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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
Absolute Wealth - Large Contemporary Abstract Maximalism Painting, Ready to Hang
Absolute Wealth - Large Contemporary Abstract Maximalism Painting, Ready to Hang

Absolute Wealth - Large Contemporary Abstract Maximalism Painting, Ready to Hang

By Karnish Art

Located in Pretoria, Gauteng

Title: Absolute Wealth Large Painting Absolute Wealth - Contemporary Abstract Colorful Maximalism Bold Invest Another soulful artwork by Karnish. Symbols and forms unfold in this m...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Gesso, Canvas, Acrylic, Wood, Charcoal, Spray Paint, Color Pencil, Stret...

Girlhood Secrets
Girlhood Secrets

Girlhood Secrets

Located in Zofingen, AG

Size: 97×97 cm (Total canvas size including stretching margins: 107×107 cm) Year: 2026 Materials: acrylic on canvas Shipping: rolled This painting immerses the viewer into an atmos...

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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Our Own Way
Our Own Way

Our Own Way

Located in Zofingen, AG

Size: 132×142 cm (Total canvas size including stretching margins: 142×152 cm) Year: 2026 Materials: acrylic on canvas Shipping: rolled "Our Own Way" by Svetlana Brazhnikova is a pr...

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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Golden Hour (The Meeting)
Golden Hour (The Meeting)

Golden Hour (The Meeting)

By Olena Kishkurno

Located in Zofingen, AG

Golden Hour (The Meeting) is a luminous contemporary impressionist painting that explores the emotional power of human connection through expressive brushwork, radiant color, and atm...

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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Ground control (Abstract Painting)
Ground control (Abstract Painting)

Ground control (Abstract Painting)

By Manuela Karin Knaut

Located in London, GB

This artwork is exclusive to IdeelArt In this dynamic body of work, Manuela Karin Knaut balances raw, intuitive expression with deliberate spatial restraint. Drawing on the immediac...

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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Ink, Acrylic

Touch, Original Mixed Media, Acrylic on Canvas, 2023
Touch, Original Mixed Media, Acrylic on Canvas, 2023

Touch, Original Mixed Media, Acrylic on Canvas, 2023

Located in Edinburgh, GB

A textured abstract painting in deep, muted sage green tones, enriched with sculptural relief and delicate accents of gold leaf. The raised surface creates a subtle interplay of ligh...

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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic

The Art of Being Together
The Art of Being Together

The Art of Being Together

Located in Zofingen, AG

Size: 92×92 cm (The canvas roll is 102 cm wide, and the final painting size, already stretched on the stretcher bars, will be 92 × 92 cm.) Year: 2026 Materials: acrylic on canvas Shi...

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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Abstract Expressionist Mid-century American painting
Abstract Expressionist Mid-century American painting

Abstract Expressionist Mid-century American painting

By Willem de Kooning

Located in Wilton Manors, FL

Beautiful minimal Abstract Expressionist painting. Mixed media on paper glued down to illustration backing board. Paper sheet measures 10.25 x 14 inches. Cardboard panel measures 1...

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Mid-20th Century Abstract Art

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media, Illustration Board

'Woman In Bagdad' — 1950s Japanese Sôsaku-hanga Signed Woodblock Print
'Woman In Bagdad' — 1950s Japanese Sôsaku-hanga Signed Woodblock Print

'Woman In Bagdad' — 1950s Japanese Sôsaku-hanga Signed Woodblock Print

Located in Myrtle Beach, SC

Toshi Yoshida, 'Woman In Bagdad', color woodblock print, 1954, edition not stated. Signed, dated, and titled, in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, with fresh colors, on cream-wove Japan paper; the full sheet with margins (1/2 to 7/8 inch); minor toning in the margins, otherwise in excellent condition. Self-carved and self-printed by the artist. Archivally sleeved, unmatted. Image size 14 13/16 x 9 7/8 inches; sheet size 16 1/4 x 11 inches (oban tate-e). Literature: Oliver Statler, Modern Japanese Prints: An Art Reborn, 1959, pp. 168–69. Eugene M. Skibbe, “Yoshida Toshi 1911–1999: Diversity, Change, and Continuity in the Yoshida Art Tradition,” Andon, no. 53, Society for Japanese Arts, 1996, pp. 5–14. Kendall H. Brown, “Yoshida Toshi: The Nature of Tranquility,” in A Japanese Legacy: Four Generations of Yoshida Family Artists, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2002, pp. 72–80; Woman in Bagdad catalogued p. 91, no. 55. Exhibitions: 'Japan & Beyond: The Yoshida Family Legacy in Japanese Woodblock Prints', curated by Kendall Brown and Quyen Le, The Ruth and Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art, Hanford, CA. February 3, 2004 - March 27, 2004. 'Color in Relief: Wood Block Prints from Origins to Abstraction', Georgetown University Library, 2016. Collections: Art Institute of Chicago, Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture, Minneapolis Institute of Art, University of California Merced, University of Oregon (The Lavenberg Collection of Japanese Prints). ABOUT THIS WORK Woman in Bagdad belongs to an important group of figure studies Yoshida created in 1954 as he moved beyond the naturalistic landscape tradition associated with his father, Hiroshi Yoshida. The veiled figure is reduced to broad, interlocking shapes of deep brown, ochre, and blue-green, separated by narrow carved white lines. Yoshida appears to have printed the composition from a single block, applying individual colors to separately defined areas—a technique closely related to the white-line color woodcut developed by B. J. O. Nordfeldt and the Provincetown Printers and refined by Blanche Lazzell. The continuous white channels serve as both boundaries between colors and an active linear structure, transforming the figure into a near-abstract arrangement of flattened forms while retaining its human presence. Created at a pivotal moment in Yoshida's development, the print anticipates the increasingly nonobjective woodcuts that occupied him during the following two decades. ABOUT THE ARTIST Yoshida Toshi (1911–1995) began training at the age of fourteen under his father, Yoshida Hiroshi, a leading artist of the twentieth-century Japanese printmaking revival known as shin-hanga (“new prints”), which continued the traditional collaborative system of Japanese woodblock printing. From 1932 to 1935, Toshi studied at the Taiheiyo-Gakai (Pacific Painting Association), which his father had helped establish. Before the Pacific War, Toshi traveled extensively with his father in Asia, Europe, Egypt, and the United States. He later continued his international travels, particularly in Mexico, the United States, Canada, and Africa. His early prints remained strongly influenced by Hiroshi's work and the highly refined techniques practiced in the Yoshida studio. Following his father's death in 1950, Toshi assumed responsibility for the studio while increasingly pursuing an independent artistic direction. Beginning in the early 1950s, he undertook a highly personal exploration of abstraction, creating and printing his own works in the sōsaku-hanga (“creative print”) manner, in which the artist assumes direct responsibility for the design, carving, and printing. During this exceptionally productive period, Toshi produced a large body of nonobjective woodcuts characterized by complex geometric structures, richly layered color, and experimentation with the expressive possibilities of the woodblock medium. His abstract work placed him among the more adventurous Japanese printmakers of the postwar period. The British Museum holds a substantial group of these works, including Misty Dance (1957), Frontier (1962), Mystery (1964), Isotope (1968), and Where (1972). In the early 1960s, Toshi also returned to representational subjects, eventually concentrating on large-scale scenes of African wildlife in its natural habitat. In 1984 he published the first of a series of illustrated children's books devoted to African animals (Dōbutsu Ehon Shirīzu), which he continued into the early 1990s. In 1966, with artist Yuki Rei...

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1950s Abstract Art

Materials

Woodcut

Day on the road, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Day on the road, Painting, Oil on Canvas

Day on the road, Painting, Oil on Canvas

By MARIUSZ MAKULA

Located in Yardley, PA

Original oil on canvas on wooden stretche, signed on the front. Certificate of authenticity included. :: Painting :: Abstract Expressionism :: This piece comes with an official cert...

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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Oil

Resolved, Large Scale Abstract Expressionist Painting, Original contemporary art
Resolved, Large Scale Abstract Expressionist Painting, Original contemporary art

Resolved, Large Scale Abstract Expressionist Painting, Original contemporary art

By Lloyd Tabing

Located in Jönköping, SE

This large painting is part of my Sovereign Solitude collection where I have been exploring spatial restraint and composition tension where heavy gestural masses collide against vast...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Oil Crayon, Acrylic

"All Fours" (Animalia, Fauna, Contemporary, Original, Nude Figures, Raw, Horses)
"All Fours" (Animalia, Fauna, Contemporary, Original, Nude Figures, Raw, Horses)

"All Fours" (Animalia, Fauna, Contemporary, Original, Nude Figures, Raw, Horses)

By Nicholas Evans

Located in Paris, IDF

ALL FOURS 2025 Paris, France The painting shows four men on hands and knees in the foreground, their bodies merging in muted white and black tones against a plain ochre-brown backgr...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic, Dye, Cotton Canvas, Oil

Green-lilac abstraction.
Green-lilac abstraction.

Green-lilac abstraction.

By Svetlana Saratova

Located in Zofingen, AG

This abstract composition explores the expressive nature of alcohol ink, where flowing pigments create organic forms that emerge without predetermined boundaries. Layers of deep char...

Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Ink

"Wild White Horses" Contemporary Outsider Urban Expressionism Painting Framed
"Wild White Horses" Contemporary Outsider Urban Expressionism Painting Framed

"Wild White Horses" Contemporary Outsider Urban Expressionism Painting Framed

By Purvis Young

Located in New York, NY

The painting is an expressive, abstract work by Purvis Young with a strong emphasis on dynamic brushwork and a limited color palette dominated by deep reds, off-whites, and subtle ac...

Category

20th Century Abstract Art

Materials

Found Objects, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Cardboard

Tête-à-tête
Tête-à-tête

Tête-à-tête

Located in Zofingen, AG

Size: 132×142 cm (overall size with stretching 142×152 cm) Year: 2026 Materials: acrylic on canvas Shipping: rolled This painting captures a fragile, precious moment of genuine inti...

Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

LAVA, Painting, Oil on Canvas
LAVA, Painting, Oil on Canvas

LAVA, Painting, Oil on Canvas

By MARIUSZ MAKULA

Located in Yardley, PA

Original oil on canvas on wooden stretcher, box canvas, signed on the back. Certificate of authenticity included. :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official certif...

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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Oil

Kinfolk
Kinfolk

Kinfolk

Located in Zofingen, AG

Size: 110×97 cm (overall size with stretching 120×107 cm) Year: 2026 Materials: acrylic on canvas Shipping: rolled Kinfolk" is a profound visual reflection on the unconditional acce...

Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Presence
Presence

Presence

Located in Zofingen, AG

Size: 140×97 cm (overall size with stretching 150×107 cm) Year: 2026 Materials: acrylic on canvas Shipping: rolled Painting Title: "Presence" Series Title: "The Inviolable Reserve" ...

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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Green Abstract Painting, Sallam
Green Abstract Painting, Sallam

Green Abstract Painting, Sallam

By Addison Jones

Located in Delaware , OH

This green color changing piece is a striking statement work that seamlessly complements a wide range of interior styles. The reflective gold elements interact beautifully with natur...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic, Pigment

Abstract art for sale on 1stDibs.

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.