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
Period: 2010s
Period: 1960s
Love in the NY City
Located in New York, NY
2017, Oil on canvas
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Translucid Territories 6: Eye
Located in New York, NY
2011, Fine art paper, mounted on aluminum
Limited edition of 20
Unframed prints and custom sizes available, please inquire.
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Pura Vida
Located in Toronto, ON
Isabel Beaubien, a native of Montreal, received her training in fine arts at Concordia University. After launching her career in the UK, she later obtained her Masters degree in Con...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
item #5 from series "Mystère de la Caverne de Platon"
Located in CHÂTILLON-EN-DIOIS, FR
The large-format canvases evoke quivering universes of life. Aquatic, green universes, improbable landscapes are structured by discovering the rhythmic compositions that evoke a real...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Oil
Joy
Located in New York, NY
2023, Acrylic on canvas
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
item #4 from series "Jeux de glace"
Located in CHÂTILLON-EN-DIOIS, FR
Imaginary landscape
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Oil
Mea Culpa #1
Located in Roselle Park, NJ
The Mea Culpa series is more about feeling than a specific vision. I attempt to use mark-making, color, and surface to explore the emotions I need to convey. I never know when they w...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Oil Pastel, Paper
The Mysterious flight of a Unicorn
Located in Barcelona, ES
Oil painting on canvas.
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Oil
Creation
Located in New York, NY
2023, Acrylic on canvas
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Poipu
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Edition 6/15
Archival pigment print
“Water’s Edge” a collection of photos by Marian Crostic defines the power of the ocean
and the land which borders it. Having spent much of her l...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
#26, Joseph Albers Color Aid Paper Collage, Pastel & Optical Illusion Grid
Located in Brooklyn, NY
“Colors appear connected predominantly in space. Therefore, as constellations they can be seen in any direction and at any speed. And as they remain, we can return to them repeatedly...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper
Carried Away
By Thea Schrack
Located in San Luis Obispo, CA
Thea Schrack is a photographer and painter with a penchant for the past. Her photographic forays have taken her to English country estates, Czech castles, vineyards and to the shores...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Plantage
Located in Berlin, DE
Hans Bohlmann
Plantage
2015
Acryl auf Leinwand
50 x 60 cm
Hans Bohlmann studierte von 1991 bis 1996 Malerei- und Grafik an der Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig bei Pro...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Kaleidoscope #3
Located in New York, NY
2023, Collage on canvas
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
W.T.C: Concrete Abstract#11
By Shai Kremer
Located in New York, NY
Shai Kremer lives and works in New York. He completed his MFA studies at the School of Visual Arts (S.V.A) in Manhattan.
For many years, Kremer's eye has been drawn to themes of urban destruction and reconstruction and to landscapes evidencing trauma. These concerns merged in his ambitious series W.T.C: Concrete Abstract, which explores the impact of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. For more than a decade, Kremer made periodic visits to Ground Zero, focusing his camera on the efforts towards recovery, repair, and renewal. As a collection, Concrete Abstract conveys the gradual progression from tragedy towards healing.
Each large-scale archival pigment print in the series is composed from as many as sixty to 100 overlapping images, resulting in a subtle collage that invites closer inspection while also reading as a unified whole.
W.T.C: Concrete Abstract series was shown in the following venues:
9.11 Memorial Museum New York
Museum of the City of New York
The Bronx Museum of the Arts
The Brooklyn Academy of Music
Photolux Festival. Lucca, Italy
FMoPa. Tampa, USA
Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
Julie Saul Gallery, New York
Robert Koch Gallery...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink
Passing Through
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Edition 2/15
Archival pigment print
“Water’s Edge” a collection of photos by Marian Crostic defines the power of the ocean
and the land which borders it. Having spent much of her l...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ocean Blue
Located in New York, NY
2019, Collage on canvas
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
A Sea Change
Located in New York, NY
2022, Collage on canvas
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Tampoco imagine ver paisajes flotantes, acrylic on wooden panel, soccer painting
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Artist Statement on “Empty Landscapes” series:
In the life of the artist, sport fields and arenas have been a refuge and a home. Empty Landscapes is a project that started during the pandemic which explores the football field as a place de-peopled. Among other things we never imagined happening in our lifetime, this space built into our landscapes to be occupied became for nearly a year and a half a space inaccessible- even prohibited. By placing the field vertically, deconstructing it, or rearranging the boundaries and shapes that lay down the foundations of the game the artist creates a familiar, but obsolete representation of a space treasured by so many.
About the artist:
Magdalena Paz...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Republic of Haut Bay II
Located in San Luis Obispo, CA
Danielle Eubank is a painter who is exploring the relationship between abstraction and realism. Based on the oceans of the world, her abstract oil paintings are modern and emotive.
...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Linen, Oil
W.T.C: Concrete Abstract #7
By Shai Kremer
Located in New York, NY
Israel-born photographer Shai Kremer lives and works in New York. He completed his MFA studies at the School of Visual Arts (S.V.A) in Manhattan.
For many years, Kremer's eye has been drawn to themes of urban destruction and reconstruction and to landscapes evidencing trauma. These concerns merged in his ambitious series W.T.C: Concrete Abstract, which explores the impact of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. For more than a decade, Kremer made periodic visits to Ground Zero, focusing his camera on the efforts towards recovery, repair, and renewal. As a collection, Concrete Abstract conveys the gradual progression from tragedy towards healing.
Each large-scale archival pigment print in the series is composed from as many as sixty to 100 overlapping images, resulting in a subtle collage that invites closer inspection while also reading as a unified whole.
W.T.C: Concrete Abstract series was shown in the following venues:
9.11 Memorial Museum New York
Museum of the City of New York
The Bronx Museum of the Arts
The Brooklyn Academy of Music
Photolux Festival. Lucca, Italy
FMoPa. Tampa, USA
Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
Julie Saul Gallery, New York
Robert Koch Gallery...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Floating Music
By Thea Schrack
Located in San Luis Obispo, CA
Thea Schrack is a photographer and painter with a penchant for the past. Her photographic forays have taken her to English country estates, Czech castles, vineyards and to the shores...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Listen
By Amrta Art
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This piece is part of the Amrta Gold Series. These pieces are incredibly unique and cannot be replicated. The are multilayered mixed media abstracts all with 24k gold leaf on top. Th...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Gold Leaf
Bardo
Located in New York, NY
The watercolor series is a group of forty iridescent watercolors made during my time in the Hawaiian Islands. Those works on paper are made under the inspiration of the light phenome...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Watercolor
Orange and White
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Shingo Francis grew up in Los Angeles, immersed in the intense light and vast ocean vistas of life in southern California. Like many LA artists, Francis be...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Renneth Over
Located in New York, NY
2021, Photograph on aluminum
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Photographic Film
Scar Tactics
Located in New York, NY
2023, metal print
Limited edition of 8
Sets of 4, 8, 12, or 16 also available, please inquire
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Metal
Huwak'a 2
Located in New York, NY
2023, Collage on canvas (12" x 12" each)
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Panorama
Located in New York, NY
2021
Screenprint in colors, on Rives BFK paper, with full margins
Sheet size: 40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm)
Edition of 100 + 25 AP
Signed, dated and numbered in pencil, lower margin
...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Screen
Parkside Place
Located in San Luis Obispo, CA
Suzie Buchholz is a Bay Area-based abstract painter with a playful yet rebellious approach to the tradition of Abstract Expressionism. Her process is highly physical,driven by an ins...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Oil
Blue, my favorite colour
Located in Berlin, DE
Blue, my favorite colour
Mixed
Acryl on canvas
With this work Betty Schmidt combines photography and painting. The subject - created by the "gestural photography" in the camera and ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas
Walk in the Park
Located in New York, NY
2021, Mixed media on board
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Board
#32, Abstract Pastel & Chevron Grid, Joseph Albers Color Aid Paper Collage
Located in Brooklyn, NY
“Colors appear connected predominantly in space. Therefore, as constellations they can be seen in any direction and at any speed. And as they remain, we can return to them repeatedly and in many ways.”
― Josef Albers, Interaction of Color (1963)
“I wanted to see if I could create tension and interest just by playing with color and composition—as to build a foundation on which my paintings could be constructed [. . .] I realized they were the first space in which I allowed myself to be free of representation, to explore color and composition not just as tools but as the medium through which my vision could come to life.”
― Lucía Rodríguez Pérez on the Grid series, 2023
In 2018, Lucía Rodríguez Pérez commenced her Grid series collages, which began as an exercise in exploring color without the constraints of paint. Her inspiration for this work came from two artistic influences: the medium of German artist and educator Joseph Albers...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper
To Plant Flowers While Waiting
Located in New York, NY
2012, Acrylic on canvas (Triptych)
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Play Drawing #8 Contemporary Original Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Roselle Park, NJ
Play Drawing #8 Contemporary Original Abstract Oil Painting
This series focuses on the idea of play and the emotions involved in the act of playing. We often forget the importance o...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Oil Pastel, Oil
Human Centipede
Located in New York, NY
2022, Oil on canvas
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Génétic ‘ IOTA
Located in New York, NY
2023, Watercolor & acrylic on canvas
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Watercolor
The glare, constructive painting of visions of a dream.
Located in Bogotá, Bogotá
Constructive Figurative Painting 37" x 24" inch by Ion Xiua. Mixed technique. Oil on canvas made with professional Winsor & Newton colors protected with gloss varnish with UV protect...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Snowy Night, Rainy Night in Manhattan with Orange Sky
Located in Miami, FL
A solitary hooded figure crosses a desolate Manhattan street as light snow and rain come down. For 54 years, Mitchell Funk has been chronicling the effects of light on form; here, h...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Inisheer Lighthouse, Aran Islands, Co Galway
Located in Belfast, GB
Inisheer Lighthouse, Aran Islands, Co Galway
Oil on Board
24 x 32 in
61 x 81.3 cm
"Painting is trial and error, somewhere between this there is a balance in which a painting will wo...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Oil
Cité de l'architecture 3, Paris
Located in BARCELONA, ES
To make the work owe only itself to itself is an old ideal of modern art: to cut the ties that bind it to natural reality and let it stand, all contained within its pure limits. To t...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Génétic ‘ TAU
Located in New York, NY
2023, Watercolor & acrylic on canvas
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Watercolor
"Pollen" Textured Mixed Media Collage Abstract Painting on Canvas, 2021
Located in Mantova, MN
This artwork has been on exhibit at Volta Basel Art Fair 2022 with AC Latin Art.
Textured mixed media and collage abstract modern painting inspired by nature and flowers, questioning reality, often playing with inserts to introduce the doubt of something more. In the research of contemporary artist Federica Aiello Pini...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Pastel, Acrylic, Pencil
Scallop Shanty
Located in New York, NY
2019, Oil on canvas
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The sculpture is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Metal
Drive Home from Montauk
Located in New York, NY
2022, Acrylic on canvas
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
You will get there faster if you slow down #5
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Acrylic paint, embroidery and poly-fil video
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Cotton, Thread, Acrylic
Moonlight by Annemarie Ambrosoli Color Pencil Abstract Expressionist
Located in Kiens, BZ
Moonlight (2019) 21x22 cm, by Italian artist Annemarie Ambrosoli, is a colored pencil drawing framed with a black passepartout, that measures 29x27 cm
©Annemarie Ambrosoli
This wor...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Color Pencil
Tracery
Located in San Luis Obispo, CA
Suzie Buchholz is a Bay Area-based abstract painter with a playful yet rebellious approach to the tradition of Abstract Expressionism. Her process is highly physical,driven by an ins...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Oil
"Love in the Eye of a Hurricane" - Abstract Expressionist Painting on Panel 2022
Located in San Diego, CA
A contemporary painting in an abstract expressionist style, "Love in the Eye of a Hurricane" features gestural acrylic brushstrokes and mixed media markings atop wood panel. It is an original, fine art painting created in 2021 by abstract artist Kara Greenwell. Sophisticated Payne's gray blue hues blend with beige, white and pale pink acrylic paint in contrast to dramatic black and white charcoal and graphite marks. The artist continued the painting extending around the edges of this gallery wrapped canvas, ensuring visual interest from all angles. Measuring 40 inches by 30 inches, this mid-sized abstract painting is the perfect modern statement piece for any wall. The painting can be hung a nail or picture...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Charcoal, Crayon, Acrylic, Pencil, Graphite
imposter Syndrome
Located in New York, NY
2023, Digital print on fine art paper
Limited edition of 8
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Digital
Henri
Located in New York, NY
2021, Acrylic & oil on canvas
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic, Oil
EMKAY
Located in Marrakech, MA
Abstract calligraphy.
Mixed media on canvas.
Black exterior frame.
Framed dimensions : 115x101x5cm.
Signature on the back.
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
Self-Portrait as Mad Queen
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Discarded treasures
Located in MADRID, ES
This mixed media work was created intuitively, with the creature emerging only towards the end of the process. It suggested to me a dinosaur or ancient extinct monster.
As part of my...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Mixed Media
"Vase with pink roses"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This oil painting makes part of my series dedicated to the scenes of a summer period.
This abstract vibrant floral painting called "Vase with pink roses...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstract Landscape Painting by Victor Manuel Gomez
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Large Format Abstract Pink & Black Mixed Media Painting by Cuban Artist Victor Manuel.
Victor is an emerging talent born and raised in Havana. With a great sense of Havana’s always ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
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