Blueberry Hill
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Digital, Giclée
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Digital, Giclée
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Digital, Giclée
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Digital, Giclée
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Digital, Giclée
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Digital, Giclée
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Giclée, Digital
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Digital, Giclée
People Also Browsed
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Pillows and Throws
Cotton, Polyester
20th Century American Classical Roman Photography
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sofas
Steel
2010s Abstract Geometric Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Mixed Media, Emulsion, Watercolor, Photographic Paper, Monotype, Monoprint
2010s Art Deco Still-life Prints
Photographic Film, Other Medium, Emulsion, Watercolor, Archival Paper, P...
2010s Minimalist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Photographic Film, Photogram, Monotype, Lithograph, Color, C Print, Wate...
2010s Photorealist Landscape Photography
Emulsion, Photogram, Watercolor, Photographic Paper, C Print, Etching, M...
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Emulsion, Photogram, Mixed Media, Watercolor, Photographic Paper, Monopr...
Vintage 1960s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Candelabras
Iron
2010s Realist Landscape Prints
Marble
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Digital, Giclée
2010s Minimalist Abstract Prints
Photographic Film, Photogram, Monotype, Color, C Print, Photographic Pap...
2010s Baroque Still-life Prints
Photographic Film, Emulsion, Watercolor, Archival Paper, Photographic Pa...
2010s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Photographic Film, Emulsion, Ink, Watercolor, Photographic Paper, C Prin...
2010s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Photographic Film, Photogram, Emulsion, Watercolor, C Print, Lithograph,...
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Mixed Media, Paint
Recent Sales
21st Century and Contemporary More Art
Oil, Panel
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Mylar, Oil, Wood Panel
2010s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Gesso, Canvas, Acrylic
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Digital, Giclée
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Digital, Giclée
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Digital, Giclée
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Digital, Giclée
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Digital, Giclée
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Digital, Giclée
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Mixed Media
20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Bronze
A Close Look at Abstract Art
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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