Charlotte Knowles
1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples
Paper, Lithograph
People Also Browsed
1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples
Offset
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Paper, Lithograph
1970s Conceptual Abstract Prints
Offset
1970s Pop Art Abstract Prints
Screen
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Screen
1960s Op Art Abstract Prints
Pencil, Screen
1990s Performance Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Mixed Media
1970s Modern Abstract Prints
Color, Lithograph, Offset
1970s Constructivist Abstract Prints
Offset
Late 20th Century Pop Art More Prints
Screen
1960s Modern Abstract Prints
Color, Lithograph, Offset
1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Drypoint, Paper, Aquatint
1960s Cubist Prints and Multiples
Aquatint, Drypoint, Etching
20th Century French Art Deco Posters
Paper
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
1960s Pop Art Abstract Prints
Pencil, Screen
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Acrylic, Masonite
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Paper, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Stone
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Acrylic, Masonite, Paper
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Masonite, Paper, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Acrylic, Masonite
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Acrylic, Masonite
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Paper, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Acrylic, Paper
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Plaster, Acrylic Polymer, Papier Mâché
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Masonite, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Masonite, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Masonite, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Plaster, Acrylic Polymer, Papier Mâché
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Acrylic, Archival Paper, Pen
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Wire
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Stone
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Wire
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Stone
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Photographic Film, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Acrylic, Canvas
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Paper, Acrylic, Pen
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Acrylic, Canvas
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Acrylic, Archival Paper, Pen
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Acrylic, Archival Paper, Pen
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
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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