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
'Framed Color Face More And More' Digital Painting, Lamda Print
Located in Rye, NY
Digital Painting, Lambda Print on fuji crystal archival paper mounted on aluminum dibond, acrylic front.
In another piece created in the “Framed Colored Squares” series, JCW experim...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Digital, Lambda
'Framed Figures' Digital Painting, Lamda Print
Located in Rye, NY
Digital Painting, Lambda Print on fuji crystal archival paper mounted on aluminum dibond, acrylic front.
In another piece created in the “Framed Colored Squares” series, JCW experim...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Digital, Lambda
Sand dunes 2
Located in Santa Monica, CA
A new work by the artist
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Playboy Legacy Boxed Set /Gold Edition - Authorized by: Hugh Hefner - #20 of 75
Located in New York, NY
PROVENANCE: From the Playboy Legacy Collection, authorized by Hugh M. Hefner
c. 2007; #20 of 75 authorized Playboy Legacy Limited Editions
Only twenty-five were produced as an oak box set.
A 16" x 20" black and white Marilyn Monroe gelatin silver print was signed by Hugh M. Hefner.
There are total forty-eight (48) 16” x 20” chromogenic and C-type prints in this box set.
Oak box #20 of 25, 16” x 20” Playmate images with accompanied historical Playboy material, set in a pull drawer, with Playboy logo key #20.
Condition: Excellent, conservation condition, with rare oak box, 48 prints and accompanying material
This is a limited edition, numbered, oak boxed edition, set of forty-eight (48) 16” x 20” chromogenic and gelatin silver prints, shot by famous Playboy and international photographers, including: Tom Kelly...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Oak, Archival Paper, Silver Gelatin
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 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 Photography
Materials
Metal
Playboy Legacy Boxed Set /Gold Edition - Authorized by: Hugh Hefner - #20 of 75
Located in New York, NY
PROVENANCE: From the Playboy Legacy Collection, authorized by Hugh M. Hefner
c. 2007; #20 of 75 authorized Playboy Legacy Editions
Only twenty-five were produced as an oak box set.
Set of forty-eight (48) 16” x 20” chromogenic and gelatin silver prints
Oak box #20 of 25, 16” x 20” Playmate images with accompanied historical Playboy material, set in a pull drawer, with Playboy logo key #20.
Condition: Excellent, conservation condition, with rare oak box, 48 prints and accompanying material
This is a limited edition, numbered, oak boxed edition, set of forty-eight (48) 16” x 20” chromogenic and gelatin silver prints, shot by famous Playboy and international photographers, including: Tom Kelly...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Oak
Sounds
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Welded steel (Painted or Dusted)
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Steel
Density 1919-1922
Located in New York, NY
Unique
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Density 1920
Located in New York, NY
Unique
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Over Clouding Germany
Located in Rye, NY
A composition based on horizons and blue color. Blue symbolizes far-away places and eternity. The first images in the series project unfathomable distance, possess an astounding clar...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Digital
'Kalipo Miami Passage' Digital Painting on Lambda Print
Located in Rye, NY
Digital Painting, Lambda Print on fuji crystal archival paper mounted on aluminum dibond, acrylic front.
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Digital, Lambda
Golden Shores
Located in Rye, NY
Digital Painting, Lambda Print on fuji crystal archival paper mounted on aluminum dibond, acrylic front.
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Digital, Lambda
'Abstract Lake Scape' Conceptual Digital Painting
Located in Rye, NY
Digital Painting, Lambda Print on fuji crystal archival paper mounted on aluminum dibond, acrylic front.
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Digital, Lambda
Arches of Gold
Located in Rye, NY
Digital Painting, Lambda Print on fuji crystal archival paper mounted on aluminum dibond, acrylic front.
In another piece created in the “Framed Colored Squares” series, JCW experim...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Digital, Lambda
Warped
Located in Kansas City, MO
Artist: Rachel Lauren
Title: Warped
Date: 2019
Medium: Inkjet print
Dimensions: 14 x 11 in.
Photographer Rachel Lauren invites viewers to become more aware of the way natural beaut...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Color, Digital, Inkjet, Photographic Paper
All Natural
Located in Kansas City, MO
Artist: Rachel Lauren
Title: All Natural
Date: 2019
Medium: Inkjet print
Dimensions: 14 x 11 in.
Photographer Rachel Lauren invites viewers to become more aware of the way natural beauty has been contorted, packed and sold as a cold, manufactured, cloned and empty product. Are women inherently beautiful, or do they require modifications? Are you seeing your uniquely created reflection through a distorted lens? By imposing a juxtaposition between real and fake through abstract portraiture, Lauren calls attention to these complex ideals in "Distorted Beauty".
Lauren is currently an MFA candidate at UMKC and based in Colorado. Since the age of two, she has fostered a love for photography and traveling which have both shaped her understanding of the issues she addresses in her work.
Contemporary photography, portrait photography, experimental portraiture, conceptual photography, Steve McCurry, Lisa Kristine...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Digital, Inkjet
Church of the Ladies and Busses
Located in Rye, NY
Digital Painting, Lambda Print on fuji crystal archival paper mounted on aluminum dibond, acrylic front.
In front of the breathtaking backdrop of the baroque Frauenkirche, three monstrous structures similarly tower over the scene. Artifacts of a Syrian artist...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Lambda, Digital
Nan Jing Orphee Part I
Located in Rye, NY
Digital Painting, Lambda Print on fuji crystal archival paper mounted on aluminum dibond, acrylic front.
Nanjing Orphee is a series of works depicting extravagant luxury in China. Na...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Lambda, Digital
SOHO Tower Shanghai
Located in Rye, NY
Digital Painting, Lambda Print on fuji crystal archival paper mounted on aluminum dibond, acrylic front.
A tower belonging to one of the most successful private real-estate developer...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Lambda, Digital
Klimt Joe Red Dawn
Located in Rye, NY
Digital Painting, Lambda Print on fuji crystal archival paper mounted on aluminum dibond, acrylic front.
This composition is a typical example of the transformation from original mat...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Lambda, Digital
Nan Jing Orphee Part III
Located in Rye, NY
Digital Painting, Lambda Print on fuji crystal archival paper mounted on aluminum dibond, acrylic front.
The second in a series of images about the extravagant luxury in China. Nanji...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Lambda, Digital
Shanghai Night and Day
Located in Rye, NY
Digital Painting, Lambda Print on fuji crystal archival paper mounted on aluminum dibond, acrylic front.
JCW worked and lived in the “Mega City” of Shanghai, with its population of o...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Digital, Lambda
Shanghai UP
Located in Rye, NY
Digital Painting, Lambda Print on fuji crystal archival paper mounted on aluminum dibond, acrylic front.
Shanghai 2014 – a city, a “mega city”, a metropole endeavors with all its mig...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Lambda, Digital
Stripes Pensum Unlimited
Located in Rye, NY
Digital Painting, Lambda Print on fuji crystal archival paper mounted on aluminum dibond, acrylic front.
Stripes of color placed in relationship to and with each other. The order of ...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Digital, Lambda
Framed Color World II
Located in Rye, NY
Digital Painting, Lambda Print on fuji crystal archival paper mounted on aluminum dibond, acrylic front.
Countless, diverse patches over-lay the initial image of “Framed Color Square...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Digital, Lambda
Framed Color World I
Located in Rye, NY
Digital Painting, Lambda Print on fuji crystal archival paper mounted on aluminum dibond, acrylic front.
Countless, diverse patches over-lay the initial image of “Framed Color Square...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Digital, Lambda
Framed Color Square 1
Located in Rye, NY
Digital Painting, Lambda Print on fuji crystal archival paper mounted on aluminum dibond, acrylic front.
The exchange between color and form create a deepness of space and becomes th...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Lambda, Digital
Framed Color Face V
Located in Rye, NY
Digital Painting, Lambda Print on fuji crystal archival paper mounted on aluminum dibond, acrylic front.
In another piece created in the “Framed Colored Squares” series, JCW experim...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Lambda, Digital
Castle With Fountain
Located in Rye, NY
Digital Painting, Lambda Print on fuji crystal archival paper mounted on aluminum dibond, acrylic front.
Romantic strolls – an old castle sits at the foot of a lake with a mirror-lik...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Digital, Lambda
Rollce Royce Escorts
Located in Rye, NY
Digital Painting, Lambda Print on fuji crystal archival paper mounted on aluminum dibond, acrylic front.
Wittig's works use photographic techniques i...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Lambda, Digital
Framed Color Face III
Located in Rye, NY
Digital Painting, Lambda Print on fuji crystal archival paper mounted on aluminum dibond, acrylic front.
Wittig's works use photographic techniques i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Lambda, Digital
Untitled #11 (from Unfocused Series)
By Anne K Smith
Located in Kansas City, MO
Anne K Smith
Title: Untitled #11 (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 "Unfo...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet
Untitled #10 (from Unfocused Series)
By Anne K Smith
Located in Kansas City, MO
Anne K Smith
Title: Untitled #10 (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 "Unfo...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet
Untitled #9 (from Unfocused Series)
By Anne K Smith
Located in Kansas City, MO
Anne K Smith
Title: Untitled #9 (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 Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet
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 Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Ink
Untitled #3 (from Unfocused Series)
By Anne K Smith
Located in Kansas City, MO
Anne K Smith
Title: Untitled #3 (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 Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet
Untitled #2 (from Unfocused Series)
By Anne K Smith
Located in Kansas City, MO
Anne K Smith
Title: Untitled #2 (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 Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet
Negative Pull with Mixed and Offset Pods
By Ellen Carey
Located in New York, NY
Two Polaroid prints (Unique)
Signed, titled, and dated in black ink, verso
58 x 22 inches, each print
58 x 44 inches, overall
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New Yo...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Color
Moonrock
Located in Fairfield, CT
Moonrock by Gustavo Ten Hoever.
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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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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