$1,350Sale Price|32% Off
Actor Jan Michael Vincent, signed by Jack Mitchell
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of actor Jan Michael Vincent, 1978. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the verso.
Silver Gelatin
$1,175Sale Price|21% Off
Conductor, Pianist & Composer Michael Tilson Thomas, signed by Jack Mitchell
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Conductor, Pianist & Composer Michael Tilson Thomas in 1971. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the print verso.
Silver Gelatin
$1,080Sale Price|28% Off
Choreographer/Director ("A Chorus Line") Michael Bennett signed by Jack Mitchell
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Choreographer/Director ("A Chorus Line") Michael Bennett - 1966. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the print verso.
Silver Gelatin
$962Sale Price|45% Off
Dancers Tim Michaels, Jerry Evans, Jeff Hornaday, Larry Cole, signed by Mitchell
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph, signed by Jack Mitchell. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a certificate of authenticity. This photograph was from a se...
Silver Gelatin
Grey Donkey on Fence
By Josh Brown
Located in Napa, CA
Brown has had the pleasure to be featured on numerous blogs, magazines and trend hunting sites for his work as a painter/sculptor, and exhibitions with the Shain Gallery, Charlotte, ...
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Grey Donkey on Grey Swirls
By Josh Brown
Located in Napa, CA
Brown has had the pleasure to be featured on numerous blogs, magazines and trend hunting sites for his work as a painter/sculptor, and exhibitions with the Shain Gallery, Charlotte, ...
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Donkey on Warm Grey Splash II
By Josh Brown
Located in Napa, CA
Brown has had the pleasure to be featured on numerous blogs, magazines and trend hunting sites for his work as a painter/sculptor, and exhibitions with the Shain Gallery, Charlotte, ...
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Red Donkey in Window on White
By Josh Brown
Located in Napa, CA
Brown has had the pleasure to be featured on numerous blogs, magazines and trend hunting sites for his work as a painter/sculptor, and exhibitions with the Shain Gallery, Charlotte, ...
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Ten Chicks on a Fence
By Josh Brown
Located in Napa, CA
Brown has had the pleasure to be featured on numerous blogs, magazines and trend hunting sites for his work as a painter/sculptor, and exhibitions with the Shain Gallery, Charlotte, ...
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Donkey on White Splash II
By Josh Brown
Located in Napa, CA
Brown has had the pleasure to be featured on numerous blogs, magazines and trend hunting sites for his work as a painter/sculptor, and exhibitions with the Shain Gallery, Charlotte, ...
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Donkey on Terracotta Spray
By Josh Brown
Located in Napa, CA
Brown has had the pleasure to be featured on numerous blogs, magazines and trend hunting sites for his work as a painter/sculptor, and exhibitions with the Shain Gallery, Charlotte, ...
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Donkey on Sky 3 of 4
By Josh Brown
Located in Napa, CA
Brown has had the pleasure to be featured on numerous blogs, magazines and trend hunting sites for his work as a painter/sculptor, and exhibitions with the Shain Gallery, Charlotte, ...
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Donkey on Sky 2 of 4
By Josh Brown
Located in Napa, CA
Brown has had the pleasure to be featured on numerous blogs, magazines and trend hunting sites for his work as a painter/sculptor, and exhibitions with the Shain Gallery, Charlotte, ...
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Donkey on Sky 1 of 4
By Josh Brown
Located in Napa, CA
Brown has had the pleasure to be featured on numerous blogs, magazines and trend hunting sites for his work as a painter/sculptor, and exhibitions with the Shain Gallery, Charlotte, ...
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Three Pals on Light Umber Swirls
By Josh Brown
Located in Napa, CA
Brown has had the pleasure to be featured on numerous blogs, magazines and trend hunting sites for his work as a painter/sculptor, and exhibitions with the Shain Gallery, Charlotte, ...
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Three Pals on Light Umber Streaks
By Josh Brown
Located in Napa, CA
Brown has had the pleasure to be featured on numerous blogs, magazines and trend hunting sites for his work as a painter/sculptor, and exhibitions with the Shain Gallery, Charlotte, ...
Oil, Acrylic
Horse on Green
By Josh Brown
Located in Napa, CA
Brown has had the pleasure to be featured on numerous blogs, magazines and trend hunting sites for his work as a painter/sculptor, and exhibitions with the Shain Gallery, Charlotte, ...
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Tree Tops - Red Panda
By Josh Brown
Located in Napa, CA
Brown has had the pleasure to be featured on numerous blogs, magazines and trend hunting sites for his work as a painter/sculptor, and exhibitions with the Shain Gallery, Charlotte, ...
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Tree Tops - Toucan
By Josh Brown
Located in Napa, CA
Brown has had the pleasure to be featured on numerous blogs, magazines and trend hunting sites for his work as a painter/sculptor, and exhibitions with the Shain Gallery, Charlotte, ...
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Tree Tops - Tree Frog
By Josh Brown
Located in Napa, CA
Brown has had the pleasure to be featured on numerous blogs, magazines and trend hunting sites for his work as a painter/sculptor, and exhibitions with the Shain Gallery, Charlotte, ...
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Tree Tops - Monkey
By Josh Brown
Located in Napa, CA
Brown has had the pleasure to be featured on numerous blogs, magazines and trend hunting sites for his work as a painter/sculptor, and exhibitions with the Shain Gallery, Charlotte, ...
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Two Panda's on Purple
By Josh Brown
Located in Napa, CA
Brown has had the pleasure to be featured on numerous blogs, magazines and trend hunting sites for his work as a painter/sculptor, and exhibitions with the Shain Gallery, Charlotte, ...
Canvas, Acrylic
First Snow Day
By Josh Brown
Located in Napa, CA
Brown has had the pleasure to be featured on numerous blogs, magazines and trend hunting sites for his work as a painter/sculptor, and exhibitions with the Shain Gallery, Charlotte, ...
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
American Bison
By Josh Brown
Located in Napa, CA
Brown has had the pleasure to be featured on numerous blogs, magazines and trend hunting sites for his work as a painter/sculptor, and exhibitions with the Shain Gallery, Charlotte, ...
Acrylic
Tiger in Leaves
By Josh Brown
Located in Napa, CA
Brown has had the pleasure to be featured on numerous blogs, magazines and trend hunting sites for his work as a painter/sculptor, and exhibitions with the Shain Gallery, Charlotte, ...
Acrylic
Snow Leopard Cub
By Josh Brown
Located in Napa, CA
Brown has had the pleasure to be featured on numerous blogs, magazines and trend hunting sites for his work as a painter/sculptor, and exhibitions with the Shain Gallery, Charlotte, ...
Acrylic
Brilliant Florals on Sky
By Josh Brown
Located in Napa, CA
Brown has had the pleasure to be featured on numerous blogs, magazines and trend hunting sites for his work as a painter/sculptor, and exhibitions with the Shain Gallery, Charlotte, ...
Canvas, Acrylic
Three Ostrich on Light Green Brush
By Josh Brown
Located in Napa, CA
Brown has had the pleasure to be featured on numerous blogs, magazines and trend hunting sites for his work as a painter/sculptor, and exhibitions with the Shain Gallery, Charlotte, ...
Canvas, Acrylic
Two Giraffe on Terracotta II
By Josh Brown
Located in Napa, CA
Brown has had the pleasure to be featured on numerous blogs, magazines and trend hunting sites for his work as a painter/sculptor, and exhibitions with the Shain Gallery, Charlotte, ...
Canvas, Acrylic
Two Giraffe on Violet Splash
By Josh Brown
Located in Napa, CA
Brown has had the pleasure to be featured on numerous blogs, magazines and trend hunting sites for his work as a painter/sculptor, and exhibitions with the Shain Gallery, Charlotte, ...
Canvas, Acrylic
Three Light Green Ostrich on White Splash
By Josh Brown
Located in Napa, CA
Brown has had the pleasure to be featured on numerous blogs, magazines and trend hunting sites for his work as a painter/sculptor, and exhibitions with the Shain Gallery, Charlotte, ...
Canvas, Acrylic
Gold Sea Turtles on Off White Splash
By Josh Brown
Located in Napa, CA
Brown has had the pleasure to be featured on numerous blogs, magazines and trend hunting sites for his work as a painter/sculptor, and exhibitions with the Shain Gallery, Charlotte, ...
Canvas, Acrylic
Pink and Blue Ostrich on Off White
By Josh Brown
Located in Napa, CA
Brown has had the pleasure to be featured on numerous blogs, magazines and trend hunting sites for his work as a painter/sculptor, and exhibitions with the Shain Gallery, Charlotte, ...
Canvas, Acrylic
Ostrich on Brown
By Josh Brown
Located in Napa, CA
Brown has had the pleasure to be featured on numerous blogs, magazines and trend hunting sites for his work as a painter/sculptor, and exhibitions with the Shain Gallery, Charlotte, ...
Canvas, Acrylic
Pig in Window with Light Cream Swirls
By Josh Brown
Located in Napa, CA
Brown has had the pleasure to be featured on numerous blogs, magazines and trend hunting sites for his work as a painter/sculptor, and exhibitions with the Shain Gallery, Charlotte, ...
Acrylic
Happy Pig on Fence with Blue
By Josh Brown
Located in Napa, CA
Brown has had the pleasure to be featured on numerous blogs, magazines and trend hunting sites for his work as a painter/sculptor, and exhibitions with the Shain Gallery, Charlotte, ...
Acrylic
Happy Pig on Fence with Green
By Josh Brown
Located in Napa, CA
Brown has had the pleasure to be featured on numerous blogs, magazines and trend hunting sites for his work as a painter/sculptor, and exhibitions with the Shain Gallery, Charlotte, ...
Acrylic
Matte Piglet on Blue Swirl 2
By Josh Brown
Located in Napa, CA
Brown has had the pleasure to be featured on numerous blogs, magazines and trend hunting sites for his work as a painter/sculptor, and exhibitions with the Shain Gallery, Charlotte, ...
Acrylic
Matte Piglet on White 2
By Josh Brown
Located in Napa, CA
Brown has had the pleasure to be featured on numerous blogs, magazines and trend hunting sites for his work as a painter/sculptor, and exhibitions with the Shain Gallery, Charlotte, ...
Acrylic
Two Goats on White
By Josh Brown
Located in Napa, CA
Brown has had the pleasure to be featured on numerous blogs, magazines and trend hunting sites for his work as a painter/sculptor, and exhibitions with the Shain Gallery, Charlotte, ...
Oil, Acrylic
Black and White Cow On Fence
By Josh Brown
Located in Napa, CA
Brown has had the pleasure to be featured on numerous blogs, magazines and trend hunting sites for his work as a painter/sculptor, and exhibitions with the Shain Gallery, Charlotte, ...
Canvas, Acrylic
$3,300
Horse
By Josh Brown
Located in Napa, CA
Brown has had the pleasure to be featured on numerous blogs, magazines and trend hunting sites for his work as a painter/sculptor, and exhibitions with the Shain Gallery, Charlotte, ...
Oil, Acrylic
$1,050Sale Price|30% Off
Choreographer/Director ("A Chorus Line") Michael Bennett
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a certificate of authenticity.
Silver Gelatin
$900Sale Price|50% Off
Nude portrait study of young model Michael Findlay
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
Model Michael Findlay, nude portrait study, 1970. This is a vintage silver gelatin photograph made by hand by master photographer Jack Mitchell.
Silver Gelatin
$900Sale Price|40% Off
Conductor, Pianist & Composer Michael Tilson Thomas, signed by Jack
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Conductor, Pianist & Composer Michael Tilson Thomas in 1971. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the print verso.
Silver Gelatin
$1,100Sale Price|44% Off
Composer Michael Tilson Thomas & Joshua Mark Robison, signed by Jack
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
Signed by Jack Mitchell on the print verso. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a certificate of authenticity.
Silver Gelatin
$990Sale Price|44% Off
Warhol Superstar Jane Forth & Michael Findlay nude for 'After Dark' magazine
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a certificate of authenticity.
Silver Gelatin
$990Sale Price|44% Off
Warhol Superstar Jane Forth & Michael Findlay nude for 'After Dark' magazine
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a certificate of authenticity.
Silver Gelatin
$1,125Sale Price|25% Off
ABT choreographer Michael Smuin, dancers Ted Kivitt, Cynthia Gregory, Ivan Nagy
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a certificate of authenticity.
Silver Gelatin
Evening Light
Located in San Francisco, CA
Through personal exploration as well as study with artists Albert Handell, Skip Whitcomb, Michael Lynch and Bill Hook, Mitchell has developed the talent to create both tightly render...
Lithograph
$1,120Sale Price|60% Off
Dancer & choreographer Michael Clark (age 23), signed exhibition print
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
Scottish dancer and choreographer Michael Clark (age 23), photographed in 1986. This is a vintage gelatin silver print, selenium toned, made by hand by master photographer Jack Mitch...
Silver Gelatin
Joni Mitchell, Los Angeles, (Hijera)
By Norman Seeff
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Norman Seeff has worked with hundreds of artists including Ray Charles, The Rolling Stones, Miles Davis, Ike and Tina Turner, Michael Jackson, Joni Mitchell and many others. Seeff is...
Archival Pigment
Joni Mitchell, Smiling, Los Angeles
By Norman Seeff
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Norman Seeff has worked with hundreds of artists including Ray Charles, The Rolling Stones, Miles Davis, Ike and Tina Turner, Michael Jackson, Joni Mitchell and many others. Seeff is...
Archival Pigment
Joni Mitchell, Leopard Skin, Los Angeles, 1977
By Norman Seeff
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Norman Seeff has worked with hundreds of artists including Ray Charles, The Rolling Stones, Miles Davis, Ike and Tina Turner, Michael Jackson, Joni Mitchell and many others. Seeff is...
Archival Pigment, Black and White
Joni Mitchell, Los Angeles (Hissing of Summer Lawns I)
By Norman Seeff
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Norman Seeff has worked with hundreds of artists including Ray Charles, The Rolling Stones, Miles Davis, Ike and Tina Turner, Michael Jackson, Joni Mitchell and many others. Seeff is...
Archival Pigment
Sly Stone and Family, 1974
By Norman Seeff
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Open Edition Hand-Signed and Numbered by Norman Seeff Additional Sizes Available - 16"x20", 20"x24", 22"x28", 30"x43", 38"x43", 44"x64" Please Inquire for Pricing and Custom Framing ...
Archival Pigment
Hugh Hefner, Hollywood, 1978
By Norman Seeff
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Open Edition Hand-Signed and Numbered by Norman Seeff Additional Sizes Available - 16"x20", 20"x24", 22"x28", 30"x43", 38"x43", 44"x64" Please Inquire for Pricing and Custom Framing ...
Archival Pigment
Johnny Cash, 1978
By Norman Seeff
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Open Edition Hand-Signed and Numbered by Norman Seeff Additional Sizes Available - 16"x20", 20"x24", 22"x28", 30"x43", 38"x43", 44"x64" Please Inquire for Pricing and Custom Framing ...
Archival Pigment
The Ramones, 1977
By Norman Seeff
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Open Edition Hand-Signed and Numbered by Norman Seeff Additional Sizes Available - 16"x20", 20"x24", 22"x28", 30"x43", 38"x43", 44"x64" Please Inquire for Pricing and Custom Framing ...
Archival Pigment
Mick Jagger, Los Angeles 1972 "Exile?"
By Norman Seeff
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Norman Seeff has worked with hundreds of artists including Ray Charles, The Rolling Stones, Miles Davis, Ike and Tina Turner, Michael Jackson, Joni Mitchell and many others. Seeff is...
Archival Pigment, Black and White
Whitney Houston, 3 Up, 1990
By Norman Seeff
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Norman Seeff has worked with hundreds of artists including Ray Charles, The Rolling Stones, Miles Davis, Ike and Tina Turner, Michael Jackson, Joni Mitchell and many others. Seeff is...
Archival Pigment
Mick Jagger
By Norman Seeff
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Norman Seeff has worked with hundreds of artists including Ray Charles, The Rolling Stones, Miles Davis, Ike and Tina Turner, Michael Jackson, Joni Mitchell and many others. Seeff is...
Archival Pigment
Andy Warhol and Factory, 1969
By Norman Seeff
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Norman Seeff has worked with hundreds of artists including Ray Charles, The Rolling Stones, Miles Davis, Ike and Tina Turner, Michael Jackson, Joni Mitchell and many others. Seeff is...
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Black and White
Steve Martin, Smoking, 1974
By Norman Seeff
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
My biggest problem in working with Steve was to hold the camera steady…" Norman Seeff has worked with hundreds of artists including Ray Charles, The Rolling Stones, Miles Davis, Ike...
Archival Pigment
Unavailable
H 16 in W 20 in
Keith Richards and Mick Jagger, Exile On Mainstreet, 1971
By Norman Seeff
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Norman Seeff has worked with hundreds of artists including Ray Charles, The Rolling Stones, Miles Davis, Ike and Tina Turner, Michael Jackson, Joni Mitchell and many others. Seeff is...
Archival Pigment
The Blues Brothers, 1979
By Norman Seeff
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Soon after, I got a call from John, apologizing for having missed such an amazing opportunity by not filming and 2 years later, he asked for another session, this time with his wife,...
Archival Pigment
Ray Charles
By Norman Seeff
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Norman Seeff has worked with hundreds of artists including Ray Charles, The Rolling Stones, Miles Davis, Ike and Tina Turner, Michael Jackson, Joni Mitchell and many others. Seeff is...
Archival Pigment
Tina Turner, Los Angeles ʻTina In Motionʻ
By Norman Seeff
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Norman Seeff has worked with hundreds of artists including Ray Charles, The Rolling Stones, Miles Davis, Ike and Tina Turner, Michael Jackson, Joni Mitchell and many others. Seeff is...
Archival Pigment
Tina Turner, Los Angeles 1983 ʻTina In Motionʻ
By Norman Seeff
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Norman Seeff has worked with hundreds of artists including Ray Charles, The Rolling Stones, Miles Davis, Ike and Tina Turner, Michael Jackson, Joni Mitchell and many others. Seeff is...
Archival Pigment
Steve Jobs, Reflecting Mac 1984
By Norman Seeff
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Norman Seeff has worked with hundreds of artists including Ray Charles, The Rolling Stones, Miles Davis, Ike and Tina Turner, Michael Jackson, Joni Mitchell and many others. Seeff is...
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Steve Jobs, 1984
By Norman Seeff
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Norman Seeff has worked with hundreds of artists including Ray Charles, The Rolling Stones, Miles Davis, Ike and Tina Turner, Michael Jackson, Joni Mitchell and many others. Seeff is...
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Steve Jobs, 1984
By Norman Seeff
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Norman Seeff has worked with hundreds of artists including Ray Charles, The Rolling Stones, Miles Davis, Ike and Tina Turner, Michael Jackson, Joni Mitchell and many others. Seeff is...
Archival Pigment
The Rolling Stones "Exile On Main Street"
By Norman Seeff
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Norman Seeff has worked with hundreds of artists including Ray Charles, The Rolling Stones, Miles Davis, Ike and Tina Turner, Michael Jackson, Joni Mitchell and many others. Seeff is...
Pigment
Red and Silver
By Josh Brown
Located in Napa, CA
Brown has had the pleasure to be featured on numerous blogs, magazines and trend hunting sites for his work as a painter/sculptor, and exhibitions with the Shain Gallery, Charlotte, ...
Canvas, Acrylic
Gold Swirls
By Josh Brown
Located in Napa, CA
Brown has had the pleasure to be featured on numerous blogs, magazines and trend hunting sites for his work as a painter/sculptor, and exhibitions with the Shain Gallery, Charlotte, ...
Acrylic
Four Pink Ostrich on Violet Splash
By Josh Brown
Located in Napa, CA
Brown has had the pleasure to be featured on numerous blogs, magazines and trend hunting sites for his work as a painter/sculptor, and exhibitions with the Shain Gallery, Charlotte, ...
Acrylic, Canvas
Five Ostrich on White
By Josh Brown
Located in Napa, CA
Brown has had the pleasure to be featured on numerous blogs, magazines and trend hunting sites for his work as a painter/sculptor, and exhibitions with the Shain Gallery, Charlotte, ...
Acrylic
Cubs with Pink Horizon
By Josh Brown
Located in Napa, CA
Brown has had the pleasure to be featured on numerous blogs, magazines and trend hunting sites for his work as a painter/sculptor, and exhibitions with the Shain Gallery, Charlotte, ...
Acrylic
Mom and Cubs with Pink Horizon
By Josh Brown
Located in Napa, CA
Brown has had the pleasure to be featured on numerous blogs, magazines and trend hunting sites for his work as a painter/sculptor, and exhibitions with the Shain Gallery, Charlotte, ...
Acrylic
Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.
Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.
The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.
Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.
Find a collection of Contemporary prints, photography, paintings, sculptures and other art on 1stDibs.
Painting is an art form that has spanned innumerable cultures, with artists using the medium to tell stories, explore and communicate ideas and express themselves. To bring abstract paintings, landscape paintings, still-life paintings and other original paintings into your home is to celebrate and share in the long tradition of this discipline.
When we look at paintings, particularly those that originated in the past, we learn about history, other cultures and countries of the world. Like every other work of art, paintings — whether they are contemporary creations or works that were made during the 19th century — can often help us clearly see and understand the world around us in a meaningful and interesting way.
Cave walls were the canvases for what were arguably the world’s first landscape paintings, which depict natural scenery through art. Portrait paintings and drawings, which, along with sculpture, were how someone’s appearance was recorded prior to the advent of photography, are at least as old as Ancient Egypt. In the Netherlands, landscapes were a major theme for painters as early as the 1500s. Later, artists in Greece, Rome and elsewhere created vast wall paintings to decorate stately homes, churches and tombs.
Today, creating a wall of art is a wonderful way to enhance your space, showcase beautiful pieces and tie an interior design together.
No matter your preference, whether you favor Post-Impressionist paintings, animal paintings, Surrealism, Pop art or another movement or specific period, arranging art on a blank wall allows you to evoke emotions in a room while also showing off your tastes and interests. A symmetrical wall arrangement may comprise a grid of four to six pieces or, for an odd number of works, a horizontal row. Asymmetrical arrangements, which may be small clusters of art or large, salon-style gallery walls, have a more collected and eclectic feel.
Download the 1stDibs app, which includes a handy “View on Wall” feature that allows you to see how a particular artwork will look on a particular wall, and read about how to arrange wall art. And if you’re searching for the perfect palette for your interior design project, what better place to turn than to the art world’s masters of color?
On 1stDibs, you’ll find an expansive collection of paintings and other fine art for your home or office. Browse abstract paintings, portrait paintings, paintings by emerging artists and more today.
The artist and activist is the subject of a new show at Washington, D.C.'s National Gallery of Art.
Manhattan's Acquavella Galleries is showing a group of the artist's monumental works that have never been seen together.
Koloman Moser smashed the conservative conventions of art and design in fin-de-siècle Vienna. On the 100th anniversary of his death, the Austrian designer is being celebrated for his radically modern creations.