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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
Abstract 2569
Abstract 2569

Abstract 2569

Located in Zofingen, AG

This artwork captivates with its abstract representation of a serene landscape, dominated by green and pink hues. The piece is a vivid explosion of color and texture, invoking the es...

Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Oil, Acrylic

Untitled (Edition 7/75)
Untitled (Edition 7/75)

Untitled (Edition 7/75)

By Kyohei Inukai

Located in New York, NY

Kyohei Inukai (aka Earle Goodenow), American (1913 - 1985), "Untitled" Edition 7/75, Abstract / 3D/ Modern Serigraph signed and numbered in pencil, 23.25 x 34.50, Late 20th Century ...

Category

Late 20th Century Abstract Art

Materials

Screen

Vintage American Abstract Framed Oil Painting
Vintage American Abstract Framed Oil Painting

Vintage American Abstract Framed Oil Painting

Located in Buffalo, NY

Vintage American abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas laid down on board. Signed on verso. Measuring: 14 by 15 inches overall and 12 x 12 inches painting alone. Framed in a an antiq...

Category

20th Century Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Ouverture, with Cypress Forms" Stephen Edlich, Abstract Geometric Painting
"Ouverture, with Cypress Forms" Stephen Edlich, Abstract Geometric Painting

"Ouverture, with Cypress Forms" Stephen Edlich, Abstract Geometric Painting

By Stephen Edlich

Located in New York, NY

Stephen Edlich Ouverture, with Cypress Forms, 1982 Signed, dated and titled on the stretcher Acrylic paint, mixed media, and burlap on canvas 60 x 40 inches An artist who worked in the post-cubist and constructivist traditions, Stephen P. Edlich gained a considerable amount of acclaim in the 1970s and 1980s for his collages, sculpture, and paintings. His promising career was cut short due to his untimely death at age 45 in 1989. Edlich was born in New York City. He received his undergraduate degree with a major in fine arts studies from New York University in 1967. During his college years, he traveled to London, where he met the art dealer Victor Waddington and created his first white on white collage. In that same year, he attended a major exhibition of the work of Ben Nicholson, which would be influential source in his art. Edlich returned to England in 1967, where he met Barbara Hepworth and Patrick Heron in London and traveled to St. Ives, Cornwall, long a favorite artists' haunt. Edlich began creating acrylic reliefs...

Category

1980s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Burlap, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Seabreeze Soul - Abstract Color Drenched Contemporary Mixed Media Painting
Seabreeze Soul - Abstract Color Drenched Contemporary Mixed Media Painting

Seabreeze Soul - Abstract Color Drenched Contemporary Mixed Media Painting

Located in Los Angeles, CA

The original artworks by Canadian artist Julie Naima feature visually appealing abstract compositions with organic shapes that evoke a sense of tranquility and serenity. The harmonio...

Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Crayon, Mixed Media, Watercolor

Lavender Fields Forever, Abstract Painting
Lavender Fields Forever, Abstract Painting

Lavender Fields Forever, Abstract Painting

By Natalie George

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Natalie George displays a dreamy abstract landscape of lavender fields. The panorama stretches across the canvas as energetic shapes of harmonizing col...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic

"Luctor Et Emerge" (Flora, Original, Contemporary, Floral, Flowers, Dark, Black)
"Luctor Et Emerge" (Flora, Original, Contemporary, Floral, Flowers, Dark, Black)

"Luctor Et Emerge" (Flora, Original, Contemporary, Floral, Flowers, Dark, Black)

By Nicholas Evans

Located in Paris, IDF

Luctor Et Emerge 2025 Paris, France This abstract oil painting features delicate white blossoms scattered across cracked natural linen branches against a semi gloss deep black backg...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Linen, Oil, Acrylic

Wellfleet #3
Wellfleet #3

Wellfleet #3

Located in Wilton Manors, FL

Margaret Layton. Wellfleet #3, ca. 1950. Watercolor on paper, image measures 5.5 x 16.5 inches in a frame measuring 13 x 24.5 inches. Signed lower left. Beautiful abstract study of...

Category

Mid-20th Century Abstract Art

Materials

Watercolor

NOT DEAD
NOT DEAD

NOT DEAD

By Daria Kusto

Located in CÓRDOBA, ES

Original art by Daria Kusto. Acrylic , acrylic spray on canvas Shipped rolled in a tube, From Spain.

Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic

Untitled - Lithograph by Gianni Dova - 1970s
Untitled - Lithograph by Gianni Dova - 1970s

Untitled - Lithograph by Gianni Dova - 1970s

By Gianni Dova

Located in Roma, IT

Untitled is an artwork realized by Giovanni Dova, 1970. Color lithograph, signed lower right. Edition number III/XXX lower left. 76.5 x 51 cm. Excellent condition.

Category

1970s Abstract Art

Materials

Lithograph

Cobalt Confetti, Abstract Painting
Cobalt Confetti, Abstract Painting

Cobalt Confetti, Abstract Painting

By Lisa Carney

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Shades of blue, turquoise, and green suggest a garden scene. Drip and spatter techniques create the impression of blooming flowers and thriving plants. This flo...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic

Deux rouges

Deux rouges

By James Coignard

Located in Östermalm, Stockholms län

Free shipment worldwide Acquired directly from the artist. Size without frame: 81x65 cm (Size with frame 88x73 cm) “With just a few strokes of his brush he conjures up an entire w...

Category

Early 2000s Abstract Art

Materials

Oil

Fleeting Abstract Painting, Oil on Wood Panel, 2010s, Unframed, 16x12"
Fleeting Abstract Painting, Oil on Wood Panel, 2010s, Unframed, 16x12"

Fleeting Abstract Painting, Oil on Wood Panel, 2010s, Unframed, 16x12"

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This vibrant abstract painting features bold red and orange tones layered with expressive, gestural brushwork. Accents of soft white, blue, and green punctuate the composition, creat...

Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Abstract Expressionist mi-century modern painting
Abstract Expressionist mi-century modern painting

Abstract Expressionist mi-century modern painting

Located in Wilton Manors, FL

Beautiful mid-century Abstract Expressionist color field painting. Oil on canvas, 16 x 20 inches; 16.5 x 20.5 inches in simple vintage wood strip frame original to the piece. Signed ...

Category

Mid-20th Century Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Damien Hirst - Blizzard [H13-10]
Damien Hirst - Blizzard [H13-10]

Damien Hirst - Blizzard [H13-10]

By Damien Hirst

Located in London, GB

Damien Hirst, Blizzard H13-10, 2023 Laminated Giclée print on aluminium composite panel 35 2/5 × 47 1/5 in 90 × 120 cm Edition of 500 Hand-signed on the label and numbered publishe...

Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Giclée

Landscape Sculpture
Landscape Sculpture

Landscape Sculpture

By Barbara Hepworth

Located in Columbia, MO

Framed silk scarf/screenprint by Ascher after an original work by Barbara Hepworth. With printed signature "Barabara Hepworth" lower left, and "by Ascher" in bottom right. Handwritte...

Category

20th Century Abstract Art

Materials

Screen

Natures Soft Touch
Natures Soft Touch

Natures Soft Touch

Located in Jönköping, SE

Keeping with my passion of nature, this collection focusses on the movement and structure of nature. Primarily that from trees. I am fascinated by trees and their amazing beauty. Co...

Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic

“Gulfside”
“Gulfside”

“Gulfside”

By Syd Solomon

Located in Southampton, NY

Original, oil paint and acrylic paint on canvas by the well known American artist, Syd Solomon. Signed bottom middle by the artist. Titled and dated verso 1983. Condition is excellent. Original gallery floating frame. Overall framed measurements are 38 by 42 inches. Provenance: A Sarasota, Florida collector. SYD SOLOMON BIOGRAPHY Written by Dr. Lisa Peters/Berry Campbell Gallery “Here, in simple English, is what Syd Solomon does: He meditates. He connects his hand and paintbrush to the deeper, quieter, more mysterious parts of his mind- and he paints pictures of what he sees and feels down there.” --Kurt Vonnegut Jr. from Palm Sunday, 1981 Syd Solomon was born near Uniontown, Pennsylvania, in 1917. He began painting in high school in Wilkes-Barre, where he was also a star football player. After high school, he worked in advertising and took classes at the Art Institute of Chicago. Before the attack on Pearl Harbor, he joined the war effort and was assigned to the First Camouflage Battalion, the 924th Engineer Aviation Regiment of the US Army. He used his artistic skills to create camouflage instruction manuals utilized throughout the Army. He married Ann Francine Cohen in late 1941. Soon thereafter, in early 1942, the couple moved to Fort Ord in California where he was sent to camouflage the coast to protect it from possible aerial bombings. Sent overseas in 1943, Solomon did aerial reconnaissance over Holland. Solomon was sent to Normandy early in the invasion where his camouflage designs provided protective concealment for the transport of supplies for men who had broken through the enemy line. Solomon was considered one of the best camoufleurs in the Army, receiving among other commendations, five bronze stars. Solomon often remarked that his camouflage experience during World War II influenced his ideas about abstract art. At the end of the War, he attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Because Solomon suffered frostbite during the Battle of the Bulge, he could not live in cold climates, so he and Annie chose to settle in Sarasota, Florida, after the War. Sarasota was home to the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, and soon Solomon became friends with Arthur Everett “Chick” Austin, Jr., the museum’s first Director. In the late 1940s, Solomon experimented with new synthetic media, the precursors to acrylic paints provided to him by chemist Guy Pascal, who was developing them. Victor D’Amico, the first Director of Education for the Museum of Modern Art, recognized Solomon as the first artist to use acrylic paint. His early experimentation with this medium as well as other media put him at the forefront of technical innovations in his generation. He was also one of the first artists to use aerosol sprays and combined them with resists, an innovation influenced by his camouflage experience. Solomon’s work began to be acknowledged nationally in 1952. He was included in American Watercolors, Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. From 1952–1962, Solomon’s work was discovered by the cognoscenti of the art world, including the Museum of Modern Art Curators, Dorothy C. Miller and Peter Selz, and the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Director, John I. H. Baur. He had his first solo show in New York at the Associated American Artists Gallery in 1955 with “Chick” Austin, Jr. writing the essay for the exhibition. In the summer of 1955, the Solomons visited East Hampton, New York, for the first time at the invitation of fellow artist David Budd...

Category

1980s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Blooming In Silence.  Contemporary Figurative Painting
Blooming In Silence.  Contemporary Figurative Painting

Blooming In Silence. Contemporary Figurative Painting

Located in Brecon, Powys

100 x 70cm mixed media and oil painting on canvas. "Blooming in Silence" portrays the quiet strength that lies within growth and transformation. A cascade of vibrant flowers emerges...

Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Oil

Mid Century French Geometric Abstract in Blue Green Purple and White
Mid Century French Geometric Abstract in Blue Green Purple and White

Mid Century French Geometric Abstract in Blue Green Purple and White

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Title: Mid Century French Geometric Abstract in Blue Green Purple and White by Serge Guerin (b. 1916), French Signed bottom left acrylic and gouache on paper, unframed Size: 25.75 (...

Category

20th Century Abstract Art

Materials

Ink, Gouache, Acrylic

Untitled
Untitled

Untitled

By Lawrence Kupferman

Located in Surfside, FL

30X21.25 without the frame. Mixed Media painting and drawing on paper. Lawrence Kupferman had a long and illustrious career as an artist and educator. His work has been exhibited at ...

Category

20th Century Abstract Art

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media

La Danse des Etoiles

La Danse des Etoiles

By Gerard Stricher

Located in New York, NY

La Danse des Étoiles exemplifies Gérard Stricher’s ability to merge energy and emotion through color. The work pulses with chromatic vitality—fiery reds, cobalt blues, and golden yel...

Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Oil

Cream String - Porcelain Vase Sculpture
Cream String - Porcelain Vase Sculpture

Cream String - Porcelain Vase Sculpture

Located in East Quogue, NY

"Cream String" round porcelain vase sculpture with cream and white satin glaze. Size: 7 x 8 x 8 inches Porcelain, ceramic, ceramic sculpture, functional sculpture, functional vessel...

Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Porcelain, Glaze

We Are All Pleasure Chasers
We Are All Pleasure Chasers

We Are All Pleasure Chasers

Located in Jönköping, SE

In keeping with my passion of nature, this collection focusses on the movement and structure of nature. I am fascinated in finding things in our environment that often go unnoticed....

Category

Early 2000s Abstract Art

Materials

Raw Linen

"Untitled" Calvert Coggeshall, Abstract Expressionism, Black, Grey, and White
"Untitled" Calvert Coggeshall, Abstract Expressionism, Black, Grey, and White

"Untitled" Calvert Coggeshall, Abstract Expressionism, Black, Grey, and White

Located in New York, NY

Calvert Coggeshall Untitled, 1958 Oil on Canvas 38 H. x 36 W. inches Provenance: The artist's estate Calvert Coggeshall worked as an abstract painter and interior designer primarily in Maine and New York City. From 1951 to 1978, he exhibited regularly with the Betty Parsons Gallery, and later with its successor, the Jack Tilton Gallery. Born in Whitesboro, New York, Coggeshall started his career as an interior designer, working on commissions for clients in the New York City area. He later consulted on the interior designs for Henry Dreyfuss' line of cruise/cargo ships called American Export, popular from the 1940s through the 1960s. In the 1940s, he also worked with inventor Arthur Young to design interiors for the first full-sized scale of Bell helicopter models...

Category

1950s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Ebb and Flow 3
Ebb and Flow 3

Ebb and Flow 3

By Amy Van Winkle

Located in Santa Fe, NM

Encaustic on panel. It's simple; I create art because it makes me happy. I try not to overthink the process of what I’m painting and let my intuition be my guide. I love laying do...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Encaustic

A Potted Succulent and a Rhizome - Original Vibrant Abstract Botanical Painting
A Potted Succulent and a Rhizome - Original Vibrant Abstract Botanical Painting

A Potted Succulent and a Rhizome - Original Vibrant Abstract Botanical Painting

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Krisanne Souter weaves together elements of nature and ancient feminine archetypes, such as the Mother and the Mystic. Botanical themes, playful elements, and unexpected surprises ar...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Color Pencil

"Verdigris" Large Scale Acrylic, Oil Pastels and Pencils Green Abstract 84"x60"
"Verdigris" Large Scale Acrylic, Oil Pastels and Pencils Green Abstract 84"x60"

"Verdigris" Large Scale Acrylic, Oil Pastels and Pencils Green Abstract 84"x60"

By Karina Gentinetta

Located in New York, NY

"Verdigris" 2025, 84" H x 60" W. A captivating large-scale abstract painting by Argentine-born artist Karina Gentinetta, renowned for her work featured in Architectural Digest, Elle...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Carbon Pencil, Color Pencil

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