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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1980s Abstract Still-life Prints
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1970s Abstract Still-life Prints
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2010s Abstract Still-life Prints
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1990s Abstract Still-life Prints
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1950s Abstract Still-life Prints
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1970s Abstract Still-life Prints
Lithograph
2010s Abstract Still-life Prints
Giclée
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Prints
Archival Pigment, Color
1980s Abstract Still-life Prints
Lithograph
1980s Abstract Still-life Prints
Mezzotint
1970s Abstract Still-life Prints
Lithograph
1980s Abstract Still-life Prints
Paper, Ink, Etching
1980s Abstract Still-life Prints
Paper, Ink, Etching
Mid-20th Century Abstract Still-life Prints
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1980s Abstract Still-life Prints
Paper, Ink, Etching
1950s Abstract Still-life Prints
Lithograph
2010s Abstract Still-life Prints
Photographic Film, Other Medium, Emulsion, Watercolor, Archival Paper, P...
2010s Abstract Still-life Prints
Canvas, Oil
2010s Abstract Still-life Prints
Copper, Gold Leaf
1940s Abstract Still-life Prints
Lithograph
1990s Abstract Still-life Prints
Mixed Media, Lithograph
1980s Abstract Still-life Prints
Lithograph
1980s Abstract Still-life Prints
Paper, Ink, Etching
1970s Abstract Still-life Prints
Paper, Ink
2010s Abstract Still-life Prints
Cotton, Archival Paper, Giclée
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Prints
Paper, Screen
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Prints
Photographic Paper, Color, Digital
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Prints
Color
2010s Abstract Still-life Prints
Archival Paper, Cotton, Giclée
1980s Abstract Still-life Prints
Paper, Ink, Etching
1970s Abstract Still-life Prints
Mezzotint
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Prints
Black and White
1980s Abstract Still-life Prints
Paper, Linocut
2010s Abstract Still-life Prints
Archival Paper, Cotton, Giclée
2010s Abstract Still-life Prints
Screen
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Prints
Paper, Linocut
2010s Abstract Still-life Prints
Paper, Monoprint
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Prints
Color, Digital
2010s Abstract Still-life Prints
Gold Leaf
1980s Abstract Still-life Prints
Paper, Linocut
Abstract Still-life Prints
Late 20th Century Abstract Still-life Prints
Etching
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Prints
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Prints
Mixed Media, Rag Paper, Monoprint
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Prints
Color, Photographic Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Prints
Photographic Paper, Color, Digital
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Prints
Photographic Paper, Color, Digital Pigment
1990s Abstract Still-life Prints
Screen
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Prints
Color, Digital, Archival Pigment
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Prints
Digital, Color, Archival Pigment
1950s Abstract Still-life Prints
Lithograph
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Prints
Color, Digital, Digital Pigment
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Prints
Digital
1980s Abstract Still-life Prints
Paper, Linocut
1970s Abstract Still-life Prints
Lithograph
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Prints
Color, Digital, Archival Pigment
1970s Abstract Still-life Prints
Lithograph
1970s Abstract Still-life Prints
Paper, Linocut