Abstract Art
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
Color: Beige
Double Dip
Located in Toronto, CA
Alexander Rasmussen’s “Better Days Are Comin’.” This vibrant new series of abstracts was presented in part at Art Miami 2023, and the remaining pieces are now being exhibited for the...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Knuckleball
Located in Toronto, CA
Alexander Rasmussen’s “Better Days Are Comin’.” This vibrant new series of abstracts was presented in part at Art Miami 2023, and the remaining pieces are now being exhibited for the...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Mid Century Lake Anza Berkeley Bay Area Abstract Expressionist Landscape W/C
Located in Soquel, CA
Brilliantly colorful mid century expressive abstracted landscape of Lake Anza in Berkeley by Bay Area artist Howard Margolis (American, 1927-2015). Signed “Margolis” in lower right c...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Sand Rivers Run Fast
Located in London, GB
A beautiful small abstract painting with warm earthy yellow colours, and black and white ink accents. The gestural abstraction that captures a sensation, an emotion, a poem in colour...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Gesso, Ink, Acrylic
IN TANGIER Limited Edition Serigraph, Art Poster, Abstract Palm Tree Morocco
Located in Union City, NJ
Howard Hodgkin (1932-2017), one of Britain’s greatest contemporary artists became best known for his vibrantly colored paintings that chronicle his personal experiences. IN TANGIER...
Category
1990s Abstract Art
Materials
Screen
"Pandemonium", Graffiti Styled / Abstract Expressionism Modern Vivid Painting
Located in Atlanta, GA
Artist Motivation:
Graffiti styled, hip & funky, this piece gives a "go bold or go home!" energy!
This super fun piece, done in a "Street Art" Style, is guaranteed to add edge and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Varnish, Acrylic, Spray Paint
Gloria Saez, Campos de Castilla, Oil on paper, 2011
By Gloria Sáez
Located in New York, NY
"Campos de Castilla - Castile Landscape" by Gloria Saez is a horizontal abstract, oil paint on paper with muted, yellows, pinks, reds and neutral shades of blues and grays. This is...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Oil, Paper
"Arrested Love", Abstract, Emotional, Modern, Bold, Floral, Purple, Orange
Located in Atlanta, GA
Artist Motivation:
Arrest your Love every time you look at this piece!
This piece rich, vibrant and emotionally charged, can hang anywhere in your beautiful home! Place it in your...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Varnish, Acrylic
Through The Fields
Located in London, GB
A beautiful small abstract painting with warm earthy yellow colours, and black and white ink accents. The gestural abstraction that captures a sensation, an emotion, a poem in colour...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Gesso, Ink, Acrylic
Where The Honey Flows
Located in London, GB
A beautiful small abstract painting with warm earthy yellow colours, and silver and black and white ink accents. The gestural abstraction that captures a sensation, an emotion, a poe...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Gesso, Ink, Acrylic
Untitled
Located in PARIS, FR
Julien Airault (B.1979)
Untitled
Oil on canvas
92 x 73 cm / 36.22 x 28.74 inches
With frame : 98 x 79 cm / 38.58 x 31.10 inches
2024
Born in 1979, Julien Airault is a French painter...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Oil
Untitled
Located in PARIS, FR
Julien Airault (B.1979)
Untitled
Oil on canvas
92 x 73 cm / 36.22 x 28.74 inches
With frame : 98 x 79 cm / 38.58 x 31.10 inches
2024
Born in 1979, Julien Airault is a French painter...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Oil
LocoMotion, Contemporary Abstract Painting
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Engaging in a diary-like approach, merging memory, stream of consciousness writing, and abstract mark-making this piece began as a sizable text-based painting, however, it gradually ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Oil Pastel, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Survey III, 2024, unique pigment print, signed, yellow
By Gary Cruz
Located in New York, NY
Survey III, 2024 is part of the "Another World" series. This unique archival pigment print is printed on Epson Enhanced Matte paper. Image size is 9" x 6.5" on 10" x 7.5" paper siz...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Untitled
Located in PARIS, FR
Julien Airault (B.1979)
Untitled
Oil on canvas
92 x 73 cm / 36.22 x 28.74 inches
With frame : 98 x 79 cm / 38.58 x 31.10 inches
2024
Born in 1979, Julien Airault is a French painter...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Oil
'Glastonbury Nights' mixed media signed piece.
Located in Frome, Somerset
Fine piece painted at Glastonbury Festival .Mixed media signed. An amalgamation of experience in time and place.
Dry mount 50cmx 50cm
painting 32cm x 32cm
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Living Painting - Colour Pochoir
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Sonia Delaunay
Full-page, colour pochoir after costume designs by Sonia Delaunay
Edition 331/500 copies on Velin Aussedat
Dimensions: 28.5 x 19.5 cm.
From 27 Living Paintings. [Milano, Edizioni del Naviglio, 1969]. Jacques Damase. Robes Poèmes, Introduction. Text by Guillaume Apollinaire and Blaise Cendrars.
Sonia Delaunay was known for her vivid use of color and her bold, abstract patterns, breaking down traditional distinctions between the fine and applied arts as an artist, designer and printmaker.
Born Sarah Stern on November 14, 1885 in Gradizhsk, Ukraine, she was adopted in 1890 by her maternal uncle, Henri Terk, a lawyer in St. Petersburg, where she grew up, exposed to music and art, and learning several foreign languages. In 1903, she moved to Germany to study drawing with Ludwig Schmidt-Reutler (1863–1909) at the Karlsruhe academy of fine arts; Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951), composer-to-be, was among her classmates there. In 1905, she traveled to Paris where she attended art classes at the Académie de la Palette, learned printmaking from Rudolf Grossman (1889–1941), and met Amédée Ozenfant (1886–1966), André Dunoyer de Segonzac (1884–1974), and Jean-Louis Boussingault (1883–1943). Sonia spent much of her time at exhibitions and galleries in Paris, which showed works by Paul Cézanne, Vincent Van Gogh, Pierre Bonnard, and Edouard Vuillard, as well as Les Fauves, Henri Matisse and André Derain. She did, however, maintain contact with Germany, exhibiting at the Galerie Der Sturm, Berlin, in 1913, 1920 and 1921.
During her first year in Paris, Sonia met the German collector and art-dealer, Wilhelm Uhde (1874–1947), whom she married on December 5, 1908, and whose Montparnasse gallery, the Galerie Notre-Dame des Champs, showed her first solo exhibition. Through Uhde, Sonia encountered many painters, including Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Maurice de Vlaminck, and Robert Delaunay (1885–1941). In 1910, Sonia divorced Uhde by mutual agreement, married Delaunay that same year, and gave birth to their son, Charles, in January 1911.
Together Sonia and Robert Delaunay pursued the study of color, influenced by theories of Michel-Eugène Chevreul (1786–1889). Sonia’s interest in simultaneous contrast, as evidenced in her early collages, book bindings, small painted boxes...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Vellum
Lonely Sister
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Olga’s artistic approach is centered around the elusive concept of time and its impermanence. Rather than engaging in an ontological reflection on the nature of time, Olga prefers to...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Ceramic
William Jacobs "Untitled", original pastel on paper
Located in Glenview, IL
"Untitled" by noted Chicago painter William Jacobs (1897 - 1973) is an abstract expressionist pastel on paper created in 1969. The artwor...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Pastel
Untitled from the portfolio “Poems dans le ciel”
By Sam Francis
Located in Ljubljana, SI
Poems dans le ciel (eng. Poems in the sky). Original lithograph, 1986. Edition of 100 signed and numbered impressions on Arches paper.
Samuel Lewis Francis was an American artist, we...
Category
1980s Abstract Art
Materials
Lithograph
"Passion Fruit", Abstract Expressionism, Emotional, Spiritual, Acrylic Painting
Located in Atlanta, GA
Artist Motivation:
Embrace the depth and allure of this piece in your living space!
This richly colored fun piece, will add a pop of color and energy to your favorite cozy nook or ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Varnish, Acrylic
Colorful Middle East original Scandinavian Airline System vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original; linen backed vintage travel poster WELCOME COLORFUL MIDDLE EAST Scandinavian Airlines System poster. Excellent condition. Arabi...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Lithograph
Mid Century American Southwestern Tiki Abstract Oil Painting Original Frame 1960
Located in Buffalo, NY
A rare and funky 1960's oil painting of abstract forms that are reminiscent of southwestern rock formations.
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lewis Barrett Lehrman 3D Panoramic New York City Landscape Paper Art Work
Located in Plainview, NY
Lewis Barrett Lehrman's ( American, 1933- 2023) exceptional artistic vision shines brilliantly in his one-of-a-kind creation : a 3D print capturing the iconic skyline of New York Ci...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Art
Materials
Paper
Untitled Composition
Located in Miami, FL
Beautiful lithograph by Mercedes Pardo, excellent condition. From the limited edition of 25 signed copies
Mercedes Pardo was born July 29, 1921 in Caracas, Venezuela. By age 13 she ...
Category
1980s Abstract Art
Materials
Lithograph
Baram 146
By Geonwoo Lee
Located in Goyang-si, KR
The word "Baram" has two meanings in Korean: "wish (feel or express a strong desire or hope for something that is not easily attainable)" and "wind (the perceptible natural movement ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Baram 144
By Geonwoo Lee
Located in Goyang-si, KR
The word "Baram" has two meanings in Korean: "wish (feel or express a strong desire or hope for something that is not easily attainable)" and "wind (the perceptible natural movement ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Chronos 2
By Jane Booth
Located in San Diego, CA
Jane Booth lives and works on the rural Kansas prairie where the broad, open vistas of land, water, and sky, act as a foundation for her work. Booth paints from the inside out, from ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
New York
Located in LAS ROZAS DE MADRID, ES
"New York" is a vibrant artistic expression that encapsulates the dynamic energy and diversity of the city that never sleeps. With a palette of bold colors and abstract forms, this p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
A Mystery Unraveled, minimalist, blue, red, simple, decorative
Located in Jönköping, SE
This painting is part of a series that is influenced by trying to find simplicity and beauty in todays chaotic world. I start each painting with a feeling; hope, despair, happiness, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Charcoal, Oil Crayon, Acrylic, Pencil
Untitled Abstract
Located in New Orleans, LA
Stewart has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and is represented by the Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans, Gail Severn Gallery in Sun Va...
Category
1980s Abstract Art
Materials
Chalk, Conté, Crayon, Acrylic, Archival Paper
Wild Flowers, Holly And Ivy
Located in Manchester, GB
Matthew Bourne derives his work from his passion for metaphysical concepts such as sight, sound, and emotion. As a result, Bourne argues that his abstra...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Oil
Tulips & Girls
Located in Toronto, ON
Eaton writes "My paintings are constructed slowly and deliberately by building layer upon layer of vibrant acrylic colour. My approach is similar in the way areas are carefully deve...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Spring Floral Study 1
Located in Covington, LA
"The nostalgia of a tropical climate is the undercurrent that inspires my process. Bright and vibrant pigments live on my palette. I treat each canvas with an intuitive approach, nev...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Oil Pastel, Acrylic
Abstract Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Sculpture', C. 2000 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Photophobia
By Brian Jerome
Located in Conshohocken, PA
My best friend always told me i have black eyes. They are dark, but black eyes dont exist. Everyone with brighter eyes told me the light hurts their eyes and head. Life only hurts m...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Untitled
Located in Newport Beach, CA
Untitled oil on canvas, signed and dated 1988 by American artist Giorgio Cavallon (1904-1989) on the reverse. Cavallon was a founding member of the American Abstract Artists and a ...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Art
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
“Divine Hostage 3”
Located in Newport Beach, CA
Etherial, tonal abstract color field oil on canvas by important 20th century artist. Signed and dated on the back. Framed in a wooden box frame with gold metal banding.
Category
20th Century Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Thank You
Located in Toronto, CA
Alexander Rasmussen’s “Better Days Are Comin’.” This vibrant new series of abstracts was presented in part at Art Miami 2023, and the remaining pieces are now being exhibited for the...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Abstract Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Sculpture', C. 2005 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
No.10
Located in Bantam, CT
Steven Miller trained at Parsons School of Design, Miller derives inspiration from electron microscope images that reveal the invisible building blocks of natural world. His pursuit ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Oil
Camaraderie (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Camaraderie (Abstract painting)
Acrylic on canvas — Unframed
This artwork will be shipped rolled in a dent-resistant tube.
This method is especially safe for large works, and provid...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Perfect Sunset
Located in Yuba City, CA
One-of a -kind artwork . This is original ,color field painting ,which offers a space to practice perception and to
experience the present of active silence ,and mindfulness . I draw...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
"Metallurgic Symphony" Beige and Grey Abstract by Johnny Friedlander
Located in Pasadena, CA
"Metallurgic Symphony" is a lithograph of profound industrial resonance, numbered 61/100 and bearing the artist's signature. Against a backdrop of pale beige, it unveils an amalgamat...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Art
Materials
Aquatint
Antithesis (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Antithesis (Abstract painting)
Acrylic on canvas — Unframed
This artwork will be shipped rolled in a dent-resistant tube.
This method is especially safe for large works, and provide...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Lyric Waves
Located in King, ON
The vertical waves, expressed through bold and expressive stripes, create an immersive experience, drawing the viewer into a dynamic dance of color and form.
This work is signed by A...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled
Located in København S, DK
Explore Mila Francesca Cali's abstract watercolors, inspired by her plein-air studies of space and nature. With echoes of modernist painting in a contemporary context, each piece res...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Abstract Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Sculpture', c. 2008 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Grand rising - Large peach fuzz color abstract landscape painting
Located in Ocklawaha, FL
"Grand rising" is an abstract landscape painting in the pantone color of the year, peach fuzz. It is a glorious Ascension painting. It tells the story of that magical moment every ti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Oil
Venice Isles
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Lithograph by artist Tony Khawam, high quality archival ink on bond paper 11”x14” bevel cut matte mounted on white matte board with options to choose between white or black frame 16x...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
"Once it Comes" (abstract, stone, sculptural, graphic landscape, bold, dynamic)
Located in Paris, IDF
ONCE IT COMES
2024
Paris, France
Originally inspired by weathered stone, this painting portrays an abstracted, organic landscape. Deep green acrylic paint on antique, natural linen,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
American – La France Variations VII, Ed./68
Located in Washington Depot,, CT
Robert Motherwell was an American artist and seminal Abstract Expressionist painter. Today, his works are held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Galler...
Category
1980s Abstract Art
Materials
Lithograph
Color waves
Located in King, ON
"Color waves" is a captivating composition that seamlessly blends vibrant hues into a mesmerizing tapestry of color. The hard-edge style enhances the clarity and precision of each ho...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
LA LUNE
By Holly Addi
Located in Tulsa, OK
Holly Addi makes paintings to explore the art of abstraction and the philosophy of beauty in imperfection.
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Serge Poliakoff, Composition Bleu, Noire, Rouge et Verte - Modern, Abstract Art
Located in Hamburg, DE
Serge Poliakoff (French-Russian, 1900–1969)
Composition Bleu, Noire, Rouge et Verte (from Werke Poliakoffs), 1964
Medium: Etching and aquatint on paper
Dimensions: 25.5 x 37.7 cm
Ed...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
"Les Mexicaines" / "Mexicans"
Located in Berlin, MD
Bernard Cathelin (French 1919-2004) "Les Mexicaines" Colored Lithograph on Rice Paper.
A peaceful impressionistic scene of three Mexican women in the street.
Red. Orange. Black. W...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Art
Materials
Rice Paper, Lithograph
Abstract Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Space', 2003 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Abstract
Located in Raleigh, NC
RGRFineArt is pleased to offer this abstract lithograph by Carl Pickhardt done while he was painting shaped canvasses.
Sheet measures 22.75 x 17.75 in.
Initialed CP and numbered 9/20...
Category
1950s Abstract Art
Materials
Lithograph
Abstract art for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Abstract art 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 art 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, orange, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Sumit Mehndiratta, Giorgio Lo Fermo, Francisco Nicolás, and Dadodu . Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Synthetic Resin Paint 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 art, so small editions measuring 0.02 inches across are also available.
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