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: Black
Seahorses, Contemporary Romantic Sea Animal Painting, Ltd Ed
Located in Golden, CO
This colorful print of Topher Straus's digital painting is a cheerfully contemporary animal print. Romantic and bright, it was inspired by his own exploration of the outdoors and a s...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Metal
"Skyrise" Contemporary Abstract Acrylic On Canvas 30" x 39" by Frances
Located in Carmel, CA
Described by Impressions Magazine as a passionate and seductive painter, Frances Bildner's riotous use of colour affirms this view.
The paintings are in definite, almost aggressively joyous, dialogue with the viewer and their presence is hard to ignore.
New York's Village Voice...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled - Lithograph by Andrè Verdet - 1970
By André Verdet
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed, numbered and dated. Edition of 99 prints.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Abstract Art
Materials
Lithograph
Headwind, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Newel Hunter
Located in Yardley, PA
"Headwind" is a perfect example of Hunter's highly fluid, expressionistic style -- which so often results in arresting images with a sense of depth and sculptural form. Black and wh...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Into the Unknown, Abstract Oil Painting
By Morgan Fite
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
The deep shades of rich emerald create a tone of quiet awakening in this abstract piece. Artist Morgan Fite's exclusive use of a palette knife gives it an ether...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Oil
Scooter, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Newel Hunter
Located in Yardley, PA
"Scooter" is a perfect example of Hunter's highly fluid, expressionistic style -- which so often results in arresting images with a sense of depth and sculptural form. Black and whi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
"Moon" Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Inspired by Man's Landing on the moon in the 1960s
Acrylic on canvas. Image 18" x 14"
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Black Terrazzo Confetti, Abstract Shapes Diptych, Pink and Blue Metal Tones 2022
Located in Barcelona, ES
This series of hand painted acrylic paintings by Natalia Roman are inspired by the colors and textures of Italian terrazzo tiling. The patterns created combine a variety of vivid col...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Oil Pastel, Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache
Syncopation XVI
Located in Burlingame, CA
Minimal, clean abstract indented white orb containing an interior circular orb resting within the larger piece. A wonderful ceramic sculpture by Jane B. Grimm who began her artistic ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Ceramic
Maeve D'Arcy "Speed Queen" Abstract acrylic painting on canvas
By Maeve D'Arcy
Located in New York, NY
Maeve D'Arcy
Speed Queen, 2021
acrylic on canvas
24 x 36 in.
(dar055)
"Borders, boundaries, and language, exist throughout my work and have manifested themselves in my sensibilities...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
American Contemporary Art by Harry James Moody - Abstract n°560
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Harry James Moody is a German artist born in 1952 who lives and works in Los Angeles, United States. He received his training as artist at the Frankfurt Stadel Fine A...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Silence - line drawing figure with red gloves
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The artwork was done with watercolor on watercolor paper 300g. The works are 15 by 11 inches in size, framed (black) with a styrene face on a mat board in black and white with sizes 16 by 20 in.
Mila Akopova...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Sculpture in Brass "Angel #7"
Located in New York, NY
Reclining figure in Brass by Jacques Jarrige. Formed with a ribbon of brass and hand hammered.
#7 from a series of 18
Each is unique and signed
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Brass
Abstract Etching by Gilou Brillant
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Gilou Brillant, French (1935 - )
Title: untitled 30
Year: circa 1974
Medium: Etching with Aquatint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 58/110
Size: 30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55...
Category
1970s Abstract Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Enchanted Music, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
This abstract painting has been created with acrylics on canvas. In Enchanted Music, contrasts, light, and darkness create a dynamic tension full of strength and determination. This...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Reverie, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Newel Hunter
Located in Yardley, PA
"Reverie" is a perfect example of Hunter's highly fluid, calligraphic style -- which so often results in arresting images with a sense of depth and sculptural form. Intriguing, mini...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Espejos II
By Robert Kelly
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This unframed, signed, limited edition pigment print by world renown artist Robert Kelly exists in an edition of 40. Paper size is 30"h x 24"w with an image size of 17"h x 14"w.
Rob...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Art
Materials
Pigment
Abstract Expressionist Composition on Black
Located in Soquel, CA
Colorful and dynamic abstract composition by Ross H. Pollette, who also paints under the pseudonyms 'Max West' (American, b. 1948). Pollette has used oil, in...
Category
1980s Abstract Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Canvas, Ink
"Cosmic Explorations #1" - Abstract vertical photomontage in cool colors.
By Marvin Berk
Located in Miami, FL
Museum quality fine-art print; limited edition (18 signed and numbered prints + two artist proofs) from a multi-award winning artist/designer. This image is from Marvin Berk’s “Expl...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Archival Ink
Untitled (W.O.F 17-16)
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 Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Brown Composition - Original Serigraph by Wladimiro Tulli - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Brown Composition is a colored serigraph on paper, realized in the 1970s by the Italian artist Wladimiro Tulli.
Hand-signed on the lower right and numbered in pencil on the lower ma...
Category
1970s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Screen
Transfiguration - Large scale, high modern abstract, steel and brass sculpture
By Andre Fauteux
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A high modern abstract, monumentally-scaled sculpture by sculptor, André Fauteux, welded steel and brass. Transfiguration was commissioned for Constitution...
Category
1980s Abstract Art
Materials
Brass, Steel
Interiors
Located in Lawrence, NY
Casein on board
In American art circles in the second decade of the twentieth century, Cramer was an early emissary of European modernism. Born in Wurzburg, Germany, in 1888, Cramer...
Category
1950s Abstract Art
Materials
Casein
City Block Series #3, East Village New York (Geometric Abstract)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Robert W. Petrick - City Block Series #3
2021
Acrylic on canvas
40 x 30 x 1.5 inches
East Village New York Geometric Abstract Stretched Painting
Robert Petrick's paintings create ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Stem in Black #1 (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Stem in Black #1 (Abstract painting)
Charcoal & Oil stick on paper - Unframed.
Baribeau constructs his paintings layer upon layer, building color, form and texture into viscous, im...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Part of This #9
Located in Deddington, GB
Part of This #9 by Christine Evans [2021]
original
acrylic on board
Image size: H:12 cm x W:12 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:12 cm x W:12 cm x ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Voyage into the Unknown, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
This artwork is a one-of-a-kind original painting, derived from my own observation, imagination, or intuition. All Copyrights and Reproduction Rights are retained by the artist, Sele...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
New York Black and White Limited Edition Photograph, "Celestial Ceiling "
By Howard Lewis
Located in White Plains, NY
Black and White Limited Edition Photograph, titled "Celestial Ceiling " New York City's Grand Central Station ceiling and architecture is a photographers dream where I've photogra...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Reflected Tessellation
By Jordann Wine
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
This painting uses a metallic paint on a black painted canvas.
Keywords: geometric, shapes
Artist Biography:
Inspired by sacred geometry, Jordann Wine draws on ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Straec #39 (Abstract Print)
By Luuk de Haan
Located in London, GB
Straec #39 (Abstract Print)
UltraChrome HD Ink on Hahnemühle paper. Unframed.
A vector is a mathematical quantity that communicates a trajectory toward a point in three-dimensiona...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
It May be we Shall Touch the Happy Isles - Mixed Media by Marco Amici - 2000
By Marco Amici
Located in Roma, IT
It may be we shall touch the happy isles is an original artwork realized by Marco Amici in 2000.
Mixed media.
Hand-signed, dated and titled by the art...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Stilbon (Seven)
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Stilbon
Stilbon in the ancient Greek religion, is the sky god of Hermaon, the planet Mercury, and one of the Astra Planeta. The word, Stilbon, means shining.
All works are contact p...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled (W.O.F 15-3)
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 Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled (W.O.F 04-11-14)
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 Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Sliver of Light. Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Contemporary Welsh abstract expressionist landscape
Framed. Image size 19" x 23"
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Celular (conversaciones sobre el amor)
Located in New York, NY
Pablo Lehmann creates intricate three-dimensional works by shaping and cutting paper sheets, books and synthetic cloth. His detailed webbing of literary and theoretical book excerpt...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper
Bardo -Painting by Paolo Cantù - 2020
Located in Roma, IT
Bardo is a beautiful acrylic painting realized by the Italian artist Paolo Cantù in 2020.
This is an original abstract artwork with bright and lively colors.
The artist represents...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Chestnuts
By Megan Frazer
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
I collected horse chestnuts on my frequent walks with Ocho the dog because I love the shapes, color and texture of these large seeds. I cleaned, sealed and painte...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Organic Material, Acrylic, Board
Black only you III (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Black only you III (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic on aluminium core panel - Unframed.
Hallard works with the themes of space and geometry, manipulating images ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
"Auspice" (Abstract, Colorful, Textured Skull Painting on Antique Wood, 65x50cm)
Located in Paris, IDF
AUSPICE
2020
Paris, France
An auspice is a ‘prophetic sign’ which the artist was inspired by. This textured, abstract piece features a lying skull, looking up to the sky...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
India Ink, Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Mid Century Gouache and Oil Pastel Figurative Painting 1960s Bay Area Female Art
Located in Arp, TX
Gloria Dudfield
Yellow Purple Figure
1960s
Oil Pastel and Gouache on Paper
36"x28" unframed $800
*Custom framing available for additional charge. Please ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Art
Materials
Oil Pastel, Paper, Gouache
Thoughts - line drawing woman figure with scorched dandelion
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The artworks were done with watercolor and ink on watercolor paper 300g. The works are 11 by 14 inches in size, framed (black) with a styrene face on a dou...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Challenge - line drawing figure with red gloves
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The artwork was done with watercolor on watercolor paper 360g. The works are 14 by 11 inches in size, framed (black) with a styrene face on a mat board in ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Metamorphosis
Located in Southampton, NY
“Metamorphosis” is a unique over-glaze Chinese porcelain pot by renowned ceramist and painter, Jared FitzGerald. Blowing in the wind. The wind crosses to the mountain and loops lazily in circles in the blue sky.
“Metamorphosis” is part of a new series from Fitzgerald’s studios in Jingdezhen, China. This series uses over-glaze, a new ceramic firing technique that diverges from Fitzgerald’s previous ceramic practice, which used the traditional under-glaze technique with blue and white colors. Over-glaze allows FitzGerald to paint with a range of colors; unlike with other glaze techniques, such as under- or middle-glaze, over-glaze allows FitzGerald to paint onto an already fired ceramic panel, so there is no serious change in the color of the pigments. This is a special technique which allows the artist to mix Chinese painting techniques with western techniques derived from oil painting.
Over-glaze decoration is considered one of the most important modern glaze techniques in Jingdezhen now. The traditional overglaze decorative colors in Jingdezhen include Gucai (antique colors...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Ceramic, Paint, Glaze
Black Ribbon 2
Located in Tulsa, OK
MORGAN ROBINSON
Black Ribbon
• powder coated steel
$175.00
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Steel
Large Harry Bertschmann Swiss American Abstract Expressionist Outsider Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Harry Bertschmann (Swiss American, born 1931).
Acrylic painting on paper.
Artist signature to lower right.
Provenance: Joy Moos Gallery (this was exhibited at the Outsider Art Fair)
...
Category
20th Century Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
"Wind and Lightening" by James Rosenquist
Located in Hinsdale, IL
James Rosenquist
(1933-2017)
"Wind and Lightning"
Etching and aquatint, photo-etching with pochoir on Pescia Italia paper, 2nd state, 1978
Sheet size: 23 x 40 inches (58.4 x 101.6 ...
Category
1970s Abstract Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Sortilège, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Large abstract painting with rich colors, golds, blues, and purples. This painting has some texture. This painting gets shipped rolled up with wood stretchers to reduce the cost o...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Pangea III
Located in Lincoln, RI
Pangea III is part of a series of paintings on plexiglass that depicts land masses. The maze like patterns are created using a router (woodworking tool...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Wood, Plexiglass, Acrylic
Memory Landscape no1 - Oil Absrtact Painting, 2019
Located in London, GB
An upcoming exhibition of oil paintings by Hsu Tung Lung at the Shanghai Oil Painting Sculpture Institute in Shanghai, China. The exhibition will open on May 10th, 2023, and will fea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Oil
Dreaming of Egypt, Original Abstract Painting, 2021
By Sally Smith
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
This semi-abstract painting combines suggestions of canopies, windows, pyramids, figures, and patterns to evoke the mystery of travel.
Keywords: semi-abstract int...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Linen, Oil
Balancing Act, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Newel Hunter
Located in Yardley, PA
"Balancing Act" is a perfect example of Hunter's highly fluid, calligraphic style -- which so often results in arresting images with a sense of depth and sculptural form. Black and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Magnetic radiation 01 (Abstract photography)
By Seb Janiak
Located in London, GB
Magnetic radiation 01 (Abstract photography)
Chromogenic print. Edition 1/5.
In his Magnetic Radiation series, Janiak reveals the hidden world of magnetism by photographing ferrofluids. A ferrofluid is a liquid substance magnetized through the introduction of iron particles. Janiak introduced magnetic forces to the ferrofluid, moving the magnets into different configurations to cause the colloidal mixture to assume various forms that reveal the otherwise invisible nature of magnetic activity. The forms reveal ancient forces, those that shaped the universe at its beginning.
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 Art
Materials
C Print
Iridescent night (Purple red), Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Nestor Toro
Located in Yardley, PA
abstract painting acrylic on canvas This artwork was created layering and blending layers of blue, turquoise, magenta, teal, orange,pink undertones. Signed and ready to hang. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Untitled #21
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
I consider my work to be abstract but I often journey into making a painting that directly draws inspiration from landscape
Words that describe this piece: natur...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
M271 (Abstract new media)
By Jesús Perea
Located in London, GB
M271 (Abstract new media)
Digital creation, printed on Hahnemühle Photo Rag de 308 gr - Unframed.
Fluctuating between illustration and expressionism, connecting the geometric and ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Digital
Static Pink & Grey, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
A new addition to the Ronald Hunter collection: the static serie. Layer upon layer of acrylic paint are applied in firm brush strokes, creating waves of intense vibrant colors. Th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Static Grey & Purple, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Acrylic Abstract Painting, Original artwork created by Ronald Hunter. Static Grey & Purple from the static serie. Layer upon layer of acrylic paint are applied in firm brush strok...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
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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