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: Gray
Sostenido 15
Located in New York, NY
Miriam Peralta
Sostenido 15, 2015
Graphite and charcoal on canvas
65h x 68.10w in
165.10h x 172.97w cm
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Graphite
Vénus
Located in New York, NY
Kyoko SASAÏ
Vénus
2021
Acrylic painting on canvas with interior trim
15 x 5 x 1 in, 38 x 14 x 2.5 cm
Unique Piece
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Teorema chino del resto
Located in New York, NY
Cecilia Biagini
Teorema chino del resto, 2009
Vinyl paint on canvas
55 x 55 in
(139.7h x 139.7w cm)
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Art
Materials
Vinyl, Canvas
Sonnet #2
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Curtis Ripley's paintings have always presented the viewer a space where images are as important as the depth of the atmosphere in which they exist. The images are more evocative tha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman on Water 2
Located in Fairfield, CT
Miesmer began painting in the open air during the summers in Nantucket. Using a pad of Arches paper as an easel and working out of the back of his pickup truck, the quietude and pea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
le Bois
By Martin Reyna
Located in New York, NY
Martin Reyna
le Bois, 2015
Mixed media on paper
59.05 x 76.77 in
(149.99h x 195w cm)
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Subway Topos #1
Located in Fairfield, CT
Bastienne Schmidt is a mixed media artist working with photography, painting and large scale drawings. She was born in Germany, raised in Greece and Italy and has lived in New York f...
Category
20th Century Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Abstract #84
Located in San Antonio, TX
Contemporary Abstract Giclee Print, 21st Century, by Robert Wynn Taylor, a contemporary American artist. It is signed in pencil "R. Wynn Taylor" in ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Giclée
Linescape 9
By Julian Teran
Located in New York, NY
Julián Terán
Linescape 9 , 2017
Ink on paper
16.5 x 35.5 in
(41.91h x 90.17w cm)
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Ink
White and Red Number Two
By Peter Lodato
Located in Santa Monica, CA
A California native, Peter Lodato began making work in the late 1960s as part of the West Coast-specific Light and Space movement. Aligned with the concerns of his contemporaries, Lo...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nova
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Abstract artist Paul Light Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1966. Before earning his MFA in painting at SCAD-Atlanta in 2012, Light had an extensive business career where he fueled his creative side as a graphic artist, and product designer. It was in these years that he met and was mentored and greatly influenced by Paul Chelko...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Oil
Green Chateau II
Located in London, GB
Lithograph from one zinc plate printed in green with hand colouring in yellow gouache. On Velin Arches mould-made paper (300 gsm)
Signed with initials and dated 78 in pencil, lower c...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Art
Materials
Color, Lithograph
Drawing Boards I (grey / purple)
Located in London, GB
Edition of 60, Set of 5
74.9 x 56.5 cms (29.5 x 22.25 ins)
Category
1980s Abstract Art
Materials
Etching
Parterre
Located in London, GB
52 x 52 cms (20 1/2 x 20 1/2 ins)
Edition of 75
Category
1970s Abstract Art
Materials
Color, Screen
Monotype no. 17
Located in Atlanta, GA
Acrylic and Soy based inks on single sheets Stonehenge
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Art
Materials
Lithograph
Glass Sculpture Above One of a Kind Made in France
Located in Paris, FR
Above by Perrin & Perrin, Galerie Negropontes in Paris, France. One of a Kind Glass Sculpture
Martine and Jacki Perrin have formed an inseparable artistic duo since 1967. They start...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Glass
'PS06' Abstract Expressionist, Scandi artwork, grey silky fabric base palo santo
Located in Lahti, FI
'PS06' is a reminder that today happens only today, everything in life and beyond happens right in this moment. The Universe is full of endless possibilities for us. Get ready to rec...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Fabric, Spray Paint
Drawing Boards II (No.3)
Located in London, GB
Edition of 30, Set of 5
74.9 x 59.1 cms (29 1/2 x 23 1/4 ins)
Category
1980s Abstract Art
Materials
Etching
Damp
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
66 x 94 cms (26 x 37 ins)
Edition of 20
Rives BFK paper
Proofs: I BAT, 4 AP, 7 CTP, 9 XP
Signed lower left; numbered lower left; publisher's chop lower left.
Published by Tama...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Color, Lithograph
Luna al Atardecer
Located in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato
Original Carmen Gutierrez painting.
"Luna al Atardecer", 2016.
Oil, acrylic and liquid silver leaf on canvas.
Signed by the artist.
17.7 x 18.5 in. image.
20.5 (height) x 21.5 x 1.6 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Hudson
By Eugene Healy
Located in Quogue, NY
Abstract, mixed media coastal landscape
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Switch-It #9
Located in Houston, TX
Robert Ruello
Switch-It #9, 2016
graphite, watercolor, and colored pencil on paper
20 x 15 inches
Energetic and charged with visual power, the Switch-It series is movement and transition visualized. Ruello’s formal investigation of how we move through and disrupt various environments (digital, analog, and in-between) is rendered through these graphic elements. As he notes, “As a result of this disruption, the array is no longer stable or predictable — visual illusions and shifting figure/ground relationships begin to emerge.” Ruello’s work stems from an enjoyment in the tension between the stable and the unpredictable. Though not figural, his work presents elements that are recognizable from our visual vernacular. Digital screens, popular science...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
F6
By Julian Teran
Located in New York, NY
Julián Terán
F6, 2016
Ink on paper
19.7 x 19.7 in
(50.04h x 50.04w cm)
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Ink
Graysland
Located in Boca Raton, FL
A leading abstract painter in his lifetime, Dan Christensen drew from a range of Modernist sources to produce colorful, luminous compositions that featured giant dots, whirling loops...
Category
20th Century Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled Kernel
By Eric Johnson
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Inspired by both art and science, Eric Johnson creates composite works of pigment, wood and resin that reference a kinship with other artists: to the sensuality of Brancusi, the arch...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Resin
Shanghái
Located in ARANJUEZ, ES
« I believe painting is all about gesture and flow. Painting is nowness. »
An abstract painting for Shanghái city .Acrylic medium with Chinese ink and pencil to write the memories o...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Oil Crayon, Ink, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Have You Noticed How Ludicrously Lexiphatic It's Gotten in Here?
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Artist
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Barrilete 2
Located in New York, NY
Barrilete 2, 2015
Ferrite and graphite on paper
9.80h x 7.90w in
Unframed
Miriam Peralta was born in 1957 in Buenos Aires, where she also received her formal academic training at ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Graphite
"Rosemary Lying On One Elbow" Laser Cut Steel Drawing
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
Artist: Tom Wesselmann
Title: Rosemary Lying on One Elbow
Medium: Laser Cut Steel
Edition: 45
Date: 1989
Dimensions: 8" x 15" X 1/8"
Description: Signed Unframed
Condition: ...
Category
1980s Abstract Art
Materials
Laser
Switch-It #7
Located in Houston, TX
Robert Ruello
Switch-It #7, 2016
graphite, watercolor, and colored pencil on paper
20 x 15 inches
Energetic and charged with visual power, the Switch-It series is movement and transition visualized. Ruello’s formal investigation of how we move through and disrupt various environments (digital, analog, and in-between) is rendered through these graphic elements. As he notes, “As a result of this disruption, the array is no longer stable or predictable — visual illusions and shifting figure/ground relationships begin to emerge.” Ruello’s work stems from an enjoyment in the tension between the stable and the unpredictable. Though not figural, his work presents elements that are recognizable from our visual vernacular. Digital screens, popular science...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Tea Party #3
Located in New York, NY
Abstract stainless steel pipe sculpture with beautifully detailed surface. Can be inside or outside.
About the Artist:
Famous abstract expressionist. Soffer was born in Bagh...
Category
1980s Abstract Art
Materials
Stainless Steel
Oak tree
Located in ARANJUEZ, ES
« I believe painting is all about gesture and flow. Painting is nowness. »
I wanted to represent the magnificent of the oak trees ,how they grow as island in...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Oil Crayon, Ink, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic
"Through the Doors"
By Josef Zenk
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Josef Zenk (1904-2000)
Josef Zenk was born in New York City in 1904. After graduating from high school, he studied for thr...
Category
20th Century Abstract Art
Materials
Paper
Contemporary Geometric Abstraction- Mixed Media Painting-411010202
Located in Beijing, CN
Description:
Liu Gang(b.1965)
440201202
water-based and oil-based pigments on rice paper
138.6 by 290 cm
Dated 2020
mounted and framed
The artwork comes wi...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Rice Paper, Pigment
Sonata #16
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Curtis Ripley’s newest abstractions are sublime musings on expression itself. Concerned with capturing those phenomena which are most difficult to describe with words, Ripley’s paint...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
《桃花源记》The Peach Colony
By Fu Wenjun
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Fu Wenjun, 1955, is a famous Chinese contemporary artist. He creates principally through the art media of photography, installation, sculpture and oil painting, and has put forward t...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Digital Pigment
Blood Moon Eclipse Abstract Impressionism
Located in Soquel, CA
Blood Moon Eclipse Abstract Impressionism
A vibrant abstract painting in primary colors in watercolor and acrylic paint, by California-based ar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Watercolor, Acrylic, Paper
Royal Curtain /// Gene Davis Contemporary Abstract Geometric Expressionist Art
By Gene Davis
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Gene Davis (American, 1920-1985)
Title: "Royal Curtain"
*Signed by Davis in pencil lower right
Year: 1980
Medium: Original Screenprint on Arches paper
Limited edition: 250, (the number may differ from what is shown in the photos)
Printer: Alpha Omega...
Category
1980s Abstract Art
Materials
Screen
"Les Grues" The Cranes
By René Genis
Located in Berlin, MD
Rene Genis (French 1922-2004) “Les Grues” - The Cranes. Oil on matt board. Scene of a merchant ship being loaded in port (noted on back as possibly Bordeau...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Art
Materials
Illustration Board, Oil
Neutral Harmony: Journey Between Brown and White Lines
Located in LAS ROZAS DE MADRID, ES
Shipped rolled in a tube without frame
In the vast canvas of creativity, emerges a masterpiece titled "Neutral Harmony: Journey Between Brown and White Lines." This painting, imbued...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Bee Maraschino light bright abstract insect pattern
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on panel with a gesso underpainting.
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Gesso, Oil, Wood Panel
Suite of Eight Prints (Edition 9/20) - series of abstract shapes on paper
By Aron Hill
Located in Bloomfield, ON
The drama of black and white in elegant minimal form. Aron Hill has created a striking editioned series of compositions in jet-black archival ink on pure white paper. Each distinctiv...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
"Untitled 4" Abstract Painting 47" x 71" inch by Ahmed Dafrawy
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled 4" Abstract Painting 47" x 71" inch by Ahmed Dafrawy
Dafrawy’s fine arts academic background started in 2014 when he received the certificate of drawing course completion from the Faculty of Art & Education located in Zamalek Cairo, Egypt. Granting him his first appearance during 2015, in the Faculty of Art & Education exhibition at El Sawy Culture Wheel Centre located in Zamalek. Ever since, Dafrawy’s artworks have been exhibited, noticed, and recognized by collectors, artists, and curators with an early certificate of recognition from the minister of culture Emad Abu Ghazy at Lamasatt Art Gallery located in downtown, Cairo, during the same year.
Born in 1982, the Egyptian artist started exploring art at an early age. At the age of 11, he won the Princess Nouf award at a drawing competition in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Helen Frankenthaler: Reflections (Catalog of 12 Prints) /// Abstract Female Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: (after) Helen Frankenthaler (American, 1928-2011)
Title: "Helen Frankenthaler: Reflections (Catalog of 12 Prints)"
Series: (after) Reflections
*Issued unsigned
Year: 1995
Med...
Category
1990s Abstract Art
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
"Our Little Garden 2" Abstract Oil Painting 51" x 51" in by Sanjar Djabbarov
Located in Culver City, CA
"Our Little Garden 2" Abstract Oil Painting 51" x 51" in by Sanjar Djabbarov
ABOUT
Sanjar Djabbarov was born in Gulistan, the capital of the Sirdaria Province in eastern Uzbekista...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Alternation of Spring and Winter" Oil Painting 59" x 55" in by Sanjar Djabbarov
Located in Culver City, CA
"Alternation of Spring and Winter" Oil Painting 59" x 55" in by Sanjar Djabbarov
ABOUT
Sanjar Djabbarov was born in Gulistan, the capital of the Sirdaria Province in eastern Uzbek...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sezione Aurea - A13 by Mattia Bosco - Abstract sculpture, Gold leaf & marble
Located in Paris, FR
Sezione Aurea - A13 is a wall sculpture by Italian contemporary artist Mattia Bosco.
Palissandro marble and gold leaf, 82.5 cm × 15 cm × 9.5 cm. Unique wo...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Marble, Gold Leaf
SW6 by Mattia Bosco - Abstract sculpture, black Palissandro marble and gold leaf
Located in Paris, FR
SW6 is a unique sculpture by contemporary artist Mattia Bosco. This sculpture is made of Black Palissandro marble and gold leaf, dimensions are 49 × 30 × ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Marble, Gold Leaf
The Whale Watch
By Frank Stella
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Frank Philip Stella (born May 12, 1936) is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker, noted for his work in the areas of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction. Stella lives and works in New York City.
This hand signed silk textile scarf work is acquired directly from the publisher. Extremely uncommon to find this piece in new condition and comes in the original red silk box.
This art piece can be framed and hung on the wall or be a worn as a wearable art piece. This dazzling, large, hand signed, silkscreen on 100% Italian silk shawl was created by Frank Stella in collaboration with his longtime publisher Kenneth Tyler of the famed Tyler Graphics Studio.
"The Whale Watch...
Category
1990s Abstract Art
Materials
Textile, Silk, Archival Ink, Digital, Archival Pigment
"Untitled wp20" Abstract Painting 22" x 18" inch by Gayatri Gamuz
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled wp20" Abstract Painting 22" x 18" inch by Gayatri Gamuz
Watercolor on archival paper
In search of silence, in search of the self.
Her work em...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
SW9 by Mattia Bosco - Abstract sculpture, Marble and gold leaf
Located in Paris, FR
Black Palissandro marble and gold leaf, 46.5 cm × 21 cm × 22 cm. Unique piece.
In his contemporary sculpture, Italian artist Mattia Bosco seeks to create ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Marble, Gold Leaf
"Untitled 13.1" Abstract Oil Painting 58" x 36" inch by Gayatri Gamuz
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled 13.1" Abstract Oil Painting 58" x 36" inch by Gayatri Gamuz
This artwork ships rolled in a tube due to its size
In search of silence, in search of the self.
Her work eme...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Untitled 6" Abstract Oil Painting 54" x 79" inch by Gayatri Gamuz
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled 6" Abstract Oil Painting 54" x 79" inch by Gayatri Gamuz
In search of silence, in search of the self.
Her work emerges from the silence within...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Choice with whom to be. 2" Abstract Painting 60" x 48" in by Tetiana Kalivoshko
Located in Culver City, CA
"Choice with whom to be. 2" Abstract Painting 60" x 48" in by Tetiana Kalivoshko
Full name of the artwork: "Choice with whom to be. 2.. What do you...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"What do you see here What could it be 3" Painting 54x30in by Tetiana Kalivoshko
Located in Culver City, CA
"What do you see here What could it be 3" Painting 54x30in by Tetiana Kalivoshko
Acrylic painting
Tetiana Kalivoshko is an American-based Ukrainian artist who specializes in painting, sculpture, and art installations. Graduated from the L’viv National Academy of Art and Shanghai's East China Normal University.
She decided to devote herself to the world of art in 2015 after seeing the exhibition "In Love With Art" which motivated her to begin developing her art and ideas and to travel across the world.
Tetiana's debut project installation, "Peace," was shown in several Ukrainian cities. The installation “Peace”.
Her work materialized spectacular shapes of Chinese hieroglyphs that mean "Peace". In 2016, Tetiana presented her first collection, "War...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"What do you see here What could it be 2" Painting 54x30in by Tetiana Kalivoshko
Located in Culver City, CA
"What do you see here What could it be 2" Painting 54x30in by Tetiana Kalivoshko
Acrylic painting
Tetiana Kalivoshko is an American-based Ukrainian artist who specializes in painting, sculpture, and art installations. Graduated from the L’viv National Academy of Art and Shanghai's East China Normal University.
She decided to devote herself to the world of art in 2015 after seeing the exhibition "In Love With Art" which motivated her to begin developing her art and ideas and to travel across the world.
Tetiana's debut project installation, "Peace," was shown in several Ukrainian cities. The installation “Peace”.
Her work materialized spectacular shapes of Chinese hieroglyphs that mean "Peace". In 2016, Tetiana presented her first collection, "War...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Dali III-Limited Edition Etching with Aquatint/comes with COA
Located in Clinton Township, MI
Limited Edition Etching with Aquatint, 44/50. 37 in x 30 in, Framed. Signed by Artist, comes with Certificate of Authenticity. Image is in Excellent Condition. Frame shows signs of w...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
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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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