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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
Untitled mid century modern geometric abstraction
Untitled mid century modern geometric abstraction

Untitled mid century modern geometric abstraction

By William Fredericksen

Located in New York, NY

William Fredericksen Untitled mid century modern geometric abstraction, 1958-1959 Watercolor and Gouache on Board Hand signed and dated on the front 12 4/5 × 11 7/10 inches Unframed ...

Category

Mid-20th Century Abstract Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Watercolor, Gouache

Ways & Means, Abstract Painting
Ways & Means, Abstract Painting

Ways & Means, Abstract Painting

By Karen Hansen

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
An atmospheric abstraction recalling the deep red walls of a towering canyon system. "This piece is an exploration in mark-making using a variety of tools inc...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic

Meet Me There IV (Abstract Painting)
Meet Me There IV (Abstract Painting)

Meet Me There IV (Abstract Painting)

By Petra Schott

Located in London, GB

This artwork will be shipped rolled in a dent-resistant tube. German artist Petra Schott translates human emotions, memories, and sensory experiences into expressive, lyrical abstr...

Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Charcoal, Oil

Miro Original Wax Painting, Abstract, Framed, Circa 1960
Miro Original Wax Painting, Abstract, Framed, Circa 1960

Miro Original Wax Painting, Abstract, Framed, Circa 1960

By Joan Miró

Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL

Original drawing painted in wax by Joan Miro. Certified by Jacques Dupin, official certifier of the artist's work. The work is a wax painted on two continuous pages of a book publish...

Category

1960s Abstract Art

Materials

Crayon

"Dynamic abstraction"
"Dynamic abstraction"

"Dynamic abstraction"

Located in Edinburgh, GB

This work captures the energy of motion through an expressive dialogue of lines and shapes, where the circle expands beyond its boundaries. It conveys both balance and turbulence, re...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Oil, Plywood

In The Hammock (Abstract Painting)
In The Hammock (Abstract Painting)

In The Hammock (Abstract Painting)

By Petra Schott

Located in London, GB

This artwork will be shipped rolled in a dent-resistant tube. German artist Petra Schott translates human emotions, memories, and sensory experiences into expressive, lyrical abstr...

Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Charcoal, Acrylic

Geometric Abstract
Geometric Abstract

Geometric Abstract

Located in Buffalo, NY

A mid century modernist oil painting. No signature found. Circa 1960. Image size, 48"L x 32"H

Category

1950s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Green Giant, Gene Davis
Green Giant, Gene Davis

Green Giant, Gene Davis

By Gene Davis

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: Gene Davis (1920-1985) Title: Giant Green Year: 1980 Medium: Silkscreen on Arches paper Edition: 43/250, plus proofs Size: 29.75 x 32.5 inches Condition: Good Inscription: Si...

Category

1980s Abstract Art

Materials

Screen

Wild Flower
Wild Flower

Wild Flower

By Ilana Greenberg

Located in Brooklyn, NY

This black and white botanical abstract painting is inspired by the mid-century masters. Wired and ready to hang, 12 in. wide x 18 in. high

Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic

Yellow Jack
Yellow Jack

Yellow Jack

By Helen Frankenthaler

Located in Toronto, Ontario

Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011) is one of the most revered abstract painters of the 20th century, and one of the most successful and collected female artists of all time. She was a ...

Category

1980s Abstract Art

Materials

Lithograph, Stencil

Gestural Ink Wash #52, Abstract Painting
Gestural Ink Wash #52, Abstract Painting

Gestural Ink Wash #52, Abstract Painting

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Gail Ragain presents an abstract portrait of a nude woman bending over the side. Gail approaches the piece with spontaneous bursts of expression, follo...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Ink

White Path - 3D small contemporary abstract round mural sculpture
White Path - 3D small contemporary abstract round mural sculpture

White Path - 3D small contemporary abstract round mural sculpture

Located in New York, NY

Erin Vincent is a Toronto based-artist whose work draws on a variety of repetitive and labor intensive processes and materials. Things and common objects have always fascinated Vinc...

Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic, Wood Panel, Archival Paper

Perceptual Ambiguity - P2, F25, I2, Geometric Screenprint by Josef Albers

Perceptual Ambiguity - P2, F25, I2, Geometric Screenprint by Josef Albers

By Josef Albers

Located in Long Island City, NY

From the portfolio “Formulation: Articulation” created by Josef Albers in 1972. This monumental series consists of 127 original silkscreens that are a definitive survey of the artist's most important color and shape theories. A copy of the colophon bearing Albers’ hand signature...

Category

1970s Abstract Art

Materials

Screen

Ruz   Square Lo inefable original abstract acrylic canvas painting
Ruz   Square Lo inefable original abstract acrylic canvas painting

Ruz Square Lo inefable original abstract acrylic canvas painting

By Rafael Ruz

Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL

original abstract acrylic canvas painting Original work by the Spanish painter Rafael RUZ. Acrylic on canvas . Perfect state RUZ, Rafael (Barcelona 1956) While contemplating the pai...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Fantasy Garden 22, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Fantasy Garden 22, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Located in Yardley, PA

My Garden Series is the only gardening I do. This is from my imagination. The lyrical lines always lend themselves to being gardens as soon as I incorporate any green! :: Painting ::...

Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic

Player

Player

By Paula Cahill

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Cahill strives to extend the historical conversation with line and elevate the integral role it has played in art, design, and the sciences since its early appearance in rock and cav...

Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Abstract Expressionist Two Sided Painting - Male Figuratives in Oil on Masonite
Abstract Expressionist Two Sided Painting - Male Figuratives in Oil on Masonite

Abstract Expressionist Two Sided Painting - Male Figuratives in Oil on Masonite

By Daniel David Fuentes

Located in Soquel, CA

Double sided figurative abstract by San Jose, California area artist Daniel David Fuentes (American, 20c-2017). San Francisco bay area abstract expressionist and landscape artist dur...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Masonite, Oil

The Beginning
The Beginning

The Beginning

By Oksana Reva

Located in Zofingen, AG

“The Beginning” Oil on linen, multilayer technique This work captures the moment when form is born out of silence. Translucent layers of oil, laid one upon another like breaths of t...

Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Oiseau Entre deux Astres

Oiseau Entre deux Astres

By Joan Miró

Located in New York, NY

A very good impression of this color aquatint, etching and carborundum. Signed and numbered 27/75 in pencil by Miro. Printed and published by Maeght, Paris. Catalogue reference: Du...

Category

1960s Abstract Art

Materials

Color, Etching, Aquatint

Azure drifts - abstract painting
Azure drifts - abstract painting

Azure drifts - abstract painting

By Eran Shmueli

Located in New York, NY

This beautiful diptych by Eran Shmueli will bring color to any room it will be placed in. These are 2 hand made pieces that comes rolled in a tube but can also shipped framed with a...

Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic, Archival Paper, Ballpoint Pen

Abstract composition
Abstract composition

Abstract composition

Located in Genève, GE

Work on canvas Golden wooden frame 63 x 72 x 5 cm

Category

1960s Abstract Art

Materials

Oil

Golden Accent. Abstract.
Golden Accent. Abstract.

Golden Accent. Abstract.

By Svetlana Saratova

Located in Zofingen, AG

This painting on a small canvas, measuring 40x40 cm, is a unique work of art. The edge of the painting is crafted using modeling paste, forming circles. This edge is painted with bla...

Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Clay, Canvas, Acrylic, Mixed Media

Composition 1916
Composition 1916

Composition 1916

By (after) Wassily Kandinsky

Located in Rochester Hills, MI

Wassily Kandinsky - Composition 1916 Lithograph in colors on Arches paper, 1990 Paper size 24" x 28" inches Image size 20" x 22" inches Stamped signature (16) Blindstamps of the Russ...

Category

Early 1900s Abstract Art

Materials

Lithograph

Jazz Musicians (1950's Black Philadelphia artist)
Jazz Musicians (1950's Black Philadelphia artist)

Jazz Musicians (1950's Black Philadelphia artist)

By Roland Ayers

Located in Wilton Manors, FL

Roland Ayers (1932-2014). The Split Second After, ca. 1959 Lithograph on paper, image measuring 14 × 18 inches. Sheet measuring 18 × 23 inches. Unframed. Minor staining of sheet...

Category

Mid-20th Century Abstract Art

Materials

Ink, Archival Paper

“Sandscape 2”
“Sandscape 2”

“Sandscape 2”

By Syd Solomon

Located in Southampton, NY

Original oil and acrylic painting on canvas titled “Sandscape 2” by the well known American artist, Syd Solomon. Signed Syd Solomon lower left. Signed and dated Syd Solomon 1972 and inscribed as titled on the reverse. 22 × 30 inches. Overall very good to excellent condition. No notable issues detected during inspection. No signs of restoration under UV inspection. The painting is in its original wood with silver reveal floating frame. Overall framed measurements are 24.25 by 32.25 inches. Provenance: A private collector. 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. There, Solomon met and befriended many of the artists of the New York School, including Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, James Brooks, Alfonso Ossorio, and Conrad Marca-Relli. By 1959, and for the next thirty-five years, the Solomons split the year between Sarasota (in the winter and spring) and the Hamptons (in the summer and fall). In 1959, Solomon began showing regularly in New York City at the Saidenberg Gallery with collector Joseph Hirshhorn buying three paintings from Solomon’s first show. At the same time, his works entered the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Wadsworth Athenaeum in Hartford, Connecticut, among others. Solomon also began showing at Signa Gallery in East Hampton and at the James David Gallery in Miami run by the renowned art dealer, Dorothy Blau. In 1961, the Guggenheim Museum’s H. H. Arnason bestowed to him the Silvermine Award at the 13th New England Annual. Additionally, Thomas Hess of ARTnews magazine chose Solomon as one of the ten outstanding painters of the year. At the suggestion of Alfred H. Barr, Jr., the Museum of Modern Art’s Director, the John and Mable Ringling Museum in Sarasota began its contemporary collection by purchasing Solomon’s painting, Silent World, 1961. Solomon became influential in the Hamptons and in Florida during the 1960s. In late 1964, he created the Institute of Fine Art at the New College in Sarasota. He is credited with bringing many nationally known artists to Florida to teach, including Larry Rivers, Philip Guston, James Brooks, and Conrad Marca-Relli. Later Jimmy Ernst, John Chamberlain, James Rosenquist, and Robert Rauschenberg settled near Solomon in Florida. In East Hampton, the Solomon home was the epicenter of artists and writers who spent time in the Hamptons, including Alfred Leslie, Jim Dine, Ibram Lassaw, Saul Bellow, Barney Rosset, Arthur Kopit, and Harold Rosenberg. In 1970, Solomon, along with architect Gene Leedy, one of the founders of the Sarasota School of Architecture, built an award-winning precast concrete and glass house and studio on the Gulf of Mexico near Midnight Pass in Sarasota. Because of its siting, it functioned much like Monet’s home in Giverny, France. Open to the sky, sea, and shore with inside and outside studios, Solomon was able to fully solicit all the environmental forces that influenced his work. His friend, the art critic Harold Rosenberg, said Solomon’s best work was produced in the period he lived on the beach. During 1974 and 1975, a retrospective exhibition of Solomon’s work was held at the New York Cultural Center and traveled to the John and Mable Ringling Museum in Sarasota. Writer Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. conducted an important interview with Solomon for the exhibition catalogue. The artist was close to many writers, including Harold Rosenberg, Joy Williams, John D. McDonald, Budd Schulberg, Elia Kazan, Betty Friedan...

Category

1970s Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic, Oil, Canvas

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

Bright & Vibrant Abstract Expressionist Composition in Blue Green & Orange Tones
Bright & Vibrant Abstract Expressionist Composition in Blue Green & Orange Tones

Bright & Vibrant Abstract Expressionist Composition in Blue Green & Orange Tones

By Gilbert Pelissier

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Vibrant Abstract Expressionist Composition in Blue, Green and Orange Tones Gilbert Pelissier (French, born 1924) signed Oil on canvas, unframed Canvas: 22 x 18 inches Provenance: All...

Category

Late 20th Century Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Gold line, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Gold line, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

By Jakob Gold

Located in Yardley, PA

Artist: Jakob Gold Work: Original Acrylic Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Style: Abstract Art Unframed, Stretched on Wooden Bar, Gallery Wrapped, ...

Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic

Two Lovers - Abstract Figurative Oil Painting on Canvas, 21st Century
Two Lovers - Abstract Figurative Oil Painting on Canvas, 21st Century

Two Lovers - Abstract Figurative Oil Painting on Canvas, 21st Century

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Mark Acetelli’s oil and mixed media paintings awaken the viewer’s sense of exploration and adventure; they demand a new discovery. His artworks exhibit a chemistry of complexity and ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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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.