Marecak Edward
1990s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Oil, Board
Edward MarecakFloating Shapes, Abstract Floral Oil Painting by Edward Marecak, Pink Black Blue, 1985
1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Oil
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Board, Oil
1960s Abstract Mixed Media
Oil Pastel, Tempera, Archival Paper
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1980s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Oil, Board
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Edward MarecakGoddess of Fertility, 1960s Semi Abstract, Nudes, Flowers, Red Blue Yellow Green, 1966
20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Edward MarecakThe Four Winter Months, Semi-Abstract Figure Oil Painting, Red Black Orange Blue, 1985
1970s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Burlap, Oil
1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1960s Abstract Mixed Media
Ink, Acrylic
1960s Abstract Mixed Media
Pastel, Acrylic
1960s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Oil
Edward MarecakAdam and Eve, 1980s Abstract Figurative Painting, Vertical Oil Painting, 30 x 48, 1983
1950s Abstract Portrait Paintings
Oil, Board
Edward MarecakFertility Goddesses, Abstract Nude Figures 1950s Oil Painting, Pink, Blue, Green, 1950
20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Oil
1980s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Paper, Crayon, Acrylic
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor
1990s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Burlap, Oil
Edward MarecakWinter Witches in an Upside World Interfering with Each Other, Semi-Abstract Oil, 1990
1980s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Oil
1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Oil, Board
1940s Abstract Geometric Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Ink
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor
1960s Abstract Mixed Media
Crayon, Acrylic
20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings
Oil, Canvas
1960s Abstract Mixed Media
Pastel, Acrylic
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Oil
Edward MarecakThe Argument, 1960s Vintage Semi-Abstract Oil Painting in Reds, Pinks, and Black, 1968
1960s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Oil, Canvas
Edward MarecakSybils Telling Cosmic Jokes On Mankind, Framed Figurative Abstract Oil Painting, 1960s
1960s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Oil
20th Century Abstract Mixed Media
Crayon, Acrylic
20th Century Abstract Mixed Media
Ink, Acrylic
20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints
Woodcut
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Oil, Masonite
1970s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints
Woodcut
20th Century Abstract Figurative Paintings
Oil, Board
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Oil, Board
20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Oil, Board
20th Century American Modern Abstract Paintings
Oil, Board
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Board
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1940s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor
Edward MarecakA Small Incantation, 1940s Abstracted Figural Watercolor and Ink Painting, circa 1940s
20th Century American Modern Abstract Paintings
Board, Oil
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Oil
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Oil, Board
Mid-20th Century Abstract Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
20th Century Abstract Paintings
Oil
Edward MarecakLiberty Tries on Masks, Semi Abstract, Lady Liberty, Black Green Red Blue White, 1970s
Mid-20th Century Cubist Abstract Paintings
Oil, Board
1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Oil
1960s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1980s Abstract Portrait Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Oil
20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Oil
1960s Abstract Interior Paintings
Burlap, Oil
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints
Lithograph
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Edward Marecak for sale on 1stDibs
Edward Marecak was an American painter who was born in 1919. Growing up in the farming community of Brunswick, Ohio, he showed early artistic promise, hired by the National Youth Administration to document historic barns. In 1946, Marecak came to the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center for a year and after a semester interlude at Cranbrook returned to study lithography with Lawrence Barrett. There he also met his future wife and sometime collaborator, ceramicist Theresa Madonna Fortin. Given the opportunity to teach a summer course at the University of Colorado, he decided to obtain a teaching certificate at the University of Denver and subsequently embarked on his 25-year career in the Denver Public School system. Rather than pursue fame, Edward Marecak directed his zeal toward fostering younger generations in the principles of art as well as his simple philosophies. Moreover, his teaching salary allowed him to ply his prodigious talent at whatever he pleased, instead of bending to the dictates of trends and sales. Having inherited his faith in education from his Slovakian immigrant parents, Marecak could add the shaping of lives to his mastery of art forms, including lithographs, monoprints, drawings, hooked rugs, ceramics, paintings, wood sculptures, stained-glass windows and jewelry. While exhibiting in his lifetime, he was, in his wife’s words, “his own greatest collector”, but shows and his popularity at the Kirkland Museum have positioned Marecak posthumously among Colorado’s pre-eminent modernists. As a child, Marecak was enthralled by the Carpathian tales of magic and supernatural beings told by his grandmother. As with other artists with roots in Eastern Europe, his artistic turn to folk tradition would free him from learned practices of perspective and modeling in favor of flat patterns within patterns and brilliant, throbbing color. While others ventured further into abstraction, Marecak stylized figurative elements into crowded compositions that appeared like a mosaic or stained glass. As he matured, he could declare, “I am still very much a Byzantine designer and my joy with what color can do grows all the time”. The traceries of strong outlines and bold shapes provide compartments for vibrant colors, contrasts and rough textures that can scarcely be contained. The Kirkland Museum staged a retrospective of Edward and Donna Marecak in 2007.
Finding the Right abstract-paintings for You
Bring audacious experiments with color and textures to your living room, dining room or home office. Abstract paintings, large or small, will stand out in your space, encouraging conversation and introducing a museum-like atmosphere that’s welcoming and conducive to creating memorable gatherings.
Abstract art has origins in 19th-century Europe, but it came into its own as a significant movement during the 20th century. Early practitioners of abstraction included Wassily Kandinsky, although painters were exploring nonfigurative art prior to the influential Russian artist’s efforts, which were inspired by music and religion. Abstract painters endeavored to create works that didn’t focus on the outside world’s conventional subjects, and even when artists depicted realistic subjects, they worked in an abstract mode to do so.
In 1940s-era New York City, a group of painters working in the abstract mode created radical work that looked to European avant-garde artists as well as to the art of ancient cultures, prioritizing improvisation, immediacy and direct personal expression. While they were never formally affiliated with one another, we know them today as Abstract Expressionists.
The male contingent of the Abstract Expressionists, which includes Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Robert Motherwell, is frequently cited in discussing leading figures of this internationally influential postwar art movement. However, the women of Abstract Expressionism, such as Helen Frankenthaler, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell and others, were equally involved in the art world of the time. Sexism, family obligations and societal pressures contributed to a long history of their being overlooked, but the female Abstract Expressionists experimented vigorously, developed their own style and produced significant bodies of work.
Draw your guests into abstract oil paintings across different eras and countries of origin. On 1stDibs, you’ll find an expansive range of abstract paintings along with a guide on how to arrange your wonderful new wall art.
If you’re working with a small living space, a colorful, oversize work can create depth in a given room, but there isn’t any need to overwhelm your interior with a sprawling pièce de résistance. Colorful abstractions of any size can pop against a white wall in your living room, but if you’re working with a colored backdrop, you may wish to stick to colors that complement the decor that is already in the space. Alternatively, let your painting make a statement on its own, regardless of its surroundings, or group it, gallery-style, with other works.