Abstract Still-life 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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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Prints
Mixed Media, Rag Paper, Monoprint
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Prints
Found Objects, Handmade Paper
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Prints
Photographic Paper, Color, Digital Pigment
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Prints
Mixed Media, Rag Paper, Monoprint
1970s Abstract Still-life Prints
Lithograph
1950s Abstract Still-life Prints
Lithograph
1960s Abstract Still-life Prints
Lithograph, Pencil
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Prints
Photographic Paper, Color, Digital Pigment
Mid-20th Century Abstract Still-life Prints
Color, Lithograph
Late 20th Century Abstract Still-life Prints
Screen
Late 20th Century Abstract Still-life Prints
Lithograph
Early 20th Century Abstract Still-life Prints
Oil, Lithograph
2010s Abstract Still-life Prints
Archival Paper
2010s Abstract Still-life Prints
Digital Pigment
2010s Abstract Still-life Prints
Etching, Aquatint
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Prints
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Prints
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
1980s Abstract Still-life Prints
Pencil, Lithograph
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Prints
Photographic Paper, Color, Digital
1980s Abstract Still-life Prints
Etching
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Prints
Photographic Paper, Color, Digital
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Prints
Photographic Paper, Color, Digital
1980s Abstract Still-life Prints
Etching
1980s Abstract Still-life Prints
Paper, Monotype
20th Century Abstract Still-life Prints
Lithograph
1970s Abstract Still-life Prints
Lithograph
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Prints
Color, Archival Pigment
2010s Abstract Still-life Prints
Paper, Monoprint
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Prints
Etching
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Prints
Photographic Paper, Color, Digital
1980s Abstract Still-life Prints
Paper, Ink, Etching
2010s Abstract Still-life Prints
Paper, Screen
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Prints
Digital, Digital Pigment
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Prints
Color, Digital, Archival Pigment
Late 20th Century Abstract Still-life Prints
Mezzotint
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Prints
Color, Digital
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Prints
Black and White
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Prints
Archival Pigment, Photographic Paper
2010s Abstract Still-life Prints
Screen
Late 20th Century Abstract Still-life Prints
Lithograph
Late 20th Century Abstract Still-life Prints
Screen
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Prints
Digital, Color
1980s Abstract Still-life Prints
Paper, Ink, Etching
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Prints
Digital
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Prints
Color, Digital, Digital Pigment
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Prints
Digital
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Prints
Archival Pigment
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Prints
Photographic Paper, Color, Digital
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Prints
Paper, Linocut
1980s Abstract Still-life Prints
Mezzotint
Early 2000s Abstract Still-life Prints
ABS, Acrylic, Giclée
1970s Abstract Still-life Prints
Lithograph
1980s Abstract Still-life Prints
Paper, Linocut
1960s Abstract Still-life Prints
Screen, Paper
1940s Abstract Still-life Prints
Lithograph
2010s Abstract Still-life Prints
Etching, Aquatint
1970s Abstract Still-life Prints
Lithograph
1980s Abstract Still-life Prints
Paper, Ink, Etching