Five Lines With Dots
By Cheryl Levin
Located in Dallas, TX
ink & graphite on mulberry paper
2010s Abstract Expressionist Animal Paintings
Ink, Mulberry Paper, Graphite
Five Lines With Dots
By Cheryl Levin
Located in Dallas, TX
ink & graphite on mulberry paper
Ink, Mulberry Paper, Graphite
"Arabian Nights" Figurative Painting 9" x 12" inch (1997) by Ibrahim Abd Elmalak
By Ibrahim Abd Elmalak
Located in Culver City, CA
"Arabian Nights" Figurative Painting 9" x 12" inch (1997) by Ibrahim Abd Elmalak Emancipation, 1991 Ink on Paper. Signed & dated View works. SHARE Abd Elmalak’s diverse portfolio ...
Paper, Ink
$2,750
Foundational Series Studio Archive No. 302 Acrylic on Archival Paper
By Rebecca Wing Sze Lam
Located in STRETTON, AU
Artwork Description: Studio Archival No. 302 The Concept Studio Archival No. 302 is a dynamic entry in the artist’s new foundational series—a collection of gestural explorations tha...
Archival Ink, Acrylic
$2,750
Foundational Series Studio Archive No. 303 Minimalist Contemporary Drawing
By Rebecca Wing Sze Lam
Located in STRETTON, AU
Artwork Description: Studio Archive No. 303 The Concept In Studio Archive No. 303, the artist explores the relationship between "trace" and "space." As an extension of the Foundatio...
Archival Ink, Acrylic
Energy painting. Expressive drawing of a female figure. Wild Dance.
By Sve Gri
Located in Zofingen, AG
"Wild Dance" is an improvised expressive drawing conveys an impulse born in the space of sensations. Artwork is done in ink and blue pastel on white paper. "Every time I draw such a...
Paper, Pastel, Ink
$1,375Sale Price|44% Off
Mountainscape inspired by M.Saryan-made in yellow, orange, red, blue, turquoise
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The ladscape was done with alcohol ink in yellow,orange,red,blue,green,pink color on Yupo paper. The work is 22 by 28 inches in size, framed in fine-qualit...
Paper, Ink
French Contemporary Art by Sandra Detourbet - La Princesse
By Sandra Detourbet
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink on handmade paper Sandra Detourbet is a French artist born in 1967 who works & lives in Ivry-sur-Seine, near Paris. She is graduated in 1997 from ENSAD in Paris, Art-Space secti...
Handmade Paper, Ink
Painting on paper, lyrical abstraction, contemporary, music score
By TUSET
Located in Carballo, ES
Blue Minimal Painting. This is an original artwork realized by TUSET in 2019. We can frame it in natural wood or black on request. The dimensions of the painting are 41 x 29,5 cm. W...
Ink, Handmade Paper
$440Sale Price|20% Off
1971 The Tarahumara Indians - Figurative Etching on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
1971 The Tarahumara Indians - Figurative Etching on Paper Black and white etching of The Tarahumara Indians by Kelly English (American). The figures are outlined in thick black ink ...
Paper, Ink
Untitled III XII
By Roberto Caracciolo
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled III XII Charcoal, ink and paper collage, 1987 Initialed "R. C." and dated '87 verso in pencil From: Libor II Mono Logo Provenance: Janie C. Lee Master Drawings, New York (pa...
Charcoal, Ink
Female #5
By Ant Pearce
Located in Brecon, Powys
Another baboon face work from the very talented ant Pearce. Clever stuff. Ink on paper
Ink, Paper
Bathers
By Stanley Boxer
Located in New York, NY
Boxer is often called an abstract expressionist or color field painter, but his distinctive style ultimately transcended such classifications.
Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor
$1,200
Bond
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Tosin Oyeniyi is Inspired by his unquenchable passion to preserve and project the African culture to the global arena. Through my craft, I am unrepentantly determined to give beauty ...
Linen, Ink
"For Each That You Take" - Etching on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"For Each That You Take" - Etching on Paper Abstract expressionist etching depicting a human-like tree as the focal point, with a figure sitting on a near path, with a bowl of berri...
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Mixed Media Collage Cut Painting Cecil Touchon Black White Assemblage Texas Art
By Cecil Touchon
Located in Surfside, FL
Cecil Touchon (1956-, Austin, Texas) FS3809ct16 Abstract Composition Framed ink and collage on heavy Aquarelle Arches paper Hand inscribed lower center (these were typically signed ...
Paint, Ink, Archival Paper
Time And Space - Black and White Lithograph On Paper
By I. Colon
Located in Soquel, CA
Striking abstract expressionist lithograph by I. Colon (20th Century). An open hand with a baby in the palm is the focal point with objects, including a spaceship, an eye and doodles...
Paper, Ink, Lithograph
Mixed Media Collage Cut Painting Cecil Touchon Black White Assemblage Texas Art
By Cecil Touchon
Located in Surfside, FL
Cecil Touchon (1956-, Austin, Texas) FS3809ct16 Abstract Composition Framed ink and collage on heavy Aquarelle Arches paper Hand inscribed lower center (these were typically signed ...
Paint, Ink, Archival Paper
Mixed Media Collage Cut Painting Cecil Touchon Black White Assemblage Texas Art
By Cecil Touchon
Located in Surfside, FL
Cecil Touchon (1956-, Austin, Texas) FS3809ct16 Abstract Composition Framed ink and collage on heavy aquarelle Arches paper Hand inscribed lower center (these were typically signed v...
Paint, Ink, Archival Paper
$1,240Sale Price|20% Off
White Lotus Lithograph
By Hoi Lebadang
Located in Soquel, CA
White Lotus Lithograph A limited edition lithograph by listed artist Hoi Lebadang, (Vietnamese/French, 1922 – 2015). This print displays an ethereal lotus flower to center, known to ...
Paper, Ink, Lithograph
Vortex Twin Flame Butterflies
By Keith Carrington
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Vortex Twin Flame Mixed Media Ink on archival paper. Keith Carrington’s experiences have led him to express his talents through the fluid & exacting mediums of watercolor & ink. H...
Ink, Watercolor, Handmade Paper
'Floorboard Plus Four' original collagraph signed by Joseph Rozman
By Joseph Rozman
Located in Milwaukee, WI
The present unique collagraph is an excellent example of Joseph Rozman's pictographic style. The composition is organized like a tiled floor, each square containing an abstracted ima...
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Foundational Series Studio Archive: No. 220 Mix Media Study
By Rebecca Wing Sze Lam
Located in STRETTON, AU
Foundational Series Studio Archive No. 220 The Work "Studio Archive No. 220" is a sophisticated mixed-media study exploring the quietude and structural elegance of the solitary hu...
Archival Ink, Acrylic, Gesso, Oil Pastel
Foundational Series Studio Archive No. 219 Composition in Sienna and Charcoal
By Rebecca Wing Sze Lam
Located in STRETTON, AU
Studio Archive: No. 219 The Work "Studio Archive No. 219" is a sophisticated mixed-media study exploring the fluidity and shared geometry of the human form in unison. Part of a cu...
Gesso, Oil Pastel, Archival Ink, Acrylic
Moldovan Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Untitled
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Charcoal, ink, acrylic on paper Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the image to...
Paper, Pencil, Charcoal, Ink, Acrylic
Mid Century Apple Abstracted Still Life
By Anna Ballarian
Located in Soquel, CA
Stunning mid century textile abstract mixed media painting of apples by Anna Ballarian (American, 1911-2010). Signed " Anna Ballarian" lower right. Image size, 20"H x 21"W. Born in ...
Stone
$1,279
'Baltic freeze' - black and white analogue landscape photography 100 x 67 cm
By Ugne Pouwell
Located in London, GB
'Baltic freeze' 2022 A photograph captured with a 35mm camera showcases the winter landscape of Lithuania in black and white. Printed on the finest archival paper, these limited ed...
Photographic Film, Ink, Archival Ink, Photographic Paper, Giclée
Ramunes - floral film photography on cotton canvas, Limited edition of 5
By Ugne Pouwell
Located in London, GB
'Ramunes' 2024 Cotton canvas print from limited edition of 5. (Does not come with streatch bars, only canvas print) Black and white floral film photography. Made using a large fo...
Photographic Film, Cotton Canvas, Ink, Archival Ink, Photographic Paper,...
$39,000
Untitled
By Milton Avery
Located in PARIS, FR
Milton Avery, in full Milton Clark Avery, (born March 7, 1893, Altmar, New York, U.S.—died January 3, 1965, New York City), painter noted in his later years for depicting the human f...
Pencil, Paper, Ink
Foundational Studies 25(E) Earthly Palettes & Visceral Tones
By Rebecca Wing Sze Lam
Located in STRETTON, AU
Foundational Studies 25(E) The Composition A refined entry point into the studio’s practice, Foundational Studies 25(E) is a deliberate exploration of form and verse. Executed on ha...
Paint, Ink, Archival Ink, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Pen, Pencil, Carbon P...
Foundational Study No. 25 (G) The Geometry of Grace
By Rebecca Wing Sze Lam
Located in STRETTON, AU
Foundational Studies 25(G) The Composition A poignant progression within the series, Foundational Studies 25(G) shifts the focus toward the nuances of gesture and weight. Executed ...
Archival Ink, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Color Pencil
$1,537
Calm Down Darling Flowers Expression Abstraction Interior by Lana Ritter 80x120
By Lana Ritter
Located in Zofingen, AG
This joyful floral abstraction expends love and energy and is dedicated to love and relationships. Soaring beautiful strokes, stains and splashes on the canvas create a beautiful atm...
Gesso, Charcoal, Varnish, Ink, Acrylic
She Could Barely See
Located in Bozeman, MT
John Hitchcock uses the print medium with its long history of social and political commentary to explore relationships of community, land, and culture. Hitchcock’s works on paper an...
Ink, Mixed Media, Color Pencil, Screen
Songs in the Sky 2
Located in Bozeman, MT
John Hitchcock uses the print medium with its long history of social and political commentary to explore relationships of community, land, and culture. Hitchcock’s works on paper an...
Ink, Mixed Media, Color Pencil, Screen
$1,500
Frank Stella's Moby-Dick: Words and Shapes (Hand signed and inscribed monograph)
By Frank Stella
Located in New York, NY
Frank Stella's Moby-Dick: Words and Shapes (Hand signed and inscribed), 2000 Elegant, beautifully illustrated hardback monograph with dust jacket Hand signed, dated and inscribed by...
Ink, Mixed Media, Lithograph, Offset
"Tomorrow" Hidden Wounds, Giclee Print, Photograph, Limited Ed. 1/5
By Hatice Besun
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Tomorrow / Portraits of Hidden Wounds / Photograph Creator: Hatice Besun Creation year: 2023 Certificated Condition: New Dimension: 40 x 60” External Dimension: Height:40.8 .( 103.6...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
The Violet Dress 9
By Bettina Mauel
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bettina Mauel expresses dynamism and sensuality in her paintings: “I paint what I experience,” she articulates. “This includes landscapes, flowers, and people in motion, capturing th...
Linen, Ink, Mixed Media, Paper
Red Head Girl in the Bowery - Graffiti Street Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A graffiti street scene in New York City becomes a semi-abstract picture. Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso Edition 3 of 15. Unframed. Other size available, Printe...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Elevated View Of Las Vegas At Night With Moonlit Sky
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Luxor Hotel&Casino and Las Vegas skyline at night. Shipping should be around $100. This archival color photograph by fine art photographer Mitchell Funk is signed, dated and numbered...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet
Taxi And Color Doors On 42nd Street
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Crowds of people walking on 42nd Street circa 1996. This archival color photograph by fine art photographer Mitchell Funk is signed, dated and numbered 2/15, lower right recto - the ...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet
$3,900
Mysterious Beautiful Young Woman Peers though and Green Blinds, Fine Art Photo
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The effect of an abstract painting in green-blue is created when street photographer Mitchell Funk snaps a picture of a restaurant window. A vase with yellow and pink flowers frame...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Foundational Study No. 25 (C) Angular Geometry & Melancholic Visage
By Rebecca Wing Sze Lam
Located in STRETTON, AU
Foundational Studies 25(C) The Composition A refined entry point into the studio’s practice, Foundational Studies 25(C) is a deliberate exploration of form and verse. Executed on ha...
Archival Ink, Acrylic, Ballpoint Pen, Color Pencil, Archival Pigment
A Contrast of Two Art Styles - Graffiti Bus & Blue Umbrella on Rainy Day
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A contrast of two art styles describes this street photograph. A school bus-covered chaotic brush-stroked graffiti is juxtaposed with a symmetrical, color field-like umbrella compose...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Colorful Paint Cans in Red, Orange, Blue and Turquoise
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A pile of empty and discarded colorful paint cans inadvertently becomes an artful abstract still life in itself. Documented through the keen lens of street photographer Mithcell Fun...
Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Manhattan White Dog among Autumn Leaves , Minimalism
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Color Photographer Mitchell Funk depicts New York City somewhere between the ideal and the real. In an Upper East Side park, he shoots a lone white dog standing at the intersection ...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Chrysler Building in Multiple Exposure of Blue and Magenta
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The Chrysler Building may be one of the most photographed buildings in the world, yet Mitchell Funk imagines it unlike any tourist snapshot. This colorful kaleidoscope-like image was...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Foundational Study No. 24(C) Raw Archival Paper Museum Glazed
By Rebecca Wing Sze Lam
Located in STRETTON, AU
Foundational Study No. 24(C) is a definitive structural exploration within the Rebecca Wing Sze Lam Atelier. As the architectural anchor of the F.S. 24 sequence, this study distills...
Gesso, Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Pen, Carbon Pencil, Color Pe...
$1,440Sale Price|20% Off
Abstracted Self Portrait by Erica Whiteway
By Erika Whiteway
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous acrylic and pencil abstracted self portrait by California artist Erika Whiteway (American, b. 1954). Signed and dated lower right "Whiteway, 5/90". Unframed. Size: 22"H x 28...
Canvas, Acrylic, Cardboard, India Ink
Dog and Taxi, Street Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signature: Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 3/15, other size available, unframed, printed later, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Chic Fashion Model with Fireworks Explosion of Color - Monochromatic
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A chic, high-fashion model clad in high heels and a chic hat holds a refreshing drink as she sits on a pedestal. She is depicted in silhouette as a burst of zoomed fireworks explode...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Zen Circle No. 9
By Rocky Hawkins
Located in Bozeman, MT
Enthralled with the lore and spirituality of American Indian cultures, his work often depicts these traditional subjects in nontraditional ways. Hawkins captures the raw sense of ele...
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
Equine Heart Chakra
By Rocky Hawkins
Located in Bozeman, MT
Enthralled with the lore and spirituality of American Indian cultures, his work often depicts these traditional subjects in nontraditional ways. Hawkins captures the raw sense of ele...
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
Sweet Emotions Mixed Media on Paper
By Malgosia Kiernozycka
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Sweet Emotions Mixed media acrylic, watercolor, ink marker, pastel on archival. Malgosia Kiernozycka was born in Wroclaw, Poland. She graduated high school at the School of Fine Art...
Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Pastel
Hand-Gilded-Constant Gardener-the last Artist Proof-Rare X-Large-Awarded Artist
By Shizico Yi
Located in London, GB
This is an unique one-off Artist Proof, in a rare Extra-Large square format. A special Proof that only 3 have been made with hand gilded Gold Leaf. The outstanding hand-painted qual...
Gold Leaf
After Turner-One Off, Proof No 1-British Awarded Artist-Seascape-river Thames
By Shizico Yi
Located in London, GB
This is a large Artist's Proof with original oil and gesso paint highlighting; it is the No 1 of the only 3 Proofs; the colours of the painting and Shizico's expressive brushstrokes ...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Giclée, Gesso, Oil, Acrylic
Hand Painted Limited Edition#7-Constant Gardener series-British Awarded Artist
Located in London, GB
This hand-painted Edition is one of the Summer Bloom series Shizico Yi started in 2022. Veronica and Hydrangea (in the painting) are the summer elements in her garden, Shizico cultiv...
Metal
$551
Hand painted Artist Proof-Magnolias-Weaver Series-British Awarded Artist #2 of 3
By Shizico Yi
Located in London, GB
This stunning Artist's Proof is an one-off, oil hand-painted and gilded by the artist , signed at front and on the back label too; each proof is 80% hand painted and gold gilded by S...
Gold Leaf
Basement Systems
By Kory Twaddle
Located in Kansas City, MO
Artist : Kory Twaddle Title : Basement Systems Materials : Acrylic, tempera, gouache, and glitter glue on cardboard drawing pad back Date : 2019 Dimensions : 18 x 12 x .2 in. Kory ...
Paint, Paper, Conté, Charcoal, India Ink, Acrylic, Tempera, Watercolor, ...
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.
Find original abstract paintings, sculptures, prints and other art on 1stDibs.
The Italian-American’s 2020 abstract painting “The Hoe” personifies his “art of not knowing.”
Beneath the inky blackness, the painter’s irrepressible energy electrifies this pair of intaglio prints.
The New York Botanical Garden, in the Bronx, has mounted a multifaceted show honoring the polymath modernist's legacy, including new work by contemporary landscape maker Raymond Jungles.
In his current show at New York's Lehmann Maupin gallery, the Puerto Rican–born talent reveals new paintings with a semiautobiographical aspect.