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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
Primordial: Origin Story, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
A creation story of sorts. The artist explores memory, history and the things that make one who they are. This piece asks the question, "What things have formed us and shaped our liv...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

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Acrylic

Rain and Structure, Abstract Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Inspired by abstracted nature, this artwork combines rain-like marks with organic shapes to form a structured composition. Layered papers and subtle neutral w...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

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Mixed Media

Orange dreams, Modern Colorful Abstract Painting 100x100cm by Anna Selina
Located in Zofingen, AG
This artwork is full of air and joy in bright, positive colors. The main colors hear are blue- color of deepness and intuition and orange- the color of happiness, joy, and life ener...
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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic

ABSTRACT Artwork Landcapes Blue Grey Contemporary Artist Giorgio Petracci
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. If painting still respects a logic that legitimizes its practice and existence in our hyper-saturated civilization of the image, it is its ability to break the representation, to open a crack on the slippery LCD surface behind which reality takes shape and action, a crack that even if it was imperceptible, has permanent and incisive effects, destined as it is to open more and more. And it’s just around the idea of the crack that Giorgio Petracci...
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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic, Wood Panel

Large Orbit by Kuno Vollet - Contemporary Rusted Steel sculpture for Outdoors
Located in DE
Artist: Kuno Vollet Title: Orbit Contemporary rusted steel sculpture for inside or garden outdoor spaces. Beautiful circle - sign for infinity. Stunning large artwork. Possible to...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Steel

Abstract Spanish Catalan Oil Painting Josep Guinovart from Joan Prats Gallery
Located in Surfside, FL
Josep Guinovart (1927 –2007) was a Spanish Catalan painter most famous for his informalist or abstract expressionist work. In 1941, he began to work as a decorator. Three years later, he started his studies at the Escuela de Artes y Oficios de la Llotja (Art School of La Llotja) where he stayed until 1946. He first exhibited his work in 1948 in Galerías Syla in Barcelona. In 1951, he produced his first engravings entitled 'Homage to Federico García Lorca'. Two years later, he was awarded a grant from the French Institute to study in Paris for nine months. Here he discovered the cubist works of Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso and travelled to Belgium, Holland and Germany. On his return to Barcelona and after a period working as an illustrator and set designer, around 1957 he began moving towards abstract art. His work is highly unconventional and usually on a large scale, using a wide range of materials, three-dimensional objects and organic substances such as eggshell, earth and straw. In 1962, he illustrated a book of poetry entitled Posies by Joan Salvat-Papasseit for the Ariel Editorial. He won many accolades for his work throughout the 1970s and 80s, including Spain's National Award for Plastic Arts in 1982. In 1994, a museum foundation dedicated to his art was inaugurated in Agramunt, his mother's birthplace to which he always felt a special attachment. In 2006 he designed the winery Mas Blanch i Jové in La Pobla de Cérvoles (Lleida) and created The Artists' Vineyard, a project intended to mix sculptures and other art works from different artists in the middle of a vineyard. The Artists' Vineyard was inaugurated after his death in 2010 with the unveiling of his sculpture The Countryside Organ: a music instrument, 6 meters height, for the wind to sing the vines. This winery also displays the 10.5 meters work In Vino Veritas...
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1970s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Free Space - Blue
Located in Toronto, Ontario
The essence of Lee Krasner's (1908-1984) biography is familiar to anyone who has studied women's role in 20th century art history: An accomplished artist whose own output gets eclips...
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1970s Abstract Art

Materials

Screen

SCULPTURE TEXTILE BLACK RAFFIA IV BY SPANISH ARTIST ELIURPI 2024
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
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 throu...
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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Textile, Silk

Table with fruits and flowers
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Composition with vibrant flowers and fruits using expressive brush work.
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Vintage Mid Century Modern Abstract Expressionist Ethereal Organic Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage abstract expressionist etherial oil painting by Piry Rame (1921 - 2001). Oil on canvas, circa 1960. Signed on verso. Image size, 21L x 16H. Housed in a period frame.
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1960s Abstract Art

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Canvas, Oil

Keith Haring Bearbrick 400% Companion (Haring BE@RBRICK)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Bearbrick Vinyl Figures: Set of two (400% & 100%): A unique, timeless collectible trademarked & licensed by the Estate of Keith Haring. T...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Resin, Vinyl

Number 32 (1950)
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Exhibition poster produced in 2004. Referencing Pollock's 1950 original. Exemplifies his "drip technique" which was accomplished by hovering over a piece of canvas stretched out on ...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Art

Materials

Offset

Paddle Boarders. Areal Landscape ocean limited edition color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Peters has gone on to capture and document man’s wider imprint on nature. Whether it’s the graphic symmetry of urban architecture or the abstract choreography of the forms and hues o...
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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Photographic Film, Color, Archival Pigment, Rag Paper

Untitled- Edition 28/150
Located in New York, NY
Unknown, Untitled, Abstract Lithograph Print, 27 x 19.50, Edition 28/150 Colors: Blue, Green, Orange, Red
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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Lithograph

The Birds
Located in Paris, FR
Engraving Handsigned by the artist in pencil and annotated EA Artist proof 91.00 cm. x 63.00 cm. 35.83 in. x 24.8 in. (paper) 76.50 cm. x 58.50 cm. 30.12 in. x 23.03 in. (image) Th...
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1970s Abstract Art

Materials

Engraving

Blue Rain III Large Abstract
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Blue Rain III Artist signed verso, natural pigment, mixed media with texture on canvas 60"x50" framed 64x54x2. This painting by Alexander and Natalia Gore hu...
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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Pigment

Henry Woolway, It Was Always Part Of The Picture, 2021
Located in Manchester, GB
Henry Woolway, It Was Always Part Of The Picture, 2021 Acrylic on Canvas 122 x 92 cm (48 x 36.22 in) Artwork is set in a stained red wood frame with a 5mm shadow gap Hand-signed ...
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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"Dance of the Phoenix's Life ” Triptych
Located in Zofingen, AG
The three works "Dance of the Phoenix's Life" a triptych from the "Mosaic of Time" series that takes us into a world of transformation and renewal. The image of the Phoenix is embodi...
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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Forest Landscape in Sumi Ink on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Forest Landscape in Sumi Ink on Paper High contrast abstracted landscape by an unknown artist "Shmitt" (20th Century). The edge of a forest is shown in bold strokes of sumi ink, cre...
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1950s Abstract Art

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Paper, Sumi Ink

"Abstraction" Mid-20th Century American Abstract 1960s Color Field Modernist
Located in New York, NY
"Abstraction" Mid-20th Century American Abstract 1960s Color Field Modernist James Daugherty (1887 – 1974) Abstraction 14 x 18 inches Estate stamp verso Oil on panel Provenance: ...
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1960s Abstract Art

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Oil, Panel

For simplicity’s sake, Contemporary, classic, Triptych, white on white, 3 panels
Located in Cumming, GA
Clean and refreshing. Easy on the eyes yet distinct in a classic appeal. White on white has the subtlety of a quiet personality in a room full of people. When it speaks everyone li...
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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic

Spring Cycling in Yellow, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Warren Keating displays an image of a man riding a bicycle from an aerial view. "This painting was inspired by an early morning cyclist traveling on a ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Oil

The Poetry of Meadows, Blooming Landscape Painting on Paper, Turquoise, Orange
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is a beautiful landscape painting by Alexandra Czierpka. By reducing color and form to their essentials, she invites the observer to contemplate the harmony between humans and n...
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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Oil Crayon, Acrylic, Rag Paper

Abstract Figure
By Raul Diaz
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Raul Diaz (Argentina, b.1950). Abstract Figure, ca. 1970s. Canved Walnut. Measures 17 inches tall including wood base. Carved signature in lower region. Excellent condition. An ear...
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1970s Abstract Art

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Walnut

Untitled, 1962
Located in Columbia, MO
Vivian Springford Vivian Springford (American, 1913–2003) was a color field painter, celebrated for her distinctive approach to abstraction. Initially influenced by Chinese calligra...
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20th Century Abstract Art

Materials

Paper, Ink

"Once Verdant" (abstract, roses, floral, blush, pink, green, dye, antique linen)
Located in Paris, IDF
ONCE VERDANT 2024 Paris, France This enchanting painting portrays the artist's vision of an abstracted, organic floral pattern. The floral shapes and shadows allude to traces of a ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Linen, Dye, Oil

Blue boy
Located in Roma, GB
watercolour on paper unique artwork one-of-a-kind
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Paper, Tempera, Watercolor

Arnaldo Pomodoro ( 1926 ) - Rotazione Ascensoriale - Bronze Sculpture - 1993
Located in Varese, IT
Rotazione Ascensoriale I , 1993 bronze sculpture h15 x 12.5 x 8 cm approx , ( including base ) , diameter Ø approx 13.5 cm limited edition , numbered: 15/70 signed dated and numbered...
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1920s Abstract Art

Materials

Bronze

7.10.24 #20 - Colorful Abstract Watercolor Minimalist Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Large strokes of bright colors are the framework of artist Shiri Phillips’ abstract artworks. Her paintings are flooded with texture through the layering of acrylic paint in fluent b...
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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Color Pencil

It's Not You It's Me: Maximalist Abstract Painting in Red, Pink, White & Black
Located in Hudson, NY
Vertical, brightly colored abstract painting in various shades of red and pink with accents of light yellow, orange, white, and black "It's Not You It's Me" made by Hudson Valley art...
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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Plaster, Wax, Acrylic, Pigment

series "Shells", 86x44 cm, acrylic on paper
Located in Yerevan, AM
series "Shells", 86x44 cm, acrylic on paper The work is sold without a frame and mat
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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Belarusian Contemporary Art by Dasha Buben - Control Attempt #13. Tenderness
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Tivona, Abstract Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
"Tivona" means lover of nature. Nature inspires all of my work, but I saved the title for this one. It is a large, colorful abstract. Fluid acrylics were poured onto a horizontal canvas.


About the Artist
Krispen Spencer...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic

Antique American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Framed Geometric Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American modernist abstract geometric oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas.
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1960s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Blue Jays
Located in Park City, UT
NICHOLAS WILTON’s paintings are visual poems, informed by Nature and his personal experience of life. Color, texture, and organic forms are layered into a complex visual weave that h...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

PA American Impressionist Bucks CO. Covered Bridge Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Gorgeous ca.1925 PA Impressionist painting of a covered bridge. Oil on canvas measuring 22 x 28 inches. Framed measurement: 27 x 33 inches. Unsigned. There is a puncture in canva...
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1920s Abstract Art

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Oil

No title
Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph Handsigned by the artist in pencil 86.50 cm. x 61.50 cm. 34.06 in. x 24.21 in. (paper) 63.00 cm. x 47.00 cm. 24.8 in. x 18.5 in. (image) Publisher: Maeght (Paris) Print...
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1970s Abstract Art

Materials

Lithograph

I'm Not Alone
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Abiodun Nafiu Azeez's "I'm Not Alone" is a powerful and emotionally resonant artwork that invites viewers to explore the depths of solitude, resilience, and self-discovery. Through its evocative visual imagery, the artwork encourages us to embrace moments of introspection as opportunities for growth and self-awareness. As we stand before this mesmerizing piece, we are reminded that, even in our most solitary moments, we are in the company of our own strength, thoughts, and emotions. "I'm Not Alone" serves as a beautiful reminder of the human capacity for resilience and self-discovery, making it a truly unforgettable work of contemporary art. Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gallery) About Artist Abiodun Nafiu Azeez is an accomplished artist with a diverse background in contemporary painting, particularly Osogbo art. However, his true passion lies in abstract expression, where he seeks to promote African art, culture, and nature. Influenced by his artist father, he paints to preserve memories and connect with broader societal concerns. Abiodun's artistic style is characterized by the abstraction and simplification of human compositions. He employs vibrant oil colors, often focusing on primary colors that transition into secondary and tertiary hues. His subjects stand out against neutral backgrounds, creating a harmonious balance in his paintings. A prominent feature in his works is the use of red, blue, and yellow tones, subtly blended to emphasize form and shape. His artistic journey includes training under renowned bead painting contemporary artist Jimoh Buraimoh...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Silver Silence 10, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Oil abstract artwork Multilayered technique Texture Golden/ silver /beige /grey colours 2023 year creation Signature on the back side :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece comes...
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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Oil

Mesh, 2023, colorful, abstract collage
Located in New York, NY
Linda Schmidt’s fabric sculptures intertwine public and private, luxury and common. There is a sense of egalitarianism present in both the way Schmidt sources and arranges her fabric...
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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Fabric, Thread, Pins

"Le Crâne" (Abstract Skull Painting on Pale Pink Background, Canvas, 50 x 50cm)
Located in Paris, IDF
LE CRÂNE 2020 Paris, France A faint gesture of a skull, ‘le crane,’ lives on a pale pink background, and interacts with other abstract detailing, creating movement and tension. Evan...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic, India Ink, Graphite

Collage - Still Life
Located in Storrs, CT
Brilliantly-colored collage with various texts and butterfly prints. Oil on canvas measures 20 x 24, presented in a modern frame with white linen liner; frame measures 26 5/8 x 30 5/...
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1950s Abstract Art

Materials

Oil

20th Century French blue abstract still life
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Maurice Potier (French, 1926 – 2002) Vase bleu et fruits (Blue vase and fruits) Oil on canvas Signed ‘M Potier’ (lower right) 27.1/2 x 23.5/8 in. (70 x 60 cm.)
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20th Century Abstract Art

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Canvas, Oil

Hand Signed Dated 1993 Colorful Acrylic Vasa Laminated Lucite Triangle Sculpture
Located in Surfside, FL
Irregular triangle, 1993 Laminated acrylic Hand signed and dated: Vasa / 1993 4" H x 12" W x 3" D (size is approximate) Vasa Velizar Mihich (born 1933), known as Vasa, is an American artist based in Los Angeles, California. Born in Yugoslavia, Vasa has lived in Los Angeles since his arrival in the United States in 1960. He is an academically trained painter and was a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles UCLA in the Department of Design and Media Arts. He taught theories of color to understand interdependence and interaction of color and form, color and quantity, color and placement, and after-image. In the 1960s, Vasa developed techniques for working with cast laminated acrylic forms based on simple Euclidean shapes. These prisms of luminous construction are created by composing colored planes within these geometric forms. To fully appreciate these works of art, it is essential to observe them from different angles―the sculptures dimensionality contributes to an ever-changing appearance. Now retired as a professor emeritus, Vasa focuses on his conceptual art practice. His studio, designed to accommodate the technology required for his work, is located in the heart of Los Angeles. He makes laminated acrylic sculptures that reflect and refract light. He has had solo exhibitions at galleries in the United States, Japan, Italy and Serbia, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, the San Diego Museum of Art, and the Palm Springs Desert Museum. Vasa is best known for his sculptures made from colored pieces of the plastic, poly(methyl methacrylate), which is also known as acrylic and by the brand names Plexiglas and Lucite. Untitled from 1975, in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art, demonstrates the effect of these minimalist sculptures. His work straddles the West Coast Light and Space art movement, Artists such as Robert Irwin, James Turrell, John McCracken, Larry Bell, Craig Kauffman, Billy Al Bengston, Peter Alexander, and Lita Albuquerque...
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1990s Abstract Art

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Plastic, Lucite

Hidden garden 01
Located in LAS ROZAS DE MADRID, ES
The color palette is intense and overflowing, with brushstrokes intertwining in a chaotic dance of vibrant tones. Fiery reds, electric blues, and effervescent yellows merge into a vi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Enamel

Ibram Lassaw, (Abstraction)
Located in New York, NY
This print was made for the American Abstract Artists Portfolio, 1937. All the images were lithographs made on zinc plates. Usually they were signed in the image -- on the plate, as this one is. As a group they explored abstraction in the 1930s, while maintaining their individual styles. The plan was to make an edition of 500 portfolios although it seems highly unlikely that this was accomplished. Ibram Lassaw (1913-2003) was primarily known for his sculpture. Born in Egypt to a Russian family...
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1930s Abstract Art

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Lithograph

"Violets for dessert" semi-abstraction, flowers, stylish monochrome, raw canvas
Located in Zofingen, AG
Original art by Lesia Danilina. Abstract acrylic painting on raw canvas "Violets for dessert». Shipping rolled in a tube. The painting is done on raw canvas with acrylic paints in ab...
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2010s Abstract Art

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Canvas, Acrylic

SLEDGING HILL
Located in London, GB
Ian comes from a background in graphic design. He has a degree from the University of Hertfordshire. The countryside has always played a powerful, emotional part in my life. The ...
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2010s Abstract Art

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Canvas, Oil

untitled
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed and dated in pencil lower right; Annotated: Artist's Proof in pencil lower left; printer's chop mark lower right Edition: 18 impressions and 2 ar...
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1980s Abstract Art

Materials

Lithograph

Original Set-British-awarded Artist-feat. Scottish Tartan vs Camellia-the Weaver
Located in London, GB
-In light of new tariffs, we’ve applied a 20% discount off the market price of this piece to support our collectors in facing potential added costs. At the gallery, we work closely w...
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2010s Abstract Art

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Gold

Pietro Consagra Italian Mod Abstract Expressionist Forma, Art Brut Lithograph
Located in Surfside, FL
Pietro Consagra (Italian, 1920-2005). Hand signed in pencil and numbered limited edition color lithograph on Magnani paper. Embossed stamp with limited edition numbers in pencil to lower left, and having artist pencil signature to lower right. (from a limited edition of 80 with 15 artist's proofs) Published by Stamperia 2RC, Rome Italy and Marlborough Gallery, Rome, Italy. Abstract Modernist work in colors, produced in the style of the Forma art movement of Postwar Italy, of which the artist was a prominent member. Pietro Consagra (1920 – 2005) was an Italian Post war artist working in painting, printmaking and sculpture. In 1947 he was among the founding members of the Forma 1 group of artists, proponents of structured abstraction. (similar to the Art Informel and Art Brut in France and the Brutalist artists) Consagra was born on 6 October 1920 in Mazara del Vallo, in the province of Trapani in south-western Sicily, to Luigi Consagra and Maria Lentini. From 1931 he enrolled in a trade school for sailors, studying first to become a mechanic, and later to become a captain. In 1938 he moved to Palermo, where he enrolled in the liceo artistico; despite an attack of tuberculosis, he graduated in 1941, and in the same year signed up at the Accademia di Belle Arti, where he studied sculpture under Archimede Campini. After the Invasion of Sicily and the Allied occupation of Palermo in 1943, Consagra found work as a caricaturist for the American Red Cross club of the city; he also joined the Italian Communist Party. Early in 1944, armed with a letter of introduction from an American officer, he travelled to Rome. There he came into contact with the Sicilian artist Concetto Maugeri, and through him with Renato Guttuso, who was also Sicilian and who introduced him to the intellectual life of the city and to other postwar artists such as Leoncillo Leonardi, Mario Mafai and Giulio Turcato. Consagra signed up at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma in September 1944 and studied sculpture there under Michele Guerrisi, but left before completing his diploma. In 1947, with Carla Accardi, Ugo Attardi, Piero Dorazio, Mino Guerrini, Achille Perilli, Antonio Sanfilippo and Giulio Turcato, Consagra started the artist's group Forma 1, which advocated both Marxism and structured abstraction. Steadily Consagra's work began to find an audience. Working primarily in metal, and later in marble and wood, his thin, roughly carved reliefs, began to be collected by Peggy Guggenheim and other important patrons of the arts. He showed at the Venice Biennale eleven times between 1950 and 1993, and in 1960 won the sculpture prize at the exhibition. During the 1960s he was associated with the Continuità group, an offshoot of Forma I, and in 1967 taught at the School of Arts in Minneapolis. Large commissions allowed him to begin working on a more monumental scale, and works of his were installed in the courtyard of the Foreign Ministry in Rome and in the European Parliament, Strasbourg. His work is found in the collections of The Tate Gallery, London, in Museo Cantonale d'Arte of Lugano and the Museum of Modern Art, Paris, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.. Consagra returned to Sicily where he sculpted a number of significant works during the 1980s. With Senator Ludovico Corrao, he helped created an open-air museum in the new town of Gibellina, after the older town had been destroyed in the earthquake of 1968. Consagra designed the gates to the town's entrance, the building named "Meeting" and the gates to the cemetery, where he was later buried. In 1952 Consagra published La necessità della scultura ("the need for sculpture"), a response to the essay La scultura lingua morta ("sculpture, a dead language"), published in 1945 by Arturo Martini. Other works include L'agguato c'è ("the snare exists", 1960), and La città frontale ("the frontal city", 1969). His autobiography, Vita Mia, was published by Feltrinelli in 1980. In 1989 a substantial retrospective exhibition of work by Consagra was shown at the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in Rome; in 1993 a permanent exhibition of his work was installed there. In 1991 his work was shown in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. In 2002 the Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart opened a permanent exhibition of his work. He was one of ten artists invited by Giovanni Carandente, along with David Smith, Alexander Calder, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Lynn Chadwick, and Beverly Pepper, to fabricate works in Italsider factories in Italy for an outdoor exhibition, "Sculture nella città", held in Spoleto during the summer of 1962. He was included in the The 1962 International Prize for Sculpture the jury included Argan, Romero Brest and James Johnson Sweeney the former director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. The participants included Louise Nevelson and John Chamberlain for the United States; Lygia Clark for Brazil; Pietro Consagra, Lucio Fontana, Nino Franchina, and Gió Pomodoro for Italy; Pablo Serrano for Spain; and Eduardo Paolozzi, William Turnbull, and Kenneth Armitage for England. Gyula Kosice, Noemí Gerstein, Julio Gero, Naum Knop...
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1960s Abstract Art

Materials

Lithograph

Abstract Underwater Painting Fish Coral Reef Wall Art Original Impasto
Located in Zofingen, AG
School of fish painting would be a great addition to your oil painting collection. Coral reef artwork original underwater painting - painted on...
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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Divino Amor". Abstract, figurative, Street art, bright color
Located in MADRID, ES
Abstract, figurative, Street art, bright color, oil, canvas
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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Canvas, Oil

Reminiscence, by Armen Yepoyan, 36"x36", oil on canvas
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
Armen Yepoyan is a graduate of fine art and architecture in his native Republic of Armenia. Since permanently relocating to the U.S. in 1994, he has exh...
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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Oil

"With Fear, With Blanket 2" (figure, snake, portrait, pattern, abstract, youth)
Located in Paris, IDF
WITH FEAR, WITH BLANKET (2) PARIS, FRANCE 2024 This painting depicts the most vulnerable version of ones child self. A blanket is represented with the patterned blue material the ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Linen, Oil, Acrylic

Salvador Dalì (1904–1989) -Athene-heliogravure and drypoint etching- 1965
Located in Varese, IT
Mixed media incorporating heliogravure and drypoint etching hand-colored on Arches paper , edited in 1963 Limited edition of 150 copies , numbered 23/150 in lower left Hand signed by...
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1960s Abstract Art

Materials

Drypoint, Etching

Double Self-Portrait.. original painting
Located in Zofingen, AG
I am interested in portraits that reveal all the complexity and versatility of a person's spiritual appearance, when the inner content is revealed through the external. Painting a p...
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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Blue on Brown Overlap, Geometric Abstract Painting by Peter Stroud
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Peter Stroud, British (1921 - 2012) Title: Blue on Brown Overlap Year: 1971 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, signed, dated and titled verso Size: 48 x 48 inches
Category

1970s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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