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: Yellow
PDP #728 ct14
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
collage on canvas, signed verso (framed)
Cecil Touchon Born 1956 Austin, Texas is a contemporary American collage artist, painter, published poet and theorist living in Pagosa Sprin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Untitled I, Abstract Lithograph and Screenprint by Deborah Kass
By Deborah Kass
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Deborah Kass
Title: Untitled - I
Year: 1987
Medium: Silkscreen and Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, verso
Edition: 22
Paper Size: 15.5 x 44 inches
Category
1980s Abstract Art
Materials
Lithograph, Screen
Muon
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
Yellow Geometric Watercolor by Susan Michod
By Susan Michod
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Susan Michod, American
Title: Untitled
Year: 1977
Medium: Watercolor on Paper, signed and dated
Size: 30 in. x 22.5 in. (76.2 cm x 57.15 cm)
Category
1970s Abstract Art
Materials
Watercolor
Goldrush- large abstract earth tone, yellow, beige and white stripe oil painting
Located in New York, NY
Patrick Dintino paints vertical bands of glowing color in a horizontal or rectangular format that read as both a scientific representation of the spectrum and an emotional landscape ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Right on Red" Minimal Geometric Abstract Square Red Yellow Contemporary Bright
Located in Wellesley, MA
"Right on Red," Oil and Acrylic on Linen, 11 x 9 Inches, is a vibrant and elegant geometric abstraction of one bright red floating square tilted on a field of brilliant yellow.
Exqui...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Yellow Star
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Yellow Star is a 1998 serigraph by Olivier Mosset. Yellow Star is from an edition of 40 plus artist and printers proofs. Yellow Star is signet by Mosset.
Category
1990s Abstract Art
Materials
Screen
Big Yellow Poppies Sculpture 3/4 inch (1.9 cm) thick painted aluminum, 72x72 in.
Located in Atlanta, GA
Donald Sultan (Born 1951)
BIG YELLOW POPPIES, 2015
Year: 2015
Medium: 3/4 inch (1.9 cm) thick painted aluminum
Size: 72 x 72 inches (183 x 183 cm) on 1.25 x 11.5 x 63 inch base (3.2 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Metal
Peak - abstract geometric yellow mixed media artwork: polycarbonate and acrylic
Located in London, GB
Colourful work exploring the relationship between the maker and the prefabricated, she is interested in lines, pattern and the space in-between.
Her process involves injecting manuf...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Plastic, Acrylic
Nan's Lair (Large Abstract Geometric Painting in Bright Yellow, Blue, & Pink)
Located in Hudson, NY
Large, abstract geometric painting in bright yellow, blue, with accents of pale pink
Oil on canvas, unframed
64 x 60 x 2 inches
Signed on reverse
Wire and d-rings installed on the b...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
New York City, 1970 - Multiple Exposure by Mitchell Funk - Abstract Photography
Located in Miami, FL
This image is 52 years old and yet still looks cutting-edge beautiful. New York City, 1971 is an image generationsahead of its time. Not just for its creative graphic use of color a...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink
Airplanes Yellow Sky
Located in Miami, FL
Graphic depiction of a regional airport on Long Island.
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Taus
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
Pequeño Motivo Floral
Located in Cuernavaca, Morelos
Encaustic and oil on canvas on wood
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Encaustic, Oil
Ruby
Located in Fairfield, CT
Charlie Miesmer
Ruby
Acrylic on Panel
$12,000
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
Parking Rates
Located in Miami, FL
Signature: Signed, Dated, Numbered 3/15 lower right recto, other sizes available. unframed
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Tune
By Shyun Song
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
About the Artist
Painting is not merely an aesthetic endeavor for Shyun Song, but also an existential one. Her art matches aspects of geometric sh...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Oil
Untitled
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 Kerouac and Ginsberg, the writing and short stories of Jorge Borges...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Stimulacra
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Born in 1967 in Toronto and a graduate of OCAD and University of Guelph, multidisciplinary artist Franco DeFrancesca investigates the links between art and technology, using digital ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Resin, Panel, Digital Pigment
Santa Barbara California Blue Yellow Green Modern Abstract Landscape Painting
Located in Preston, GB
Santa Barbara California Blue Yellow Green Modern Abstract Landscape Painting
Margaret Francis received her Degree in Fine Art from Winchester Art Scho...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Watercolor, Washi Paper
That Is (Abstract Painting)
By Dana Gordon
Located in London, GB
That Is (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic and Flashe on canvas - Unframed
Note that this artwork will be sent rolled in a tube if shipped outside the United States.
This method is espe...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Acrylic
"Topog #3b" Textured and vivid abstraction in yellow, turquoise, green, orange
By Susan Sharp
Located in Wellesley, MA
"Topog #3b," Oil on Panel, 43 1/2 x 49 1/2 Inches.
Vivid and textured abstraction in yellow, turquoise, orange, green, white and black.
Susan Sharp is an outstanding abstract pain...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Over yellow dos, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Nestor Toro
Located in Yardley, PA
This work was created on a high quality loose canvas and is shipped rolled in a tube. Simply take it to your local framer to have it mounted. Since it is loose canvas there are an in...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Facilitated Diffusion
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
Importation
By Judith Berry
Located in Montreal, Quebec
To trip and retrip on a piece of land, a surface, a support that sets up not a bounce but a billow, a soft surge, a reverberation where the ground is friendly, known, familiar and th...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
PR 39
By Andre Costa
Located in New York, NY
Andre Costa, PR 39, Abstract Acrylic Painting on Vinyl, 19.75 x 19.75, 2015
Colors: Yellow, Black
Andre Costa is Brazilian visual artist and author of "The Art with Environmental I...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic
San Francisco Geometric Yellow Interior
Located in Miami, FL
Signed, dated and number lower right, 3/15, printed later, other sizes available. unframed
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
PR 09
By Andre Costa
Located in New York, NY
Andre Costa, PR09, Abstract Acrylic on Vinyl, 19.75 x 19.75, 2014
Colors: Green, Yellow, Red, Orange, Blue, White, Black
Andre Costa is Brazilian visual artist and author of the "Ar...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Bright Abstract Serigraph by Lloyd Fertig
By Lloyd Fertig
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lloyd Fertig, American (1943 - 1995)
Title: Untitled - Green Abstract
Year: 1970
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 100
Size: 28 x 22 in. (71.12 x 55....
Category
1970s Abstract Art
Materials
Screen
Yellow Dog
Located in Miami, FL
Signature: signed dated lower right signed dated and numbered verso 2 /15
Powerful and unexpected graphic shows that street photography does not have to be gritty or about social is...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Reticulum - Oil Painting 2019 by Giorgio Lo Fermo
Located in Roma, IT
Reticulum is an original artwork realized by Giorgio Lo Fermo in 2019.
Original colored oil on canvas.
Hand-signed on the back.
Reticulum is a beautiful example of contemporary ab...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Oil
A Summer Song
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Curtis Ripley’s newest abstractions are sublime musings on expression itself. Concerned with capturing those phenomena which are most difficult to describe with words, Ripley’s paint...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Invisible Landscape
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 Kerouac and Ginsberg, the writing and short stories of Jorge Borges...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Acrylic Painting on Canvas Titled: PDP521ct11
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Painting on Canvas signed verso
Cecil Touchon Born 1956 Austin, Texas is a contemporary American collage artist, painter, published poet and theorist living in Pagosa Springs, Colorado. Co-founder of the International Post-Dogmatist Group, Touchon is director of the group's Ontological Museum, Founder of the International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction and founder of the International Society of Assemblage and Collage Artists.
In 2005 an exhibition was held in Cuernavaca, Mexico entitled "Cecil Touchon - Thirty Years of Fluxing Around" in which art works and scores dating as early as 1975 were exhibited showing the fluxus tendency in Touchon's work over the last thirty years. Touchon has never been formally associated with the Fluxus group until the year 2000 with his participation in the Fluxlist - an email group where the current generation fluxus artists interact and collaborate. In 2002 Touchon, with a number of other artists from the Fluxlist established the Fluxnexus - a group of artists working together on various new Fluxus projects including a new Fluxus performance workbook. In 2006 Touchon established the FluxMuseum in order to assemble and archive samples of works by contemporary 21st Century Fluxus artists. The central focus of the Fluxmuseum has been the creation of Fluxus related publications and curating and mounting international exhibitions of Fluxus art called Fluxhibitions.
Touchon co...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
PR 21
By Andre Costa
Located in New York, NY
Andre Costa, PR 21, Abstract Acrylic Painting on Vinyl, 19.75 x 19.75, 2015
Colors: Black, Red, Green, Purple, Orange, Yellow
Andre Costa is Brazilian visual artist and author of "...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic
PR 24
By Andre Costa
Located in New York, NY
Andre Costa, PR 24, Abstract Acrylic Painting on Vinyl, 19.75 x 19.75, 2015
Colors: Black, White, Yellow
Andre Costa is Brazilian visual artist and author of "The Art with Environm...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic
PR 29
By Andre Costa
Located in New York, NY
Andre Costa, PR 29, Abstract Acrylic Painting on Vinyl, 19.75 x 19.75, 2015
Colors: Black, White, Yellow, Green, Red, Purple
Andre Costa is Brazilian visual artist and author of "T...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic
PR 46
By Andre Costa
Located in New York, NY
Andre Costa, PR 46, Abstract Acrylic Painting on Vinyl, 19.75 x 19.75, 2015
Colors: Lime Green, Black
Andre Costa is Brazilian visual artist and author of "The Art with Environment...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic
PR 12
By Andre Costa
Located in New York, NY
Andre Costa, PR 12, Abstract Acrylic Painting on Vinyl, 19.75 x 19.75, 2014
Colors: Yellow, Black, Red
Andre Costa is Brazilian visual artist and author of the "Art with Environment...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Solar
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
PR 37
By Andre Costa
Located in New York, NY
Andre Costa, PR 37, Abstract Acrylic Painting on Vinyl, 19.75 x 19.75, 2015
Colors: Green, White, Orange, Black, Yellow, Blue, Purple, Pink, Aqua
Andre Costa is Brazilian visual art...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic
Times Square with Yellow Cabs
Located in Miami, FL
Signature: Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso Edition 2 of 15. Unframed. Other size available,
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Photographic Film
A Summer Song
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Curtis Ripley’s newest abstractions are sublime musings on expression itself. Concerned with capturing those phenomena which are most difficult to describe with words, Ripley’s paint...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Poemes XLVI - Contemporary Vibrant Yellow Abstract Mixed Media Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Experimentation with different materials, textures and techniques in each of his paintings has been a point of discovery and a major part of Raul de la Torre’s artwork. In his Poemes...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Thread, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Eduardo Infante, Aztec Leggings, 2017
Located in New York, NY
This pastel on paper, depicts a topless female figure wearing black leggings in a squatting position. She is holding a bouquet of red flowers in one hand. Her head and hair are a c...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Pastel
Generations 5
By Robyn Denny
Located in London, GB
Etching with aquatint on watercolour wash on paper
53 x 71 cms (21 x 28 ins)
Edition of 35, Set of 24
Signed, dated, and numbered 3/35
Published by Bernard Jacobson Ltd., London
Prin...
Category
1970s Abstract Art
Materials
Aquatint, Color, Etching
San Francisco Victorian
Located in Miami, FL
Bold Yellow Color. Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 1/15, other size available, unframed
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Neun Sergraphien 1, Silkscreen by Georg Karl Pfahler
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Georg Karl Pfahler, German (1922 - 2002)
Title: from Neun Sergraphien 1
Year: 1968
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil, verso
Edition: 5/80
Paper Size: 25 x 25.5...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Screen
Small Yellow City
By Judith Berry
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I think of my paintings primarily as landscapes. Recently, these landscapes appear to be more manufactured than organic. At first glance the subjects seem to be monumental forms such...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Light Struck (Abstract painting)
By Dana Gordon
Located in London, GB
Acrylic and Flashe on canvas - Unframed
Note that this artwork will be sent rolled in a tube if shipped outside the United States.
This method is especially safe for large works.
R...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Acrylic
Kate #7 #5
By Ant Pearce
Located in Brecon, Powys
New technique as the artist continues his exploration of the image of Kate Moss.
Emulsion + Cotton sewn on paper
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Cotton, Emulsion, Thread
Kate #7 #6
By Ant Pearce
Located in Brecon, Powys
New technique from the artist emulsion + cotton sewn on cotton paper
Based on a single image of Kate Moss
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Emulsion, Ink, Paper, Thread, Cotton
Triangle Y, Geometric Abstract Screenprint by Arnold Hoffmann
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Arnold Hoffman, Jr., American (1915 - 1991)
Title: Triangle Y
Year: circa 1970
Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 10/50
...
Category
1970s Abstract Art
Materials
Screen
The Yellow Light, Framed
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --Steven Kinder talks a lot about energy, form and movement and getting at the essence of something. Getting to the middle of it. He wa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
D.C.M.-2013-3
By Rex Yuasa
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Rex Yuasa’s work explores the relationship between beauty and the sublime. Yuasa first began developing a body of work based on the idea of “void,” which he describes as a non-signif...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic, Alkyd
Yellow Stacks
Located in Hudson, NY
encaustic on panel, 16 x 16 inches
$1800
square abstract artwork, yellow square abstract, bright yellow
About the work:
These works on paper are about the way visual diag...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Encaustic
Sunshine Again, horizontal yellow abstract landscape painting, oil on canvas
Located in Dallas, TX
Maria Jose Concha lived for 7 years in the Chilean Patagonia, the world’s southernmost landscape, an experience, which transformed her work and becomes the focus of her expressive pa...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Baby Yellow, Framed
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --Steven Kinder talks a lot about energy, form and movement and getting at the essence of something. Getting to the middle of it. He wa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Pigment
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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