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: Pink
Coral Crush, pink abstract expressionist painting on canvas, textured
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
Red and Brown Toned Gallery with Package and Abstract Expressionist Paintings
By Karen Lastre
Located in Houston, TX
Large red and brown toned gallery space of a selection of the artist's own work in the style of Mark Rothko's color field paintings. This piece is part of a series that the artist di...
Category
1990s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
The Dance I (Limited Edition Print)
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
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Celebrating Spain in this original unique series. The...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Giclée
SALLY BRADSHAW (b.1962) CONTEMPORARY ABSTRACT BRITISH PAINTING - PINKS
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Abstract Composition"
by Sally Bradshaw (British, b.1962)
oil painting on canvas
signed on back
painting: 10.75 x 13.75 inches
Superb original modern abstract expressionist painti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Oil
Alek Gerber, Couple with a bicycle, tenderness, Acrylic on canvas, Valentines
By Alek Gerber
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Alek Gerber, Couple with a bicycle, acrylic on canvas, thick layers of paint, figurative work,Tenderness, Israeli artist, Israeli art, bright colors
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Anniversary. 1997, pressed cardboard, acrylic, collage, 122x118 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Anniversary. 1997, pressed cardboard, acrylic, collage, 122x118 cm
ALEKSANDRS DEMBO (1931. Paris – 1999. Riga)
Born in 1931 in Paris, France, died in 1999 in Riga, Latvia. Professio...
Category
1990s Abstract Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Cardboard
"Alizarin Maze ll"
Located in Washington, DC
Painting by Maryanne Pollock titled "Alizarin Maze ll". Work is signed and dated 2019 on reverse.
Maryanne Pollock received her BFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and Rome...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
"Red and Gold, " Acrylic Paint on Canvas - Abstract Boxing painting
Located in Houston, TX
Energetic and rhythmical, Red and Gold truly exhibits the spirit of Ushio’s process.
Born in Tokyo in 1932, Ushio Shinohara (nicknamed "Gyu-chan"), is a Japanese Neo-Dadaist artist...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Molecular - Original Giclée Print by Dadodu - 2007
By Dadodu
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions 46.5 x 70 cm.
Molecular is an amazing giclée print realized by the contemporary artist Dadodu in 2007.
This original artwork represents a few overlapping circles o...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Art
Materials
Giclée
Lollipop - Original Giclée Print by Dadodu - 2018
By Dadodu
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions 46.5 x 70 cm.
Lollipop is a colorful giclée print realized by the contemporary artist Dadodu in 2018.
This original artwork represents a series of soft curving str...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Art
Materials
Giclée
Pink Composition - Original Giclée Print by Dadodu - 2010
By Dadodu
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions 70 x 70 cm.
Pink Composition is a lovely giclée print realized by the contemporary artist Dadodu in 2010.
This original artwork represents a pink abstract composit...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Giclée
Pink Composition - Original Giclée Print by Dadodu - 2010
By Dadodu
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions 70 x 70 cm.
Pink Composition is an amazing giclée print realized by the contemporary artist Dadodu in 2010.
This original artwork represents a pink abstract compos...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Giclée
Pink Wind - Original Giclée Print by Dadodu - 2011
By Dadodu
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions 50 x 50 cm.
Pink Wind is a hypnotic giclée print realized by the contemporary artist Dadodu in 2011.
This original artwork represents an abstract composition with ...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Art
Materials
Giclée
QSKY
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Chris Trueman has exhibited his work in numerous exhibitions in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington DC, Portland and internationally in Milan, Paris, Berlin, Beijing and Brisbane (AUS). The Lancaster Museum of Art and History presented a solo exhibition of his paintings entitled, "Slipstream." His work was also included in the group exhibitions, “To Live and Paint in LA” and "The Subterraneans" at the Torrance Art Museum. His work has been exhibited at numerous art fairs including: Dallas Art Fair, Pulse New York, Art Aspen, TX Contemporary, Pulse Miami and ArtMRKT San Francisco.
Trueman graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2003, earning dual BFA degrees in Painting and Digital Media. He relocated to southern California to attend Claremont Graduate University, earning a MFA in 2010. Trueman currently teaches at Chaffey College and has previously taught at Chapman University, Fullerton College and Santa Ana College. He has guest lectured at Chapman University, Pomona College...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Unapologetically Pink 5, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Laura Spring
Located in Yardley, PA
Large acrylic painting in bright pink. Painted in acrylics on stretched canvas with 0.7" thickness on the sides. The sides are painted white. The size of the painting is 48"x36". It ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Sleeping Arlekin Diptych Pink Abstract Composition
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Sleeping Arlekin
diptych each canvas 47"x31"5, total width 63"
figurative abstract gallery wrap.
Malgosia Kiernozycka was born in Wroclaw, Poland. She graduated high school at the School of Fine Arts and received a scholarship from the Minister of Culture and Art for the University of Fine Arts in Wroclaw. She studied glass design under Prof Witkowski and painting under Prof Wanda Golkowska. She received her master’s degree along with an award. In 1986 she moved to Germany and studied screen design at the Multimedia Academy in Mainz, and worked as a guest speaker at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wiesbaden. In 1989 she participated in an art exhibition for the best Diploma works in Munich, Germany, and was invited to present her pieces at an exhibition in Osaka, Japan, due to her outstanding work. In 1990 she was a laureate at OB ART...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Pink - Oil Paint by Giorgio Lo Fermo - 2015
Located in Roma, IT
Pink is an original artwork realized by Giorgio Lo Fermo (b. 1947) in 2015.
Oil on canvas.
Hand signed and dated by the artist on the back.
Perfect conditions.
Pink is a gorgeous...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Dance I (Limited Edition Print)
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
**ANNUAL SUPER SALE UNTIL MAY 15TH ONLY**
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Celebrating Spain in this original unique series. The col...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Giclée
nina H (-onymous series), Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
In this series the artist reflects on how the title of a work influences its meaning, and names each painting with an almost random title. The name of a pop music artist in code. :: ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Alpha Beta (Abstract painting)
By Dana Gordon
Located in London, GB
Alpha Beta (Abstract painting)
Acrylic on canvas - Unframed.
Note that this artwork will be sent rolled in a tube if shipped outside the United States. This method is especially sa...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The Dance I (Limited Edition Print)
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
Celebrating Spain in this original unique series. The colors represent the friendship between the matador and the bull.
Limited edition of 30 museum quality giclee prints on CANVAS,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Giclée
Pink Galaxy (Limited Edition Print)
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
Celebrating the universe by Mauro Oliveira
Limited edition of 30 museum quality Giclee prints on PAPER, signed and numbered by the artist. Print lead time 1 week.
A "Certificate o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Giclée
Golden Empire State Building, New York City
Located in Miami, FL
Empire State Building with Chrysler Building in background with warm dramatic clouds.
This archival color photograph by fine art photographer Mitchell Funk is signed, dated and numb...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet
Untitled
Located in Lawrence, NY
Cajori was an important second generation abstract expressionist painter. In 1952, he founded, along with Fred Mitchell, Lois Dodd and Angelo Ippolito, t...
Category
1980s Abstract Art
Materials
Oil
Clout
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This work is chalk pastel on paper. These works on paper are an investigation of line and generative form. Through these drawings, I am exploring the tension between the flat line ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Chalk, Pastel
Untitled 156 (Abstract photography)
Located in London, GB
C print - Unframed.
Richard Caldicott is most well known for this earlier work series which used Tupperware containers as the subject for his photographs.
As he describes : "Tupper...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Art
Materials
C Print
EQUIVALENCE 95 - Acrylic on Linen - Purple, Orange Abstract Geometric Painting
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
This painting by Linda King Ferguson is part of her equivalence series, which began as a feminist project; works that subvert the historically male gaze and a material language speaking of gendered concerns. The diamond shaped canvas is primarily a brown cardboard color, with two circles dominating the center of the composition. Stacked vertically, the topmost circle is a light lavender color, and the lower circle is a creamy, salmon orange. Two cuts have been made in the canvas on either side of the center, where the edges of the two circles meet.
Her color choices first came from Helen Molesworth’s essay, Painting With Ambivalence, published in WACK! Art of the Feminist Revolution. The Essay includes a large reproduction of Mary Heilmann’s 1979 painting...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
Femme, abstract gouache painting on paper, pink and purple, 10" x 9"
Located in New York, NY
Liz Rundorff Smith renders visual forms that fluctuate between the stability of present-ness and the loss of clarity that is tied to memory. Memory of space is translated through ele...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Gouache
More Equality, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
More equality - is an ongoing series that reminds us we are all equal in the eyes of the universe - kindness, generosity, etc. Add your own idea's of what that means to you as a fe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Memory of Spring (Abstract painting)
By Debra Ramsay
Located in London, GB
Acrylic on acrylic panel (plexi) - Unframed.
This work is sold as a triptych which could be hung on a wall (cleat system supplied) or displayed on a shelf.
Each panel has the follo...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Plexiglass, Acrylic
EQUIVALENCE 122 - acrylic on cut linen - pink abstract geometric painting
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
This rectangular painting by Linda King Ferguson is primarily color blocked into two sections, as it is split horizontally down the center into a ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
Cherokee III (Limited Edition Print)
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
Limited edition of 30 museum quality Giclee prints on CANVAS, signed and numbered by the artist. Print lead time 1 week.
A "Certificate of Authenticity" issued by the artist is inc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Giclée
The Dance I (Limited Edition Print)
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
**ANNUAL SUPER SALE UNTIL APRIL 15TH ONLY**
*This Price Won't Be Repeated Again This Year-Take Advantage Of It*
Celebrating Spain in this original unique series. The c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Cotton Canvas
Resurgimiento - 72 x 60 inches - abstract expressionistic oil on canvas
Located in Burlingame, CA
Mexican-American contemporary visual artist and celebrated architect Javier Arizmendi-Kalb created this abstract painting with symbols and narrative motif in bold red, pink, green wi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Oil Crayon, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Vivid 63, 2019, plexiglass on aluminum 40x40 in
By Orit Fuchs
Located in Atlanta, GA
Orit Fuchs / vivid 63, 2019, plexiglass on aluminum,2 of edition of 8, 40x40 inches
Orit Fuchs lives and works in Tel Aviv, a storyteller with a deep, pure, and unquenchable app...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Metal
Udo Haderlein Untitled Abstract Painting 2016
Located in Berlin, DE
Germany, 2016. This is a very fine example of abstract art done on canvas with acrylic paint. It comes directly from the studio of the artist. Ready to hang. Height 47.24 in ( 120,0c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Happiness is Alive
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Acrylic on canvas with whispers of glitter coated with heavy resin.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Resin, Glitter, Ink, Acrylic
Sauerlandpark Hemer - Giclée by Dadodu - 2008
By Dadodu
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions 50 x 450 cm
Sauerlandpark Hemer is a mesmerizing giclée print realized by the contemporary artist Dadodu in 2008.
This original artwork represents a labyrinth thro...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Art
Materials
Giclée
Cubes Divided Equally into Three #6: abstract geometric painting w/ pink & blue
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Benjamin Weaver creates spatial tension through his use of contrasting colors arranged in a geometric framework. Imagery and color work both with and against each other to create mov...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Panel, Wood Panel, Canvas, Acrylic
Furiosa II - textured contemporary painting, colorful, magenta strokes, abstract
Located in Dallas, TX
This beautiful contemporary high textured abstract painting is great for a classic and contemporary setting. The variation of colors and rich texture would greatly bring a space to life.
Tim Nikiforuk...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic, Vinyl, Wood Panel
Architectural Butterfly #09 (Abstract painting)
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 view...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Modern British 20th Century Colourful Abstract Painting - Geometric shapes
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Composition
British School, monogrammed/ dated lower corner
gouache painting on paper laid over card, unframed
actual painting: 22 x 15.5 inches
Superb - bold - and very co...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Art
Materials
Gouache
Pink Composition - Giclée Print by Dadodu - 2010
By Dadodu
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions 70 x 56.1 cm.
Pink Composition is a lovely giclée print realized by the contemporary artist Dadodu in 2010.
This original artwork represents a pink abstract compos...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Giclée
American Mid Century Abstract Monotype Print Abstract Colorful 1960
Located in Buffalo, NY
Mid-Century Modern abstract expressionist monotype print by American artist Toma Yovanovich (1931- 2016). Yovanovich's work is found in many public and private collections all over the world. Circa 1960.
This work signed and comes with a modern archival...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Monotype
Pink Lines - Giclée Print by Dadodu - 2016
By Dadodu
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 60 x 43.2 cm.
Pink Lines is an outstanding giclée print realized by the contemporary artist Dadodu in 2016.
This original artwork represents Portrait of a Man by ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Giclée
OH MY, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Painting Size: 38 H x 28 W x 0.1 in Ships in a tube Painting: latex, acrylic and Oil crayon on Paper. Oh My... is an exclamation of joy to me. This painting is created on a be...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Pasion desbordada, Contemporary Art, Abstract Painting, 21st Century
By Miriam Aroeste
Located in Mexico City, MX
Pasion desbordada
Mixed Media on Acrylic paper
30"X24" in (framed) Black frame
‘Humo’ (oo-moh) translates as smoke from spanish. The series evokes a visual perception through smoke ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Pink Rise - Giclée by Dadodu - 2018
By Dadodu
Located in Roma, IT
Pink RIse is a colorful giclée print realized by the contemporary artist Dadodu in 2018.
This original artwork represents a sharp perspective with a pink and blue palette of colors....
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Giclée
Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting Deer Animal Pink Red Green
Located in Buffalo, NY
This work, "We Could Sit Outside" by contemporary female painter Dorothy Fitzgerald is part of the artist's Smile Art series, created during the quarantine a...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Original Oil Painting Titled: Unfolding Path
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Oil on wood panel, custom framed in Acrylic floater (colors: hot pink, newport blue, baby blue, black, red)
Born in Havana, Cuba, in the late 70s during a well-documented time of re...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Oil
Untitled Figure (c. 1950s)
By Adine Stix
Located in Summit, NJ
Gorgeous oil and watercolor on paper by abstract expressionist artist Adine Stix. Beautiful shades of pink, purples, cobalt blue with s hint of orange cover the paper to create the h...
Category
1950s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Oil, Watercolor
Sweet Night Work On Paper Figurative Abstraction
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Sweet Night Mixed Media on paper.
Malgosia Kiernozycka was born in Wroclaw, Poland. She graduated high school at the School of Fine Arts and received a scholarship from the Minister ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor
The waiting
By Rostom
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
Rostom, the waiting, 26x22 inches, acrylic on canvas.
Category
1990s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Rainbow Cloud Popsicle
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Betsy Enzensberger sculpts works that create a visceral longing and remembrance of the most nostalgic delights from childhood. The artist uses the familiarity of those sweet...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Resin, Epoxy Resin
Silhouette of Running boy. Pink and Magenta Wall Guaymas Mexico
Located in Miami, FL
This is an image generations ahead of its time in use of color and design.
It was shot on Kodachrome25 and manipulated with an analog device more than 50 years ago but looks state-...
Category
1970s Abstract Art
Materials
Inkjet
PGB 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
'Abstraction in Coral and Scarlet', American Abstract, 1970's
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'N. Flynn' (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1975.
A large and turbulent oil abstract showing a conflagration of hot colors contrasted against an auberg...
Category
1970s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Maryanne Pollock "Alizarin Maze lll"
Located in Washington, DC
Painting by Maryanne Pollock titled "Alizarin Maze lll". Work is signed and dated 2020 on reverse.
Maryanne Pollock received her BFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and Ro...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
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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