Soundings - Contemporary Painting
By David Tobey
Located in New York, NY
The painting is unframed, acrylic on canvas. About the Artwork: Portrays the universal background radiation from the Big Bang. I call my paintings “Imaginaries” They portray the a...
Canvas, Acrylic
Storm - Abstract Painting
By David Tobey
Located in New York, NY
The painting is unframed, acrylic on canvas. About the Artwork: The crashing of stormy waves. About the Artist: As a visual artist David has been painting and sculpting most of h...
Canvas, Acrylic
Price Upon Request
Carnival - Abstract Painting
By David Tobey
Located in New York, NY
The painting is unframed, acrylic on canvas. About the Artwork: The Joy of the carnival. About the Artist: As a visual artist David has been painting and sculpting most of his li...
Canvas, Acrylic
Cosmic Tango - Abstract Painting
By David Tobey
Located in New York, NY
The painting is unframed, acrylic on canvas. About the Artwork: The cataclysmic dance of cosmic forces. About the Artist: As a visual artist David has been painting and sculpting...
Canvas, Acrylic
La Grande Occassione Della Pittura Americana Milano (Hand Signed by Jim Dine)
Located in New York, NY
Philip Guston, Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, Jim Dine, Roberto Matta, Sam Francis, Mark Rothko, Franz Kline, Kenneth Noland, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Helen Frankenthaler, John...
Lithograph, Offset
Abstract Expressionist Biomorphic Welded Metal Sculpture
By Seymour Lipton
Located in Surfside, FL
He represented the United States Pavilion with Mark Rothko, David Smith and Mark Tobey) and was thus internationally recognized as part of a small group of highly regarded avant-gard...
Metal
Unique Structure-Graphic Chase
By Claire McCarthy Falkenstein
Located in New York, NY
Putting her in the immediate milieu of many of the century’s greatest artists, she studied, worked, competed, collaborated and, in several cases, became close personal friends with s...
Metal
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H 19.5 in W 15.5 in D 12.5 in
Abstract Expressionist Biomorphic Welded Metal Sculpture
By Seymour Lipton
Located in Surfside, FL
He represented the United States Pavilion with Mark Rothko, David Smith and Mark Tobey) and was thus internationally recognized as part of a small group of highly regarded avant-gard...
Metal
Genesis - Contemporary Painting
By David Tobey
Located in New York, NY
The painting is unframed, acrylic on canvas. About the Artwork: I call my paintings “Imaginaries” They portray the awe and wonder of beginning of life. They describe “Genesis.” Ab...
Canvas, Acrylic
$1,090
H 24.02 in W 48.04 in D 1.58 in
Festival of Joy - Abstract Expressionism Maximalis Delight Joy Texture Statement
By Karnish Art
Located in Pretoria, Gauteng
Title: Festival of Joy Abstract Expressionism Colorful Delight Joy Movement Texture Statement Vibrant Festivitas Laetitiae - Festival of Joy This vibrant artwork, set on a deep cr...
Oil, Acrylic
$1,550Sale Price|20% Off
H 47.25 in W 31.5 in
Abstraction. Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting, Colorful, Dynamic, Polish art
By Monika Rossa
Located in Warsaw, PL
Abstract painting by Polish artist living in USA Monika Rossa. Painting in style of gestural abstraction with dynamic brush strokes and shapes. Do to the composition, the artwork can...
Canvas, Oil
$1,920Sale Price|20% Off
H 14 in W 28 in
Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting on Canvas by Jerrold Davis
By Jerrold Davis
Located in Long Island City, NY
Black Abstract Jerrold Davis American (1928) Oil on Canvas, signed 'Davis' verso Size: 14 x 28 in. (35.56 x 71.12 cm)
Canvas, Oil
$1,641Sale Price|20% Off
H 59.06 in W 43.31 in
Abstraction. Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting, Colorful, Dynamic, Polish art
By Monika Rossa
Located in Warsaw, PL
Approxiate dimensions of this painting are 140 x 110 cm, unstretched canvas is 157 x 113,5 cm Abstract painting by Polish artist living in USA Monika Rossa. Painting in style of ges...
Canvas, Oil
Untitled Abstract Oil Painting
By Gordon Couch
Located in Brecon, Powys
A large piece that uses colour in a particularly expressive way. This painting is warm and fluid contrasting monotones with splatters of yellow pigment. Splatter painting on canvas....
Acrylic
$1,639Sale Price|20% Off
H 59.06 in W 44.89 in
Abstraction - Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting, Colorful, Dynamic
By Monika Rossa
Located in Warsaw, PL
MONIKA ROSSA studied painting at the University of Arizona, in the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and at the Escuela de Diseno in Barcelona. She practices drawing and easel painting....
Canvas, Oil
$9,500
H 48 in W 72 in
Large Mod Abstract Expressionist Modernist Edward Avedisian Color Field Painting
By Edward Avedisian
Located in Surfside, FL
Edward Avedisian (American, 1936-2007) Abstract Large Painting Acrylic on panel heavily textured with a 3D effect. Dimensions: 48"h x 75"w Circa late 1970s, early 1980s Provenance: ...
Acrylic, Wood Panel
Colorful Bold Abstract Acrylic Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Great 20th century colorful abstract painting in bold red, orange, and navy tones with a dramatic wing-like sweep through the center.
Acrylic
Abstract 2306
By Alex Senchenko
Located in Zofingen, AG
Artist : Alex Senchenko © 2023 Title: Abstract 2306 47" x 39" ( 120cm. x 100cm. ) Professional Gallery Canvas, Acrylic Paints Original Painting on a 1 1/2 ( 4cm. ) Deep Read...
Acrylic
$1,800Sale Price|40% Off
H 40 in W 30 in D 0.75 in
Galactic Expressions - Abstract Expressionist Composition in Acrylic on Canvas
By Charles David Francis
Located in Soquel, CA
Galactic Expressions - Abstract Expressionist Composition in Acrylic on Canvas Bold abstract composition by California artist Charles "Dave" Francis (American, 1951-2018). The backg...
Canvas, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars
Booglarized, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Craig Moran
Located in Yardley, PA
A drawing of a pile of crumpled clothing inspired this painting. When it came time to create the painting, I was driven by a desire to conjure a visually challenging image from banal...
Oil
Abstract Composition XVII, Painting by Jenik Cook
By Jenik Cook
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jenik Cook, American (1940 - ) Title: Untitled XVII Year: 2010 Medium: Acrylic on Paper, signed and dated Size: 22 in. x 28 in. (55.88 cm x 71.12 cm)
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Abstract Transition 1, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Nestor Toro
Located in Yardley, PA
- READY TO HANG - SIGNED CANVAS - BOLD STATEMENT PIECE - SIGNED CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY I start most of my painting with big bold strokes of a neutral colors. Love creating...
Acrylic
In a fearless reality, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Nestor Toro
Located in Yardley, PA
Each color in this impactful painting was hand mixed with mica particles and iridescent mediums to make the lavender, orange, yellow, purple, blue and teal all pop and shine. The col...
Acrylic
$1,425
H 24 in W 48 in
Quiet Storm - Vivid Abstract Expressionism Colorful Painting on Canvas
By Dez Gaskin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Desireé Gaskin (Dez) is a self-taught artist living and working in Dallas, Texas. Her artistic style is a form of abstract expressionism ruled by her creative imagination and love fo...
Canvas, Acrylic
$711Sale Price|61% Off
H 36.23 in W 28.75 in D 0.79 in
Abstract Expressionist Mixed Media Canvas, Signed, 92x73 cm
By Daniel Klein
Located in Cotignac, FR
Abstract Expressionist mixed media on canvas by French artist Daniel Klein. Signed label to the reverse. Daniel Klein, a French painter, born in 1946, began his career in advertisin...
Canvas, Paper, Acrylic
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.