River Crossing Rivers
By Patricia Larsen
Located in Tulsa, OK
Many who experience a painting of Patricia Larsen think it’s the work of a Zen monk, someone who’s mastered the elements of purity - but it’s Larsen’s memories of playing in Albertan...
Mixed Media, Panel
Under Water No. Two, Abstract Mixed Media on Panel, 2010s, Unframed
By Patricia Larsen
Located in Tulsa, OK
Many who experience a painting of Patricia Larsen think it’s the work of a Zen monk, someone who’s mastered the elements of purity - but it’s Larsen’s memories of playing in Albertan...
Mixed Media, Panel
Snow And Harvest Mixed Media Panel, Abstract Style, 2010s, Unframed
By Patricia Larsen
Located in Tulsa, OK
Many who experience a painting of Patricia Larsen think it’s the work of a Zen monk, someone who’s mastered the elements of purity - but it’s Larsen’s memories of playing in Albertan...
Mixed Media, Panel
Night Sky Mixed Media Panel, Abstract Style, Circa 2010, Unframed
By Patricia Larsen
Located in Tulsa, OK
Many who experience a painting of Patricia Larsen think it’s the work of a Zen monk, someone who’s mastered the elements of purity - but it’s Larsen’s memories of playing in Albertan...
Mixed Media, Panel
Harvest Mixed Media Panel Artwork, Abstract Style, Unframed
By Patricia Larsen
Located in Tulsa, OK
Many who experience a painting of Patricia Larsen think it’s the work of a Zen monk, someone who’s mastered the elements of purity - but it’s Larsen’s memories of playing in Albertan...
Mixed Media, Panel
Freeform Metal Dining Console Table by Artist Patricia Larsen
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Exquisite freeform and organic metal "Tumbleweed' table by Artist, Patricia Larsen. The organic and natural form of the base is accentuated by a substantial .75" kidney shaped gl...
Iron
HELLO SPRING
By Patricia Larsen
Located in Tulsa, OK
Hello Spring by artist Patricia Larsen is a pink, green, purple, and white contemporary abstract mixed media on panel that measures 36 x 24 and is priced at $2,700.
Mixed Media, Panel
Hope
By Julia Contacessi
Located in Westport, CT
Also finding beauty in the contrasting nature of things, much like artist Patricia Larsen, is what Julia seeks through her work.
Mixed Media, Canvas
Glimpses Within
By Julia Contacessi
Located in Westport, CT
Also finding beauty in the contrasting nature of things, much like artist Patricia Larsen, is what Julia seeks through her work.
Acrylic Polymer, Oil, Canvas
Open
By Julia Contacessi
Located in Westport, CT
Also finding beauty in the contrasting nature of things, much like artist Patricia Larsen, is what Julia seeks through her work.
Canvas, Mixed Media
Artic Melt
By Julia Contacessi
Located in Westport, CT
Also finding beauty in the contrasting nature of things, much like artist Patricia Larsen, is what Julia seeks through her work.
Acrylic Polymer, Canvas, Mixed Media
Away
By Julia Contacessi
Located in Westport, CT
Also finding beauty in the contrasting nature of things, much like artist Patricia Larsen, is what Julia seeks through her work.
Acrylic Polymer, Canvas, Mixed Media
WATER SHED
By Patricia Larsen
Located in Tulsa, OK
Water Shed by artist Patricia Larsen is a contemporary abstract pink and white mixed media on panel that measures 36 x 24 and is priced at $2,700.
Mixed Media, Panel
$2,057
H 39.38 in W 31.5 in D 0.79 in
Snow. Abstract Winter Landscape, Contemporary, Textured Art, Mixed Media
By Anna Shesterikova
Located in Oslo, NO
"Snow" is an atmospheric abstract landscape from the "Golden Series" by Swiss artist Anna Shesterikova. Combinations of acrylic, natural stone, sand, structural acrylic paste and epo...
Canvas, Epoxy Resin, Acrylic
Recollections, Mixed Media on Canvas
By Laura Spring
Located in Yardley, PA
Thank you for looking at my artwork ! This one of a kind painting is done in acrylic and mixed media, with collage elements, bronze accents . I try my best to represent the true colo...
Mixed Media
$450
H 8 in W 8 in D 1.75 in
"Elements 3025" Abstract Mixed Media Layered Composition on Baltic Birch Panel
By Christie Owen
Located in New York, NY
This piece Owen depicts an abstract composition with the use of mixed media and bold patterns producing work which is visually textured and rich with layers and is a part of the arti...
Acrylic, Resin, Wood Panel, Laid Paper
$2,050
H 19 in W 13 in D 2 in
Clarity 2 Encaustic Painting on Panel, Abstract, Framed, 21st Century
By Amy Van Winkle
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Encaustic on panel. It's simple; I create art because it makes me happy. I try not to overthink the process of what I’m painting and let my intuition be my guide. I love laying do...
Encaustic
$4,900
H 36 in W 48 in D 2 in
Lineto I (Abstract Encaustic and Collage Painting on Linen)
By Alaina Enslen
Located in Hudson, NY
"Lineto I" made by Hudson Valley artist, Alaina Enslen, in 2025 Encaustic, dyed fabrics, and paper mounted on panel 36 x 48 x 2 inches unframed, sides reveal raw panel and wrapped fa...
Fabric, Encaustic, Linen, Monotype
$450
H 8 in W 8 in D 1.75 in
"Elements 3069" Abstract Mixed Media Layered Composition on Baltic Birch Panel
By Christie Owen
Located in New York, NY
This piece Owen depicts an abstract composition with the use of mixed media and bold patterns producing work which is visually textured and rich with layers and is a part of the arti...
Sandstone
Earth III
By Beth Pedersen
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original encaustic monotype on paper by American female artist Beth Pedersen created in 2015.
Encaustic, Paper
$640
H 16 in W 20 in
A Lived Life: Abstract Expressionist Mixed-Media Painting, 2010s, New, 16x20
By Melanie Biehle
Located in SEATTLE, WA
A quiet field of terracotta, bronze, and pale bone drifts across the canvas, its surface fractured by a fine network of cracks that catch the light like sun-baked earth. The composit...
Limestone, Marble
$450
H 8 in W 8 in D 1.75 in
"Elements 3030" Abstract Mixed Media Layered Composition on Baltic Birch Panel
By Christie Owen
Located in New York, NY
This piece Owen depicts an abstract composition with the use of mixed media and bold patterns producing work which is visually textured and rich with layers and is a part of the arti...
Resin, Acrylic, Wood Panel
From Now On, Abstract Painting
By Julie Weaverling
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
In a continuing exploration of artist Julie Weaverling's love of blue, she started this painting with experimentation and developed the modernist abstraction ...
Mixed Media
$9,500
H 60 in W 48 in D 1 in
Kansas, Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting on Board by Jim Jacobs
By Jim Jacobs
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jim Jacobs, American (1945 - ) Title: Kansas Year: 1983 Medium: Oil on Aluminum Laid Board, signed and dated verso Size: 60 in. x 48 in. x 1 in. (152.4 cm x 121.92 cm x 2.54 cm)
Oil, Board
Wave
By Lisa Weiss
Located in Tulsa, OK
Wave by artist Lisa Weiss is an abstract contemporary grey, blue, and orange mixed media painting that measures 20 x 13 and is priced at $900. Lisa Weiss’ work is about mark making,...
Mixed Media, Panel, Archival Paper
Navigation
By Lisa Weiss
Located in Tulsa, OK
Navigation by artist Lisa Weiss is a contemporary abstract blue, turquoise, grey, and yellow mixed media on panel that measures 30 x 20 and is priced at $1,500. Lisa Weiss’ work is...
Mixed Media, Panel, Archival Pigment
Elevation
By Lisa Weiss
Located in Tulsa, OK
Elevation by artist Lisa Weiss is a contemporary gray, white, black, yellow, and turquoise mixed media on panel that measures 30 x 20 and is priced at $1,500. Lisa Weiss’ work is a...
Mixed Media, Panel, Archival Paper
131 Cave's Starlight, Mixed Media on Canvas
By Anne B Schwartz
Located in Yardley, PA
This is a little gem of a painting. From my Crystal Aura series, The painting glows. It reminds me of a cave with stars lighting it. It is a darker painting and will look best in a r...
Mixed Media
$1,600
H 51.19 in W 31.89 in D 1.58 in
French Contemporary Abstract Art by J.-L. Veret - Midnight
By Jean-Luc Veret
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic & marouflaged paper mounted on canvas Jean-Luc Veret is a French artist born in 1953 who lives & works between Paris & Corancy, France. He recognizes himself as a protean ar...
Acrylic, Handmade Paper
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.