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
Where Mountains Meet
Located in London, GB
A small abstract painting mostly monochrome black and white with subtle earthy yellow accents. The gestural abstraction that captures a sensation, an emotion, a silent poem. Organic...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Gesso, Ink, Acrylic
Weaving Tides
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
Borderlines
Located in London, GB
A beautiful small abstract painting with deep blue and silver accents, that captures a sensation, an emotion, a poem in colour.
The Painting is part of the Dreams And Wishes collec...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Gesso, Ink, Acrylic
"Abstract Garden" No8 Absrtact Mixed Media Painting, 2017
Located in London, GB
Hsu Tung-Lung (b.1947) is a highly accomplished contemporary artist, who specializes in paintings. His latest collection "Memory Landscape" features an original abstract oil painting...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Gesso, Acrylic
Nu-Life, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Nancy Kramp
Located in Yardley, PA
Abstract Expressionism is "taking the random and giving it shape" and defies description. The viewer sees it with their unique imagination as to make the experience their own and not...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Conversations Between Us large abstract painting neutral colors
By Michele Zuzalek
Located in Washington, DC
Large abstract painting in neutral colors.
This painting titled "Conversation Between Us" features words embedded in a neutral palette. The colors are subdued, such as shades of grey...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Charcoal, Ink, Acrylic, Graphite
A Road Less Travelled
Located in London, GB
A beautiful small abstract painting mostly monochrome black and white with subtle sunrise colour accents. The gestural abstraction that captures a sensation, an emotion, a silent poe...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Gesso, Ink, Acrylic
Flight Over The Noise
Located in London, GB
A beautiful small abstract painting with sky blue and earthy brown colours, complex textures and black and white ink accents. The gestural abstraction that captures a sensation, an e...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Gesso, Ink, Acrylic
Abrazo Eterno
Located in New Rochelle, NY
Marta Crespo is an Argentinian artist born in 1960.
She studied arts in Buenos Aires. Marta participated in workshops with various renowned artists, such as Santa Maria, Eckell, a...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, 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
Invisible treasures # 6 serigraphy
Located in Helsinki, FI
Hand-printed fine arts poster, 70x100 cm
Limited Edition, printed, signed, and numbered by the artist, 2019
The story number six has been created from an original ink drawing. Silks...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Screen
Chasing Kite Tales
Located in London, GB
A beautiful small abstract painting with deep blue and silver accents, gestural abstraction that captures a sensation, an emotion, a poem in colour.
The Painting is part of the Dre...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Gesso, Ink, Acrylic
"Masquerade" Large Scale Acrylic, Oil Pastels, Pencils Abstract in Pinks 48x60
Located in New York, NY
"Masquerade" 2024, 48" H x 60" W. Large-scale, multi-colored abstract painting consisting of acrylic, house paint, pencils, and oil pastels on canvas by Argentine-born artist Karina ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Oil Pastel, House Paint, Acrylic, Carbon Pencil, Color Pencil
Where I Tried to Escape; What Beckons My Return
By Brian Jerome
Located in Conshohocken, PA
I tried to escape the farm town i grew up in and moved to the city. the city became home. I then left to start a family. Life happens and things change. I returned to the city, but n...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Las Vueltas de la Vida
Located in New Rochelle, NY
Marta Crespo is an Argentinian artist born in 1960.
She studied arts in Buenos Aires. Marta participated in workshops with various renowned artists, such as Santa Maria, Eckell, a...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
No Supongas
Located in New Rochelle, NY
Marta Crespo is an Argentinian artist born in 1960.
She studied arts in Buenos Aires. Marta participated in workshops with various renowned artists, such as Santa Maria, Eckell, a...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Toussainte
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist grew up in the French Alps, in the heart of the mountains, on the Italian border. I keep a love of nature, wide open spaces, silence. Her work is imbued with these organic...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Ceramic, Earthenware
Invisible treasures, architectural monotype
Located in Helsinki, FI
Monotype, hand-printed and signed by the artist 2019
Unframed 30 х 45
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Screen
Invisible treasures, monotype
Located in Helsinki, FI
Monotype, hand-printed and signed by the artist 2019
Unframed 30 х 45
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Screen
Invisible treasures # 3 architectural serigraphy no. 10 / 15
Located in Helsinki, FI
Hand-printed fine arts poster. 50x70 cm
Limited Edition of 15 monotypes. Printed, signed, and numbered by the artist. 2019
Architectural story number three captures abandoned, but n...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Screen
Invisible treasures # 3 architectural serigraphy no. 6 / 15
Located in Helsinki, FI
Hand-printed fine arts poster. 50x70 cm
Limited Edition of 15 monotypes. Printed, signed, and numbered by the artist. 2019
Architectural story number three captures abandoned, but n...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Screen
Invisible treasures # 3 architectural serigraphy no. 8 / 15
Located in Helsinki, FI
Hand-printed fine arts poster 50x70
Limited Edition of 15 monotypes Printed, signed, and numbered by the artist 2019
Architectural story number three captures abandoned, but none...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Screen
Untitled
Located in PARIS, FR
Julien Airault (B.1979)
Untitled
Oil on canvas
92 x 73 cm
2023
Born in 1979, Julien Airault is a French painter and sculptor.
A self-taught artist, Julien Airault has been intereste...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Oil
Invisible treasures # 2 architectural serigraphy, distorted
Located in Helsinki, FI
Hand-printed fine arts poster 50x70
Limited Edition of 20 screen prints Printed, signed, and numbered by the artist 2017
The print has been created from the abstract brush stroke...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Screen
Invisible treasures # 1 architectural serigraphy
Located in Helsinki, FI
Hand-printed fine arts poster, 50x70 cm
Limited Edition of 10 screen prints. Printed, signed, and numbered by the artist. 2017
Silkscreen printmaking technique allows to achieve a ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Screen
Invisible treasures # 6 architectural serigraphy
Located in Helsinki, FI
Hand-printed fine arts poster 70x100
Limited Edition Printed, signed, and numbered by the artist 2019
Architectural story number six captures abandoned, but nonetheless gorgeous ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Screen
Invisible treasures # 2 architectural serigraphy
Located in Helsinki, FI
Hand-printed fine arts poster 50x70
Limited Edition of 20 screen prints Printed, signed, and numbered by the artist 2017
The print has been created from the abstract brush stroke...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Screen
Purplescent
Located in San Diego, CA
"Purplescent" in the "Lay of the Land" collection is inspired by the meeting place of land and sea where earth and water merge; the fleeting moment between time and space where one g...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Encaustic
Salmon Run, 2024, Acrylic on canvas, 36in36in, $3600 colorful landscape
Located in Boston, MA
She has exhibited at galleries extensively throughout New York to include Brenda Taylor Chelsea Location and Massachusetts. Her work has been acquired by the Coupelouvous Family Muse...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Abstract Ink and Gold Dust Painting on paper -Ukranian Artist
Located in Columbus, OH
The artist has used the floating dreamlike transparency of black ink on paper. She then applied a sprinkle of gold dust to give the slightest shimmer to the surface of the art.
The ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Gold
Gathering Sky, serene and tranquil landscape, horizon in blue and orange
Located in Toronto, ON
Christopher Masoure was born into an artistic family in 1957 in Toronto. He began painting at an early age following his father’s footsteps. Educated in fine arts at the Art Institut...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
'Beyond your brilliant mind’, watercolour, abstract philosophical quote
Located in Lahti, FI
Original artwork, watercolour and pencil on paper by the multifaceted Finnish artist and holistic interior architect Emmi Granlund, also known as EMMI IIDA for her music with healing...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
"Floruit" (abstract green, pink, floral, landscape, oil painting, cotton canvas)
Located in Paris, IDF
FLORUIT
2024
Paris, France
This complex and layered floral painting of an abstract vase of flowers presents an energetic and mesmerizing subject. This original painting on cotton ca...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Oil, Dye, Ink, Oil Crayon, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
Miro Lithograph I Hand-Signed Limited Edition Lithograph
By Joan Miró
Located in New York, NY
Joan Miro (Spanish, 1893-1983)
Hand-signed
Lithograph in colors on Arches wove
Sheet: 13.5 x 10.25
96/150
Category
1970s Abstract Art
Materials
Lithograph
OYV-19 - Contemporary Abstract Collage Painting- Yellow, measuring tape
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
OYV-19 is part of Eric Mack's ongoing body of work utilizing multi-media, complex compositions, and a grid centered around urban design. Using a grid to create the framework of the painting, Mack has re-purposed an old Lenny Kravitz album cover as the structure of the piece. On the edges of the piece you can see a complex edge consisting of a faux leather album cover, nylon mesh, and torn paper. As imagery, Mack has chosen musical notes, tape measure, and other music composition elements through Zerox copy adhered by matte medium to the surface. Mack then creates his own color to further tweak and personalize the piece.
Eric Mack (b.1976, Charleston) creates mathematically based renderings with a distinct post-modern twist. Works are informed with super imposed grids, patterns, and portals. Layered surfaces are created with paint, found objects, natural fibers, and synthetic substrates that explore the systems of our visual world.
His most recent show “Charting the Terrain” is on view now at the California African American Museum in Los Angeles was covered by the Los Angeles Times, KCRW, and LALA Magazine. His last solo exhibition was titled "Impossible Architectures" at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2017. Recent group shows include "Abstract Mind" at the Czong Institute of Contemporary Art, South Korea, "Small Works 2017 at Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, "Checkered History", Outpost Artist Resources, Brooklyn, N.Y. 2015;
Collections include High Museum Atlanta, Ing Investments, Hartsfield Jackson International Airport - Atlanta + Atlanta Gas & Light Co. Pepsi Cola, Tate Properties, Heath Gallery, Harold Dawson Properties, Turner Field/Atlanta Braves...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Nylon, Acrylic, Panel, Handmade Paper, Mesh
UNDULATING COLUMN 3
By Lyle London
Located in Tempe, AZ
The series of which UNDULATING COLUMN 3 is part of began as an experiment in turning a cut objects inside out. Imagine a rectangular bar cut through on a curved path in one plane th...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Metal
Maria
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist grew up in the French Alps, in the heart of the mountains, on the Italian border. I keep a love of nature, wide open spaces, silence. Her work is imbued with these organic...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Ceramic
Untitled
Located in Miami, FL
Sheroanawë Hakihiiwë (1971)
Untitled, 2022
Etching, 16” H x 16” W (41 x 41 cm), signed, dated and numbered in pencil - Artist’s Proof "IV/IV"
Born in a small Yanomami Indigenous c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Etching
Big bang Abstract 1
Located in San Juan, PR
CARLOS MERCADO
ABSTRACT
Inspired in the work of Franz and Ives Klein
This body of work was produced during the initial months of the lock down due to the pandemic. This tragedy crea...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Wild Bumbling Chaos, Abstract Landscape Painting, Bee Painting, Floral Art
By Lucy Moore
Located in Deddington, GB
Wild Bumbling Chaos - Using a little texture I have created this happy flourish with little bees going about there day. I love to splash around with colour creating wild abstract fie...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Crescere n°26
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Hanna Heino is a contemporary artist from Finland known for her delicate form language that honours the beauty and subtle nuances of nature and its textures, shapes and depth. Her pi...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Ceramic, Clay, Porcelain
"Of Cerulean" (abstract green, ivory, blue, floral, oil painting, antique linen)
Located in Paris, IDF
OF CERULEAN
2024
Paris, France
Named after a specific shade of blue, this painting portrays an abstracted, organic floral pattern. The floral shapes and shadows allude to both beau...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Linen, Dye
’Your purpose is revealed’, watercolour, elegant, abstract philosophical quote
Located in Lahti, FI
Original artwork, watercolour and pencil on paper by the multifaceted Finnish artist and holistic interior architect Emmi Granlund, also known as EMMI IIDA for her music with healing...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil, Paper
"La Sirène" Chagall wood engraving pencil signed from Estampes Robert Rey 1950
Located in Paonia, CO
La Sirène after Marc Chagall is bursting with bold colors depicting a mermaid in gold with long black hair topped by a crown and her lover in blue with a bunch of red roses between them in a green background. It is one of 12 wood engravings from the portfolio Estampes by Robert Rey...
Category
1950s Abstract Art
Materials
Woodcut, Archival Paper
Procrastinator
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
Savina
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist grew up in the French Alps, in the heart of the mountains, on the Italian border. I keep a love of nature, wide open spaces, silence. Her work is imbued with these organic...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Ceramic
'Recognise the emotion’, watercolour, abstract philosophical quote
Located in Lahti, FI
Original artwork, watercolour and pencil on paper by the multifaceted Finnish artist and holistic interior architect Emmi Granlund, also known as EMMI IIDA for her music with healing...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Echo lumineux
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Gabriel Sobin was born in 1971 in Salon de Provence, France, to an English mother and an American father. Sobin studied at l’École d’Arts Appliqués Oli - vier de Serres and the Écol...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Alabaster
The Rising Sun
Located in San Diego, CA
"The Rising Sun" in the "Lay of the Land" collection is an original painting by San Diego Artist Shima Shanti in the ancient art form of Encaustic. Up to 50 layers of purified beeswa...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Encaustic
’A child can teach you everything’, watercolour, abstract philosophical quote
Located in Lahti, FI
Original artwork, watercolour and pencil on paper by the multifaceted Finnish artist and holistic interior architect Emmi Granlund, also known as EMMI IIDA for her music with healing...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Unbeheld Schema 2
Located in San Diego, CA
"Unbeheld Schema" in "A Clearing for Silence" collection is an original painting by San Diego Artist Shima Shanti in the ancient art form of Encaustic. This painting conveys an unde...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Wax, Encaustic, Oil
’Let Life Guide You’ Abstract dark brown muted tones painting
Located in Lahti, FI
Original dark toned abstract artwork by the multifaceted Finnish artist and holistic interior architect Emmi Granlund, also known as EMMI IIDA for her music with healing frequencies ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Original Acrylic Abstract Figurative Painting on Paper
By Peter Keil
Located in Columbus, OH
Simplified drawing that expertly captures the expression of the person.
Inscribed 'Berlin' below signature
Artist bio:
Influenced by German Expressionism and graffiti elements, Keil...
Category
1990s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Abstract Portrait acrylic painting on paper
By Peter Keil
Located in Columbus, OH
Simplified drawing that expertly captures the expression of the person.
Inscribed 'Berlin' below signature
Artist bio:
Influenced by German Expressionism and graffiti elements, Keil...
Category
1990s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
’The Guidance Lives In You’, watercolour, elegant, abstract philosophical quote
Located in Lahti, FI
Original artwork by the multifaceted Finnish artist and holistic interior architect Emmi Granlund, also known as EMMI IIDA for her music with healing frequencies and ethereal, philos...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
'Moments on a Frosty Walk' abstract landscape painting by Claire Oxley
By Claire Oxley
Located in London, GB
Claire's abstract landscape paintings, inspired by the Norfolk countryside in England, are uplifting and soulful paintings brightening walls and homes with their vibrancy of colour a...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Mixed Media
The Last Thing I Have to Take Apart Before I Rebuild an Entire Life
By Brian Jerome
Located in Conshohocken, PA
Moving, restarting, unboxing, organizing, all to start the right way after all previous experience
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
You Make Me Happy
Located in Yuba City, CA
I am inspired by the beauty of my natural surroundings and by the layers of history .
One-of a -kind artwork . Original ,unique and modern .Multiple layers of acrylic paint stretche...
Category
2010s 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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