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
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Hemisphere I - large format photograph of abstract liquid cloudscape in water
Located in San Francisco, CA
mesmerizing color compositions of liquid cloudscape painting in water, hypnotizing abstract liquidscapes from Christian Stoll‘s body of works titled 'Hemisphere'
Hemisphere I by Christian Stoll
58 x 58 inches (147 x 147cm)
signed edition of 7
48 x 48 inches (122 x 122cm)
signed edition of 7
40 x 40 inches (102 x 102cm)
signed edition of 25
archival fine art pigment print
signed + numbered by artist on certificate label
„frameless“ glass face mounting available on request
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Christian Stoll has experimented with the photography medium since 1991.
His predominant interest is the still-life on a monumental scale. As his subject matter, Stoll shoots static objects, forms...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
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
Generations 21
By Robyn Denny
Located in London, GB
Etching with aquatint on watercolour wash on paper
53 x 71 cms (21 x 28 ins)
Edition of 35, Set of 24
Signed, dated, and numbered 3/35
Published by Bernard Jacobson Ltd., London
Prin...
Category
1970s Abstract Art
Materials
Color, Etching, Aquatint
Untitled
By Bruce McLean
Located in London, GB
Ink, card and painted collage on paper
Edition of 10
101.6 x 80 cms (40 x 31 1/2 ins)
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Paint, Paper, Ink
Twin Towers, World Trade Center with Green Filter
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100. The image is signed dated lower right signed dated and numbered verso 4 /15, Unframed, Other sizes available, Printed Later
Category
1970s Abstract Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Deshilachado 002
Located in New York, NY
unraveled or worn at the edge
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Organic Material, Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor
Untitled
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
Sam Francis
Untitled
1995
Etching in colours, Edition of 35
53.3 x 45.7 cms (21 x 18 ins)
SF17887
Category
1990s Abstract Art
Materials
Etching
Line Color Form Number 1
By Albert Manchak
Located in New York, NY
Line, Color, Form Number 1, 1959, by Albert Manchak (b. 1925)
Oil on canvas
35 ½ x 35 ½ inches unframed
37 x 37 inches framed
Signed on bottom right
Lab...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Art
Materials
Oil
Bridge
By Behzad Tabar
Located in ATLANTA, GA
About Behzad Tabar
My background is in fine and graphic arts, working in a wide range of styles and mediums. My painting has evolved from realism, to surrealism, to abstract. I am mo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Unfolding 3, Nicky Marais, Acrylic and ink on paper, abstract painting, series
By Nicky Marais
Located in Windhoek, NA
Unfolding 3, 2019. Acrylic and ink on paper.
Nicky Marais is a Namibian artist, educator and activist who lives and works in Windhoek. Marais is well-known for her abstract artworks...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic
Furungle Orange
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
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
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
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
Russian II (red)
Located in London, GB
Edition of 50
51 x 51 cms (20 x 20 ins)
Category
1970s Abstract Art
Materials
Etching
Yellow Car with Woman and Puppet
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Born in Moscow, Idaho,and raised in Seattle, Robert Jessup received his BFA from the University of Washington in 1975 and his MFA from the University of Iowa in 1979. His work has be...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
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
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
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
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
Black Unicorn
By Mark Wilson
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The artist constructs his spirit animal through mixed media.
48" x 60"
Spray Paint, Oil, Construction Paper, Acrylic, Pastel, Marker
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Charcoal, Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Abstract #75
Located in San Antonio, TX
Contemporary Abstract Giclee Print, 21st Century, by Robert Wynn Taylor, a contemporary American artist. It is signed in pencil "R. Wynn Taylor" in ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Giclée
Hudson
By Eugene Healy
Located in Quogue, NY
Abstract, mixed media coastal landscape
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Lantern Flowers (Red and Black)Color silkscreen with flocking 2-ply museum board
Located in Atlanta, GA
Donald Sultan (Born 1951)
Lantern Flowers (Red and Black), 2017
Color silkscreen with over-printed flocking on Rising, 2-ply museum board
32 x 32 in.
Edition 34 of 50
Signed by artis...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Color, Screen
Affordable Slacks
Located in New York, NY
Abstract geometric painting on canvas.
About the Artist:
My text based paintings build upon the theme of myth vs. memory, which has been the f...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Resin, Acrylic
SF64-045, Sam Francis, Acrylic, American Abstraction, Postwar, Work on paper
By Sam Francis
Located in Geneva, CH
SF64-045, Sam Francis, Acrylic, American Abstraction, Postwar, Work on paper
1964
Acrylic on paper
73 x 56.5 cm
94 x 75 cm / 37 x 29.5 in. (w...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Nova
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Abstract artist Paul Light Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1966. Before earning his MFA in painting at SCAD-Atlanta in 2012, Light had an extensive business career where he fueled his creative side as a graphic artist, and product designer. It was in these years that he met and was mentored and greatly influenced by Paul Chelko...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Oil
Artemis
By Ed Haugevik
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Sculpture.
About the Artist:
Ed Haugevik has established a career as professional sculptor placing his work at numerous private and public sites throughout the country. ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Stainless Steel
Lipstick Building, Citicorp New York Multiple Exposure
Located in Miami, FL
In Camera Multiple Exposure of two iconic New York Landmarks merge together in a harmony of soft colors and overlapping shapes . Signed and dated on ...
Category
1980s Abstract Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
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
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
Abstract #84
Located in San Antonio, TX
Contemporary Abstract Giclee Print, 21st Century, by Robert Wynn Taylor, a contemporary American artist. It is signed in pencil "R. Wynn Taylor" in ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Giclée
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
Resolution by Louis Shields, Abstract Mixed Media on Canvas, 2012
Located in Middleburg, VA
Mixed media on canvas.
Signed Delu 2012
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Untitled
Located in New York, NY
ca. 1965
Acrylic on canvas
54 1/4 x 54 in. (137.8 x 137.2 cm)
Signed, verso
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Unruffled
By Behzad Tabar
Located in ATLANTA, GA
About Behzad Tabar
My background is in fine and graphic arts, working in a wide range of styles and mediums. My painting has evolved from realism, to surrealism, to abstract. I am mo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Whoosh
By James Walsh
Located in Boca Raton, FL
An abstract painter who has been an active member of the New York art scene since the early 1980s, James Walsh follows in the modernist tradition of Pollock in using art to reveal it...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary 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
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
Emerald Sky By Troy Smith Fine Art Abstract Art
Located in Toronto, CA
Emerald Sky was painted By Troy Smith in acrylic on canvas. A beige cream backdrop offers a contrasting pop for the emerald greens and blues. Dashes of golden-copper metallic paint a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Seductress
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Born in Moscow, Idaho,and raised in Seattle, Robert Jessup received his BFA from the University of Washington in 1975 and his MFA from the University of Iowa in 1979. His work has be...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Oil
Butterfly
Located in Quogue, NY
Vibrant, colorful and dynamic mixed media on canvas with high gloss resin finish
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Resin, Mixed Media
Las Vegas Motel with Mid-Century Street Sign and Palm Tree
Located in Miami, FL
Gaudy commercial street signs for cigarettes visually align with a mid-century Motel sign to form a formal composition of vertical and horizontals. Pioneering color photographer, Mi...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Generations 2
By Robyn Denny
Located in London, GB
Etching with aquatint on watercolour wash on paper
53 x 71 cms (21 x 28 ins)
Edition of 35, Set of 24
Signed, dated, and numbered 3/35
Published by Bernard Jacobson Ltd., London
Prin...
Category
1970s Abstract Art
Materials
Aquatint, Color, Etching
Generations 19
By Robyn Denny
Located in London, GB
Etching with aquatint on watercolour wash on paper
53 x 71 cms (21 x 28 ins)
Edition of 35, Set of 24
Signed, dated, and numbered 3/35
Published by Bernard Jacobson Ltd., London
Prin...
Category
1970s Abstract Art
Materials
Color, Etching, Aquatint
Sostenido 7
Located in New York, NY
Miriam Peralta
Sostenido 7, 2012
Mixed media on paper
24h x 29.50w in
60.96h x 74.93w cm
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Mourning
Located in London, GB
111.8 x 140.3 cms (44 x 55.25 ins)
Edition of 50
Impressed with Solo Press stamp and the printer’s stamp. Lithograph (from three plates) with hand colouring in gouache (two greys...
Category
1980s Abstract Art
Materials
Color, Lithograph
NorEaster
By Ed Haugevik
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Sculpture. Painted White.
About the Artist:
Ed Haugevik has established a career as professional sculptor placing his work at numerous private and public sites througho...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Stainless Steel
Estructura Rosa y Verde #2
Located in New York, NY
39.40 x 59 unstretched
Oil on canvas
Rebeca Mendoza plays with simultaneity, superimposition, and ambiguity in her work as she goes through the stages of oil painting. The artist se...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Oil
Reminiscence
By Behzad Tabar
Located in ATLANTA, GA
About Behzad Tabar
My background is in fine and graphic arts, working in a wide range of styles and mediums. My painting has evolved from realism, to surrealism, to abstract. I am mo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Waterfront Theatre
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Painting. Can be hung vertically or horizontally. Vibrant Colors. The surface is the result of an intriguing contrast. Acrylics glazed with resin. The acrylic’s softnes...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Epoxy Resin, Acrylic, Canvas
Hasidic Jewish Family Williamsburg Brooklyn In Golden Light, New York City
Located in Miami, FL
Silhouette of a Hasidic Jewish Family walking in front of the Williamsburg Bridge bathed in Godly light.
This archival color photograph by fine art photographer Mitchell Funk is sig...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet
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
Angel with Red Stripe
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Mixed Media on Paper
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Paper
Spatial Environs: Blue Rising
Located in Saint Louis, MO
Christopher Ruess large scale painting, spatial environs, blue rising, encapsulated polymer & acrylic on canvas. A Pennsylvania-born artist, Chris Ruess later studied at the Memphis ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic, Polymer
Still Life, 2008
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Eugenio Ramos Alvarez Eugenio Ramos born in Madrid And individual awards and exhibitions Painting Prize 1966 of the Ministry of the Army.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Mixed Media
L'appareil digestif, 2000
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Jean-François LARRIEU (1960) (France) is an artist born in 1960 The oldest auction result ever registered on the website for an artwork by this artist...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Oil
Manizales
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
Canvas, Oil
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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.
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