Abstract 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
View (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
View (Abstract Photography)
Unique - Photography/painting, mixed media - Unframed. Signed by the Artist at the back.
Artwork exclusive to IdeelArt.
Artworks are of the highest a...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Wood Panel
Mute # 201706 (Abstract Photography)
By Paul Snell
Located in London, GB
Mute # 201706 (Abstract Photography)
This work is framed 8mm face and 65mm depth.
Chromogenic print face-mounted 8 mm plexiglass.
Backed with Dibond and C-channel hanging system ...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, C Print
Colony Hotel Ocean Drive, South Beach at Night Tropical Neon Reds and Neon Blue
Located in Miami, FL
Tropical Colors abound in this photography of South Beach. Ocean Drives Neon light show is in full display in this Mitchell Funk photograph. This archival color photograph by fine ...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Climbing the Columns
By Harold Davis
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
This composite photograph originated with rays of sunlight through a glass bottle.
Words that describe this piece: color, light, bright, sunlight, red, light bea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Golden Girl 1 - Signed limited edition pigment print , Large scale photo, model
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Golden Girl 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 + numbere...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Digital, Pigment, Archival Pi...
Fall (Abstract photography)
Located in London, GB
Fall (Abstract photography)
Black and white photogram - Unframed
Tenesh Webber is a Canadian artist who works in abstract black and white photography. She lives and works in the N...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Paper, Photogram
Rainy New York City Street Scene in Grays and Monochromatic Color
Located in Miami, FL
A rainy day photograph of a New York City woman with an umbrella is depicted with Precisionist linearity.
Taken from a birds-eye view looking down the New York City street looks mor...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Psari (2/5)
Located in Quogue, NY
Limited edition, colorful abstract water reflection pigment print on cold press rag paper
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Rag Paper, Digital Pigment
Unlock (Abstract photography)
Located in London, GB
Unlock (Abstract photography)
Silver Gelatin Print - Unframed.
Tenesh Webber is a Canadian artist who works in abstract black and white photography. She lives and works in the New ...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Kontari (3/5)
Located in Quogue, NY
Limited edition, colorful abstract water reflection pigment print on cold press rag paper
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Rag Paper, Digital Pigment
Surreal Landscape Sci-Fi Landscape - Modern Photography Magazine Cover
Located in Miami, FL
Aesthetically, this image is generations ahead of it's time. It looks so contemporary but was done in the early 1980's in the pre-digital ear. It was a Modern Photography Cover 198...
Category
1980s Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Photon 06 (Abstract Photography)
By Seb Janiak
Located in London, GB
Photon 06 (Abstract Photography)
Chromogenic print. Edition 1/5.
In his Photon series, Janiak explores the intrinsic duality of light. The photons we interpret as light exist in a ...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
EM-84 Protector 2 (Abstract new media)
By Bill Kane
Located in London, GB
EM-84 Protector 2 (Abstract new media)
Pigment on canvas - Unframed.
Edition of 3.
The Emanations series is an attempt to express the spiritual potential of the most essential asp...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Canvas, Pigment
Italia 1 - Signed limited edition archi print, Color Photography, Large Format
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Large scale photograph by Michael Banks - Archival Pigment print on fiber based paper ( Hahnemühle Photo RAG Baryta 315 gsm )
Italia 1 - Limited Editions of 5 , signed + numbered b...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Color, Pigment, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment, Photo...
EM-26 Siddhartha (Abstract Photography)
By Bill Kane
Located in London, GB
EM-26 Siddhartha (Abstract Photography)
Pigment on canvas - Unframed.
Edition of 3.
The Emanations series is an attempt to express the spiritual potential of the most essential aspect of photography: light. Each work in the series began its evolution as a scanned image of a Buddhist thangka—a spiritual painting of a Buddhist deity—which was then blurred and stretched until all that remained was a distilled image of color and form. These reduced images were then printed onto canvases, resulting in what Kane refers to as elemental “representations of the light bodies of the Buddhas.”
Bill Kane...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Canvas, Pigment
Huis Clos Exit Here (Abstract photography)
Located in London, GB
Huis Clos Exit Here (Abstract photography)
Photography and paint on wood - Unframed.
Artwork exclusive to IdeelArt.
Artworks are of the highest archival standards. Wood supports a...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Wood
Untitled 70 (Abstract photography)
Located in London, GB
Untitled 70 (Abstract photography)
C print - Unframed.
Richard Caldicott is most well known for this earlier work series which used Tupperware containers as the subject for his pho...
Category
1990s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Division (Abstract photography)
Located in London, GB
Division (Abstract photography)
Silver Gelatin Print - Unframed.
Tenesh Webber is a Canadian artist who works in abstract black and white photography. She lives and works in the Ne...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Résonance - water drop 251 (Abstract Photography)
By Seb Janiak
Located in London, GB
Résonance - water drop 251 (Abstract Photography)
Chromogenic print. Edition 1/5.
In his Résonance series, Janiak explores the role of sound in creation. Taking inspiration from sa...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Blue Ferns and a Hint of Magenta. Sculpture Garden
By Robert Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Natural shapes become abstract living plant sculptures. With the right light and composition, a garden is really a sculpture garden. Signed, dated, numbered lower right, recto 2/15, ...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Cracked Paint Abstraction Chinatown San Francisco Mural, Abstract Photography
Located in Miami, FL
A painted wall advertisement becomes an abstract work of art through the lens of Mitchell Funk. San Francisco is known for is a rich environment of...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Résonance - water drop 251 (Abstract Photography)
By Seb Janiak
Located in London, GB
Résonance - water drop 251 (Abstract Photography)
Chromogenic print. Edition 1/5.
In his Résonance series, Janiak explores the role of sound in creation. Taking inspiration from sa...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Magnetic radiation 01 (Abstract photography)
By Seb Janiak
Located in London, GB
Magnetic radiation 01 (Abstract photography)
Chromogenic print. Edition 1/5.
In his Magnetic Radiation series, Janiak reveals the hidden world of magnetism by photographing ferrofl...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Résonance - water drop 84 (Medium)
By Seb Janiak
Located in London, GB
Résonance - water drop 84 (Medium)
Chromogenic print. Edition 1/5.
In his Résonance series, Janiak explores the role of sound in creation. Taking inspiration from sacred texts from...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Morphogenetic field - Beluga Caviar (Abstract Photography)
By Seb Janiak
Located in London, GB
Morphogenetic field - Beluga Caviar (Abstract Photography)
Chromogenic print. Edition 1/5.
In his Morphogenetic fields series, Janiak examines the visi...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Morphogenetic field - AB negative blood (Abstract Photography)
By Seb Janiak
Located in London, GB
Morphogenetic field - AB negative blood (Abstract Photography)
Chromogenic print. Edition 1/5.
In his Morphogenetic fields series, Janiak examines the visible manifestation of the ...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Bleed # 202009 (Abstract Photography)
By Paul Snell
Located in London, GB
Bleed # 202009 (Abstract Photography)
Chromogenic Print Face-mounted 3mm Matte Plexiglas - Unframed.
Available on request - 4 week turnaround.
Backed with extruded polystyrene, co...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, C Print
Intersect # 201702 (Abstract Photography)
By Paul Snell
Located in London, GB
Intersect # 201702 (Abstract Photography)
Chromogenic Print Face-mounted 4.5mm Plexiglas - Unframed.
Available on request 5-6 week turnaround.
Backed with Dibond and C-channel hangi...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, C Print
Street Art: Literally. New York City Rainy Day with Purple Umbrella
Located in Miami, FL
City road workers inadvertently become modern-day Steet Artists. Mitchell Funk in a continuing series, captures the colorful diagram mark-ups that city road crews use to plot out th...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Misty Underwater Shapes, Mid-Century Modern Organic Blue, Handmade Monotype 2021
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted unique cyanotype that takes its inspiration from the mid-century modern shapes.
It's made by layering paper cutouts and different exposures using uv-...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photogram, Monotype, Color, C Print, Photographic Pap...
Guilty 0697 (2/5)
Located in Quogue, NY
Limited edition, colorful abstract water reflection pigment print on cold press rag paper
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Rag Paper, Digital Pigment
Boat 1-Free delivery-Signed limited edition still life contemporary print, Large
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Large scale photograph by Michael Banks - Archival Pigment print on fiber based paper ( Hahnemühle Photo RAG Baryta 315 gsm )
Boat 1 - Limited Editions of 5 , signed + numbered ...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Paper, Archival Paper, Digital Pigment, Archival Pig...
Climbing the Columns
By Harold Davis
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
This composite photograph originated with rays of sunlight through a glass bottle.
Words that describe this piece: color, light, bright, sunlight, red, light bea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Dissolve #201901 (Abstract photography)
By Paul Snell
Located in London, GB
Chromogenic Print Face-mounted 4.5mm Matt Plexiglas - Unframed
Backed with Dibond and C-channel hanging system + keyhole option.
Edition: 1/3 + AP
Paul Snell combines traditional ...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, C Print
Chrysler Building Top , Art Deco Architecture New York City
Located in Miami, FL
It's the epitome of Art Deco Architecture. The top of the Chrysler Building is lit by golden light in this photograph of a classic New York City scene. Photographer Mitchell Funk s...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Inkjet
Shift / World View (Abstract photography)
Located in London, GB
Shift / World View (Abstract photography)
Photography. Painting. Wood support. Varnished with uvls protective coating - Unframed.
Artwork exclusive to IdeelArt.
Artworks are of th...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Wood
The Girl 2 -Signed limited edition contemporary print, Large format Color yellow
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
The Girl 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 + numbered...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Color, Digital, Pigment, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigme...
Bleed # 202124 (Abstract photography)
By Paul Snell
Located in London, GB
Bleed # 202124 (Abstract Photography)
Chromogenic Print Face-mounted 3mm Matte Plexiglas - Unframed.
Edition: 1/3.
Paul Snell combines traditional and digital techniques to explor...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, C Print
Paris Collé (3/5)
Located in Quogue, NY
Limited edition, colorful abstract water reflection pigment print on cold press rag paper
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Rag Paper, Digital Pigment
Fashionable woman's Green Stripes Echo Stripes of the Street
Located in Miami, FL
A Dress Designer and a Street Engineers' graphic style collide in this caught Manhattan moment. In New York City art is everywhere. You can wear it and walk on it at the same time...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Ampeli II (AP1)
Located in Quogue, NY
Limited edition, colorful abstract water reflection pigment print on cold press rag paper
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Rag Paper, Digital Pigment
Gravity Bulle d'air 01 (Abstract Photography)
By Seb Janiak
Located in London, GB
Gravity Bulle d'air 01 (Abstract Photography)
Chromogenic print. Edition 1/5
In his Gravity Bulles d'air series, Janiak creates visual representations of the idea that form cannot...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Blue Buildings, New York 1970, Architecture
Located in Miami, FL
This transcendent image by art photographer Mitchell Funk's "Blue Buildings, New York 1970" is generations ahead of its time. Executed in 1970, it pushed the boundaries of color pho...
Category
1960s Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Stono River 47077, Landscape Fine Art Photography, Framed in Plexiglass
Located in Armonk, NY
Best described as paintings from a camera, John Duckworth’s Landscape Abstracts evoke the sea, forest, marsh, and sky in rich bands of saturated color. This body of work captures the...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Plexiglass
Persistence of the sun (Abstract photography)
Located in London, GB
Persistence of the sun (Abstract photography)
Photography - Unframed.
Artwork exclusive to IdeelArt.
Edition of 10 +2 AP - Artworks are printed by the artist on Hahnemühle Fine Ar...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Mute # 201801 (Abstract Photography)
By Paul Snell
Located in London, GB
Mute # 201801 (Abstract Photography)
This work is framed 8mm face and 65mm depth.
Chromogenic print face-mounted 8 mm plexiglass.
Backed with Dibond and C-channel hanging system ...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, C Print
Gravity Bulle d'air 05 (Abstract Photography)
By Seb Janiak
Located in London, GB
Gravity Bulle d'air 05 (Abstract Photography)
Chromogenic print. Edition 1/5.
In his Gravity Bulles d'air series, Janiak creates visual representations of the idea that form canno...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Gravity - Liquid 05 (Abstract Photography)
By Seb Janiak
Located in London, GB
Gravity - Liquid 05 (Abstract Photography)
Chromogenic print. Edition 1/5.
In his Gravity Liquid series, Janiak creates visual representations of the idea that form cannot exist wi...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Gravity - Liquid 58 (Abstract Photography)
By Seb Janiak
Located in London, GB
Gravity - Liquid 58 (Abstract Photography)
Chromogenic print. Edition 1/5.
In his Gravity Liquid series, Janiak creates visual representations of the idea that form cannot exist wi...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Beautiful Flower Woman on Fifth Avenue Easter Parade, Fine Art Photography
Located in Miami, FL
The merger of human and plant forms is complete with a lovely young woman dressed in an elaborate flower hat. The beauty and warmth of her floral outfit are matched by her smile.
Si...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Stroma (2/5)
Located in Quogue, NY
Limited edition, colorful abstract water reflection pigment print on cold press rag paper
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Rag Paper, Digital Pigment
Intersect # 201704 (Abstract Photography)
By Paul Snell
Located in London, GB
Intersect # 201704 (Abstract Photography)
Chromogenic Print Face-mounted 4.5mm Plexiglas - Unframed.
Available on request 5-6 week turnaround.
Backed with Dibond and C-channel hangi...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, C Print
Dissolve # 201801 (Abstract Photography)
By Paul Snell
Located in London, GB
Dissolve # 201801 (Abstract Photography)
Chromogenic Print Face-mounted 4.5mm Plexiglas- Unframed.
Backed with Dibond and C-channel hanging system + keyhole option.
Edition: 2/3.
...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, C Print
Colorful Street Art Reflected in Car
Located in Miami, FL
Street photographer Mithcell Funk achieves a heightened a dramatic effect of color as he shoots the reflection of the street art in a car. Through Funk's lens, the car becomes the w...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
EMDL-9 (Abstract Photography)
By Bill Kane
Located in London, GB
EMDL-9 (Abstract Photography)
Pigment on canvas - Unframed.
Edition of 3.
The Emanations series is an attempt to express the spiritual potential of the most essential aspect of ph...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Canvas, 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 Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Parisien-Du-Nord (AP1)
Located in Quogue, NY
Limited edition, colorful abstract water reflection pigment print on cold press rag paper
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Rag Paper, Digital Pigment
EM-54 Palden Lhamo 2 (Abstract new media)
By Bill Kane
Located in London, GB
EM-54 Palden Lhamo 2 (Abstract new media)
Pigment on canvas - Unframed.
Edition of 3.
The Emanations series is an attempt to express the spiritual potential of the most essential ...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Canvas, Pigment
Abstract photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Abstract 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 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, purple, red, orange and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Mitchell Funk, Paul Snell, Michael Banks, and Seb Janiak. Frequently made by artists working with Paper, and Pigment Print 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 photography, so small editions measuring 0.5 inches across are also available. Prices for 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 $50 and tops out at $36,000, while the average work sells for $3,359.
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