"Blush Hour, " Abstract Painting
By Kelly Rossetti
Located in Westport, CT
This contemporary abstract painting by Kelly Rossetti is made with mixed media on gallery wrapped canvas.
Canvas, Mixed Media
"Summer Fling, " Abstract Painting
By Kelly Rossetti
Located in Westport, CT
This contemporary abstract painting by Kelly Rossetti is made with acrylic paint on canvas.
Canvas, Acrylic
"Exhale, " Abstract Painting
By Kelly Rossetti
Located in Westport, CT
This contemporary abstract painting by Kelly Rossetti is made with acrylic paint on canvas.
Canvas, Acrylic
"Efflorescence, " Abstract Painting
By Kelly Rossetti
Located in Westport, CT
Efflorescence is a brightly-colored, abstract painting by Kelly Rossetti, which measures 48" x 60" on gallery wrapped canvas.
Canvas, Acrylic
"Blurred Lines II" Abstract Painting
By Kelly Rossetti
Located in Westport, CT
This contemporary abstract painting by Kelly Rossetti measures 60" x 40" and is made with acrylic paint on gallery wrapped canvas.
Canvas, Acrylic
"I See You, " Abstract Painting
By Kelly Rossetti
Located in Westport, CT
This moderately-sized abstract painting by Kelly Rossetti is made with mixed media on panel.
Mixed Media, Panel
"Little Talks I" Abstract Painting
By Kelly Rossetti
Located in Westport, CT
This abstract painting by Kelly Rossetti is made with acrylic paint on gallery wrapped canvas.
Canvas, Mixed Media
"Blue-Bird Day" Abstract Painting
By Kelly Rossetti
Located in Westport, CT
This large abstract statement painting by Kelly Rossetti features a blue palette with earthy green and pink accents throughout.
Canvas, Acrylic
"Chasing the Bright Side, " Abstract Painting
By Kelly Rossetti
Located in Westport, CT
This original abstract painting by Kelly Rossetti features a cool blue, violet, and grey palette, with muted green and white accents through.
Canvas, Acrylic
"Afternoon in Bloom" Abstract Painting
By Kelly Rossetti
Located in Westport, CT
This large vertical abstract statement painting by Kelly Rossetti features a pale pink palette with deep green and yellow accents.
Canvas, Acrylic, Oil
"Interlude" Abstract Painting
By Kelly Rossetti
Located in Westport, CT
This large abstract statement painting by Kelly Rossetti features a blue palette with deep, earthy green and pink accents.
Canvas, Acrylic, Oil
"Silhouette, " Abstract Painting
By Kelly Rossetti
Located in Westport, CT
This contemporary abstract painting by Kelly Rossetti is made with acrylic paint on canvas.
Canvas, Mixed Media
"Sorbet I, " Abstract Painting
By Kelly Rossetti
Located in Westport, CT
This colorful abstract painting by Kelly Rossetti is made with acrylic on mixed media Fabriano paper.
Paper, Acrylic, Foam Board
"Soulshine, " Abstract Nude Figure Painting
By Kelly Rossetti
Located in Westport, CT
This abstract nude figure painting by Kelly Rossetti is made with mixed media on canvas.
Canvas, Mixed Media
"After Glow" Abstract Painting
By Kelly Rossetti
Located in Westport, CT
This abstract painting by Kelly Rossetti is made with acrylic paint and raw canvas pieces assembled on gallery wrapped canvas.
Canvas, Acrylic
"Gleaming" Abstract Painting
By Kelly Rossetti
Located in Westport, CT
This large abstract statement painting by Kelly Rossetti is made with acrylic paint and raw canvas pieces assembled on gallery wrapped canvas.
Canvas, Acrylic
"Different Ways" Abstract Geometric Painting
By Kelly Rossetti
Located in Westport, CT
This abstract painting by Kelly Rossetti is made with acrylic paint and raw canvas pieces assembled on gallery wrapped canvas.
Canvas, Acrylic
"Tropic Mornings" Abstract Geometric Painting
By Kelly Rossetti
Located in Westport, CT
This abstract painting by Kelly Rossetti is made with acrylic paint and raw canvas pieces assembled on gallery wrapped canvas.
Canvas, Acrylic
"Give and Take" Abstract Geometric Painting
By Kelly Rossetti
Located in Westport, CT
This abstract painting by Kelly Rossetti is made with acrylic paint and raw canvas pieces assembled on gallery wrapped canvas.
Canvas, Acrylic
"Echos, " Abstract Painting
By Kelly Rossetti
Located in Westport, CT
This piece is wired and ready to hang. Kelly Rossetti is a contemporary abstract and figurative painter based in Westport, Connecticut.
Canvas, Acrylic
"Icelandic Memory, " Abstract Painting
By Kelly Rossetti
Located in Westport, CT
The piece is wired and ready to hang. Kelly Rossetti is a contemporary abstract and figurative painter based in Westport, Connecticut.
Canvas, Acrylic
"Invisible Strings, " Abstract Painting
By Kelly Rossetti
Located in Westport, CT
This contemporary abstract painting by Kelly Rossetti is made with mixed media on canvas.
Mixed Media, Canvas
"Sweet Unknown, " Abstract Painting
By Kelly Rossetti
Located in Westport, CT
This abstract contemporary statement painting by Kelly Rossetti features a soft palette and blended, but expressive brush strokes.
Canvas, Acrylic
"Opaline, " Abstract Painting
By Kelly Rossetti
Located in Westport, CT
This contemporary abstract painting by Kelly Rossetti is made with acrylic paint on canvas.
Canvas, Acrylic
"Forever Roaming, " Framed Limited Edition Giclee Print, 36" x 54"
By Kelly Rossetti
Located in Westport, CT
This contemporary abstract Limited Edition giclee print by Kelly Rossetti is made with acrylic paint on canvas.
Digital, Giclée
"Sweet Surrender II, " Abstract Painting
By Kelly Rossetti
Located in Westport, CT
This contemporary abstract painting by Kelly Rossetti is made with oil paint on paper. Energetic strokes of blue, red, and green come together on a white background to create a livel...
Paper, Oil
"Sweet Surrender I, " Abstract Painting
By Kelly Rossetti
Located in Westport, CT
This contemporary abstract painting by Kelly Rossetti is made with oil paint on paper. Energetic strokes of blue, red, and green come together on a white background to create a livel...
Paper, Oil
Sold|$995
"Transparent Frontier, " Framed Limited Edition Giclee Print, 24" x 36"
By Kelly Rossetti
Located in Westport, CT
Please allow additional time for printing prior to shipping. Kelly Rossetti is a contemporary abstract and figurative painter based in Westport, Connecticut.
Digital, Giclée
Sold|$5,800
Reaching
By Kelly Rossetti
Located in Lenox, MA
This abstract painting by artist Kelly Rossetti is a vibrantly balanced work. Explosive brushstrokes of both warm and cool tones are layered horizontally and vertically throughout th...
Acrylic
Sold|$6,000
Garden Party I & II
By Kelly Rossetti
Located in Lenox, MA
This exposure and training of continuously evaluating color combinations and coordinating entire collections has directed my color choices and has helped to fine-tune my sense of col...
Canvas, 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.