Cloudscraper, Fiberglass Figurative Sculpture
By Hans Van Meeuwen
Located in Boston, MA
Cloudscraper, Fiberglass Figurative Sculpture by Dutch artist Hans Van Meeuwen Artist Commentary: I express my mood sometimes.
Mixed Media, Fabric, Fiberglass, Paper
Plinto, mixed media sculpture
By Hans Van Meeuwen
Located in Boston, MA
Plinto, mixed media sculpture by Dutch artist Hans Van Meeuwen. Keywords: representational, architecture, street scenes, figure, pants, legs, shoes, garment From the artist: "In my...
Fabric, Fiberglass, Mixed Media, Polystyrene
Peeks, Mixed Media Sculpture
By Hans Van Meeuwen
Located in Boston, MA
Peeks, Mixed Media Sculpture by Dutch artist Hans Van Meeuwen. Artist Commentary: The face peeking out between the boxes is on both sides.
Fiberglass, Mixed Media, Cardboard
A Doll House, Mixed Media Figurative Sculpture
By Hans Van Meeuwen
Located in Boston, MA
A Doll House, Mixed Media Figurative Sculpture by Dutch artist Hans Van Meeuwen. Artist Commentary: Pars pro toto.
Fabric, Fiberglass, Wood, Mixed Media
Knight, mixed media sculpture
By Hans Van Meeuwen
Located in Boston, MA
Knight, mixed media sculpture by Dutch artist Hans Van Meeuwen. Artist Commentary: The knight in the chsess game is either black or white.
Mixed Media, Polystyrene, Adhesive
Nook, Mixed Media Sculpture
By Hans Van Meeuwen
Located in Boston, MA
Nook, Mixed Media Sculpture by Dutch artist Hans Van Meeuwen. Artist Commentary: One side of the book is much longer that the other.
Fabric, Fiberglass, Mixed Media, Wood
Serge Bernier Reading, mixed media sculpture
By Hans Van Meeuwen
Located in Boston, MA
Serge Bernier Reading, mixed media sculpture by Dutch artist Hans Van Meeuwen. Artist Commentary: We all go to school and acquire “big knowledge”.
Mixed Media, Fabric, Fiberglass, Wood
Bauer, Contemporary Mixed Media Sculpture
By Hans Van Meeuwen
Located in Boston, MA
Bauer 8 x 8 x 19 inches, 5 lbs Mixed media Hand signed by the artist Artist's Commentary: "Bauer is a tv series of a bold and tough FBI agent. I see in life many people acting str...
Mixed Media
Indiana, Contemporary Mixed Media Sculpture
By Hans Van Meeuwen
Located in Boston, MA
Indiana 13.5 x 9.5 x 13.5 inches, 7 lbs Mixed media Hand signed by the artist Artist's Commentary: "We sometimes wear "too big shoes", pretend we're bigger than we actually are......
Mixed Media
42A410
By Hans Van Meeuwen
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary: no comment..... Keywords: representaional, people, humor, surreal, imagination
Paper, Color Pencil
52A415
By Hans Van Meeuwen
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary: Hide and seek. Kids like to hide, but one cannot always fully hide oneself Keywords: representational, fantasy, surreal, humor, imagination
Paper, Color Pencil
48A315
By Hans Van Meeuwen
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary: We all run around, pretending we are very imporatnat and very busy.... Keywords: representational, architecture, street scenes, people
Paper, Color Pencil
06A411
By Hans Van Meeuwen
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary: Books often appear in my work. Books are those containers of wisdom, of knowledge, of culture Words used to describe the piece: representational, books, humor, s...
Paper, Color Pencil
08A411
By Hans Van Meeuwen
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary: I lived in Brooklyn for a long time, the big city. The world of bricks and concrete. And yet, there was "nature". A Redtail Hawk appeared once on our fire escape....
Paper, Color Pencil
48A420
By Hans Van Meeuwen
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary: I recently read tha animals more and more become night animals, as the day life is so disturbed by us humans. This guy however always likes the dark Keywords: fi...
Paper, Color Pencil
Rain
By Hans Van Meeuwen
Located in Boston, MA
Rain, mixed media sculpture by Dutch artist Hans Van Meeuwen. Artist Commentary: I grew up in the Netherlands.
Metal
Shoe
By Hans Van Meeuwen
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary: Shoes often play a role in my work. Standing, walking, moving........ Keywords: representational, fantasy, humor, imagination
Polystyrene, Wood, Adhesive, Mixed Media
Oxymoron - figurative sculpture
By Tal Nehoray
Located in New York, NY
This standing kinetic sculpture by Tal Nehoray is from her latest body of works and is made of 2 hand made sculptures: a heart and a brain that are mounted on metal base. Both sculpt...
Metal
Figurative mixed media sculpture
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Mixed media sculpture on base of a woman wearing a hat.
Mixed Media
$5,144Sale Price|20% Off
H 33.47 in W 43.71 in D 14.18 in
Female Figure Architectural Sculpture in Chestnut Wood House Tower Form
By Jose Perozo
Located in FISTERRA, ES
Architectural female figure sculpture in chestnut wood combining body, house and tower architecture in a surreal anthropotectural form. Ática is a unique sculptural work by Spanish ...
Wood
$1,350
H 13.78 in W 10.24 in D 1.38 in
French Contemporary Sculpture by Arnaud Billotet - Across
By Arnaud Billottet
Located in Paris, IDF
Unique piece Pedestal in walnut wood 10,5 x 20 x 2,5 cm - 4,1 x 7,8 x 0,9 in Arnaud Billottet is a French artist born in 1977 who lives & works in Paris, France. Arnaud is an artist...
Acrylic, Polymer
$3,900
H 22.25 in W 10 in D 9 in
Effervescence V - small, geometric, abstract, powder coated steel sculpture
By Claude Millette
Located in Bloomfield, ON
At once contemporary and minimalist, Claude Millette’s dynamic tabletop sculptures exude energy. This piece, one of a series, recalls the form of tumbling dice—individual cubes are s...
Steel
Joel Urruty - Serpentine, Sculpture 2025
By Joel Urruty
Located in Greenwich, CT
Medium: Charred poplar, concrete As an artist I strive to create elegant sculptures that capture the true essence of the subject matter. Form, line and surface are used as the visua...
Concrete, Marble
$1,520Sale Price|20% Off
H 8.25 in Dm 3 in
Untitled Abstract Steel Sculpture, Circa 2000-2009, 8.25 in Tall
By Ben McLeod
Located in Vancouver, CA
Ben McLeod (b. 1948, Aberdeen, Scotland) is a preeminent Canadian sculptor whose over five-decade practice is characterized by a profoundly self-propelled trajectory and the cultivat...
Steel
$1,495
H 18 in W 7 in D 12 in
Surreal Contemporary Figurative Mixed-Media Sculpture Found-Object American
By Philip Kuznicki
Located in Buffalo, NY
One of a kind mixed-media sculpture by Philip Kuznicki from the Spirit exhibition. Comes in its original frame. Born in Dunkirk NY, Kuznicki started his career working for artists su...
Found Objects, Mixed Media
$2,500
H 18 in W 7 in D 7 in
"Neighborling Maquette 25" Mixed Media Architectural Sculpture by Seth Clark
By Seth Clark
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece, titled "Neighborling Maquette 25" is an original free-standing sculpture by Seth Clark as part of his newest solo exhibition, "Passing Through". Clark's deteriorating str...
Wood, Paper, Acrylic, Resin
Artifact 3
By Jennifer Nehrbass
Located in Bozeman, MT
Jennifer Nehrbass is a painter living and working in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She was born in West Bend, Wisconsin in 1970. She received her B.S. in Art and Textile Design from the U...
Wood
$2,300
H 16.93 in W 11.03 in D 5.52 in
British Contemporary Sculpture by Philip Hearsey - Acanto I
By Philip Hearsey
Located in Paris, IDF
Bronze freely rotating on a Cumbrian slate base Stamped with monogram signature and uniquely numbered 616B Series of individual variations Rotating the sculpture allows the spectator...
Bronze
Cloud
By Hans Van de Bovenkamp
Located in Greenwich, CT
Dutch, b. 1938 Renowned for his monumental sculpture created primarily for open-air public locales, Hans Van de Bovenkamp has been described as an artist-mystic whose work -- with i...
Bronze
Joel Urruty - Traveler, Sculpture 2024
By Joel Urruty
Located in Greenwich, CT
Medium: Dyed and Lacquered Basswood As an artist I strive to create elegant sculptures that capture the true essence of the subject matter. Form, line and surface are used as the vi...
Wood, Lacquer, Dye
$4,363
H 51.19 in W 19.69 in D 3.94 in
Sensor - 21st Century, Contemporary Art, Abstract Sculpture, Recycled Objects
By Lukas Ulmi
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Lukas Ulmi’s work unveils the hidden beauty of shapes taking stones, seemingly static forms, incomplete or meaningless objects and turning them into authentic sculptures where weight...
Found Objects, Mixed Media
$700
H 4 in W 2.75 in D 4 in
"Untitled" David Hare, Abstract Surrealist Sculpture, Found Objects, Box, Dada
By David Hare
Located in New York, NY
David Hare Untitled, circa 1970s Mixed media 4 x 2 3/4 x 4 inches Provenance The artist Mercedes Matter, New York (gift from the above) Bill O'Reilly, New York (gift from the above)...
Paint, Found Objects, Mixed Media
Santiago Medina - SUBLIME, Sculpture 2025
By Santiago Medina
Located in Greenwich, CT
New Sculpture Collection Vanguard: Italian Stainless Steel with Special Splashed Electrostatic Paint. This sculpture will be shipped directly from the artist's studio.
Stainless Steel
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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