fibre print.
40x30 inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size
unframed.
Edition size 10 only this size
Signed & Numbered on front.
Supplied with certificate ...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Songs For Dead Heroes #8 blue yellow floral abstract landscape photo composition
Located in New York, NY
This abstract floral landscape photography has a dramatic sense of composition which recalls the careful arrangements of Dutch and Flemish still life paintings from the 17-18 century...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Songs For Dead Heroes # 6 soft color floral abstract landscape photo composition
Located in New York, NY
This abstract floral landscape photography has a dramatic sense of composition which recalls the careful arrangements of Dutch and Flemish still life paintings from the 17-18 century...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Doll No. 3 (Edition 1/25)
Located in New York, NY
Doll No. 3 (Edition 1/25), Lucille Khornak, Color Photograph on Board with Acrylic Finish, 40 x 26, Late 20th Century
Colors: Black, Blue, White,...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Film
Doll No. 2 "Madeline" (Edition 1/25)
Located in New York, NY
Doll No. 2 (Edition 1/25) "Madeline", Lucille Khornak, Color Photograph on Board with Acrylic Finish, 40 x 26, Late 20th Century
Colors...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Film
Doll No. 15 (Edition 1/25)
Located in New York, NY
Dolls No. 15 (Edition 1/25), Lucille Khornak, Color Photograph on Board With Liquid Acrylic Finish/ Mixed Media, 26 x 40, Late 20th Century
Colors: Bla...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Film
Doll No. 16 (Edition 1/25)
Located in New York, NY
Doll No. 16 (Edition 1/25), Lucille Khornak, Color Photograph on Board with Acrylic Finish, 40 x 26, Late 20th Century
Colors: Blue, Gray, Brown,...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Film
Doll No. 7 (Edition 1/25)
Located in New York, NY
Doll No. 7 (Edition 1/25), Lucille Khornak, Color Photograph on Board with Acrylic Finish, 26 x 40, Late 20th Century
Colors: Black, Blue, White,...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
1977 "Boat, Barn, Truck" Still Life Black & White Photograph
Located in Arp, TX
Tricia Sample
Boat, Barn, Truck
1977
Matte black and white photo
12.5" x9.5" Frame measures 16.25"x19.25"
Gallery label on reverse from the Friends of Photography Gallery
Friends of Photography was a nonprofit organization started by Ansel Adams and others in 1967 to promote photography as a fine art. During its existence the organization held at least 330 photography exhibitions at its galleries in Carmel and San Francisco, California, and it published a lengthy series of monographs under the name Untitled. Among those who were featured in their exhibitions and publications were well-known photographers Ansel Adams, Wynn Bullock, Ruth Bernhard, Harry Callahan, Roy DeCarava, Lee Friedlander, Emmet Gowin, Mary Ellen Mark, Barbara Morgan, Aaron Siskind, Paul Strand, Brett Weston, Edward Weston and Minor White, as well as then newly starting photographers such as Marsha Burns, William Garnett, Richard Misrach...
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1970s Abstract Still-life Photography
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Photographic Paper
Untitled (2155): still life photograph w/ antler, bone & abstract shadows, large
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is an archival pigment print depicting an abstracted still life printed on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag 308 gsm by artist Paul Cava. It is from the "Table Top" ...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
'Istan Petals' Hand Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
'Istan Petals' Hand Signed Limited Edition
Stuart Möller
Two fallen bougainvillea petals floating on water in Istan, Spain.
Beautiful Archival Pigment Print.
20 x 16 inches / 41 x...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Istan Petals' Hand Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
'Istan Petals' Hand Signed Limited Edition
Stuart Möller
Two fallen bougainvillea petals floating on water in Istan, Spain.
Beautiful Archival Pigment Print.
30 x 20 inches / 76 x...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Istan Petals' Hand Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
'Istan Petals' Hand Signed Limited Edition
Stuart Möller
Two fallen bougainvillea petals floating on water in Istan, Spain.
Beautiful Archival Pigment Print.
60 x 40 inches / 152 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Song for dead heroes #2 dark color abstract floral landscape photo composition
Located in New York, NY
This abstract floral landscape photography has a dramatic sense of composition which recalls the careful arrangements of Dutch and Flemish still life paintings from the 17-18 century...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Song for dead heroes #1 Floral abstract landscape dark color photo composition
Located in New York, NY
This abstract floral landscape photography has a dramatic sense of composition which recalls the careful arrangements of Dutch and Flemish still life paintings from the 17-18 century...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Terracotta 10
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated verso
1961
Matted with archival board. Not framed
The Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Richard L. Menschel
Category
1960s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
You can write my biography but you can't have my soul
By Tina West
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 25.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is prod...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Thought is the Architect of Reality
By Tina West
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 25.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is prod...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Pyramids with Terracotta Magenta Art Deco Head
By Robert Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The timelessness of pyramids is puncuated with a dreamy terracotta classcial head.
Signed, dated, numbered lower right, recto 4/15, unframed, other sizes available Printed on Hahnem...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
Forest of Glass with Bronze Nymph
By Robert Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around a $100. Signed, numbered and dated on verso, 2/15 unframed, other sizes available
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2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Trimmings
Located in New York, NY
40"x 60" unframed photograph, edition of 5 (signature and edition on reverse)
This is from Stephen Mallon's series, "American Reclamation" which captures the abstract beauty withi...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
Pyramids with Terracotta Magenta Art Deco Head
By Robert Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The timelessness of pyramids is punctuated with a dreamy terracotta classcial head.
Signed, dated, numbered lower right, recto 4/15, unframed, other sizes available Printed on Hah...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Forest of Glass with Bronze Nymph
By Robert Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100 - Signed, numbered and dated on verso, 2/15 unframed, other sizes available
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Forest of Glass
By Robert Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around a $100. Signed, numbered and dated on verso, 2/15 unframed, other sizes available
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Atmospheres 5
Located in Kansas City, MO
Angie Jennings
Title : Atmospheres 5
Materials : Dye Sub on Metal
Date : 2020
Dimensions : 40x.5x40
Description : Image is a circular print 40" in diameter.
Angie has been doing photographic work for over 30 years. Her images can depict stories in a single image or a series of images. Her main focus is street documentary and portrait photography. Currently she has been exploring the abstract with the Avant-garde artists of the 40s as her inspiration. She has exhibited extensively with in Kansas City but also around the US and China.
Photography, Contemporary art, photographers, women photographers...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Metal
Atmospheres 3
Located in Kansas City, MO
Angie Jennings
Title : Atmospheres 3
Materials : Dye Sub on Metal
Date : 2020
Dimensions : 40x.5x40
Description : Image is a circular print 40" in diameter.
Angie has been doing pho...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Metal
Untitled #4 (from Unfocused Series)
By Anne K Smith
Located in Kansas City, MO
Anne K Smith
Title: Untitled #4 (from Unfocused Series)
Medium: Archival Inkjet Print on Museo Silver Rag
Size: 10.5 x 16 inches
Available in sets of 3 (mix and match)
Entire "Unfoc...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet
Abstract still-life photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Abstract still-life photography available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add still-life photography created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, red, purple and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Isabelle Menin, Michael Banks, Lucille Khornak, and Stuart Möller. Frequently made by artists working with Paper, and Photographic Paper and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Abstract still-life photography, so small editions measuring 0.5 inches across are also available. Prices for still-life photography made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $187 and tops out at $14,600, while the average work sells for $3,107.