California Abstract Expressionist Art
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Lithograph, Linocut
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic Polymer
1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Oil, Board
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic, Cardboard
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Lithograph
2010s Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Lithograph
1960s Pop Art Abstract Prints
Lithograph
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Lithograph, Linocut
1990s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper, Washi Paper
1950s Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Alice Beamish'Coastline', Expressionist California Landscape, San Francisco Woman Artist, Circa 1960
Early 2000s Minimalist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Paint, Acrylic
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1970s Abstract Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Paper, Oil
1930s Abstract Expressionist Still-life Paintings
Oil
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Paper, Ink, Pencil
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Figurative Sculptures
Ceramic, Luster, Paint
1960s Abstract Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
1970s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Paper, Charcoal, Watercolor
1970s Abstract Expressionist Landscape Prints
Offset
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Acrylic, Canvas, Linen
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Sculptures
Ceramic
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Sculptures
Ceramic
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist More Art
Canvas, Acrylic
1980s Abstract Expressionist Paintings
Acrylic, Canvas
1990s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Monoprint, Monotype
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Lithograph, Linocut
1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Oil, Board
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Lithograph
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Lithograph
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Lithograph
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Lithograph, Linocut
Early 2000s Minimalist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1970s Abstract Expressionist Landscape Prints
Offset
1990s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Monoprint, Monotype
1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Paper, Oil, Board
1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1930s Modern Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1960s Pop Art Abstract Prints
Lithograph
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Lithograph, Linocut
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Paper, Gouache, Watercolor
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Gouache
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Gouache
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Drypoint, Etching
1960s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1980s Abstract Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Masonite, Oil
1980s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Prints
Woodcut
1940s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Masonite, Egg Tempera
1990s Abstract Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Acrylic
1970s Abstract Expressionist Landscape Prints
Offset
1970s Abstract Expressionist Landscape Prints
Offset
1970s Abstract Expressionist Landscape Prints
Offset
1970s Abstract Expressionist Landscape Prints
Offset
1980s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil
20th Century Paintings
Vintage 1960s Paintings
2010s Abstract Expressionist Landscape Prints
Oil
1950s Abstract Expressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Mixed Media
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Mixed Media
1950s Abstract Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel, Graphite
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1930s Art Deco Nude Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
1950s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1960s Surrealist Animal Prints
Lithograph
1940s Modern Landscape Prints
Lithograph
1930s American Modern Nude Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1930s Fauvist Nude Paintings
Oil, Wood Panel
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Linen, Oil
Mid-20th Century American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Oil Pastel, Gouache
1940s American Modern Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Paper, Ink, Gouache
20th Century Nude Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1990s Fauvist Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Antique Late 19th Century Czech Chinoiserie Delft and Faience
Porcelain
1950s Expressionist Nude Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Gesso, Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
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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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