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
Hill and Dale
By Mark Lembo
Located in Boston, MA
About the piece:
The second work of the new Wash Buckle series. Instead of working to keep the moist paper flat, the work takes what the paper 'gives it' - using the peaks and valle...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Green Whirl (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Green Whirl (Abstract painting)
Oil on canvas - Unframed
For Russinof, everything begins with color. She begins a painting by applying color in lyrical, gestural marks. The marks c...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
sbc 195 (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
sbc 195 (Abstract painting)
Acrylic on Linen - Unframed
Like sbc 194, this acrylic painting on medium-weave linen deviates from Cantrick’s habitual formats.
Indeed, the seascape f...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
HegdeFun - The Five Trees - Street Art made by the Rich
By Robert Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Robert Funk’s photographs of elaborate landscaping redefine what Street Art is. Street Art created by the Rich with the help of Landscapers and Gardeners. This type of street art...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
“Towards Yesterday”, Woman with Birds Figurative Portrait Green Acrylic Painting
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Named "Towards Yesterday", this painting depicts figuratively a woman elegantly dressed immersed with birds in an abstract landscape of nature full of light, as if she is immersed in...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Green Whirl (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas - Unframed
For Russinof, everything begins with color. She begins a painting by applying color in lyrical, gestural marks. The marks coalesce into a structure, a loose...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Time for Lime, bright green abstract expressionist painting on canvas
Located in New York, NY
Lisa Fellerson’s paintings provoke an interplay and tension between line, shape, and color. With no preconceived idea in mind, she begins by dripping, scrapping, and gouging acrylic ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Kinship 7", abstract, webs, bubbles, ovals, blue, green, acrylic painting
Located in Natick, MA
Denise Driscoll's "Kinship 7" considers the complexity of relationship in a 24 x 24 inch abstract painting on canvas in violet, blue and green against a deep indigo background. Irreg...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Adjacent 2 (Abstract drawing)
By Xanda McCagg
Located in London, GB
Adjacent 2 (Abstract drawing)
Pencil and paint stick on paper. Unframed.
This work on paper is about Minimalism and exploring minimalist ideas of small moments where one thing has ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Paint, Paper, Pencil
Abstract Expressionist Turquoise and Purple Purse
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful abstract expressionist painting of a turquoise purse with various colors of orange stripes by San Francisco, California artist Michael Eggleston (American, 20th century). F...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Rainbow Clouds - Rainbow Rain, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
READY TO HANG - GALLERY QUALITY - FREE SHIPPING - with the edges painted. A very beautiful colourful textured large abstract painting combined with very calm and peaceful rusty area...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Between
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
The photo was done during a lovely walk in the park during the pandemic.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Untitled 201 (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
Untitled 201 (Abstract Photography)
C print - Unframed.
Richard Caldicott is most well known for this earlier work series which used Tupperware containers as the subject for his ph...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Art
Materials
C Print
abstract with green #489
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Harry Moody is originally from Germany and is now a Los Angeles-based abstract painter. He received his formal art training at the Frankfurt Stadel Fine Art Academy in Germany. Moody...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Oil
Peacock Displaying Blue and Green Plumage
Located in Miami, FL
Sometimes the simplest images are the most complex. Peacock Displaying Blue and Green Plumage is more than a bird portrait. It's a portrait of a bird as a living work of abstract ar...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Art
Materials
Inkjet
Color of unloved #1 - abstraction art, made in orange, yellow, red and turquoise
By Lena Cher
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. Abstraction art, made in orange, yellow, turquoise and black. Can be positioned in horizontal or vertical mode, can be a part of diptych.
Lena Chernyavsk...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Epoxy Resin
Rape on the border, 2007
Located in ATLANTA, GA
You meet the Spanish artist Alexandro Santana and you think, cripes, can he be for real? So handsome, so flamboyant, so seductive, so amusing -- you’...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Oil
Survey 4 (Abstract painting)
By Tom McGlynn
Located in London, GB
Acrylic on Fabriano paper - Unframed.
This work is part of an ongoing series started in 2012 and titled Survey.
McGlynn is interested in how a minimally-determined presentation of ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Nocturne with Rose - Mixed Media on Canvas by Leo Guida - 1985
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Nocturne with Rose (Original Title: Notturno con rosa) is an original Contemporary artwork realized in 1985 by the italian artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017).
Original Oil on canvas and...
Category
1980s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Mixed Media, Oil
No Titel- contemporary expressionistic abstract painting, metaphysical landscape
Located in Hamburg, DE
"No Titel" is a large, unique oil on canvas painting of German artist Willi Bucher. It depicts an abstract, metaphysical landscape in thick green ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Oil
The Green Dress 9
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bettina Mauel expresses dynamism and sensuality in her paintings: “I paint what I experience,” she articulates. “This includes landscapes, flowers, and people in motion, capturing th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Linen, Ink, Mixed Media
Yolanda Sanchez "The Faraway Nearby #3" - Oil painting on paper
Located in New York, NY
Yolanda Sanchez
The Faraway Nearby #3, 2021
oil on paper
30 x 22
(san200)
Yolanda’s work is not intended as a narrative or rendering of a subject, she references nature, gardens, fl...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Oil
View (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
View (Abstract Photography)
Unique - Photography/painting, mixed media - Unframed. Signed by the Artist at the back.
Artwork exclusive to IdeelArt.
Artworks are of the highest a...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Wood Panel
"Flash" Abstract, Cast Stainless Steel Metal Sculpture by John Ruppert
By John Ruppert
Located in New York, NY
"Flash" by John Ruppert
Cast stainless steel, from a fragment of a tree struck by lightning
Edition of 3
Over the past 35 years, John Ruppert has been working in cast metals; manufa...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Steel, Stainless Steel, Metal
Box II (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Box II (Abstract painting)
Acrylic on 300 lb. Arches watercolor paper - Unframed.
Hallard works with the themes of space and geometry, manipulating images and arrangements of objec...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Sunny 26° (Abstract painting)
By Holly Miller
Located in London, GB
Acrylic, graphite and thread on canvas - Unframed.
The threaded lines suggest a physical barrier that interrupts the shapes and stops them from connecting and at the same time a tra...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Thread, Acrylic, Graphite
Windy Palm
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Kathleen Keifer is a California-based internationally collected artist. She is a leading force of the New California Realism. With a high level of technical virtuosity Keifer creates...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Larry Zox 'Double Green' Signed Limited Edition Geometric Abstract Print
By Larry Zox
Located in San Rafael, CA
Larry Zox (American, 1936 - 2006)
Double Green
Serigraph
Edition 86/100
Signed and numbered in pencil
Sheet 12in H x 27 1/4 in L
In a silver metal frame: 38in L x 21 5/8” H x ¾” D
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Art
Materials
Screen
Green Supernova : FRAMED, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Pamela Rys
Located in Yardley, PA
This is acrylic and objects painting on cotton and custom made canvas. The style is defined by sculptural use of paint. It is 3-D, built-up mixture of many layers of thick gesso, pai...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
abstract with green #490
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Harry Moody is originally from Germany and is now a Los Angeles-based abstract painter. He received his formal art training at the Frankfurt Stadel Fine Art Academy in Germany. Moody...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Oil
Ocean - abstract painting in black, yellow, turquoise blue
By Lena Cher
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. Abstraction art, made in yellow, black, white and turquoise blue. Can be positioned in horizontal or vertical mode.
Lena Chernyavskaya / LENA CHER
Born i...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Resin, Acrylic
Survey 4 (Abstract painting)
By Tom McGlynn
Located in London, GB
Acrylic on Fabriano paper - Unframed.
This work is part of an ongoing series started in 2012 and titled Survey.
McGlynn is interested in how a minimally-determined presentation of ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Untitled: Yellow, Green and Black Lithograph
By Marjorie S. Kubach
Located in New York, NY
Marjorie Shaw Kubach (American), "Untitled: Yellow, Green & Black Lithograph, Abstract Lithograph signed in Pencil, 26 x 19, Late 20th Century
Colors: Yellow, Green, Black
Allen Kubach and Marjorie Shaw Kubach were two married artists who explored their artistic styles together throughout their careers. The artists showed their works largely throughout New Jersey and New York, sometimes joining together for the same exhibits. The works that Detour Gallery has acquired are representative of the pair’s time in which they explored abstraction. These works were made in a postwar era, following the art world’s shifted focus on New York as the center for new modern art. Art at this time was evolving, and the experimentation of abstract expressionism, geometric abstraction, and minimalism evidently paved the path for later artists such as Allen and Marjorie. As noted in the New York Times by Vivian Reynor, Allen Kubach “specializes in strong colors, expressing them in vertical and diagonal grids laid one on top of another.” In such a manner, Allan reflects these contemporary ideals that were taking New York by storm in the 1960’s and 70’s. The linear focus and non objective use of color found in Allen’s work correlates to that of the pioneers of abstract and minimalistic work such as Sol Le Witt...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Art
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled (Tamarind H)
Located in New York, NY
Leon Polk Smith (1906 -1996) holds a unique place in a long tradition of American geometric abstract painting. Born near Chikasha, a Native American territory later annexed by the U....
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Lithograph
Abstract Painting by Listed British artist Reds Blues Golds and Green Colors
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Abstract Composition'
by Michael Haswell (British, 1931-2020)
inscribed verso
acrylic painting on box canvas (painted edges so do not require framing)...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
View (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
View (Abstract Photography)
Unique - Photography/painting, mixed media - Unframed. Signed by the Artist at the back.
Artwork exclusive to IdeelArt.
Artworks are of the highest a...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Wood Panel
Turquoise and Brown Composition - Original Screen Print - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 30 x 22 cm.
Turquoise and Brown Composition is a beautiful color etching on paper, realized around the 1970's by an artist that signed " J. Hannes" on lower right...
Category
1970s Abstract Art
Materials
Etching
Abstract Monotype - Elipse III
Located in San Francisco, CA
This beautiful monotype by Kirsten Stolle (1967-) is a simple, yet elegant composition with beautiful, harmonious colors. There is a wonderful warmth and richness to the surface; var...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Art
Materials
Monotype
Yolanda Sanchez "The Faraway Nearby #4" - Abstract oil on paper
Located in New York, NY
Yolanda Sanchez
The Faraway Nearby #4, 2021
oil on paper
30 x 22
(san201)
Yolanda’s work is not intended as a narrative or rendering of a subject, she references nature, gardens, fl...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Oil
Abstract Print Green Pink Purple Neon Bright Framed Original American 1973
Located in Buffalo, NY
A vibrant abstract screenprint by an unknown artist created in 1973.
This work is signed "A. Murray" or something similar but the exact artist has not been determined.
Category
1970s Abstract Art
Materials
Screen
Myakka Lake, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Beneath the surface of Florida's Myakka Lake, creatures large and small hide from the rays of the bright sun waiting for the shadows when they can hunt in safety.
About the Artist
Artist Fernando Soler illuminates the Florida coast...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Oil
Sunny 26°
By Holly Miller
Located in London, GB
Acrylic, graphite and thread on canvas - Unframed.
The threaded lines suggest a physical barrier that interrupts the shapes and stops them from connecting and at the same time a tra...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Thread, Acrylic, Graphite
Turquoise and Yellow Victorian Houses in Mission District San Francisco
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be $100. Turquoise and Yellow Victorian Houses in Mission District San Francisco.
Signed, Dated, number Lower left 4/15 recto, unfra...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Inkjet
Rainbow - Original Giclée Print by Dadodu - 2018
By Dadodu
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions 49 x 70 cm.
Rainbow is a colorful giclée print realized by the contemporary artist Dadodu in 2018.
This original artwork represents an overlap of soft curving shap...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Art
Materials
Giclée
Metallic Bond - Giclée Print by Dadodu - 2007
By Dadodu
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions 46.5 x 70 cm.
Metallic Bond is a green giclée print realized by the contemporary artist Dadodu in 2007.
This original artwork represents overlapping green squared ...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Art
Materials
Giclée
Tassellation 2 - Original Giclée Print by Dadodu - 2003
By Dadodu
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions 49 x 70 cm.
Tassellation 2 is a beautiful giclée print realized by the contemporary artist Dadodu in 2003.
This original artwork represents squares and circles emb...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Art
Materials
Giclée
Color of unloved #2 - abstraction art, made in orange, yellow, red and turquoise
By Lena Cher
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. Abstraction art, made in orange, yellow, turquoise, black and white. Can be positioned in horizontal or vertical mode, can be a part of diptych.
Lena Cher...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Epoxy Resin
Street Art from the Rich -Hedge Fun - Sunset Island - Miami Beach
By Robert Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Robert Funk’s photographs of elaborate landscaping redefine what Street Art is.
Hedge Fun is a series that celebrates the landscaping commissioned by well-heeled homeowners, high-e...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Inkjet
Greens
By Debra Ramsay
Located in London, GB
Acrylic on acrylic panel - Unframed
Each panel is 9 inches square. They hang from a cleat system which makes them appear to “float” off the wall .25 of an inch.
In this ongoing ser...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Plexiglass, Acrylic
Nocturne with Rose - Oil Paint on Canvas by Leo Guida - 1985
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Nocturne with Rose is an Contemporary artwork realized in 1985 by the italian Contemporary artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017).
Original Oil on canvas, mixed media and ink.
Frame is in...
Category
1980s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Moving Walls - Giclée Print by Dadodu - 2018
By Dadodu
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 46.6 x 70 cm.
Moving Walls is a colorful giclée print realized by the contemporary artist Dadodu in 2018.
This original artwork represents an overlap of soft curv...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Giclée
"Antique Gold Series" AA2E, Landscape, Abstract Painting, 21st Century, Acrylic
By Roger König
Located in Dessau-Rosslau, Sachsen Anhalt
Artist: Roger König b. Dessau, Germany (1968) Master student of Kurt Schönburg, HWK Halle, Germany. König combines modern painting with acrylic with old techniques and in this way, h...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Clay, Acrylic
Hedge Fun - Sunset Island2 - Miami Beach - Street Art by the Rich
By Robert Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Robert Funk’s photographs of elaborate landscaping redefine what Street Art is. Website and monitors render color differently. Green sometimes becomes more saturated. I think the mo...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Inkjet
Modular - Original Giclée Print by Dadodu - 2003
By Dadodu
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions 60 x 60 cm.
Modular is an amazing giclée print realized by the contemporary artist Dadodu in 2003.
This original artwork represents various chaotically overlapping shapes of different colors on the green tone.
Hand-signed on the lower right corner "Dadodu" and numbered on the lower left. Edition of 50 prints in Arabic numerals and XXV in Roman numerals of the print suite Origami...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Art
Materials
Giclée
Informal Painting - Oil Painting by G. Lo Fermo - 2020
Located in Roma, IT
Informal Painting is an original contemporary artwork realized by the Italian artist Giorgio Lo Fermo in 2014.
Original oil painting on canvas.
Hand signed and dated by the artist...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Oil
Green Composition - Original Giclée Print by Dadodu - 2010
By Dadodu
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions 70 x 70 cm.
Green Composition is an amazing giclée print realized by the contemporary artist Dadodu in 2010.
This original artwork represents a green abstract comp...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Giclée
Landed (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Acrylic on anodized aluminum - Unframed.
Hallard works with the themes of space and geometry, manipulating images and arrangements of objects in order to challenge the perception of...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Gestural Abstraction, Miniature Abstract Expressionist Korean Modernist Painting
By Don Ahn
Located in Surfside, FL
*Card pictured after painting not included.
Dongkuk Ahn (1937-2013), better known as Don Ahn, was a South Korean artist and t'ai chi master who resided in New York City.
Don Ahn (A...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic, Paper, Ink
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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