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
Returnable Items Only
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
Water's Edge
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. ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Henri
Located in New York, NY
2021, Acrylic & oil on canvas
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic, Oil
Drive Home from Montauk
Located in New York, NY
2022, Acrylic on canvas
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
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
Returning Life
Located in Singapore, SG
Shop "Returning Life" by Tapas Das, an Indian contemporary artist. This one-of-a-kind contemporary artwork is made with tempera on paper medium.
Artwork Description:
The constant us...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Tempera
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
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
#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
Chic Fashion Model with Fireworks Explosion of Color - Monochromatic
Located in Miami, FL
A chic, high-fashion model clad in high heels and a chic hat holds a refreshing drink as she sits on a pedestal. She is depicted in silhouette as a burst of zoomed fireworks explode...
Category
1980s Abstract Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas
To Plant Flowers While Waiting
Located in New York, NY
2012, Acrylic on canvas (Triptych)
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Children of the world ( Multidimensions 1 )
Located in Southampton, NY
J. Oscar Molina is a painter and sculptor as well as Founder of Oscar Molina Gallery in Southampton, NY. He is most well-known for his “Children o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
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
Play Drawing #4 Contemporary Original Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Roselle Park, NJ
Play Drawing #4 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
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Oil Pastel, Oil
Life
Located in Singapore, SG
Life is a daughter-mother co-project by Deeksha and Roma in an effort to re-create the light and energy that sustain are precious planet Earth! It is inspired by poet Rabindranath Tagore...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Down To Earth
Located in Singapore, SG
Making mistakes is often a taboo in society. This forms a person's mentality and when problems come they tend to blame circumstances. This artwork invites us to be more open and acce...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic, Permanent Marker
"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
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
Landscape
Located in Singapore, SG
The colourful backdrop of nature blends in a sacred moment when the artist explores the outdoors. The beauty, majesty, wonder and allure are all turbulent yet calming.
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Génétic ‘ IOTA
Located in New York, NY
2023, Watercolor & acrylic on canvas
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Watercolor
Resilience #1
Located in Singapore, SG
" The paintings I create are my connections to any city, mountain or coast I visit. I’m fascinated by the everlasting relationship I have with every place I visit, even if in passing...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Human Centipede
Located in New York, NY
2022, Oil on canvas
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Génétic ‘ TAU
Located in New York, NY
2023, Watercolor & acrylic on canvas
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Watercolor
Worries and Fear
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
Mann und Frau
Located in Wien, 9
Seit seinem frühen Tod 1999 erlebt das Werk von Franz Ecker eine längst fällige Neubewertung, die sich auch in zahlreichen Einzelausstellungen, Katalogen und einem sehenswerten Kinof...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
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
One Plate, from We are the Jocular Clan
Located in London, GB
Offset lithograph in colours, 2018, on wove paper, signed in ink and numbered from the edition of 300, published by Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd., Tokyo, 47.6 x 47.6 cm. (18 3/4 x 18 3/4 in....
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Lithograph
Scallop Shanty
Located in New York, NY
2019, Oil on canvas
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Obsession
By Tuëma Pattie
Located in Petworth, GB
Abstract landscape by Tuëma Pattie.
Tuëma Pattie was born in Dublin and studied at Belfast College of Art, the Central School of Art and Design and Morley College, London.
Tuëma has exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The sculpture is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Metal
Curious Sound
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Lyrical abstraction in black
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Oil
Serie Diálogo Rosa y Gris #5
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas
55 x 40 in
Unstretched
Rebeca Mendoza plays with simultaneity, superimposition, and ambiguity in her work as she goes through the stages of oil painting. The artist se...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Oil
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
"LES FRUITS DE L'ACTE" Pollock style
Located in SAINT-ALPINIEN, FR
Hand-painted. Not a print. Painting is signed at front and back. Dated. Contemporary FINE ART Original PAINTING, acrylics, collage(silk, pearls) , spray paint on paper, unframed. Title:Les fruits...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic, Silk
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
Zoo Escape
Located in PARIS, FR
" Zoo Escape "
270 x 195 x 2
Indian Ink on Canvas
2023
Unique
by Ammar Hammoud Syrian Contemporary Artist
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
India Ink
Nebza Sculptures by Camilo Andres Rodriguez Marquez a.k.a CarmWorks
Located in Paris, FR
Nebza by Camilo Andres Rodriguez Marquez
Iranian Pink Marble
Dimensions:
- Small sculpture (Square): H. 16 cm x 15 cm x 4 cm
- Large sculpture: H. 10.5 cm x 33 cm x 4 cm
Camilo A...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Marble
Cosmic transformation
By Karl Momen
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Momen is the creator of the Metaphor: The Tree of Utah, an 87-foot (27 m) sculpture resembling a tree in the Bonneville Salt Flats off of Interstate 80. He financed the project himse...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Oil
The Last Banyan Tree
Located in Singapore, SG
The form of a large tree and the city's high-rise buildings are illustrated here to depict the fate of a big tree exposed to the unstoppable concrete flat construction culture.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Cotton, Pigment
"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
Generations 16
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
Color, Etching, Aquatint
Poppies
By Tuëma Pattie
Located in Petworth, GB
Tuëma Pattie was born in Dublin, studied at the Belfast College of Art, the Central School of Art and Design and Morley College, London, and with Piers Ottey and Christopher Baker in Sussex, and Robin Child in Devon.
In her early days in Belfast and London, she took advantage of urban scenes as her subject matter. She then had a long period in which she took time out to have two children and to support her husband in his career. It was a difficult to find time for her beloved painting, as was the case for many women in that era.
Tuëma has exhibited extensively at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the London Art Fair, the Royal Hibernian Summer Exhibition, the Cork Street Gallery, Art for Youth at the Mall Gallery London, London Art Fair, Chichester Open, East Hampshire Art Fair, the Jorgensen Gallery in Dublin and at Glyndebourne. Also with Kevis House Gallery, Moncrieff Bray Gallery and Rountree Tryon Gallery...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Oil
Contemporary Acrylic Painting Burning Ember On Canvas
Located in Toronto, CA
Burning Ember is painted on a wood panel, in acrylic. The size is 40" x 40". The painting hangs on a French cleat.
Troy Smith is a Canadian artist, designer, sculptor and painter w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic, Wood Panel
City Party 1
Located in Cincinnati, OH
Artist Tim Harrier
Museum Grade Archival Pigment Print.
Hahnemühle Torchon Archival 285 gsm paper, 2021, signed in pencil. Numbered (there were also fifteen artist's proofs), with f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Untitled
By Rafael Ruz
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1980s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Gold Drop
Located in Southampton, NY
The beauty of the gold sky emits a hard 'rain' of figures determined to find their true place in the terrain.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
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
Blue Depth
Located in Marrakech, MA
Ink on Fine Art paper
Artwork done with a compass
Black exterior frame
Framed dimensions: 113x83 (x5)cm
Signed on the back
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Ink
Transhumanismo (Oil Paint Abstract Wood Contemporary Mexican)
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
Raúl Cerillo’s creations are characterized by the construction of surfaces with multiple layers of paint, acquiring a three-dimensional appearance. Each piece, according to the artis...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Wood, Oil
Birchbands 2
Located in San Luis Obispo, CA
Michael Kessler was born in 1954 in Hanover, Pennsylvania and had his first art show in 1080. His abstract art awards include the Rome Prize for Painting from the American Academy in...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Paperclip Suite IIc (yellow/blue)
Located in London, GB
Etching, Edition of 25
45 x 45 cms (17.5 x 17.5 ins)
Category
1970s Abstract Art
Materials
Etching
Proscenium II (loose lines around square centre)
Located in London, GB
Edition of 40
77.5 x 58.5 cms (30.5 x 23 ins)
Category
1970s Abstract Art
Materials
Etching
Mother and Child
By Siro'
Located in Kailua Kona, HI
This sculpture depicts the mother child relationship. The mother is eternally grateful for her blessing.The child is secure in its bond with its mother.
Due to the nature of the pro...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Bronze
Manta
Located in New York, NY
Unstretched
Mixed media on canvas
39.40 x 39.40 in
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas
Untitled - Textured Mixed Media Minimalist Abstract Painting, 2021
By Pau Escat
Located in Porto, 13
Untitled is an original work of art by the Catalan artist Pau Escat.
This painting is created by the artist Pau Escat. The artist wants to represent landscape through his feelings a...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Plaster, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Música del Niagara
Located in New York, NY
Valeria Vilar dissolves and gives rise to strokes of abstraction through figuration allowing viewers to recompose the story. She reconstructs and creates spaces from memories, tales...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
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