$4,275
The New Car (6.1.21) - Abstract Botanical Textured Still Life Thick Oil Painting
By Sally West
Located in Los Angeles, CA
REPRESENTATION Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles, USA SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2022 Mosman Art Society Group Show, Mosman Art Gallery, Mosman 2021 Breeze, KAB Gallery, Crowne Pla...
Canvas, Oil
Berry's Bay Study 2 (25.10.21) - Plein Air - Textured Landscape Oil Painting
By Sally West
Located in Los Angeles, CA
REPRESENTATION Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles, USA SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2022 Mosman Art Society Group Show, Mosman Art Gallery, Mosman 2021 Breeze, KAB Gallery, Crowne Pla...
Canvas, Oil
$2,075
Berry's Bay 1 (28.5.24) - Plein Air - Original Textured Landscape Oil Painting
By Sally West
Located in Los Angeles, CA
REPRESENTATION Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles, USA SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2022 Mosman Art Society Group Show, Mosman Art Gallery, Mosman 2021 Breeze, KAB Gallery, Crowne Pla...
Canvas, Oil
$4,275
Flowers on Tuesday - Abstract Botanical Textured Still Life Thick Oil Painting
By Sally West
Located in Los Angeles, CA
REPRESENTATION Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles, USA SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2022 Mosman Art Society Group Show, Mosman Art Gallery, Mosman 2021 Breeze, KAB Gallery, Crowne Pla...
Canvas, Oil
$1,255
Pittwater RPAYC Study 1 (22.8.22) - Plein Air - Textured Landscape Oil Painting
By Sally West
Located in Los Angeles, CA
REPRESENTATION Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles, USA SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2022 Mosman Art Society Group Show, Mosman Art Gallery, Mosman 2021 Breeze, KAB Gallery, Crowne Pla...
Canvas, Oil
$1,255
1st of June Study (1.6.21) - Abstract Blue Tone Textured Still Life Oil Painting
By Sally West
Located in Los Angeles, CA
REPRESENTATION Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles, USA SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2022 Mosman Art Society Group Show, Mosman Art Gallery, Mosman 2021 Breeze, KAB Gallery, Crowne Pla...
Canvas, Oil
$955
Berry's Bay Study 2 (19.6.23) - Plein Air - Abstract Textured Landscape Painting
By Sally West
Located in Los Angeles, CA
REPRESENTATION Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles, USA SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2022 Mosman Art Society Group Show, Mosman Art Gallery, Mosman 2021 Breeze, KAB Gallery, Crowne Pla...
Canvas, Oil
$1,200
Flower Study 3 (9.9.16) - Original Floral Bouquet Abstract Texture Oil Painting
By Sally West
Located in Los Angeles, CA
REPRESENTATION Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles, USA SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2021 Breeze, KAB Gallery, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Terrigal Sally West, Jag Gallery, Key West, Florida, USA ...
Canvas, Oil
Flower Study 1 (16.5.17) - Original Textured Abstract Floral Oil Painting
By Sally West
Located in Los Angeles, CA
REPRESENTATION Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles, USA SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2021 Breeze, KAB Gallery, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Terrigal Sally West, Jag Gallery, Key West, Florida, USA ...
Canvas, Oil
Skipping Stones in the River
By Jade Oakley
Located in New York, NY
Oakley exhibits her work at Australian Galleries in Sydney and Melbourne. She has held solo exhibitions at Australian Galleries in Smith St, Melbourne in 2010 and Australian Gallerie...
Mixed Media
Tide Mark IV
By Jade Oakley
Located in New York, NY
Oakley exhibits her work at Australian Galleries in Sydney and Melbourne. She has held solo exhibitions at Australian Galleries in Smith St, Melbourne in 2010 and Australian Gallerie...
Stainless Steel
Sold
H 37.75 in W 20.25 in D 21 in
Pair of Restored Broyhill Brasilia Mid-Century Modern Dining Chairs
By Broyhill Brasilia, Oscar Niemeyer
Located in Chattanooga, TN
Designed by Broyhill's head of design, Melbourne Smith, and released in 1962, this line was (unsurprisingly) inspired by the architecture of the planned city of Brasilia.
Faux Leather, Walnut
$396Sale Price|20% Off
H 18 in W 23 in D 2 in
Antique American Modernist Abstract Flower Still Life Outsider Art Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist oil painting. Oil on board, circa 1950. Housed in a vintage frame. Image size, 16L x 11H. Signed.
Canvas, Oil
$371Sale Price|20% Off
H 16.54 in W 11.7 in D 0.04 in
Contemporary abstract expressive floral painting on paper "Blooming petals"
By Mougenot Natalya
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
In "Blooming Petals", French artist Natalya Mougenot expands the tradition of floral painting into a powerful exploration of color, emotion, and authenticity. Part of her ongoing ser...
Paper, Acrylic
$324Sale Price|20% Off
H 16.54 in W 11.7 in D 0.04 in
Expressive impressionist floral acrylic painting on paper "Spring's flowers"
By Mougenot Natalya
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This contemporary abstract expressive Impressionist floral painting was created by French artist Natalya Mougenot, whose signature style brings emotion and energy to every brushstrok...
Acrylic, Paper
Floral Study 13, Oil Painting
By Valerie Berkely
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Valerie Berkely presents a floral still life in expressive and fluid paintwork. She executes the piece with wet-on-wet fingerprinting allowing her to t...
Oil
$1,763Sale Price|20% Off
H 17.72 in W 24.41 in D 1.38 in
Between sky and sea - Modern Abstract Landscape paint – Original Oil on Canvas
By SOPHIE DUMONT
Located in LANGRUNE-SUR-MER, FR
In Between Sky and Shore, Sophie Dumont presents a pared-down vision of the landscape, reduced to its essential elements. Horizontal strata suggest sky, horizon, and shoreline, formi...
Oil
$352Sale Price|20% Off
H 16.54 in W 11.7 in D 0.04 in
"Joyful blooms" Contemporary abstract expressionist floral still life painting
By Mougenot Natalya
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
"Joyful Blooms" is an original contemporary floral still life by French artist Natalya Mougenot, painted in her distinctive metamodern expressionist style with acrylic paint and acry...
Paper, Acrylic
$636Sale Price|20% Off
H 24 in W 18 in D 2 in
Antique American Sparse Modern Expressionist Flower Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage modernist still life painting. Oil on canvas. Image size, 18L x 24H.
Canvas, Oil
$2,800
H 32 in W 27 in D 1 in
Floral Bouquet (Lively Still Life Oil Painting of Flowers on Canvas)
By Dale Payson
Located in Hudson, NY
Oil painting on canvas, unframed 32 x 27 inches This still life oil painting of a bouquet of vibrant lilies, roses and irises was painted by Hudson Valley-based artist Dale Payson. ...
Canvas, Oil
$3,100
H 29.25 in W 23.5 in
Fresh Flowers - contemporary, floral still life, acrylic and oil on canvas
By Pat Service
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A pretty, mixed floral bouquet fills the canvas with joyful colour in this still-life painting by Pat Service. The Canadian artist explored the traditional art form in the 1990’s but...
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
$534Sale Price|20% Off
H 16 in W 13 in
20th Century German Modernist Oil Painting Colorful Still Life of Flowers
By Elisabeth Hahn
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist: Elisabeth Hahn (German 1924-2021) Elisabeth Hahn was born in Dortmund, Germany, where she began her artistic studies. In 1953, she moved to Paris. She continued her studies ...
Canvas, Oil
$1,075
H 30 in W 23 in D 2 in
Vacation Dreams 1 Coastal Landscape Oil Painting by Allison Chambers
By Allison Chambers
Located in Atlanta, GA
Vacation Dreams 1 is an original oil painting on paper by Allison Chambers, capturing the relaxed appeal of a coastal landscape. Measuring 30 x 23 inches, the work offers enough scal...
Paper, Oil
$10,978
H 26 in W 26 in D 3 in
Impressionistic Seascape Beach Landscape Painting by Contemporary British Artist
By Angela Wakefield
Located in Preston, GB
Impressionistic Seascape Beach Landscape Painting by Contemporary British Artist Angela Wakefield Art measures 20 x 20 inches Frame measures 26 x 26 inches Angela Wakefield has twi...
Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
$139Sale Price|20% Off
H 8.27 in W 5.91 in D 0.04 in
Abstract Impressionist seaside nature oil painting on paper "The French coast"
By Natalya Mougenot
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This contemporary abstract impressionist painting with touches of expressionism, "The French Coast" is a delicate and emotive creation by French artist Natalya Mougenot. Part of a su...
Oil, Paper
Flowers of hope Original Oil painting
By Tetiana Adamovich
Located in Zofingen, AG
This painting, which embodies my vision of the "archeology of the future," immerses the viewer in a world where the beauty of nature is forever young, and its vulnerability is acutel...
Canvas, Oil
Caribbean Shore Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
By Vahe Yeremyan
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Vahe Yeremyan Title: Caribbean Shore Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2026 Style: Impressionism Dimensions: 44" x 37" x 1" inch (112 x 94 x 3cm) Presentation: Unframed, Gallery Wr...
Canvas, Oil
$1,232
H 17.72 in W 17.72 in
Natalie Bird, Summer Bloom, Original Still Life Floral Painting, Affordable Art
By Natalie Bird
Located in Deddington, GB
Summer Bloom [2021] Original Flowers Mixed media on board Image size: H:45 cm x W:3 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:45 cm x W:30 cm x D:30cm Framed Size: H:45 cm x W:45 cm x D:3...
Mixed Media, Board
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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