Big Orange
By Richard Gorman
Located in Dublin, IE
'Big Orange' by Richard Gorman is a woodblock print in two sections, which, framed together forms
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Prints
Woodcut
Big Orange
By Richard Gorman
Located in Dublin, IE
'Big Orange' by Richard Gorman is a woodblock print in two sections, which, framed together forms
Woodcut
Big Red
By Richard Gorman
Located in Dublin, IE
'Big Red' is a woodblock print by Richard Gorman. It is printed onto two sheets and they are
Intaglio
Dark Wave
By Richard Gorman
Located in Dublin, IE
Born in Dublin in 1946, Richard Gorman was educated in Ireland but has lived and worked in Milan
Intaglio
Sour
By Richard Gorman
Located in Dublin, IE
Born in Dublin in 1946, Richard Gorman was educated in Ireland but has lived and worked in Milan
Intaglio
KAN 2018 (Red Green)
By Richard Gorman
Located in Dublin, IE
KAN 2018 is a further exploration of the colour and abstraction by Irish artist Richard Gorman
Intaglio
KAN B
By Richard Gorman
Located in Dublin, IE
been hand-made for artists from re-cycled cotton t-shirts! Born in Dublin in 1946, Richard Gorman was
Intaglio
KAN III
By Richard Gorman
Located in Dublin, IE
been hand-made for artists from re-cycled cotton t-shirts! Born in Dublin in 1946, Richard Gorman was
Intaglio
KAN C
By Richard Gorman
Located in Dublin, IE
been hand-made for artists from re-cycled cotton t-shirts! Born in Dublin in 1946, Richard Gorman was
Intaglio
KAN I
By Richard Gorman
Located in Dublin, IE
been hand-made for artists from re-cycled cotton t-shirts! Born in Dublin in 1946, Richard Gorman was
KAN II
By Richard Gorman
Located in Dublin, IE
been hand-made for artists from re-cycled cotton t-shirts! Born in Dublin in 1946, Richard Gorman was
Intaglio
Landers I
By Richard Gorman
Located in Dublin, IE
, Richard Gorman was educated in Ireland but has lived and worked in Milan since the 1980s. He has exhibited
Stainless Steel
After the Sower
By Richard Gorman
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Richard Gorman is an internationally renowned painter and draftsman who has received critical
Canvas, Oil
Kappa, Delve, Spot-On
By Richard Gorman
Located in Dublin, IE
Born in Dublin in 1946, Richard Gorman was educated in Ireland but has lived and worked in Milan
Wood
Delve, Spot On, Kappa
By Richard Gorman
Located in Dublin, IE
Born in Dublin in 1946, Richard Gorman was educated in Ireland but has lived and worked in Milan
Wood
Acid Drop
By Richard Gorman
Located in Dublin, IE
Road Press in 2003. Born in Dublin in 1946, Richard Gorman was educated in Ireland but has lived and
Woodcut
Kan iv
By Richard Gorman
Located in Dublin, IE
been hand-made for artists from re-cycled cotton t-shirts! Born in Dublin in 1946, Richard Gorman was
Intaglio
KAN A
By Richard Gorman
Located in Dublin, IE
been hand-made for artists from re-cycled cotton t-shirts! Born in Dublin in 1946, Richard Gorman was
Intaglio
Sold
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Antique American Modernist Abstract Crashing Wave Seascape Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract seascape oil painting by Richard Michael Gorman Powers (1921
Canvas, Oil
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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