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
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
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
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
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
Oil Crayon, Watercolor, Pencil
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, Oil Crayon
Blue Cosmic 02
Located in LAS ROZAS DE MADRID, ES
Blue Cosmic 02
Blue is the dominant color in the composition. It's a deep blue, which is covered in the vastness and endless sky of a late despair. This tone extends to all of the l...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Oil
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...
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2010s Abstract Art
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Watercolor, Pencil
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
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
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
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
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
Oil Crayon, Watercolor, Pencil
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
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
Joshua Tree
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
Oil Crayon, Watercolor
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
Oil Crayon, Watercolor, Pencil
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
Joshua Tree
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
Oil Crayon, Watercolor
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
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, Acrylic
Andre Masson Exposition de ses œuvres récentes 1962-1968 à la Galerie Louise
By André Masson
Located in Paonia, CO
An original lithograph poster by French artist Andre Masson for Exposition de ses œuvres récentes 1962-1968 à la Galerie Louise ......exhibition of the recent ...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Lithograph
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, Crayon
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
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
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
Oil Crayon, Watercolor, Pencil
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
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
Blue Cosmic 01
Located in LAS ROZAS DE MADRID, ES
Blue Cosmic 01
Blue is the dominant color in the composition. It's a deep blue, which is covered in the vastness and endless sky of a late despair. This tone extends to all of the l...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Oil
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
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
Flight of Fantasy
Located in LAS ROZAS DE MADRID, ES
"Flight of Fantasy" is a painting that invites the viewer to immerse themselves in a world of imagination and enchantment. With soft pastel tones and fluid brushstrokes of action, th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Enamel
Blue Cosmic 03
Located in LAS ROZAS DE MADRID, ES
Blue Cosmic 03
Shipped rolled in a tube without frame
Blue is the dominant color in the composition. It's a deep blue, which is covered in the vastness and endless sky of a late desp...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Oil
Through the mist of my memory, vibrant, colourful flowers garden, large painting
By Mary Chaplin
Located in Deddington, GB
Mary Chaplin, Through the mist of my memory, diptych 2x100x100cm : The garden where I lived as a child is still very alive in my memory. When winter is too dreary, I like to think of...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
‘Light Bringer 1'
Located in London, GB
‘The Light Bringers’, 2023, is Latex and charcoal work, have the quality of movement, the heads turning and twisting, as if in prayer. These series of 6 works are almost biblical, tr...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Charcoal, Latex
Blue Cosmic 04
Located in LAS ROZAS DE MADRID, ES
Blue Cosmic 04
Blue is the dominant color in the composition. It's a deep blue, which is covered in the vastness and endless sky of a late despair. This tone extends to all of the l...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Oil
Viridian Trees, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
About the Artist
Los Angeles-based and Armenian-born artist, Vahe Yeremyan, is a contemporary impressionist. Through his landscapes and city...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Oil
Untitled. SF-353 from “Papierski Portfolio”
By Sam Francis
Located in Malmo, SE
Untitled. SF-353 from “Papierski Portfolio” 1992.
Signed by the artist.
Artwork size : 56 x 76 cm
Frame size : 75x97x4 cm
Museum glass anti-reflective.
Signed AP (artist proof)
Sam Francis Archive Number: SF-353
Publisher: The Litho Shop, Santa Monica.
Free shipment worldwide.
Sam Francis’s paintings are a journey into a dream, a voyage into the landscapes of the soul where colours are lights on fire. Alongside names such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline, Sam Francis is an artist who has succeeded in demonstrating a total mastery of abstract expressionism’s impassioned and spontaneous genre. The explosions of colour – red, blue, green and yellow – the streaks, strokes and bold lines of his pictures are the physical synthesis of the deepest crevices of the soul. His colours create rhythmical motifs that, characteristically enough, can be called the “musicality” of his paintings. The work of Sam Francis provides a visible meeting place for the conscious and the unconscious. His pictures are the cross-fertilisation of what has already been experienced with what exists still only as desire, a struggle between melancholy and merrymaking. Influenced by C.G. Jung, the father of psychoanalysis, Sam Francis spent a large portion of his life exploring the premise that dreams, instincts and intuition provide, the keys which unlock the mysteries and meaning of our inner lives. He was also fascinated by the four ancient elements – earth, water, air and fire – which developed into a leitmotif in his work. Sam Francis was born in San Mateo in California, USA in 1923. After starting to paint at the age of around twenty, he soon found himself increasingly consumed by the power of art. He spent much of the 1950s in Paris, from where he not only made frequent excursions to a number of European cities, but also embarked on many journeys to South America and Asia. He continued to move from place to place, primarily in the USA and Japan, right up until his death in 1994. Sam Francis’s first...
Category
1990s Abstract Art
Materials
Lithograph
Labos
By Holly Addi
Located in Tulsa, OK
Holly Addi makes paintings to explore the art of abstraction and the philosophy of beauty in imperfection.
Holly Addi is a Salt Lake City based artist whose works follow the legacy ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
KAWS Five Years Later Companion Brown
By KAWS
Located in PARIS, FR
KAWS COMPANION 5YL Brown with his
original box. Limited to 500 Produced by Medicom in 2004
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Vinyl
Efflorescence
Located in San Diego, CA
"Efflorescence" in "A Clearing for Silence" collection is an original painting by San Diego Artist Shima Shanti in the ancient art form of Encaustic. Up to 50 layers of purified bee...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Wax, Encaustic
Night and day
Located in Milano, MI
In the compositions, the gaze is attracted by an interplay of harmonious balances
between full and empty spaces, which compel the regarding to an observation
dynamic approach in orde...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
SERIES 'A'
Located in Las Condes, CL
Giclée - Fine art. Limited edition of 30.
Signed and numbered by the artist Jorge Reyes Zepeda.
310 grs. acid free and 100% cotton paper.
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Cotton, Paper, Giclée
Albania - Mountain Skiing Black & White Art Photography
Located in Salzburg, AT
Hailing from the picturesque city of Zaragoza, nestled near the Pyrenees, Carlos Blanchard's journey into the realm of photography was influenced by the rich tapestry of his upbringi...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Black and White
Early 1940s Abstract Pottery Vase #2 after George Ohr
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful rendition of a "Mad Potter of Biloxi George Ohr" style vase by Hamilton Achille Wolf (American, 1883 - 1967). Size: 6" H x 4" W.
A Post War Cali...
Category
1940s Abstract Art
Materials
Clay, Varnish
DANCER 4
By Lyle London
Located in Tempe, AZ
Cast in aluminum and painted with magenta-jade color this biomorphic figure seems in motion and color shifts depending on point of view and ambient lighting. This is an edition of 12...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Metal
Contemporary Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Sculpture', 2022 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
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Chronos 1
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
Soul String
Located in San Diego, CA
About the artist:
James Austin Murray’s paintings are made using the most basic of means: ivory black oil paint, a canvas with wood-panel support and wallpaper brushes—up to nine aff...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Panel
Suburban Life
Located in Yuba City, CA
Inspiration came from daily life. This is very unique and interesting Piece of Art .
This artwork's texture is like tapestry . Layering and texture serves as the foundation for my pa...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Ebbing Tide, Abstract Seascape, Original Landscape Painting, Framed Artwork
Located in Deddington, GB
Ebbing tide is an original landscape painting by Stephen KInder. This painting was completed on location in the late summer of 2019. The painting was completed on West Wittering...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Oil, Board
"Obéole", Hand-Knitted Airy Transparent Pendant Golden Grey Metallic Sculpture
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
This airy sculpture is entirely hand-knitted from a brass golden wire and a galvanized iron grey wire by its creator Delphine Grandvaux. This artwor...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Metal
Modern Beach Sculpture Ideal For Walls Abstract School of Fish Formations
Located in Mexico City, MX
This hand made art work is a modular and comes with 20 fish sculptures all in four different sand tones (five of each). These abstract fish project shadows on the wall turning light into an essential component for double sculpture...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Sandstone
Seven 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
Mountain Abstract
Located in New York, NY
Original monotype made from found objects and textures. I use found objects with various shapes and textures in my original prints to make the monotype have depth and texture. All of...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Monoprint, Monotype
Eternal Return 2
Located in San Diego, CA
"Eternal Return 2" in the "Hikaru" collection is an original painting by San Diego Artist Shima Shanti in the ancient art form of Encaustic. Hikaru—Japanese for Light and Radiance—i...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Wax, Encaustic
Laced Up Abstracts
Located in New York, NY
Original monotype made from found objects and textures. I use found objects with various shapes and textures in my original prints to make the monotype have depth and texture. All of...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Monoprint, Monotype
Blue Abstracts
Located in New York, NY
Original monotype made from found objects and textures. I use found objects with various shapes and textures in my original prints to make the monotype have depth and texture. All of...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Monoprint, Monotype
Upwell Study #3
By Matt Devine
Located in San Diego, CA
Small studio study made of steel with black powder coat paint
About the artist:
Matt Devine is a self-taught sculptor working with steel, stainless steel, aluminum and bronze. Born ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Steel
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