Abstract Interior Prints
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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1990s Abstract Interior Prints
Lithograph
Early 2000s Abstract Interior Prints
ABS, Acrylic, Giclée
Late 20th Century Abstract Interior Prints
Aquatint
1980s Abstract Interior Prints
Paper, Ink, Etching
1980s Abstract Interior Prints
Paper, Ink, Etching
Late 20th Century Abstract Interior Prints
Paper, Lithograph
20th Century Abstract Interior Prints
Screen
Late 20th Century Abstract Interior Prints
Paper, Lithograph
Late 20th Century Abstract Interior Prints
Paper, Lithograph
20th Century Abstract Interior Prints
Screen
Late 20th Century Abstract Interior Prints
Paper, Lithograph
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Prints
Paper
2010s Abstract Interior Prints
Paper, Monoprint
Late 20th Century Abstract Interior Prints
Aquatint
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Prints
Giclée
20th Century Abstract Interior Prints
Screen
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Prints
Paper, Etching
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Prints
Ceramic
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Prints
Digital
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Prints
Digital
20th Century Abstract Interior Prints
Photogravure
1980s Abstract Interior Prints
Paper, Ink, Etching
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Prints
Lithograph
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Prints
Screen
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Prints
Canvas, Screen
20th Century Abstract Interior Prints
Screen
2010s Abstract Interior Prints
Canvas, Archival Pigment
2010s Abstract Interior Prints
Giclée
2010s Abstract Interior Prints
Canvas, Archival Pigment
2010s Abstract Interior Prints
Canvas, Archival Pigment
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Prints
Digital Pigment
20th Century Abstract Interior Prints
Lithograph
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Prints
Lithograph
Late 20th Century Abstract Interior Prints
Woodcut
20th Century Abstract Interior Prints
Screen
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Prints
Screen
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Prints
Lithograph, Screen
Late 20th Century Abstract Interior Prints
Woodcut
20th Century Abstract Interior Prints
Screen
20th Century Abstract Interior Prints
Screen
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Prints
Screen
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Prints
Etching
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Prints
Screen
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Prints
Paper, Screen
20th Century Abstract Interior Prints
Offset
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Prints
Screen
2010s Abstract Interior Prints
Giclée
2010s Abstract Interior Prints
Giclée
2010s Abstract Interior Prints
Giclée
2010s Abstract Interior Prints
Giclée
20th Century Abstract Interior Prints
Screen
2010s Abstract Interior Prints
Archival Pigment, Canvas
2010s Abstract Interior Prints
Archival Pigment, Canvas
2010s Abstract Interior Prints
Canvas, Archival Pigment