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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
Surrealist Magical Exotic Birds in Tree Painting
Surrealist Magical Exotic Birds in Tree Painting

Surrealist Magical Exotic Birds in Tree Painting

Located in Wilton Manors, FL

Exotic Magical Birds Perched on Tree Limbs, ca. 1950. Oil on canvas, 14 x 18 inches. Unsigned, artist unknown.

Category

Mid-20th Century Abstract Art

Materials

Oil

Original Abstract Elephant Graphite Drawing Ex-Christies
Original Abstract Elephant Graphite Drawing Ex-Christies

Original Abstract Elephant Graphite Drawing Ex-Christies

By Andy Warhol

Located in Portland, OR

An original graphite on paper drawing titled "Elephant" by renowned Pop Artist, Andy Warhol 1955. The drawing depicts an elephant drawn freely and with a feeling of forward movement...

Category

Mid-20th Century Abstract Art

Materials

Paper, Graphite

Color abstraction 2
Color abstraction 2

Color abstraction 2

By Svetlana Saratova

Located in Zofingen, AG

This abstract artwork is created with alcohol inks on synthetic paper. Vibrant shades of pink, fresh green, violet, turquoise, and soft blue flow into one another, forming a rich and...

Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Ink, Synthetic Paper

Warm Days, Abstract Oil Painting
Warm Days, Abstract Oil Painting

Warm Days, Abstract Oil Painting

By Jenn Williamson

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A palpable sense of atmosphere and a soft, dreamy mood evoke memories of long summer afternoons bathed in gentle sunlight. Subtle layers and luminous textures i...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Oil

"Budding Flowering Ripening" - Vintage Glass Sculpture
"Budding Flowering Ripening" - Vintage Glass Sculpture

"Budding Flowering Ripening" - Vintage Glass Sculpture

Located in Westport, CT

Resurrect Studio, “Budding Flowering Ripening,” Vintage Glass Sculpture, 14 x 14 x 12 in. “Budding Flowering Ripening” is a radiant vintage glass sculpture by Resurrect Studio, the ...

Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Glass, Resin

Belond time, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Belond time, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Belond time, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

By Emily STARCK

Located in Yardley, PA

Large work of abstraction. Worked in several layers with raw emotions expressed by colors and gesture. Edges are painted in the continuity of the work. Dimensions are for stretched...

Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic

The Sentinel's Embace
The Sentinel's Embace

The Sentinel's Embace

Located in Zofingen, AG

From the series "The Sovereign Self." This artwork explores a woman’s transition from survival to absolute personal sovereignty. The serene profile of the female figure stands in bol...

Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Spray Paint

Queen Victoria: Wall Sculpture & Found Objects, signed, 13", Black History Month
Queen Victoria: Wall Sculpture & Found Objects, signed, 13", Black History Month

Queen Victoria: Wall Sculpture & Found Objects, signed, 13", Black History Month

By Richard J. Watson

Located in Bryn Mawr, PA

"QUEEN VICTORIA" is created and from acrylic and found objects on thick, round panel by renowned Black African American artist Richard J. Watson. It includes a photograph of a figure...

Category

Early 2000s Abstract Art

Materials

Found Objects, Acrylic, Panel

Vintage American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Large Oil Painting on Canvas
Vintage American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Large Oil Painting on Canvas

Vintage American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Large Oil Painting on Canvas

Located in Buffalo, NY

Vintage American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Provenance from a Sag Harbor, NY collection. Measuring: 24 by 36 inches overall. Excellent condition, ready to hang ...

Category

1970s Abstract Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Spring. Awakening
Spring. Awakening

Spring. Awakening

By Olena Kishkurno

Located in Zofingen, AG

shipped in roll “Spring. Awakening” reflects the first quiet shift of the season — a moment when light, color, and space begin to open. Soft layers of pale tones, subtle pinks, and g...

Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Trees in Bloom Along the River Landscape in oil on Heavy Cardstock
Trees in Bloom Along the River Landscape in oil on Heavy Cardstock

Trees in Bloom Along the River Landscape in oil on Heavy Cardstock

By Honora Berg

Located in Soquel, CA

Trees in Bloom Along the River Landscape in Oil on Heavy Cardstock Bold oil landscape by Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985). Trees with pink and white blooms line the bank of a river. The river is shown in streaks of pink, green, and yellow, reflecting the surrounding landscape. At the far edge of the river, bright green mountains sharply rise from the bank. Acquired with a collection of the artist's work. Stamp from the Larry Miller Fine Art on verso. Unframed. Board size: 14.75"H x 22"W Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985) was an Abstract Expressionist and Bay Area Figurative School artist who studied at the San Francisco Art Institute with David Park, Elmer Bischoff and James Budd Dixon...

Category

1950s Abstract Art

Materials

Oil, Illustration Board

SCULPTURE COLUMN V TEXTILE BLACK SPANISH CONTEMPORARY ARTIST ELIURPI 2024 NEW
SCULPTURE COLUMN V TEXTILE BLACK SPANISH CONTEMPORARY ARTIST ELIURPI 2024 NEW

SCULPTURE COLUMN V TEXTILE BLACK SPANISH CONTEMPORARY ARTIST ELIURPI 2024 NEW

By Eliurpi

Located in Barcelona, Barcelona

At Escat Gallery we are committed to maintaining the highest standards of trust and professionalism for our collectors. Every artwork in our collection comes with a Certificate of Authenticity, guaranteeing its originality and provenance. We offer secure worldwide delivery to any address you specify, ensuring that your purchase arrives in pristine condition. If you require additional shipping options or a bespoke quote from our trusted network of carriers, please do not hesitate to contact us. Our team is here to help you find the best solutions for a smooth and secure delivery experience. Elisabet Urpí Ràfols and Nacho Umpiérrez Fripp, collectively known as ELIURPI, are the creative duo behind our brand. Based in Barcelona, we specialize in shaping unique pieces through a fusion of culture, architecture, and contemporary art. Founded 14 years ago, ELIURPI originally gained recognition for our sculptural hats. Over time, our artistic scope has broadened to encompass sculptures and art-design pieces. Recently, we showcased our latest creations at the Milan Fair, including an individual exhibition at Palazzo Litta titled "Shadows and Poems," inspired by Junichiro Tanizaki’s "In Praise of Shadows," which extols chiaroscuro as the pinnacle of beauty. Raffia served as the central material uniting all exhibited pieces, creating a harmonious narrative throughout the exhibition space. Our professional and personal lives intertwine, enriching our distinctive artistic language that blends cultural traditions with contemporary aesthetics. We draw inspiration from the interplay of light and shadow, while craftsmanship, creativity, and integrity guide our use of natural materials such as wood, straw, raffia, linen, and silk. Notable milestones include our ongoing exhibitions during ARCO week in Madrid, as well as appearances in international art galleries and craft biennials. In 2023, our work "Sculptural Head Object...

Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Textile

Bloomtime: Original floral painting on Canvas, Vintage Floral Still Life, Signed
Bloomtime: Original floral painting on Canvas, Vintage Floral Still Life, Signed

Bloomtime: Original floral painting on Canvas, Vintage Floral Still Life, Signed

By Karnish Art

Located in Pretoria, Gauteng

Title: Bloom-time in pot of blues This artwork is an invitation to connect to abundance and rejuvenation. Working layer upon layer, I honored the delicate blossoms, offsetting the...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Gesso, Canvas, Wood, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars

Reclining Figure (woman)
Reclining Figure (woman)

Reclining Figure (woman)

By William King (b.1925)

Located in Wilton Manors, FL

William King (1925-2015). Reclining figure, ca. 1965. Cast and welded bronze, 7 x 9.5 x 5 inches. Unsigned. William King, a sculptor in a variety of materials whose human figures traced social attitudes through the last half of the 20th century, often poking sly and poignant fun at human follies and foibles, died on March 4 at his home in East Hampton, N.Y. He was 90. His death was confirmed by Scott Chaskey, who is married to Mr. King's stepdaughter, Megan Chaskey. Mr. King worked in clay, wood, bronze, vinyl, burlap and aluminum. He worked both big and small, from busts and toylike figures to large public art pieces depicting familiar human poses -- a seated, cross-legged man reading; a Western couple (he in a cowboy hat, she in a long dress) holding hands; a tall man reaching down to tug along a recalcitrant little boy; a crowd of robotic-looking men walking in lock step. But for all its variation, what unified his work was a wry observer's arched eyebrow, the pointed humor and witty rue of a fatalist. His figurative sculptures, often with long, spidery legs and an outlandishly skewed ratio of torso to appendages, use gestures and posture to suggest attitude and illustrate his own amusement with the unwieldiness of human physical equipment. His subjects included tennis players and gymnasts, dancers and musicians, and he managed to show appreciation of their physical gifts and comic delight at their contortions and costumery. His suit-wearing businessmen often appeared haughty or pompous; his other men could seem timid or perplexed or awkward. Oddly, or perhaps tellingly, he tended to depict women more reverentially, though in his portrayals of couples the fragility and tender comedy inherent in couplehood settled equally on both partners. Mr. King's work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, among other places, and he had dozens of solo gallery shows in New York and elsewhere. But the comic element of his work probably caused his reputation to suffer. Reviews of his exhibitions frequently began with the caveat that even though the work was funny, it was also serious, displaying superior technical skills, imaginative vision and the bolstering weight of a range of influences, from the ancient Etruscans to American folk art to 20th-century artists including Giacometti, Calder. and Elie Nadelman. The critic Hilton Kramer, one of Mr. King's most ardent advocates, wrote in a 1970 essay accompanying a New York gallery exhibit that he was, "among other things, an amusing artist, and nowadays this can, at times, be almost as much a liability as an asset." A "preoccupation with gesture is the focus of King's sculptural imagination," Mr. Kramer wrote. "Everything that one admires in his work - the virtuoso carving, the deft handling of a wide variety of materials, the shrewd observation and resourceful invention - all this is secondary to the concentration on gesture. The physical stance of the human animal as it negotiates the social arena, the unconscious gait that the body assumes in making its way in the social medium, the emotion traced by the course of a limb, a torso, a head, the features of a face, a coiffure or a costume - from a keen observation of these materials King has garnered a large stock of sculptural images notable for their wit, empathy, simplicity and psychological precision." William Dickey King...

Category

Mid-20th Century Abstract Art

Materials

Bronze

Abstract Expressionist Painting on Panel  40 x 60
Abstract Expressionist Painting on Panel  40 x 60

Abstract Expressionist Painting on Panel 40 x 60

By Mirtha Moreno

Located in West Palm Beach, FL

Born in Havana, Cuba, in the late 70s during a well-documented time of religious and political oppression, abstract expressionist artist Mirtha Moreno, immigrated to the United State...

Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Oil, Acrylic

Mid Century Modern Brutalist Welded Expressionist Sculpture After Paul Evans
Mid Century Modern Brutalist Welded Expressionist Sculpture After Paul Evans

Mid Century Modern Brutalist Welded Expressionist Sculpture After Paul Evans

Located in Surfside, FL

In this bronze sculpture the artist (unknown) has welded together a group of totems or monuments into a unified piece. T Neo-Dada Abstract Sculpture: Assemblages In contrast, abstra...

Category

Mid-20th Century Abstract Art

Materials

Metal

ONYX - Amber (XL)

ONYX - Amber (XL)

By Nick Thomm

Located in FITZROY, VIC

Nick Thomm - ONYX - Amber (XL SIZE 36" x 48"). Limited Edition #15 of 25. Hand Signed & Numbered. Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemühle 308gsm Fine Art Paper. Condition: NEW - Unopen...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Giclée, Archival Pigment

Abstract Minimalist Landscape Earth Mixed Media Relief on Canvas by Pau Escat
Abstract Minimalist Landscape Earth Mixed Media Relief on Canvas by Pau Escat

Abstract Minimalist Landscape Earth Mixed Media Relief on Canvas by Pau Escat

By Pau Escat

Located in Barcelona, Barcelona

In my work, I explore the quiet dialogue between earth, texture, and silence. Each surface becomes a landscape — not one we see, but one we feel. I build these compositions with recl...

Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Acrylic, Pigment, Mixed Media

Weightless in the Deep-Original Abstract Expressionism - Figurative Oil Painting
Weightless in the Deep-Original Abstract Expressionism - Figurative Oil Painting

Weightless in the Deep-Original Abstract Expressionism - Figurative Oil Painting

Located in London, Chelsea

We offer complimentary worldwide shipping and cover all tariffs and import taxes for this artwork. This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet C...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Vase, Contemporary Art, Abstract Painting, 21st Century
Vase, Contemporary Art, Abstract Painting, 21st Century

Vase, Contemporary Art, Abstract Painting, 21st Century

By Manu Jorquera

Located in Mexico City, MX

Contemporary Art, Abstract Painting Mixed Media on Canvas 100 x 80 cm Signed About the artist Manu Jorquera (1986) is a Chilean visual artist whose work explores the mestizo popular...

Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

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.