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
Period: 2010s
Period: 1960s
Ending G, E, B, 2019
Located in Torino, IT
Paolo Consorti
Ending G, E, B, 2019
Medium: Painting
Oil on canvas
Unique
150 x 140 cm
Not framed
Series “Ending”
This artwork includes a certificate of...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Oil
Glass Sculpture Eight-3 One of a Kind Made in France
Located in Paris, FR
Eight-3 by Perrin & Perrin, Galerie Negropontes in Paris, France. One of a Kind Sculpture, "Build-in-Glass" Glass
Martine and Jacki Perrin sculpt together as one, forming a duo enri...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Glass
"Femme Au Collant Rose", Rufino Tamayo, Figurative Abstraction, Etching, 30x22
Located in Dallas, TX
"Femme Au Collant Rose" by Rufino Tamayo is a Figurative Abstraction lithograph limited edition measuring 30x22 in. The piece is framed beautifully with a white mat in a gold and bla...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Etching
Klari Reis, Bliss, Mixed Media and epoxy polymer on wood panel
By Klari Reis
Located in London, GB
Mixed Media and epoxy polymer on wood panel
40.6 x 40.6 cm
16 x 16 in
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Klari Reis uses the tools and techniques of science in her creative proces...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Polymer, Mixed Media, Wood Panel
JACK
By Jimi Gleason
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Jimi Gleason introduces two exuberantly gestural, lustrous silver nitrate paintings edged with electric bands of color.
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Silver
Magnolia
Located in ARANJUEZ, ES
Exploring the interaction of humans and nature .
II live in a beautiful place called Aranjuez, it´s famous for it´s gardens. When almost all the garden sleeps cos of cold winter, Mag...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Oil Crayon, Ink, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Blue Ferns and a Hint of Magenta. Sculpture Garden
By Robert Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Natural shapes become abstract living plant sculptures. With the right light and composition, a garden is really a sculpture garden. Signed, dated, numbered lower right, recto 2/15, ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Big Flores Yellow
By Kenny Scharf
Located in Atlanta, GA
Archival pigment ink prints with silkscreened high-gloss varnish and diamond dust on Innova 315 gsm paper
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Varnish, Archival Pigment
Via Crucis II
Located in Barcelona, ES
Inspirado en dos fugas de la Misa en si menor de Johann Sebastian Bach.
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Soffio
By Nella Lush
Located in New York, NY
Mixed Media Abstract on canvas.
About the Artist:
Nella was born, raised and educated in Italy in a family with a long heritage of...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Breaching For The Stars, 2020, Mixed Media on Wood
By Justin Lyons
Located in Atlanta, GA
2020
Mixed Media on Canvas
60 x 48 in.
Signed by artist
Justin Lyon's credits his introduction into the world of street art as the spark that led him to his style of work. Over the next several years, Justin started to take his art production more seriously. Inspired by the li- ves and work of Cy Twombly, Barry McGee, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, Justin refined his process and worked to develop a style all his own which is both thought- provoked and thought-provoking.
Justin’s mediums include wood, acrylic, house paint, spray paint, oil stick, epoxy resin and pencil. He aims to produce art that sticks with the viewer long after they seen it. “What I am after is capturing the thoughts and feelings of the human condition with images and words that make you stop and think about what's in front of you.” Justin wants “to make honest art, raw art, vulnerable art...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Mixed Media
Cosmo
Located in Atlanta, GA
Born in Manziales, Colombia in 1987, Esteban received his MFA from the New York Academy of Art before returning to his native country. Related works are featured in top collections, ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Beautiful Spring Flowers Of My Garden. Original Oil Painting by Lilya Volskaya
Located in Sempach, LU
The paintings are drawn with oil on the canvas.
The brightest flowers that bloom in my garden. They look very much like daisies. They grow up as a group and are different every time....
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Lacquer, Canvas, Oil
Untiltled
By TANC
Located in Marrakech, MA
Spraypaint on canvas
Black outer frame - framed dimensions: 106x85x(5) cm
Signed on the back
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Spray Paint
ANGRY BANNER
By Mist
Located in Marrakech, MA
Mixed media on canvas.
Work signed on the front & back
Black exterior frame included
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Untitled
Located in Marrakech, MA
Acrylic on canvas
Exterior black wood frame
Framed dimensions: 150 x 118 cm
Signed on the back
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Futbolito Piscinero
Located in Atlanta, GA
Born in Manziales, Colombia in 1987, Esteban received his MFA from the New York Academy of Art before returning to his native country. Related works are featured in top collections, ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Jamaica Day 7
Located in New York, NY
2021, Acrylic on Canvas
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Deshilachado 002
Located in New York, NY
unraveled or worn at the edge
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Organic Material, Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor
Little Miss Honky Tonk
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Canvas. Vibrant colors. Blues. Pinks. Greens. Whites. Yellows.
About the Artist:
Francine Tint is a New York based abstract expressionist painter. She studied pai...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled
Located in New York, NY
Unstretched
Mixed media on canvas
I am interested in nature as inspiration trigger of my artistic process. The techniques I work with are woodcut, oil, charcoal and collage. I hav...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas
Gate
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Canvas. Vibrant colors. Blues. Pinks. Greens. Whites.
About the Artist:
Francine Tint is a New York based abstract expressionist painter. She studied painting at P...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled
Located in New York, NY
Isabel Turbán layers paintings with transfers, acrylic, charcoal, and other mixed media onto canvas or paper. Her abstract paintings manifest memory, cultural experience, and politic...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Tenri Composition
Located in New York, NY
Vicky Barranguet
Tenri Composition, 2016
Acrylic on canvas
40 x 60 in
(101.6h x 152.4w cm)
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Perspective 2
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Atmospheric gradations of color are encased in hardened surfaces in a constant push and pull between depth, light and texture. Capturing the effect of light purely with color is wher...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Chelleneshin 37
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Yari Ostovany is an American abstract artist of Iranian origins. He has lived in Tehran, Cologne, Los Angeles, San Francisco and in Reno. He is currently based in New York City. His ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
ECLOSIONS GEOMETRIQUES
Located in Marrakech, MA
Acrylic painting on canvas
Black exterior frame
Signed on the back
Framed dimensions: 143x203(x4.5)cm
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Geodesy 1218
By Andy Moses
Located in Santa Monica, CA
A Los Angeles-based artist with a unique take on color and the relationship between space, shape and light. Andy Moses paints with pearlescent pigments on concave canvases, which curve inward like the old Cinerama movie screens...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Canvas, Acrylic
Sail Boats with Two Men in a Boat on a Silver Gray Sea, Monochromatic
By Robert Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Simmering silver water underpins a group of sailboats punctuated by a small boat in the foreground.
The image takes on the look of traditional Asian art with its simplicity and per...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Mini Portal
Located in Greenwich, CT
Dutch, b. 1938
Renowned for his monumental sculpture created primarily for open-air public locales, Hans Van de Bovenkamp has been described as an artist-mystic whose work -- with i...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Bronze
Night Pilgrim
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Yari Ostovany is an American abstract artist of Iranian origins. He has lived in Tehran, Cologne, Los Angeles, San Francisco and in Reno. He is currently based in New York City. His ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Noah's Messenger III - Original oil on canvas painting by Eduard Grossman
Located in Montreal, Quebec
-- Artwork comes with a certificate of authenticity and a premium quality frame
-- Signed by Eduard Grossman
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Enter Here, Chapter 18
Located in Nashville, TN
Since the 1990s, Heinsohn’s work has addressed climate change, impending cataclysm and cultural dysfunction in numerous bodies of work including his mixed media wall reliefs, his "Time Frames" series of photo-based abstractions and his turbulent, thickly painted, cratered abstractions. However, as mentioned in his recent statement:
“Given the current dysfunctional mayhem of our planet, I believe we need visual art that provides a place for the mind to transcend our calamity, to thoughtfully explore the multitude of unknowns connected to our daily lives and to thereby refresh our optimism and our sense of urgency in the reimagining of our existence.”
These new works channel the meditative properties of abstraction pursued by Kandinsky and Malevich, combined with intuitive approaches of accessing higher consciousness which guided Hilma af Klint as well as, much later, artists of Abstract Surrealism such as Gordon Onslow Ford, Roberto Matta, Wolfgang Paalen...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Burlap, Acrylic Polymer
The First Place
Located in Atlanta, GA
Khalilah Birdsong, "The First Place", Acrylic on Canvas, 20 x 16 in.
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
"Orb"
By Rex Ashlock
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Signed Verso
Rex Ashlock (1918 - 1999)
Born in Spokane, WA on Aug. 23, 1918. Ashlock moved to San Francisco in 1937 and was a copy boy for Associated Press while studying at the C...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
SHAPED PAINTINDS #013
Located in Marrakech, MA
Acrylic paint on galvanized steel plates X2
125X82 CM, Thickness 5.5 CM, 2022
Signed on the back
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Metal
The Pilgrimage
Located in Atlanta, GA
Khalilah Birdsong, "The Pilgrimage", Acrylic on Canvas, 20 x 16 in.
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
'you know what to do' abstract expressionist, Scandinavian artwork
Located in Lahti, FI
"feel the breeze
carefree spirit
breathing is easy
atmosphere, livin'
oh, how every day
could feel like this,
one of my faves"
'your life starts now' is a reminder that the Univ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Pencil, Color Pencil
Untitled (Sesc Pompeia)
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas
62 x 62 in
Unstretched
Luciana Levinton de-contextualizes architectural elements, sketches facades, delineates floor plan...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Oil
Sign (black), Floating Noise Series
Located in Miami, FL
"Sign (black)" is an artwork created by Gianluca Patti in 2019. This piece is the part of the Floating Series, which Patti created in 2019. Made using n...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Mesh, Epoxy Resin, Plastic, Synthetic Resin, Acrylic, Pigment
The Explorer
By Nella Lush
Located in New York, NY
Abstract, oil on canvas. Subtle hues. Framed in natural wood. 2 inch deep.
About the Artist:
Nella was born, raised and educated in Italy in a family with a long heritage o...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil
Labyrinth XXXI
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Painting. Geometric style. Oils on canvas.
About the Artist:
I work in a style I call Geometric Surrealism, abstracting physical ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
From OJ to Merlot
By Zammy Migdal
Located in Miami, FL
This interactive work can fit in any format the collector desires and can contain as many elements, both big and small, that the space requires.
From the artist's Levitation series...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Steel
Rayuela
By Isabel Pena
Located in New York, NY
Isabel Peña
Rayuela
Photo-painting on parchment paper
46h x 40w in
116.84h x 101.60w cm
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Reflection
Located in Greenwich, CT
b. 1960
Elizabeth Higgins describes herself as an abstract figurative and landscape painter. Everything around her serves as a potential subject, an inspiration to begin a painting. Fidelity to the landscape, the figure, or the still life is relative, as she isn’t interested in literal depictions; instead, it’s the abstract relationships of these shapes and colors, the abstract pictorial design.
Her work is rooted in the tradition stemming from Courbet, Derain, Bonnard, Matisse, Morandi, German Expressionism, the Canadian Group of Seven, to her artist-teachers Paul Resika, Robert de Niro Sr., and finally, the contemporary artist, Peter Doig. Her artistic evolution stretches across this continuum.
It is the “in-between”, the hovering between representation and abstraction, that interests her, not the labeling effect of details; instead, she aims directly at the spirit of the painting – of making something come to life.
John Goodrich wrote in her catalog essay, “Elizabeth Higgins’ direct brushwork and simplified forms suggest an energy, but crucially, reveal a painter who knows the power of color…”
Elizabeth Higgins was born in Toronto, Canada, in 1960. As a Helena Rubenstein Award recipient, Higgins earned her MFA from Parsons School of Design, where she studied with Leland Bell, Paul Resika, Albert Kresch and Robert deNiro...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Ariadne by Jill Moser
By Jill Moser
Located in New York, NY
Jill Moser, Ariadne, 2021
Woodcut print on Khadi 100 % cotton paper
Signed and numbered by the artist on recto
Paper size: 8.25 x 8 in
Edition of 18
Published by Eminence Grise Editions, New York
Printed by Andrew Mockler...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Woodcut
Becoming Us
Located in New York, NY
Isabel Turbán layers paintings with transfers, acrylic, charcoal, and other mixed media onto canvas or paper. Her abstract paintings manifest memory, cultural experience, and politi...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Abstract Expressionist painting- Shared future for human beings
Located in Beijing, CN
Description:
Wan Rui
acrylic on canvas
150 x 100cm
dated 2022
About Wan Rui
Wan rui is a chinese contemporary artist, born in 1970 in Hunan, China. The artist received her MA fro...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Abstract Expressionist painting- Namaste
Located in Beijing, CN
Description:
Wan Rui
acrylic on canvas
150 x 170cm
dated 2020
About Wan Rui
Wan rui is a chinese contemporary artist, born in 1970 in Hunan, China. The artist received her MA fro...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Emerging from a history of innovative West Coast artists, who pioneered the Finish Fetish and Light and Space movements, Casper Brindle has mastered the industrial materials at his d...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Resin, Automotive Paint, Acrylic, Panel
Mother and Child Abstract
Located in Miami, FL
Mother and Child Abstract
Signature: Signed , dated lower right and numbered verso 3 /15, Unframed, Other sizes available.
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
I-S #1 /// Abstract Geometric Sewell Sillman Screenprint Purple Pink Modern Art
By Sewell Sillman
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Sewell Sillman (American, 1924-1992)
Title: "I-S #1"
*Signed and dated by Sillman in pencil lower right
Year: 1968
Medium: Original Screenprint on unbranded heavy white wove ...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Screen
Three Years
Located in New York, NY
Abstract painting. Geometric style. Acrylic & Satin Varnish on Canvas.
About the Artist:
Manhattan based mural and studio artist Tony “Rubin” Sjöman has painted all over the world and his works have been shown in galleries throughout the US and Europe.
Sjöman’s roots are in Finland and Sweden and he draws inspiration from his Scandinavian heritage for his complex abstract geometrical murals and studio works. Sjöman has become a staple of the art scene of New York City and beyond. His murals can be seen in a wide variety of spots in and around the city:
on churches, in hotels and high-end boutiques, in luxury high-rises throughout Manhattan and on the 69th floor of WTC 4.
Sjöman’s studio works are based on canvases, prints and installations and he is no stranger to painting on metal and wood. Rubin's studio works have been on display at Scope New York, Scope Miami and Art Miami during Art Basel, as well as in galleries throughout New York City, Miami and Los Angeles.
Sjöman’s art has been featured in NBC News, New York Post...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Varnish, Acrylic
L.A. Nocturne #6
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Chromesthesia is a neurological phenomenon experienced in the synthesis of binary sensorial modalities (synesthesia) where sound and color converge into a joint perception. In his pa...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portal-Glyph IV
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Working within the constraints of unyielding ninety-degree angles, Brindle applies color with a Fauvist abandon, creating works with an otherworldly presence.
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Silver, Gold Leaf
Geodesy 259
By Andy Moses
Located in Santa Monica, CA
A Los Angeles-based artist with a unique take on color and the relationship between space, shape and light. Andy Moses paints with pearlescent pigments on concave canvases, which cur...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
The Source Index
Located in New York, NY
Abstract painting. Geometric style. Acrylic & Satin Varnish on Canvas.
About the Artist:
Manhattan based mural and studio artist Tony “Rubin” Sjöman has painted all over the world and his works have been shown in galleries throughout the US and Europe.
Sjöman’s roots are in Finland and Sweden and he draws inspiration from his Scandinavian heritage for his complex abstract geometrical murals and studio works. Sjöman has become a staple of the art scene of New York City and beyond. His murals can be seen in a wide variety of spots in and around the city:
on churches, in hotels and high-end boutiques, in luxury high-rises throughout Manhattan and on the 69th floor of WTC 4.
Sjöman’s studio works are based on canvases, prints and installations and he is no stranger to painting on metal and wood. Rubin's studio works have been on display at Scope New York, Scope Miami and Art Miami during Art Basel, as well as in galleries throughout New York City, Miami and Los Angeles.
Sjöman’s art has been featured in NBC News, New York Post...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Varnish, Acrylic
Paisaje de los dioses del Sol/Landscapes of the Sun Gods XI
Located in White Plains, NY
This piece is part of a beautiful collection which includes twenty oil paintings, with silver/gold leaf on canvas. The astonishing light that this world-renowned artist has captured ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Silver
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