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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
Tribute to NIKI in Stainless Steel
Tribute to NIKI in Stainless Steel

Tribute to NIKI in Stainless Steel

By Guillaume Roche

Located in Pasadena, CA

Guillaume ROCHE The artist translates movement and energy through the dynamism of assemblages and seeks the balance of composition. His sculptures offer aerial movements, round sh...

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Early 2000s Abstract Art

Materials

Stainless Steel

Beyond!, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Beyond!, Painting, Oil on Canvas

Beyond!, Painting, Oil on Canvas

By Steven Miller

Located in Yardley, PA

My abstract paintings are all about creating excitement for the viewer through concentrated exploration. Each painting is inspired by nature, travels, or imagination and created to e...

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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Oil

Beach Blvd - Modern Acrylic Beige Monochrome Resin Artwork
Beach Blvd - Modern Acrylic Beige Monochrome Resin Artwork

Beach Blvd - Modern Acrylic Beige Monochrome Resin Artwork

By Ricky Hunt

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Ricky Hunt’s mixed media minimalist wall art is influenced by his tumultuous past that led to a paradigm shift in creativity and life. He covers the wood panel with layers of acrylic...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Liberty: Portrait Painting Renewal Flowers Striking Bold Exclusive Blue Red Life
Liberty: Portrait Painting Renewal Flowers Striking Bold Exclusive Blue Red Life

Liberty: Portrait Painting Renewal Flowers Striking Bold Exclusive Blue Red Life

By Karnish Art

Located in Pretoria, Gauteng

Title: Liberty Portrait Painting Liberty Flowers Abstract Artwork Striking Bold Original Blue Red Life This abstract contemporary artwork takes one to a place of freedom and the fe...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Gesso, Canvas, Wood, Oil, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars

Autumn Biogram of the Nelson
Autumn Biogram of the Nelson

Autumn Biogram of the Nelson

By Kory Twaddle

Located in Kansas City, MO

Artist : Kory Twaddle "Autumn Biogram of the Nelson" Newsprint, graphite, conté crayon pastel, charcoal, beeswax, cardboard, paper, gingko leaves, stickers, and Mixed Media on drawi...

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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Paint, Paper, Conté, Charcoal, India Ink, Acrylic, Tempera, Watercolor, ...

1960s Italian Signed Dated and Autenticated Painting
1960s Italian Signed Dated and Autenticated Painting

1960s Italian Signed Dated and Autenticated Painting

By Mino Maccari

Located in Roma, IT

1960s Italian Signed Dated and Autenticated Painting Mino Maccari work Three stylized figures Work by the Sienese artist Mino Maccari, signed at the bottom right Maccari 1969. Mixed ...

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1960s Abstract Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

ARMAND ROTTENBERG (1903-2000) LARGE FRENCH EXPRESSIONIST ABSTRACT OIL PAINTING
ARMAND ROTTENBERG (1903-2000) LARGE FRENCH EXPRESSIONIST ABSTRACT OIL PAINTING

ARMAND ROTTENBERG (1903-2000) LARGE FRENCH EXPRESSIONIST ABSTRACT OIL PAINTING

By Armand Rottenberg

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

"Abstract Composition" by Armand Rottenberg (French 1903-2000) oil painting on board, unframed board: 29 x 21 inches Stunning original Cubist painting by the French abstract artis...

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Mid-20th Century Abstract Art

Materials

Oil

20th Century French Geometric Abstract Composition Oil Painting
20th Century French Geometric Abstract Composition Oil Painting

20th Century French Geometric Abstract Composition Oil Painting

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Abstract Composition signed by Serge Guerin (b. 1916), French oil painting on canvas, unframed size: 20 x 26 inches provenance: private collection, Paris, France condition: overall g...

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20th Century Abstract Art

Materials

Oil

Be Happy
Be Happy

Be Happy

Located in West Hollywood, CA

“Be Happy” by Amanza Smith is a work teeming with a blend of colors and forms that evoke a sense of controlled chaos. The background is a blend of blues a...

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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Glitch, Vibrant & Abstract Acrylic on Handmade Paper
Glitch, Vibrant & Abstract Acrylic on Handmade Paper

Glitch, Vibrant & Abstract Acrylic on Handmade Paper

By Carolanna Parlato

Located in New York, NY

The artist describes her creative process as one that draws from imagination, reflection, and intuition, resulting in works that mediate between chance and order. She states: “I build up my paintings with multiple layers of fluid acrylic paint, creating a conversation between light, color and space. I strive for a balance between open and cluttered spaces; orbs of vivid color bump up against intricate and tightly woven, grid-like areas of paint. This process, in play with the materials, results in graphic networks drawing on traditions of color field painters as well as contemporary works by Elizabeth Neel...

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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic, Handmade Paper

An Abstract Geometric "Men of Matthew"
An Abstract Geometric "Men of Matthew"

An Abstract Geometric "Men of Matthew"

Located in San Francisco, CA

It’s time to bury the so-last-century idea that folks are either "right-brained,” i.e., naturally creative, or (boringly) "left-brained," always operating logically. And here’s just ...

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1950s Abstract Art

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Museum Collected artist Abstract Illusion acrylic painting on board 37x27"
Museum Collected artist Abstract Illusion acrylic painting on board 37x27"

Museum Collected artist Abstract Illusion acrylic painting on board 37x27"

By James Havard

Located in Southampton, NY

James Havard is considered one of the "pioneers of the abstract illusionism movement" One of James Havard's homes and studio's was on the island of Tortola and this work from 1979 evokes the feel of the aqua blue waters and the reference of Salt Island in the painting refers to the island of Tortola and the feel of the ocean waters. In the 1970's Havard was the principle artist that started working in an abstract style that included gestural brush strokes and paint squeezed directly from the tube to create beautiful surface textures in his paintings. He then painted shadows to certain areas of paint to create the 3d illusion of depth to his paintings. This created the "Abstract Illusion" movement of the 1970's. Havard had many museum exhibitions and his paintings were sort after and exhibited at galleries around the world. Havard along with other artists like, Michael Gallagher, George Green...

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1970s Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic, Board

Mid Century French Geometric Abstract in Blue Green Purple and White
Mid Century French Geometric Abstract in Blue Green Purple and White

Mid Century French Geometric Abstract in Blue Green Purple and White

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Title: Mid Century French Geometric Abstract in Blue Green Purple and White by Serge Guerin (b. 1916), French Signed bottom left acrylic and gouache on paper, unframed Size: 25.75 (...

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20th Century Abstract Art

Materials

Ink, Gouache, Acrylic

Cuerpos Magnéticos Autum. Wall sculpture
Cuerpos Magnéticos Autum. Wall sculpture

Cuerpos Magnéticos Autum. Wall sculpture

By Carla Gimbatti

Located in Miami Beach, FL

From the series Cuerpos Magnéticos (Magetic Bodies) Cuerpos Magnéticos was born searching for the relationship between nature and our bodies, attraction and rejection. We see rocks,...

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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Epoxy Resin, Pigment

Day on the Horizon
Day on the Horizon

Day on the Horizon

By Yury Darashkevich

Located in Atlanta, GA

This painting has only been shown in a gallery setting. All images have light and shadow reflections due to the reflective nature of the resin finish. Yury was born in Belarus and...

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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Resin, Acrylic, Panel

1983 Abstract Geometric Oil and Gouache Painting Study for Alma Robert Kelly
1983 Abstract Geometric Oil and Gouache Painting Study for Alma Robert Kelly

1983 Abstract Geometric Oil and Gouache Painting Study for Alma Robert Kelly

By Robert Kelly

Located in Surfside, FL

Robert Kelly (American, 1956-) Abstract Mixed Media on paper Study for Alma 1983 Pencil titled Hand signed lower right Dimensions: Frame: 26 X 19 Image: 24 X 17.5 Robert Kelly (born 1956) is an American artist. He is based in New York City. Kelly was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and studied at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (B.A. 1978). His paintings have been acquired by public and private collections in Europe and the United States, including The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; The Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; Smith College Art Museum, Northampton MA; Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutger’s University, NJ; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery; The Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA; The Margulies Collection, Miami, FL; and the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX. Kelly has traveled throughout the United States, Europe, North Africa, the Near East, and Nepal. His work often incorporates unusual materials from his journeys, among them vintage posters and printed antique paper, obscured and layered in saturated pigments on a canvas faintly scored with irregular grids. Kelly’s paintings have been likened to palimpsests and his method described as one of building “meticulously on inhabited ground, layering materials, documents, and signs, covering them, wiping out their beauty, nearly, but allowing something of the labor and their languages to persist.” Kelly worked as a commercial photographer for Polaroid in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and completed residencies at The MacDowell Colony and The Karolyi Foundation, Vence, France, before devoting himself entirely to painting in 1982. His work has been the subject of more than forty-five solo shows at venues in North America and Europe, including Spazio Bianco/AR Contemporary Art, Milan, Italy; Leslie Feely Fine Art, New York; and The John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California. He has participated in more than one hundred group shows in the United States and abroad. including the Projects Inaugural Exhibition at Bentley Gallery Featuring works by Jim Dine, Jennifer Bartlett, Donald Sultan, Frank Stella, John Chamberlain, Julian Schnabel and, Dominique Blain. Kelly’s influences include the De Stijl movement, Malevich and Mondrian and modernists like Bauhaus, Joaquin Torres-Garcia, Philip Guston, Richard Diebenkorn, Kurt Schwitters, Blinky Palermo and Brazilian Neo-Concretists Lygia Clark and Helio Oiticica. Kelly himself cites Hans Arp, Myron Stout, Tony Smith, Brancusi, Calder, Bill Traylor, Louise Bourgeois, and Ellsworth Kelly. Primary Abstraction, Process-Oriented, Hard-Edged, New York School Artists, Line, Form, and Color, Curvilinear Forms. “Kelly compares his work method to the practice of a stonemason building a wall, setting the components in place as they rise with an astuteness and precision found in the process of composing formal puzzles. Addressing the full expanse of a canvas covered entirely with paper, he masterfully builds up his surface with the pared down tools of line, form and color. Given their remarkable elegance, sheen and tactile qualities, the paintings invite drop-dead awe.” Edward Leffingwell, Robert Kelly: Paper Trails “In these works the sophisticated play between translucency and opacity, representation and abstraction conflates past and present—be it the history of art or of a psyche.” Hilarie M. Sheets, Art in America “[His] process yields the self-sustaining and harmonious ‘rightness’ of so much of Kelly’s work, a sense that each form could never be other than it is; were it sharper, more obtuse, or thicker, each angle, curve, or horizontal band would collapse into formlessness. Kelly’s compositions are held in such perfect moments of balance...” João Ribas, Robert Kelly: Praxis and Poesis “The works are paradoxical: by disassembling and then reassembling the pieces, Kelly seems to undermine visual ‘completeness’ by a fragmented presentation. Yet it nonetheless feels as though the image is a cohesive whole.” Melissa Kuntz, Art in America “Confronted as all artists are now with the exhaustion of subjectivity, Robert Kelly insists on the capacity of painting to mediate subjective apprehension through symbolic forms and sensual experience. Nothing less.” Lyle Rexer, Robert Kelly: Painting’s Place “Robert Kelly’s art is exemplary. It reveals an intelligence that is as alert and modern as one could wish but is at the same time saturated in the knowledge of other times and places.” John Ash...

Category

1980s Abstract Art

Materials

Paper, Oil, Gouache

The Stillness, Abstract Oil Painting
The Stillness, Abstract Oil Painting

The Stillness, Abstract Oil Painting

By George Peebles

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
It is a quiet evening, reflecting the calm of the day. Soft shades of blue and gray create a serene, expansive landscape. Clouds diffuse the light as darkness...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Oil

Summer Evening
Summer Evening

Summer Evening

Located in Deddington, GB

Summer Evening by Rosie Shorrock [2021] original Acrylic on Panel Image size: H:60 cm x W:80 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:60 cm x W:80 cm x D:4cm Sold Unframed Please note t...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic, Panel

Christina Gschwantner New Strokes Contemporary Abstract Painting Bright 2025
Christina Gschwantner New Strokes Contemporary Abstract Painting Bright 2025

Christina Gschwantner New Strokes Contemporary Abstract Painting Bright 2025

By Christina Gschwantner

Located in Barcelona, Barcelona

The work reflects the artist’s mastery of gesture and emotion, where each mark becomes a visual language. A striking piece that brings movement, depth, and intensity to any collectio...

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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

La Force Eternelle - Dreamy Abstract Floral Painting
La Force Eternelle - Dreamy Abstract Floral Painting

La Force Eternelle - Dreamy Abstract Floral Painting

By Vè Boisvert

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Drawing inspiration from an immersive and impressionistic interpretation of nature, Canadian artist Vé Boisvert paints textural original artworks that capture the fleeting effects of...

Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Vers la Clairière

Vers la Clairière

By Françoise Gilot

Located in PARIS, FR

Signed lower right with the monogram Probably titled in the artist's hand on the back on the stretcher with archive number EXHIBITIONS Budapest, Var Fok Gallery. Pecs, Françoise Gil...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Oil

American Contemporary Sculpture by Scott Troxel - Spinnaker
American Contemporary Sculpture by Scott Troxel - Spinnaker

American Contemporary Sculpture by Scott Troxel - Spinnaker

By Scott Troxel

Located in Paris, IDF

Spray acrylic, latex, black cherry, MDF & matte varnish Scott Troxel has exhibited his work at numerous fairs and exhibitions across the United States, including The Other Art Fair ...

Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic, Latex, Spray Paint

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.