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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

Untitled

By Jesús Rafael Soto

Located in Paris, FR

Silksreen, 1970 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 63/145 70.00 cm. x 50.00 cm. 27.56 in. x 19.69 in. (paper) 44.30 cm. x 44.50 cm. 17.44 in. x 17.52 in. (image) The V...

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1970s Abstract Art

Materials

Silk

Abstract Minimalist Landscape Earth Mixed Media Relief on Canvas by Pau Escat
Abstract Minimalist Landscape Earth Mixed Media Relief on Canvas by Pau Escat

Abstract Minimalist Landscape Earth Mixed Media Relief on Canvas by Pau Escat

By Pau Escat

Located in Barcelona, Barcelona

In my work, I explore the quiet dialogue between earth, texture, and silence. Each surface becomes a landscape — not one we see, but one we feel. I build these compositions with recl...

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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Acrylic, Pigment, Mixed Media

Zia Rising - Geometric Steel Sculpture, Welded Steel, Hand Painted Acrylic
Zia Rising - Geometric Steel Sculpture, Welded Steel, Hand Painted Acrylic

Zia Rising - Geometric Steel Sculpture, Welded Steel, Hand Painted Acrylic

By Chris Hill

Located in Chicago, IL

This dynamic table sized sculpture is created from sheets of steel welded together in an abstract geometric pattern. While the work adheres to a rigid, rational geometry, this sculptures suggest lyrical movement, apparent weightlessness and improvisation as the title suggests. Chris Hill Zia Rising welded steel, acrylic paint 14.50h x 13w x 5d in 36.83h x 33.02w x 12.70d cm CHI022 Chris Hill is a Santa Fe based sculptor. Chris was born in Port Arthur, Texas but grew up in small town North Mississippi. He began welding at age 18 at the Tennessee Valley Authority...

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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Steel

Indefinido. Mixed media Abstract painting on Canvas
Indefinido. Mixed media Abstract painting on Canvas

Indefinido. Mixed media Abstract painting on Canvas

By Alec Franco

Located in Miami Beach, FL

" The work resists framing in concepts, it overflows the contours and borders of the rational. It is through the presence of color, combined with an abstraction at times with express...

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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Blue Canoe for Rosemary Lee

Blue Canoe for Rosemary Lee

By Jason Craighead

Located in Denver, CO

Jason Craighead (b.1971) is an abstract artist based in Raleigh, North Carolina. In his mixed-media works, drawing, painting, and writing fuse seamlessly together His surprising com...

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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Charcoal, Oil Pastel, Oil, Graphite

Jazzu  - SKiff kiff un mot à dire
Jazzu  - SKiff kiff un mot à dire

Jazzu - SKiff kiff un mot à dire

By Jazzu

Located in Saint-Didier, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

azzu Kiff kiff un mot à dire Collages et techniques mixtes sur papier 65 x 50 cms 2025 Signé et daté au recto Titré , signé et daté au verso 690 euros

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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic

Untitled (Organic abstract bronze sculpture)
Untitled (Organic abstract bronze sculpture)

Untitled (Organic abstract bronze sculpture)

Located in Wilton Manors, FL

Klaus Ihlenfeld (b.1934). Untitled, ca. 1960. Welded bronze. 8" h.; 5.5 " w; 3.25" d (base). Signed with initial under base. Provenance: Directly from estate of Harry Bertoia. The piece was a gift from Ihlenfeld and is a very early example created during Bertoia apprenticeship era. Excellent condition. Klaus Karl Otto IhlenfeldHe was born in Berlin, Germany in 1934. He studied art at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste and completed graduate work with the metal sculptor Hans Uhlmann. He visited the US in 1957 for the first time living in Durham, NC, where he befriended Dr. W. R. Valentiner, the Rembrandt authority and Director of the Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC. Through this friendship in 1960 he met and worked with the metal sculptor Harry Bertoia in Barto, PA. He joined the Staempfli Gallery in NYC and entered in many group and one-man shows. He has been an Artist-in-Residence in Ogden, Utah; Huntington Museum of Art in West Virginia, Penn State University at University Park; the Colorado State University in Denver; and Shippensburg University. He has large commissions at Kutztown University, Pottstown Hospital, and a monumental relief sculpture at the Emigrant Savings Bank in NYC. He has traveled extensively in Spain, Greece, and Mexico. He is living and working on a farm in Barto, PA welding bronze and forged iron metal sculptures and painting watercolors. Group Shows: North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, NC - 1957 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City - 1962 Staempfli Gallery in New York City - 1962, 1964 and 1965 Gallery Ludwig Lange in West Berlin, Germany - 1977 Gallery Herbert Remmert and Dr. Barth in Dusseldorf in West Germany - 1981 Jack Savitt Gallery in Macungie, PA - 1981 and 1984 Heinz Ortleb Gallery, West Berlin, Germany - 1992 Central Bucks Chamber of Commerce Show at the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, PA - 1997 Berks Art Alliance Show at the Reading Art Museum in Reading, PA - 1997 Mayfair Festival of the Arts at the Allentown Art Museum - 1998 Baum School of Art in Allentown, PA - 1997 Schwenkfelder Library and Heritage Center Art Show in Pennsburg, PA - 2001 Reading Public Museum in Reading PA, 2014 Solo Shows: Kutztown University in Kutztown, PA - 1960 and 1965 Allentown Art Museum in Allentown, PA - 1960 and 1961 Staempfli Gallery in New York City - 1962 Penn State University in University Park, PA - 1964 and 1972 Berks Art Alliance in Wyomissing, PA - 1966 Bertha Eccles Art Center in Ogden, Utah - 1967 Mansfield University in Mansfield, PA - 1967 Huntington Museum of Art in Huntington, WV - 1971 Shippensburg University in Shippensburg, PA - 1972 Albright College in Reading, PA - 1973 Ianuzzi Gallery in Scottsdale, AZ - 1974 Gallery Heimat 85 in West Berlin, Germany - 1977 Jack Savitt Gallery in Macungie, PA - 1981 College Misericordia in Dallas, PA - 1983 Schwenkfelder Library and Heritage Center in Pennsburg, PA, 2013 Periodical Reference: Kaye, Ellen "The Obsessive Collector," Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday Magazine Sptember 21, 1986 pp. 32-33. Chronology: 1-30-1934 Born in Berlin, Germany. Father, Kurt Ihlenfeld, Lutheran pastor, novelist, critic and publisher was born in 1901 in Colmar, Alsace Lorain. Mother, Annie Stuhlmann, was born in 1905 in Breslau, Lower Silesia. 1940 - 1950 Public schools in Berlin; Löwen, Lower Silesia; Coswig, Radebeul, Glaubitz, Saxony. Königin Luise-Gymnasium in Dahlem, Berlin. First artworks, drawings and paintings; few sculptures. 1950 - 1956 Studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in West Berlin, Germany. Graduate work with metal sculptor Hans Uhlmann. For 2 years maintained own studio at the Academy. Friendship with writer Günter Grass, and painter F. S. Sonnenstern. Met painters: Max Pechstein, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Carl Hofer, Max Kaus, and sculptors: Bernhard Heiliger, Renee Sintenis, and Richard Scheibe...

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Mid-20th Century Abstract Art

Materials

Bronze

Ice Skating
Ice Skating

Jeanne CosimanoIce Skating

$1,920Sale Price|40% Off

Ice Skating

By Jeanne Cosimano

Located in Washington, DC

Painting titled "Ice Skating" and dated 2021 by Jeanne Cosimano. Painting is gouache on paper and framed. The painting was recently included in a solo exhi...

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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Gouache, Archival Paper

Sam Gilliam - Monoprint with collage acrylic stitching & embossing Signed Framed
Sam Gilliam - Monoprint with collage acrylic stitching & embossing Signed Framed

Sam Gilliam - Monoprint with collage acrylic stitching & embossing Signed Framed

By Sam Gilliam

Located in New York, NY

Monoprint with screenprint, collage, acrylic, stitching and embossing in colors on handmade paper, 1994, signed, dated, titled, and numbered 10/40 (each unique) in black and silver i...

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1990s Abstract Art

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Thread, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Rag Paper, Screen

0312E, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
0312E, Painting, Acrylic on Paper

0312E, Painting, Acrylic on Paper

By Luis Medina

Located in Yardley, PA

This original acrylic on paper artwork, "0312E", is a captivating dance of color and form. The artist's hand is evident in the expressive application of acrylic paint, creating a dyn...

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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic

"Strong Arm" Figurative Abstract
"Strong Arm" Figurative Abstract

"Strong Arm" Figurative Abstract

Located in Soquel, CA

Bright figurative abstract with rich layers of texture and color by Chaz Cole (American, 20th Century). Irregular perimeter. Signed and dated "Chaz Cole" lower right. Signed and date...

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1990s Abstract Art

Materials

Pastel, Tempera, Cardboard

Composition - Lithograph on Paper - Mid-20th Century

Composition - Lithograph on Paper - Mid-20th Century

Located in Roma, IT

Composition is an original print in lithograph on paper realized by an anonymous artist of the mid-20th Century. In very good conditions. The artwork is created through confident s...

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Mid-20th Century Abstract Art

Materials

Lithograph

Diptych Minimalist Abstract Painting Black Linear Forms 2026, Alicia Gimeno New
Diptych Minimalist Abstract Painting Black Linear Forms 2026, Alicia Gimeno New

Diptych Minimalist Abstract Painting Black Linear Forms 2026, Alicia Gimeno New

By Alicia Gimeno

Located in Barcelona, Barcelona

Diptych. Each panel measures 140 × 140 cm. Overall dimensions are 140 × 240 cm, excluding the space between the two panels. At Escat Gallery we are committed to maintaining the high...

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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Ink, Acrylic, Pigment

Miniature Mantelpiece Art - Original Abstract Landscape with Pink & Sage Green
Miniature Mantelpiece Art - Original Abstract Landscape with Pink & Sage Green

Miniature Mantelpiece Art - Original Abstract Landscape with Pink & Sage Green

By Angela Wakefield

Located in Preston, GB

Miniature Mantelpiece Art - Original Abstract Landscape with Pink & Sage Green by leading British Urban Artist Angela Wakefield. Part of the "mantelpiece series" of miniatures. ...

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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Gesso, Canvas, Cotton, Paint, Varnish, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, ...

Family Gathering (Garden Size) 4/8

Family Gathering (Garden Size) 4/8

By Kevin Box

Located in Napa, CA

“It took two years of tireless experimentation for me to develop the process of casting paper into bronze, another seven years to perfect, and it continues to evolve today.” - Kevin ...

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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Bronze, Stainless Steel

Expectation
Expectation

Expectation

By Kseniia Ivanova

Located in Zofingen, AG

shipped in roll ‘Expectation’ (from the series ‘Inner Light’) This work is about the quiet state between inhalation and exhalation, when nothing seems to be happening, but inside, n...

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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Continuous Play
Continuous Play

Continuous Play

By Ilana Greenberg

Located in Brooklyn, NY

When I was a kid, l'd fill pages with looping scribble drawings. I didn't know what I was doing, I just loved the movement, the rhythm, the freedom of it. Now, years later, I get to ...

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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic

Another Time
Another Time

Another Time

Located in Greenville, DE

Abstract mixed media painting by contemporary artist Vicki Vinton. "Another Time" charcoal, pastel, acrylic on canvas framed 32 x 26 inches. Energetic surfaces and skillful use of co...

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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Charcoal, Oil Pastel, Acrylic

Original Lithograph I

Original Lithograph I

By Joan Miró

Located in Henderson, NV

Medium: original lithograph. The catalogue reference is Mourlot 857. Printed in 1972 at the Mourlot atelier and published for the "Miro Lithograph I" catalogue raisonne. Size: 12 1/2...

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1970s Abstract Art

Materials

Lithograph

Untitled
Untitled

Untitled

By Jose Maria Sicilia

Located in San Francisco, CA

This artwork "Untitled" 1985 in an acrylic painting on paper by renown Spanish artist, Jose Maria Sicilia, born 1954. The exact artwork size is 17.90 x 14.90 inches, framed is 20.25 ...

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Late 20th Century Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic

Going Outside, Original Abstract Landscape Painting

Going Outside, Original Abstract Landscape Painting

Located in Boston, MA

Going Outside 48.0 x 60.0 x 1.75, 8.0 lbs Mixed Media Hand signed by artist Artist's Commentary: "'Going Outside' is a 48x60 mixed media abstract landscape painting. The colors and the composition are an emotional response to beauty and energy found in moments of reflection in the natural beauty of the landscape." About the Artist: Maggie Jones Boudreaux...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Chrome Green

Chrome Green

By Adolph Gottlieb

Located in New York, NY

A very good impression of this color screenprint on Arches. Signed, dated and numbered 125/150 in pencil by Gottlieb. Printed by Kelpra Studio, London, with the ink stamp verso. Publ...

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1970s Abstract Art

Materials

Color, Screen

Calm 1, Abstract Painting
Calm 1, Abstract Painting

Calm 1, Abstract Painting

By DL Watson

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A serene ocean horizon emerges through layers of blue and white in this abstract seascape painting. Shimmering gold accents evoke sunlight reflecting across the...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic

Joel Froment, Untitled, 1986, pastel on paper
Joel Froment, Untitled, 1986, pastel on paper

Joel Froment, Untitled, 1986, pastel on paper

Located in PARIS, FR

Joel FROMENT (1938-2023) Untitled, 1986 Pastel on paper Signed et dated “86.12” lower right 50 x 50 cm without frame Joël Froment attended the Lycée d'Art de Sèvres before entering ...

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1980s Abstract Art

Materials

Pastel

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