$1,120Sale Price|20% Off
H 22 in W 21 in
City Lights, Pastel Painting, Vibrant Nightlife Energy, 22x21 Inches
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
This pastel piece bursts with vibrant colors, showcasing varying shades of blues, greens, reds, and so many more. It captures the lively energy and dazzling signs of the city, evokin...
Pastel
$5,200
H 54 in W 38 in D 2 in
"La Ville Industrielle" (The Industrial City) acrylic and collage
By Christophe
Located in Southampton, NY
There is an excitement in the art world when you find the artist that is going to be the next big thing. The paintings by French Abstract artist Christophe have everything they nee...
Acrylic
$3,350
H 47.25 in W 47.25 in D 0.79 in
R. Poch INDUSTRIAL CITY 120 x 120 cm original acrylic painting
By Ramon Poch
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
96 INDUSTRIAL CITY 120 x 120 cm. original acrylic painting Born in Badalona (Barcelona). Photographer and advertising film director. Founding partner of the advertising production ...
Acrylic
$750
H 18.5 in W 24.5 in
City Skyline. Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Painting
By Carola Richards
Located in Brecon, Powys
Early work was impressionistic and hard abstract. Carola later developed a more mature way of working in a colourful exploration of the subject. Colour was her main interest and she...
Charcoal, Oil, Gouache
Ancient Landscape II (Ancient City)
By Louise Nevelson
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Ancient Landscape II (Ancient City) Etching and drypoint, 1953-1955 Signed and titled in pencil by the artist; (see photo) Annotated: "E130 A/1" in pencil lower right Estate stamp v...
Etching
$27,391Sale Price|33% Off
H 33.47 in W 63 in D 1.97 in
Large Abstract Unique Luminogram Silver Print of New York City Landscape, Framed
Located in London, GB
“Far from being an exercise in nostalgia, this analogue technique offers Jackson, as it does other artists at the cutting edge of this art movement, a path to the future.” – The Fina...
Metal, Silver
$7,500
H 60 in W 40 in D 1 in
New York City Street Art: Literally - Hot Pink Umbrella - Like Rothko
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
New York City is renowned as a center of world-class Museums and tastemaker Art Galleries. However, some of the greatest art is street art made by non-formally trained folk artists. ...
Archival Ink, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
$9,995
H 21.5 in W 17.875 in
Mexico City (Belknap 354-380; Engberg/Banach 415-441), Three Poems
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on Japon à la main, attached with chine appliqué to vélin d’Arches paper. Paper Size: 21.5 x 17.875 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From th...
Lithograph
$1,250
H 52.5 in W 37.5 in
Solar Imp 2001, Lincoln Center New York City Ballet Honorary Silkscreen Poster
By (after) Helen Frankenthaler
Located in New York, NY
Medium: Silkscreen on extra-thick Somerset paper Poster Size: 45 in. High x 30 in. Wide (114.3 cm x 76.2 cm) Framed Size: 52.5"H x 37.5" W Signed: Facsimile Signature Framing Options...
Screen
$4,800
H 24 in W 36 in
Vibrant New York City Times Square, Figural Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting
By Simon Gaon
Located in Surfside, FL
He was also a co-founder of the Street Painters, a group of eight New York City artists who painted directly from the city life they observed on the streets of America's largest city.
Canvas, Oil
$4,800
H 24 in W 36 in
Vibrant New York City Times Square, Figural Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting
By Simon Gaon
Located in Surfside, FL
He was also a co-founder of the Street Painters, a group of eight New York City artists who painted directly from the city life they observed on the streets of America's largest city.
Canvas, Oil
$556Sale Price|20% Off
H 36 in W 24 in D 2 in
Vintage Mid Century Modern Abstract Expressionist New York City Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Image size, 24L x 36H.
Canvas, Oil
$8,500
H 25 in W 30 in
"Untitled" Taro Yamamoto, New York School, Gestural, Thick Impasto Composition
By Taro Yamamoto
Located in New York, NY
Taro Yamamoto Untitled, 1954 Signed lower right; signed and dated on the reverse Oil on canvas 25 x 30 inches Taro Yamamoto was involved in the Abstract Expressionist movement in N...
Canvas, Oil
$900Sale Price|60% Off
H 21.5 in W 27.5 in
Abstract Modernist Urban Skyline Landscape, New York City Harbor Lights
Located in New York, NY
Artist Unknown (20th century) New York City Skyline, 1950s Oil, watercolor and gouache on paper 13 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches A bright abstract skyline view of a metropolis on a blue / tea...
Oil, Watercolor, Gouache
$3,850Sale Price|30% Off
H 21.25 in W 25.25 in
City Abstraction, mid modern abstract oil painting Circa 1950’s
By Donald Roy Purdy
Located in New York, NY
In the 1950’s Donald Purdy embraced an abstract style of painting which was pervasive at the time. This painting is a perfect compliment to a room with mide modern furniture. In Ci...
Canvas, Oil
City exploration
By Johnathan Ball
Located in Toronto, ON
Original Hand Signed by Johnathan Ball Johnathan Ball has been working for more than 15 years to establish a style of painting that transforms the ...
Mixed Media
City Noise #1
Located in New York, NY
Self taught Ukrainian artist, born 1986. Favorite muse is cities. Continuous movement, the unrestrained pace of life, which boils during the day and does not stop at night, the wi...
Canvas, Oil
City sketches (double-sided)
Located in Riga, LV
Aleksandr Rodin (1922-2001) Painter Born in a family of farmers. Wife Rasma Lace - art scholar. Studied at the Stalingrad School of Art, Saratov Art School, graduated from the Depar...
Oil, Cardboard
City Cardboard/oil, 80x100 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Aleksandr Rodin (1922-2001) Painter Born in a family of farmers. Wife Rasma Lace - art scholar. Studied at the Stalingrad School of Art, Saratov Art School, graduated from the Depar...
Canvas, Oil
City flowers, 100x160 cm, acrylic on canvas
By Ivan Nesvetailo
Located in Yerevan, AM
City flowers, 100x160 cm, acrylic on canvas
Canvas, Acrylic
Self Portrait #4 City of Angels
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Oil on canvas board.
Oil
New York City Marathon Runners Blur
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
His early color work anticipates developments in color photography by generations. In 1970 he participated in one the first " Color Photography" shows at a major museum. Brooklyn Mus...
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
$35,000
H 18 in W 32.25 in D 2 in
Snowstorm, Morningside Heights, New York City - Monochromatic
Located in Miami, FL
Eugene Camille Fitsch Am./Fr., 1892-1972 - Signed lower right. Framed dimensions 20 3/4" x 34 7/8" framed Provenance: Studio of the Artist to Private Collection Boston, Massachuse...
Casein
Heart Of The City, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Olga Mihailicenko
Located in Yardley, PA
121.5x60.5x1.5 cm. One of a kind work. Signed front and back. Sold with a certificate of Authenticity. Painted on canvas with the highest quality oil colors. This painting will be pr...
Oil
$280Sale Price|20% Off
H 35 in W 25 in
Jack Youngerman 'New York City Center' 1969- Serigraph
By Jack Youngerman
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 35 x 25 inches ( 88.9 x 63.5 cm ) Image Size: 35 x 25 inches ( 88.9 x 63.5 cm ) Framed: No?Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Supplemental Condition I...
Screen
$3,834
H 31.5 in W 31.5 in D 0.79 in
Sleek City Swimmers-original New York Cityscape-wildlife painting-contemporary
By Nathan Neven
Located in London, Chelsea
We offer complimentary worldwide shipping and cover all tariffs and import taxes for this artwork. This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet C...
Canvas, Oil
$1,036Sale Price|20% Off
H 49 in W 32 in
Frankenthaler, Mary Mary 1991, New York City, Lincoln Center
By Helen Frankenthaler
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: After Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011) Title: Mary Mary (Lincoln Center Honorary) Year: 1991 Medium: Offset lithograph poster on extra thick Somerset paper Edition: 2000 Size...
Lithograph, Offset
$1,036Sale Price|20% Off
H 45 in W 30 in
Frankenthaler, Solar Imp 2001, Lincoln Center New York City Ballet
By Helen Frankenthaler
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: After Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011) Title: Solar Imp (Lincoln Center Salute’s the New York City Ballet) Year: 2001 Medium: Silkscreen poster on extra thick Somerset paper E...
Screen
$6,500
H 24 in W 75 in D 1 in
City Blocks-Triptych FREE SHIPPING/Cont. USA, Painting, Oil on Wood Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
"City Blocks", part of Urban Patterns, bold, textured and Black & White Oil. Panel individually framed (3) 24in x 24in each and allow for 1 inch spacing. Note: ...
Oil
$13,147Sale Price|20% Off
H 24 in W 32 in D 2 in
New York City and the Hudson - Black and white psychedelic unique Silver Print
Located in London, GB
The goal isn't to replicate the real world - it is to show where the real world and the process meet - sometimes pushing towards the real world, sometimes pushing towards the process...
Photographic Paper, Photogram, Silver Gelatin, Glass, Wood Panel, Archiv...
$1,800
H 18.38 in W 13 in
Kibbutz Abstract Jerusalem Nightscape Israeli Tempera Collage Painting Judaica
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract Expressionist cityscape of Old City of Jerusalem in moody blues and gold.
Mixed Media, Tempera
Orientalist Cairo Market Street Scene, Middle Eastern Bazaar
By Leonid Gechtoff
Located in Surfside, FL
His widow later moved to San Francisco and ran an influential exhibition space in San Francisco called the East-West Gallery, while daughter Sonia became a well-known Abstract Expres...
Paper, Oil Pastel
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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