Abstract Expressionist City
1940s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Gouache, Board
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Mixed Media
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1990s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Gesso, Acrylic, Oil, Mixed Media, Cotton Canvas, Varnish, Paint, Cotton,...
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Watercolor, Gouache
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Watercolor, Gouache
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Watercolor, Gouache
1940s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Screen
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Photography
Photographic Paper, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Lithograph
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Oil, Board
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Charcoal
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Masonite, Oil
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Mixed Media
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Mixed Media
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Acrylic
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Pastel
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Photography
Cotton, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Photography
Photographic Paper
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Sculptures
Bronze
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Oil
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Watercolor, Gouache
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Watercolor, Gouache
1990s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Gesso, Acrylic, Oil, Mixed Media, Cotton Canvas, Varnish, Paint, Cotton,...
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Photography
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Oil, Acrylic
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Oil, Acrylic, Canvas
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Photography
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Screen
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Lithograph
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Photography
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Engraving
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Lithograph
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Acrylic
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Photography
Photographic Paper
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Paper, Monotype
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Acrylic
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Acrylic
1980s Abstract Expressionist Mixed Media
Charcoal, Oil, Gouache
1970s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Screen
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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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