Melissa Meyer Oil
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Wax
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Color
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Color
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Watercolor, Rag Paper
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Watercolor, Rag Paper
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Prints
Etching
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Etching
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Etching
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Etching
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Etching
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Etching
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Etching
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Offset, Lithograph
1980s Photorealist Color Photography
Photographic Paper, C Print, Dye Transfer
1980s Photorealist Color Photography
Photographic Paper, C Print, Dye Transfer
1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Watercolor
1980s Pop Art Portrait Prints
Offset, Permanent Marker, Lithograph
1960s American Impressionist Interior Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Acrylic, Paint, Canvas
1990s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Etching, Aquatint
2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints
Lithograph
Vintage 1940s American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Gesso, Wood, Paint
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Lithograph
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
2010s Abstract Expressionist Animal Paintings
Oil, Acrylic
2010s Realist Animal Paintings
Oil
2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints
Lithograph
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Watercolor, Paper, Felt Pen
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints
Watercolor, Color, Etching, Intaglio, Monoprint
2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints
Watercolor, Color, Etching, Intaglio, Monoprint
2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints
Etching, Intaglio, Monoprint
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Oil, Canvas
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Etching
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Paper, Aquatint
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Etching
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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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