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.
Find original abstract paintings, sculptures, prints and other art on 1stDibs.
Style: Abstract
Color: Green
93 MILLION MILES V
Located in Tulsa, OK
93 million miles V by artist Leroy Projects is a green and blue contemporary abstract mixed media on panel that measures 24 x 24 and is priced at $1,200.
The goal of Leroy Projects ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Panel
"Holding On" Abstract Contemporary Modern Blue Yellow Bright Mixed Media
By Nancy Berlin
Located in Wellesley, MA
Holding On, 2016, Mixed Media on Wood Panel, 18 x 14 Inches.
Playful geometric abstraction of multi-layered shapes, textures, and linear elements in shades of turquoise, yellow, gra...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Mixed Media
"Moss" Abstract, Hanging Wall Relief Sculpture, Handmade Paper Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
"Moss" from the "Presences" series by Joan Giordano
Mixed Media, Caste Handmade Paper (made from Kozo or Abaca Paper with natural pigment), Bamboo, Encaustic Wax on a Steel Stand
M...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Steel
Abstract Brooklyn Bridge, Camera 35 Cover, 1973
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100. In-camera multiple exposure with colored gels produces a complex semi-abstract image generation ahead of its time. Created in 1970. Camera 35 Cove...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Open Green
By Henry Botkin
Located in Concord, MA
HENRY BOTKIN (1896-1983)
Open Green, 1960
Oil on paperboard on board
34 x 44 inches
Signed at lower right: Botkin
Signed, titled and dated verso
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Cosmic Editing
By Ken Tate
Located in New Orleans, LA
Louisiana non-figurative artist Ken Tate’s art explores the more emotional aspects of the human condition.
The impetus for the current work comes from the writings of Beats such as ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
PR 36
By Andre Costa
Located in New York, NY
Andre Costa, PR 36, Abstract Acrylic Painting on Vinyl, 19.75 x 19.75, 2015
Colors: Green, White, Orange, Black, Yellow, Blue, Purple, Pink
Andre Costa is Brazilian visual artist an...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic
Vintage #3
By Howie Ronay
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a limited edition Photograph which was originally a vintage Chevy Truck. Howie Ronay finds the beauty through everything and uses saturation amon...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Photographic Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Red Turquoise Abstract Oil Painting On Canvas 38x38" , Only a Love, Irena Orlov
By Irena Orlov
Located in Sherman Oaks, CA
Red Turquoise Abstract Oil Painting On Stretched Canvas 38 x 38" Only a Love, Irena Orlov
SPECIFICATIONS: - Artist-grade canvas. - 1" ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Oil
Every Green
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Dawn Arrowsmith’s paintings are meditations in color. It has been said that each is a kind of minimalist luxury – pure, distilled, economical, but also rich, luscious, erotic. Her wo...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Central Process
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Resin coated and mounted to layers of plywood, these digital/mixed media ‘picture objects’ represent interpretations of contemporary visual culture charmed by minimalism, modernism...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Resin, Panel, Digital Pigment
Slow Turn
By Macyn Bolt
Located in London, GB
Acrylic on canvas - Unframed
Using the geometric vocabulary found in architectural schemata, Bolt tries to create a dynamic tension between foreground and background, center and edg...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Beach Walk #4" Large abstraction, turquoise, burgundy, chartreuse, blue, green
By Susan Sharp
Located in Wellesley, MA
Beach Walk #4, 2018, Oil on 2 Panels, 48 x 72 Inches (Diptych)
These 2 panels can be installed with a slight amount of space in between or with no space at all.
Vivid abstraction ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Oil
Untitled 12
By Jeffrey Pitt
Located in New Orleans, LA
Jeffrey Pitt’s intricate paintings evolved out of the artist’s desire to interpret culture based on artistic and ceremonial expression. With a B.A. in Anthropology, Pitt has a great ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Gesso, Ink, Board
Palm Pool 2
By Chris Leidy
Located in Fairfield, CT
In this fast moving world, photographer Chris Leidy has found his inspiration within the depths of global oceans. Under water, Chris captures a vision – a flash in time – through his...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
'Serene', Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Original acrylic, abstract painting created on regular style canvas. Note* Shipping to International locations 'Everywhere Else' is an estimate only. Please contact Zatista for a s...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Golf Course Green
Located in Miami, FL
Golf Green
A large area of Yellowish Green covers the pictorial surface and accented by a terra cotta building in the foreground. The photographer captures the perfect moment on wha...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Photon 04 (Abstract Photography)
By Seb Janiak
Located in London, GB
Photon 04 (Abstract Photography)
Chromogenic print. Edition 2/5.
In his Photon series, Janiak explores the intrinsic duality of light. The photons we interpret as light exist in a ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
C Print
"Oasis in Iridescent Forest, " Miniature Watercolor signed by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Oasis in Iridescent Forest" is an original miniature watercolor by David Barnett, signed on the center bottom edge. The work is painted in iridescent watercolor and renders a forest...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Yearning
Located in Burlingame, CA
Minimalistic 'Yearning' glows with pink, peach, blue and green and is inspired by Taoist teachings and meditations, with a focus on color, rhythm and flow. Matuszewski creates medita...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Pencil
GPB Slurp
Located in London, GB
Acrylic on aluminum - Unframed
Hallard works with the themes of space and geometry, manipulating images and arrangements of objects in order to challenge the perception of the viewer.
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Uncertain- 31 X 40 Soft Greens
By José Castro
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Uncertain 31 X 40 Soft Greens
Acrylic on Canvas
Jose Castro was born in Matanzas, Cuba in 1947. In 1961, when he was 14, he was sent to Miami to escape the Revolution. Later he was j...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Green Bayou, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Janice Schoultz Mudd
Located in Yardley, PA
“Green Bayou†is one in a series of works that was inspired by the satellite imagery of Google Earth near the Mississippi river Delta area. When looking at that site, different...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Heart Chakra
Located in New York, NY
Rodolfo Choperena
Heart Chakra , 2016
Digital print on metal
30 x 30 in
Edition 2/3
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Metal
Dollis
Located in Boston, MA
John Thompson, American (b.1950), Dollis, circa 2014. Titled lower left: "Dollis"; signed and dated lower right: "John Thompson 2014". A fine impression in fine condition. Dimensions...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Screen
Pat Lay, DM410161212, 2016, Paint, Paper, Panel, Inkjet Print
By Pat Lay
Located in Darien, CT
In the last decade Pat Lay’s artwork has focused on technological metaphors of the human experience. In this series of digital collages, digital images scanned from computer circuit ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Panel, Inkjet, Paint
'Stricken', Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Original acrylic, abstract painting created on regular style canvas. Note* Shipping to International locations 'Everywhere Else' is an estimate only. Please contact Zatista for a s...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Acrylic Painting Titled: Citron Borealis
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Acrylic on Panel
Born in Havana, Cuba, in the late 70s during a well-documented time of religious and political o ppression, abstract expressionist artist Mirtha Moreno, immigrated ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Water Reflection, Abstract Color Photography by Geoffrey Baris, Blue, Green
Located in New York, NY
Water Reflection, Abstract Color Photography by Geoffrey Baris
Archival pigment print on museum fine art paper
Edition of 7
Includes certificate of authenticity. Signed and numbered...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Abstract Composition B2, 1970 - acrylic, 92x64 cm.
By Claude Belleudy
Located in Nice, FR
Oil on canvas, signed lower right.
Category
1970s Abstract Art
Materials
Paint
Sacred Green
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Dawn Arrowsmith’s paintings are meditations in color. It has been said that each is a kind of minimalist luxury – pure, distilled, economical, but also rich, luscious, erotic. Her wo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Spring
By Armando Melendez
Located in Guadalajara, Jalisco
Spring
Armando Meléndez
Mixed Media on Canvas
120 x 120 cm
2010, MX
Framed
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Eduardo Infante, Blonde She Hulk, 2017
Located in New York, NY
This pastel on paper, depicts a female figure in green, wearing a pink flower on her head. The shape of her hair and lips are sketched in pinks. The shape of her body seems to blend...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
"Annotation 1" Abstract Bright Green Playful Colorful Bright Mixed Media
By Nancy Berlin
Located in Wellesley, MA
Annotation 1, 2010, Mixed Media on Paper, 17.5 x 14 Inches (Image), 29 x 22 Inches (Paper). This painting on paper is unframed.
Playful geometric abstraction of swirling linear el...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Confluent 3 (Study)
By Grant Wiggins
Located in New Orleans, LA
Grant Wiggins makes colorful paintings with dynamic compositions and clean lines. His vibrant geometric paintings draw upon the energy of contemporary graphic culture.
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Panel
Weaving 1421 (Diamond)
By Nina Tichava
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --Pulling imagery and motif from organic form, architecture, media and design I create densely layered, mixed-media paintings that ar...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Panel
Green abstract
Located in New York, NY
An aerial photography that was not manipulated or color corrected.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
C Print, Plexiglass
Fashionably Late - Abstract Watercolor on Paper in Green and Purple
Located in New York, NY
Andrei Petrov's Fashionably Late is 9 x 13.5 inches watercolor on paper. The main colors are green, and purple.
As it is often the case in Petrov's work, his abstractions acquire, at...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Cool Triangles
By James Koenig
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original hard edge abstraction by American artist James Koenig titled "Cool Triangles. This work is part of Draw Near exhibition which opened at Benjaman Gallery on March 11. Th...
Category
1970s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Ribbon Structure #4
By James Koenig
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original hard edge abstraction by American artist James Koenig. This work titled "Ribbon Structure #4" is part of the Draw Near exhibition currently on view at Benjaman Gallery
Category
1970s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
GARDEN MANDALA 4 Green Tree Abstract Paper Photograph Yuri Tuma
By Yuri Tuma
Located in Madrid, ES
Year: 2017
Framed: No
Medium: Paper
Technique: Digital Art
Edition: 20
Signed: No
Location: Madrid, Spain
Style: Abstra
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper
On Reflection
Located in New Orleans, LA
In this new body of work, Kremer continues to explore and celebrate the physical experience of being, juggling eros, flora, fauna, and saga in abstract relationships that continue to...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Linen, Oil
Monologue Frank
By Ryoko Endo
Located in New Orleans, LA
Ryoko Endo was born into a traditional family in Fukushima, Japan and attended a Catholic mission school. As a child, her mother encouraged her to wear a glove on her dominant left h...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Cow Going Abstract (Triptych)
Located in Ljubljana, SI
Cow Going Abstract (Triptych). Tree original color silkscreens, 1982. Edition of 150 signed and numbered impressions on Arches paper. Published by F...
Category
1980s Abstract Art
Materials
Screen
Bathed In Gold: Contemporary Figurative Expressionist Oil Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Whether it be dawn or dusk there’s a very special time of day when the world seems to turn a little more slowly. In Bathed in Gold Francesca Owen has pe...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Reef Painting #5
Located in New Orleans, LA
Hackett’s paintings defy popular convention. They are not figurative, decorative, representative, or even completely abstract. While it is hard to tie them to any one style or movement, they manage to be a part of all of them. Hackett’s work is influenced by pattern, midcentury design, art of indigenous peoples, and the art and craft movement, combined with a loose examination of the natural world. She creates a visual environment that is both recognizable yet strangely mysterious. While steeped in art history and influenced by a range of artists from Miro to Arthur Dove, Charles Burchfield, Agnes Pelton, Florine Stettheimer...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Oil, Archival Paper
Lime
Located in New Orleans, LA
Hackett’s paintings defy popular convention. They are not figurative, decorative, representative, or even completely abstract. While it is hard to tie them to any one style or movement, they manage to be a part of all of them. Hackett’s work is influenced by pattern, midcentury design, art of indigenous peoples, and the art and craft movement, combined with a loose examination of the natural world. She creates a visual environment that is both recognizable yet strangely mysterious. While steeped in art history and influenced by a range of artists from Miro to Arthur Dove, Charles Burchfield, Agnes Pelton, Florine Stettheimer...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Oil, Archival Paper
Gator
Located in New Orleans, LA
Hackett’s paintings defy popular convention. They are not figurative, decorative, representative, or even completely abstract. While it is hard to tie them to any one style or movement, they manage to be a part of all of them. Hackett’s work is influenced by pattern, midcentury design, art of indigenous peoples, and the art and craft movement, combined with a loose examination of the natural world. She creates a visual environment that is both recognizable yet strangely mysterious. While steeped in art history and influenced by a range of artists from Miro to Arthur Dove, Charles Burchfield, Agnes Pelton, Florine Stettheimer Sonia Delaunay and Hilma af Klimt...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Oil
'Spring Dances' Abstract Digital Painting
Located in Rye, NY
Part of the artists "Spring Mood" series, each piece uses color in new ways to create a unique atmosphere and energy for each piece. For 'Spring Dances' t...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Digital, Lambda
Untitled (Knot No. 1119)
Located in New York, NY
RICHARD ANUSZKIEWICZ
Untitled (Knot No. 1119), 1986-2020
Acrylic on canvas
48 x 48 inches
Category
1980s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Observations in Passing
By Guy Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
"I have been painting seriously for somewhere around 35 years, but have only ever sold regionally - most recently, through my gallery on Magazine Street in New Orleans. Through 1stDi...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Oil Crayon, Oil, Acrylic
Rural French Landscape painting with a house and green trees & sky, 'Provence'
Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Edy-Legrand, whose real name is Edward Louis Warschawsky Leon, born in Bordeaux in 1892, died in Bonnieux in 1970. He was a French illustrator and painter. He made the first part of ...
Category
20th Century Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Interface: Lime Green Falls, Liminal Landscape Series
Located in Santa Monica, CA
16" x 16" Work on Paper
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
It's Nearly Dawn
By Ryoko Endo
Located in New Orleans, LA
Ryoko Endo was born into a traditional family in Fukushima, Japan and attended a
Catholic mission school. As a child, her mother encouraged her to wear a glove on her
dominant left h...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Halcyon Days
By Ryoko Endo
Located in New Orleans, LA
Ryoko Endo was born into a traditional family in Fukushima, Japan and attended a
Catholic mission school. As a child, her mother encouraged her to wear a glove on her
dominant left h...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Billiard Green 1
By Leah Durner
Located in New York, NY
LEAH DURNER
Billiard Green 1, 2011
Gouache on billiard Fabriano Tiziano colored paper
39 x 27.5 inches
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Gouache, Archival Paper
Green, from Flowers
Located in New York, NY
Screenprint in colors, on Rives BFK paper
Sheet: 31 x 31 in. (78.7 x 78.7 cm)
Edition of 55 + 15AP
Signed and numbered in pencil on the lower margin
Published by Upsilon Gallery, New...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Screen
Green Freshness - Original handsigned gouache
Located in Paris, FR
Georges Hugnet (1906-1974)
Green Freshness
Gouache on paper
Signed in the lower right corner
Dimensions 37,5 x 15,5 cm (15 x 6")
Excellent condition
Category
1970s Abstract Art
Materials
Gouache
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.
Recently Viewed
View AllMore Ways To Browse
Wall Fresco
19th Century Spanish Paintings
Greek Woman
Oil Painting Man 19th
Native American Gold
Cut Paper Wall Art
Antique Painting Auction
Antique Painting Auctions
Lady Just
Gold Leaf Painting Japan
Japanese Painting Gold Leaf
Sea Life Gold
Canvas Midcentury Print
Russian Vintage Fashion
Costa Vintage
Coat Mans
Head Of Man Sculpture
Sculpture 1942