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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
Yellow Ball, East Hampton

Yellow Ball, East Hampton

By Gerard Giliberti

Located in East Hampton, NY

Yellow Ball, East Hampton, NY, Archival Pigment Print, $ Ed. 3/5, 2016 Printed to Order *Photography: U Wash Truck, Death Valley and Mulford Lane, Amagansett 2012 have been feature...

Category

2010s Abstract Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Mountain Sunrise 3 (Cyanotype framed to 29 x 23 inches)
Mountain Sunrise 3 (Cyanotype framed to 29 x 23 inches)

Mountain Sunrise 3 (Cyanotype framed to 29 x 23 inches)

By Christine So

Located in Oakland, CA

Though it resembles a giant abstract watercolor painting owing to its soft gradations and luminous quality, this is a form of photography called a cyanotype, photogram or sun print. ...

Category

2010s Abstract Photography

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Poppy on ink #2 - floral film photography in composition with ink abstraction

Poppy on ink #2 - floral film photography in composition with ink abstraction

By Ugne Pouwell

Located in London, GB

'Poppy on Ink #2' 2023 Black and white floral film photography combination with ink painting. Made using a large format 4x5 film camera, developed in the studio by the artist. Pr...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Photography

Materials

Photographic Film, Ink, Archival Ink, Photographic Paper, Giclée

Untitled 0472: still life photograph w/ gray vessels & abstract shadow patterns
Untitled 0472: still life photograph w/ gray vessels & abstract shadow patterns

Untitled 0472: still life photograph w/ gray vessels & abstract shadow patterns

By Paul Cava

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 Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Gravity - Liquid 05 (Abstract Photography)
Gravity - Liquid 05 (Abstract Photography)

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 without an environment. There are the visible forms we see in the world, and then there are the conditions that allow those forms to exist. As a catalyst for his exploration of this topic, Janiak chose gravity, one of the most ubiquitous and easily observable forces, and the one that allows so many forms in the physical universe to exist. The photographs in these series show two types of matter—liquids and gasses—being manipulated by gravity. Form is frozen by the photographic process, but the process is ever changing depending on the shifting conditions of their environment. Seb Janiak is a photographic artist whose work explores conditions in which opposites can co-exist, revealing the visual characteristics of the hidden forces...

Category

2010s Abstract Photography

Materials

C Print

Italian Vintage Dye Transfer Photograph Franco Fontana Color Landscape Photo
Italian Vintage Dye Transfer Photograph Franco Fontana Color Landscape Photo

Italian Vintage Dye Transfer Photograph Franco Fontana Color Landscape Photo

By Franco Fontana

Located in Surfside, FL

Franco Fontana (Italian, born 1933) Title: Los Angeles, California 1979 Edition 6/15 Medium: dye-transfer Dimensions: Frame 21.5 x 29.25. Sight 13 x 19.5 Provenance: Monique Goldstrom Gallery Franco Fontana (Italian, 1933) is an Italian photographer. He is best known for his Minimalist abstract colour landscapes. He was influenced by Minimalism and Abstract Expressionism. Franco Fontana was born in 1933 in Modena. He started taking photographs in the 1950s when he was working as a decorator in a furniture showroom. In 1961 he joined a local amateur club in Modena. The experience would be a turning point in his career, and Fontana went on to have his first solo exhibition in 1965 at the Società Fotografica Subalpina, Turin and at the Galleria della Sala di Cultura in Modena in 1968. Since then he has participated in more than 400 group and solo exhibitions including the exhibit Lines, Spheres and Glyphs at Robert Klein Gallery with works by photographers: Franco Fontana, Mario Giacomelli, Ernst Haas, Gyorgy Kepes and Aaron Siskind. Franco Fontana is considered one of the most relevant photographers of our time, In 1963 he exhibited his work at the Biennale of Color in Vienna, and in 1968 he held his first solo exhibition in Modena. Fontana often pares landscapes down to their essential elements, producing flat, geometric compositions reminiscent of the color field abstract expressionist paintings of Mark Rothko Ad Reinhardt and Barnett Newman, by underexposing his transparencies. Contrasting blue skies with green or yellow grass and the rigid lines of buildings with the softness of puffy clouds, he makes color and texture his primary subjects. He has also shot in Polaroid film, Cibachrome, C Print and chromogenic prints. His art has been acquired by some of the most important museums worldwide, including the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, MoMA in New York, Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Museum of Modern Art in Norman, Oklahoma, National Gallery in Beijing, Australian National Gallery in Melbourne, University of Texas in Austin, Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Israel Museum in Jerusalem, and Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville in Paris. Fontana has photographed for advertising campaigns for brands such as Fiat, Volkswagen, Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane, Snam, Sony, Volvo, Versace, Canon, Kodak, Robe di Kappa, Swissair, and has been a magazine photographer for publications including Time, Life, Vogue (USA and France), Venerdì di Repubblica, Panorama, and with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and The New York Times. Fontana's first book, Skyline, was published in 1978 in France by Contrejour and in Italy by Punto e Virgola with a text by Helmut Gernsheim. Fontana is the art director of the Toscana Foto Festival. He has received numerous awards, such as the 1989 Tokyo Photographer Society of Japan - The 150 Years of Photography - Photographer Award. Fontana is especially interested in the interplay of colours. His early innovations in colour photography in the 1960s were stylistically disruptive. According to art critic Giuliana Scimé, Fontana "destroyed all the structures, practices, and technical choices within the Italian tradition." Fontana uses 35mm cameras, and as noted by Iwan Zahar, deploys distant viewpoints with telephoto lenses to flatten contours in a landscape of crops and fields into bands of intense, saturated colour. This is an effect that Franco Lefèvre has described as 'dialectical landscapism'. Of his use of colour in his 2019 retrospective exhibition Sintesi ('Synthesis') at Fondazione Modena Arti Visive, curator Diana Baldon has observed; “His bold geometric compositions are characterised by shimmering colours, level perspectives and a geometric-formalist and minimal language, By adopting this approach during the 1960s, Fontana injected a new vitality into the field of creative colour photography for then multicolour was not in fashion in art photography., The way Fontana shoots, dematerializes the objects photographed, which loose three-dimensionality and realism to become part of an abstract drawing”. Aside from the rural landscape Fontana has applied his graphic sensibility to other subjects: city architecture, portraiture, fashion, still-life and the nude. He was included in the exhibition of the Helmut Newton Collection along with Brassaï, Diane Arbus, Franco Fontana, Horst P. Horst, Irving Penn, June Newton, Just Loomis, Man Ray, Mark Arbeit...

Category

1980s Abstract Photography

Materials

Dye Transfer

Great Dune

Great Dune

By Paul Dempsey

Located in East Hampton, NY

Snow Fence on Dunes in the Hamptons Black & White Photography Printed to order edition of 10 Title: Great Dune Year: 2018 Medium: Photography (printed on metal) Size: 20" x 30" ...

Category

2010s Abstract Photography

Materials

Metal

Bleed # 202610 (Abstract Photography)
Bleed # 202610 (Abstract Photography)

Bleed # 202610 (Abstract Photography)

By Paul Snell

Located in London, GB

Edition: 1/3 Work can be hung with either the WallCleat system (support bar supplied) or the screw-eye system if it needs support from wire or above. Available in 4 weeks turnaroun...

Category

2010s Abstract Photography

Materials

Plexiglass, Paper, C Print

Light 10 - Photo by Sofia Mattioli - 2020

Light 10 - Photo by Sofia Mattioli - 2020

By Sofia Mattioli

Located in Roma, IT

This beautiful photograph Light 10 was shot by the Italian photographer Sofia Mattioli. From the series The lights I see since you are gone, limited edition of 50 copies in Arab num...

Category

2010s Abstract Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Incoming Tide - Black & White Abstract Seascape Photograph
Incoming Tide - Black & White Abstract Seascape Photograph

Incoming Tide - Black & White Abstract Seascape Photograph

By James Deike

Located in Soquel, CA

Incoming tide, a black & white abstracted seascape by possibly Jim Deike, signed illegibly lower right. Unframed. Photograph: 10.25"H x 13"W. Overall: 16"H x 20"W.

Category

1980s Abstract Photography

Materials

Paper, Silver Gelatin

Florist, Mandala - Collage of Dead Flowers - Colour Print with Black Background
Florist, Mandala - Collage of Dead Flowers - Colour Print with Black Background

Florist, Mandala - Collage of Dead Flowers - Colour Print with Black Background

By George McLeod

Located in London, GB

‘Florist’ originally called ‘dead flowers’, was created using the flowers from my girlfriends ‘Zoom’ backgrounds over the space of several months. Usually scanned the moment she considered them to be wilted. About the series: " 'Detritus' series was born from the twin frustrations of lockdown halting all planned projects, yet litter still somehow being dropped in abundance on my street. With no idea of the final output, or indeed the hygiene implications, I started to collect, scan, and record what I found. When I realised these colourful misshapen objects could be turned into something beautiful, the frustrations left me and I began looking for other sources of Detritus. Florist, 2020 Series: Detritus Archival Pigment Print, Mounted on Dibond in custom made Frame; with Black Stained Oak and antireflective UV protective museum standard Art Glass Print 45 x 45 cm / Framed: 50 x 50 cm/ 19.6 x 19.6 inches approx. Edition of 8 + 2AP About the Artist George McLeod...

Category

2010s Abstract Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment

Wave I - large format abstract liquidscape in azur and lapis blue color palette
Wave I - large format abstract liquidscape in azur and lapis blue color palette

Wave I - large format abstract liquidscape in azur and lapis blue color palette

By Christian Stoll

Located in San Francisco, CA

Wave I by Christian Stoll 40 x 40 inches (102 x 102cm) edition of 25 signed 58 x 58 inches (147 x 147cm) edition of 7 signed 48 x 48 inches (122 x 122cm) edition of 7 signed arch...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée

Old Cadillac
Old Cadillac

Old Cadillac

By Brett Weston

Located in Buffalo, NY

Signed and dated on the front of the mount. Limited edition of 35. Number 14 of 35. From the “Twenty Photographs, 1970-1977” Portfolio.

Category

1970s Abstract Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Gravity - Liquid 58 (Abstract Photography)
Gravity - Liquid 58 (Abstract Photography)

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

Untitled (W.O.F 15-3)

Untitled (W.O.F 15-3)

By Christopher Colville

Located in Sante Fe, NM

Works of Fire When I look into the night sky I am awestruck by the darkness that is the universe. As the sparse light of the stars descends, I am entangled in a state of wonder, sea...

Category

2010s Abstract Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

28° 14' 34.127’’N, 114° 6' 44.679’’W-6 Cyanotype photograph of the ocean waves
28° 14' 34.127’’N, 114° 6' 44.679’’W-6 Cyanotype photograph of the ocean waves

28° 14' 34.127’’N, 114° 6' 44.679’’W-6 Cyanotype photograph of the ocean waves

By Paola Davila

Located in Miami Beach, FL

Water is constant in the artist's visual investigation, for her water is no longer the stage in which the body's memory bursts, but rather the environment and protagonist, constant o...

Category

2010s Abstract Photography

Materials

Cotton, Archival Pigment

Architectonic 3- Signed limited edition print, Large contemporary, Architecture
Architectonic 3- Signed limited edition print, Large contemporary, Architecture

Architectonic 3- Signed limited edition print, Large contemporary, Architecture

By Michael Banks

Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona

Architectonic 3 Large scale photograph by Michael Banks - Archival Pigment print on fiber based paper ( Hahnemühle Photo RAG Baryta 315 gsm ) Limited Editions of 5 , signed + numbe...

Category

Early 2000s Abstract Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Pigment, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment, Black and Wh...

Red Pause, 2009, From The Series Of While You Are Sleeping
Red Pause, 2009, From The Series Of While You Are Sleeping

Red Pause, 2009, From The Series Of While You Are Sleeping

By Arslan Sükan

Located in Miami Beach, FL

‘While you are sleeping’ (Seascape Series) In his seascape works, Sukan manipulates his imagery connected to the constant tensions between the mental grasp of the specificity and rep...

Category

2010s Abstract Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Man Ray, Electricite Rayograph, 1931, Framed Heliogravure
Man Ray, Electricite Rayograph, 1931, Framed Heliogravure

Man Ray, Electricite Rayograph, 1931, Framed Heliogravure

By Man Ray

Located in Barcelona, ES

Framed Rayograph Heliogravure by Man Ray for Compagnie Parisienne de Distribution d'Electricite´, 1931. Printed in Heliogravure and signed in the negative. Limited to 500 copies. ...

Category

1930s Abstract Photography

Materials

Paper

Italia 4- Limited edition pigment print, Gold light, Sculpture, Greek Mythology
Italia 4- Limited edition pigment print, Gold light, Sculpture, Greek Mythology

Italia 4- Limited edition pigment print, Gold light, Sculpture, Greek Mythology

By Michael Banks

Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona

Italia 4 - Large scale photograph by Michael Banks Archival Pigment print on fiber based paper ( Hahnemühle Photo RAG Baryta 315 gsm ) Limited Editio...

Category

2010s Abstract Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Pigment, Archival Pigment, Di...

Hedge Fun - Bal Harbor  - Miami Beach, Landscaping in Red and Violet
Hedge Fun - Bal Harbor  - Miami Beach, Landscaping in Red and Violet

Hedge Fun - Bal Harbor - Miami Beach, Landscaping in Red and Violet

By Robert Funk

Located in Miami, FL

Hedge Fun is a series that celebrates the landscaping commissioned by well-heeled homeowners, high-end condos and ritzy commercial establishments. Shrubs, bushes and trees are transf...

Category

2010s Abstract Photography

Materials

Inkjet, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Strata # 202506 (Abstract Photography)
Strata # 202506 (Abstract Photography)

Strata # 202506 (Abstract Photography)

By Paul Snell

Located in London, GB

Unique. Paul Snell is an Australian artist who blurs the boundaries between photography and painting, creating contemplative works that replace constant image saturation with moment...

Category

2010s Abstract Photography

Materials

Concrete, Enamel

Blue 2 - Signed limited edition abstract print, Large Format, Contemporary
Blue 2 - Signed limited edition abstract print, Large Format, Contemporary

Blue 2 - Signed limited edition abstract print, Large Format, Contemporary

By Michael Banks

Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona

Blue 2- Limited Editions of 5 , signed + numbered by artist, with certificate of authenticity Large scale photograph by Michael Banks - Archival Pigm...

Category

Early 2000s Abstract Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Pigment, Archival Pigment, Di...

Future city 1-Signed limited edition abstract print, Large format contemporary
Future city 1-Signed limited edition abstract print, Large format contemporary

Future city 1-Signed limited edition abstract print, Large format contemporary

By Michael Banks

Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona

' Future city 1 ' - Limited edition pigment print - Limited Editions of 5 Signed + numbered by artist, with certificate of authenticity This is an Archival Pigment print on fibe...

Category

2010s Abstract Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Color, Pigment, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment

Future city 3- Signed limited edition abstract print, Large format contemporary
Future city 3- Signed limited edition abstract print, Large format contemporary

Future city 3- Signed limited edition abstract print, Large format contemporary

By Michael Banks

Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona

Future city 3 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, Color, Pigment, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment, Photo...

Adagio 3 - Signed limited edition abstract brown pigment print, Contemporary
Adagio 3 - Signed limited edition abstract brown pigment print, Contemporary

Adagio 3 - Signed limited edition abstract brown pigment print, Contemporary

By Michael Banks

Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona

Adagio 3 - Limited edition pigment print of 5 This print that is being offered is a high-quality Archival Pigment print which has been printed on fiber-based paper. The paper used ...

Category

2010s Abstract Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment, C...

Doll No. 15 (Edition 1/25)

Doll No. 15 (Edition 1/25)

By Lucille Khornak

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 Photography

Materials

Photographic Film

Set of 4 photographs II from it's all about the game
Set of 4 photographs II from it's all about the game

Set of 4 photographs II from it's all about the game

By Dubravka Lazic

Located in Miami Beach, FL

The exploration of the concept of play as an artistic impulse presents playful, almost "baroque-written" photographs that are the result of a repeated (recycled) notion of play. Star...

Category

2010s Abstract Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

"JM Basquiat-GB5" Photography 66" x 48" inch Edition of 8 by Giuliano Bekor
"JM Basquiat-GB5" Photography 66" x 48" inch Edition of 8 by Giuliano Bekor

"JM Basquiat-GB5" Photography 66" x 48" inch Edition of 8 by Giuliano Bekor

By Giuliano Bekor

Located in Culver City, CA

"JM Basquiat-GB5" Photography 66" x 48" inch Edition of 8 by Giuliano Bekor Year: 2020 Medium: Photography Print size: 66 x 48 Inches trim bleed Edition of 8 Artist proof: 2 Other s...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Photography

Materials

Archival Paper

Gina Parr, Sol, Contemporary Art, Limited Edition Photographic Print, Art Online
Gina Parr, Sol, Contemporary Art, Limited Edition Photographic Print, Art Online

Gina Parr, Sol, Contemporary Art, Limited Edition Photographic Print, Art Online

By Gina Parr

Located in Deddington, GB

When she is traveling and away from her painting studio, Parr uses a camera as her way of ‘painting’ whilst on the move, Often mistaken as reproductions of her paintings, her photographs are in fact Original Limited Edition pieces. Habana Series Cuba 2016 was produced, whilst the Artist scoured each street of Old Havana, Cuba in January 2016. Photographed because of their inherent illusion of horizon and form, these chance marks, stains, colours and textures on walls and other surfaces, some of which have partly been laid down by others by accident or with previous intent, become chimerical worlds and fictional places. The photographs, which Parr has named after where they were taken, further confirm things not being as they seem, a pictured utopia found in the still squalid but reforming streets of Havana, Cuba. Discover original abstract paintings by Gina Parr online with Wychwood Art and in their Oxfordshire Art Gallery. Gina Parr works predominantly in the medium of painting, but also photographs when traveling: her way of painting whilst on the move. Her work is driven by autobiographical themes and natural reference, exploring the human condition through connections to place, time, space and memory. She has exhibited widely in galleries and art fairs in the UK and completed commissions in The Middle East, Belguim and London. Her works are held in collections Worldwide including Keble College Oxford, Director of Jestico + Whiles Architects London, President of the Boston's Children's Museum USA, and Goldman Sachs Senior Economist, London. Originally trained as a Fine Artist, graduating with a First Class BA Honours Degree, she went on to Chelsea College of Art to study Set...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Photography

Materials

Paper, Digital

Italian Vintage Dye Transfer Photograph Franco Fontana Color Landscape Photo
Italian Vintage Dye Transfer Photograph Franco Fontana Color Landscape Photo

Italian Vintage Dye Transfer Photograph Franco Fontana Color Landscape Photo

By Franco Fontana

Located in Surfside, FL

Franco Fontana (Italian, born 1933) Title: Landscape 1987 Edition 6/15 Medium: dye-transfer Dimensions: Frame 21.5 x 27.5. Sight 12 x 20. Provenance: Monique Goldstrom Gallery Franco Fontana (Italian, 1933) is an Italian photographer. He is best known for his Minimalist abstract colour landscapes. He was influenced by Minimalism and Abstract Expressionism. Franco Fontana was born in 1933 in Modena. He started taking photographs in the 1950s when he was working as a decorator in a furniture showroom. In 1961 he joined a local amateur club in Modena. The experience would be a turning point in his career, and Fontana went on to have his first solo exhibition in 1965 at the Società Fotografica Subalpina, Turin and at the Galleria della Sala di Cultura in Modena in 1968. Since then he has participated in more than 400 group and solo exhibitions including the exhibit Lines, Spheres and Glyphs at Robert Klein Gallery with works by photographers: Franco Fontana, Mario Giacomelli, Ernst Haas, Gyorgy Kepes and Aaron Siskind. Franco Fontana is considered one of the most relevant photographers of our time, In 1963 he exhibited his work at the Biennale of Color in Vienna, and in 1968 he held his first solo exhibition in Modena. Fontana often pares landscapes down to their essential elements, producing flat, geometric compositions reminiscent of the color field abstract expressionist paintings of Mark Rothko Ad Reinhardt and Barnett Newman, by underexposing his transparencies. Contrasting blue skies with green or yellow grass and the rigid lines of buildings with the softness of puffy clouds, he makes color and texture his primary subjects. He has also shot in Polaroid film, Cibachrome, C Print and chromogenic prints. His art has been acquired by some of the most important museums worldwide, including the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, MoMA in New York, Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Museum of Modern Art in Norman, Oklahoma, National Gallery in Beijing, Australian National Gallery in Melbourne, University of Texas in Austin, Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Israel Museum in Jerusalem, and Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville in Paris. Fontana has photographed for advertising campaigns for brands such as Fiat, Volkswagen, Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane, Snam, Sony, Volvo, Versace, Canon, Kodak, Robe di Kappa, Swissair, and has been a magazine photographer for publications including Time, Life, Vogue (USA and France), Venerdì di Repubblica, Panorama, and with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and The New York Times. Fontana's first book, Skyline, was published in 1978 in France by Contrejour and in Italy by Punto e Virgola with a text by Helmut Gernsheim. Fontana is the art director of the Toscana Foto Festival. He has received numerous awards, such as the 1989 Tokyo Photographer Society of Japan - The 150 Years of Photography - Photographer Award. Fontana is especially interested in the interplay of colours. His early innovations in colour photography in the 1960s were stylistically disruptive. According to art critic Giuliana Scimé, Fontana "destroyed all the structures, practices, and technical choices within the Italian tradition." Fontana uses 35mm cameras, and as noted by Iwan Zahar, deploys distant viewpoints with telephoto lenses to flatten contours in a landscape of crops and fields into bands of intense, saturated colour. This is an effect that Franco Lefèvre has described as 'dialectical landscapism'. Of his use of colour in his 2019 retrospective exhibition Sintesi ('Synthesis') at Fondazione Modena Arti Visive, curator Diana Baldon has observed; “His bold geometric compositions are characterised by shimmering colours, level perspectives and a geometric-formalist and minimal language, By adopting this approach during the 1960s, Fontana injected a new vitality into the field of creative colour photography for then multicolour was not in fashion in art photography., The way Fontana shoots, dematerializes the objects photographed, which loose three-dimensionality and realism to become part of an abstract drawing”. Aside from the rural landscape Fontana has applied his graphic sensibility to other subjects: city architecture, portraiture, fashion, still-life and the nude. He was included in the exhibition of the Helmut Newton Collection along with Brassaï, Diane Arbus, Franco Fontana, Horst P. Horst, Irving Penn, June Newton, Just Loomis, Man Ray, Mark Arbeit...

Category

1980s Abstract Photography

Materials

Dye Transfer

Vintage Silver Gelatin Photo of Ibram Lassaw Modernist Sculpture (Photograph)
Vintage Silver Gelatin Photo of Ibram Lassaw Modernist Sculpture (Photograph)

Vintage Silver Gelatin Photo of Ibram Lassaw Modernist Sculpture (Photograph)

Located in Surfside, FL

Space Densities This is for the original vintage photograph. I believe the inscription is in the hand of Ibram Lassaw some also bear the photographers stamp. Lassaw was born in Alex...

Category

1960s Abstract Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Breathe # 202503 (Abstract photography)
Breathe # 202503 (Abstract photography)

Breathe # 202503 (Abstract photography)

By Paul Snell

Located in London, GB

Edition: 1/3 Work can be hung with either the WallCleat system (support bar supplied) or the screw-eye system if it needs support from wire or above. Available in 4-5 weeks turnaro...

Category

2010s Abstract Photography

Materials

Plexiglass, C Print

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.