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
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
'Lily in Charcoal no.2' abstract expressionism photography edition of 20
By Ugne Pouwell
Located in London, GB
'Lily in Charcoal no.2' 2023
From raw energy to sublime. 'Lily in Charcoal No.2' is an expression piece combining an abstract charcoal drawing with a live lily emerging from a gash....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Photographic Film, Charcoal, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
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
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
Biltmore water, Still life Black and White Limited edition Photography
By Luca Artioli
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The 'Miami Skin Series' it’s not a traditional collection of photos about the architecture of Miami and Miami Beach. It’s rather a quick journey between its own skin from the Art Dec...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Enlighten 1 - Signed limited edition abstract pigment print, Large Format black
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Enlighten 1 - Large scale photograph by Michael Banks -Archival Pigment print on fiber based paper ( Hahnemühle Photo RAG Baryta 315 gsm )
Limited Editions of 5 , signed + number...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Pigment, Archival Pigment, Di...
Interior - Signed limited edition still life pigment print, Contemporary, Brown
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Interior - Signed limited edition archival pigment print, Edition of 3
Signed + numbered by artist with certificate of authenticity , unframed
This print that is being offered is a ...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Digital Pig...
Floral Study 181: still life color photograph w/ dried flowers on sky blue 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 #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
Untitled (2159): still life photograph w/ antler & abstract shadow patterns, lg
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
Floral Study 181: still life photograph w/ dried flowers on sky blue field, lg
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" series, which is one of three...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival 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
Leaves series #3485: minimalist nature still-life leaf photograph in green & red
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is an archival pigment photograph by artist Paul Cava depicting a highly detailed autumn leaf in a minimalist arrangement on a textured background. It is printed on Hahnemuhle P...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Water element 3 - Signed limited edition abstract pigment print, sun reflections
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Large scale photograph by Michael Banks - Archival Pigment print on fiber based paper ( Hahnemühle Photo RAG Baryta 315 gsm )
Water element 3 - Limited Editions of 5 , signed + nu...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Pigment, Archival Pigment, Di...
Enlighten 1 - Signed limited edition abstract pigment print, Large Format black
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Enlighten 1 - Large scale photograph by Michael Banks -Archival Pigment print on fiber based paper ( Hahnemühle Photo RAG Baryta 315 gsm )
Limited Editions of 5 , signed + number...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Pigment, Archival Pigment, Di...
Interior - Signed limited edition still life pigment print, Contemporary, Brown
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Interior - Signed limited edition archival pigment print, Edition of 3
Signed + numbered by artist with certificate of authenticity , unframed
This is an Archival Pigment print on f...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Digital Pig...
Zic Zac Photography Print Limited Edition Signed
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
Photography/ print, abstract, limited edition of 15, signed by the author.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Color, Digital
$486 Sale Price
41% Off
Enlighten 2 - Signed limited edition abstract pigment print, Large Format black
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Enlighten 2 - Large scale photograph by Michael Banks -Archival Pigment print on fiber based paper ( Hahnemühle Photo RAG Baryta 315 gsm )
Limited Editions of 5 , signed + number...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Pigment, Archival Pigment, Di...
Boat 2 - Signed limited edition pigment print, Large format still life photo
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Boat 2 - Limited edition pigment print - Limited Editions of 5
Signed + numbered by artist, with certificate of authenticity
This is an Archival Pigment prin...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Black and White, Digital, Pigment, Archival Pigment, Dig...
Maybe “Tugendhat” Photography Print Limited
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
Photography, fine art print. Reminiscence on the Onyx Wall at the Villa Tugendhat. Done somewhere in Slovakia. Could be delivered im different sizes. SalamonArt certificate will be d...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color
$658 Sale Price
31% Off
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
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White, Color, 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
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 ...
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.
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.
40 x 30 inches / 101 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Eugene 7- 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 ...
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
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
Irons and Tomatoes: still life color photograph w/ abstract shadow patterns, sm
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 three series, along with his "Still Life" and his "Flora" series, making up a larger body of work produced between the years 2019-2021. The leading actor in this three-part drama is the late afternoon light with the supporting cast being the objects of his attention -- a deer antler, a dying flower, plaster casts of his daughter’s hand and foot, the various vessels and forms in relation to each other as the light moves across their surfaces. The elephant in the room for the latter work is the lockdown mood that intensifies and thickens the air in these still lifes. Image size is approx. 14 1/2 x 11” printed on 19 x 13” sheets, edition of 10. Also available as image size approx. 19 x 14 1/4” printed on 22 x 17” sheets, edition of 5 ($2,500) - listed separately. Signed, titled, dated and numbered lower margin.
Brooklyn-born artist Paul Cava began his career as an artist in the late 1960's. Cava made his first explorations as a poet, multi-media artist, filmmaker, photographer and painter. He finally settled in the last three decades on a hybrid form of expression that synthesized his previous efforts and anticipated the current digital use of photography by combining photographs, words, collage, drawing, painting, and printmaking into his own visual language, the core of which is a personal visual poetry.
Cava has exhibited paintings, drawings and photo-based works from 1976 to the present in galleries and museums in the United States and Europe. His work has been collected by a broad range of private and public institutions, including The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Princeton University Museum of Art, and The Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. His work has been featured in many publications including "Eyemazing Magazine" and "Das Magazin." Cava was a recipient of Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grants in 1981 and 1999. In 2005, the German publisher Edition Galerie Vevais released "Walt Whitman and Paul Cava / Children of Adam," a deluxe volume of Cava’s photo-based art and Walt Whitman’s poetry. The artist’s second book, "Paul Cava: Photographs Collages...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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
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
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
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
$6,000
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
$1,700 Sale Price
26% Off
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 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
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
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
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
$3,500 Sale Price
30% Off
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
Price Upon Request
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
Price Upon Request
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
Price Upon Request
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.
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