Blue Floor
Located in New York, NY
Ruby Palmer’s new wall constructions and cut paper pieces occupy her favorite format: the liminal
2010s Abstract Geometric Abstract Sculptures
Wood, Acrylic
Blue Floor
Located in New York, NY
Ruby Palmer’s new wall constructions and cut paper pieces occupy her favorite format: the liminal
Wood, Acrylic
Searching for Pools
Located in New York, NY
Ruby Palmer’s new wall constructions and cut paper pieces occupy her favorite format: the liminal
Wood, Acrylic
Wrap Around
Located in New York, NY
Ruby Palmer’s new wall constructions and cut paper pieces occupy her favorite format: the liminal
Wood, Acrylic
Blue/Pink
Located in New York, NY
Ruby Palmer’s new wall constructions and cut paper pieces occupy her favorite format: the liminal
Wood
Wall Dance II
Located in New York, NY
Ruby Palmer’s new wall constructions and cut paper pieces occupy her favorite format: the liminal
Wood, Acrylic
Wooden Quilt
Located in New York, NY
Ruby Palmer’s new wall constructions and cut paper pieces occupy her favorite format: the liminal
Wood, Acrylic
Sister Golden Hair
Located in New York, NY
Ruby Palmer’s new wall constructions and cut paper pieces occupy her favorite format: the liminal
Wood, Acrylic
Blue Orange Stack
Located in New York, NY
Ruby Palmer’s new wall constructions and cut paper pieces occupy her favorite format: the liminal
Wood, Acrylic
Spine
Located in New York, NY
Ruby Palmer’s new wall constructions and cut paper pieces occupy her favorite format: the liminal
Wood, Acrylic
Pink Green Stack
Located in New York, NY
Ruby Palmer’s new wall constructions and cut paper pieces occupy her favorite format: the liminal
Wood, Acrylic
Quilter's Lament
Located in New York, NY
Ruby Palmer’s new wall constructions and cut paper pieces occupy her favorite format: the liminal
Fabric, Muslin, Plastic, Paper, Acrylic
Ampersand
Located in New York, NY
Ruby Palmer’s new wall constructions and cut paper pieces occupy her favorite format: the liminal
Wood, Acrylic
Flower Series: Hot Pink and Red
Located in New York, NY
Ruby Palmer was born in Boston, MA and grew up in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. Trained as an
Paper
Watching Cardinals
Located in New York, NY
Ruby Palmer was born in Boston, MA and grew up in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. Trained as an
Paper
Marking Days
Located in New York, NY
Ruby Palmer was born in Boston, MA and grew up in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. Trained as an
Paper
Flower Series: Single Purple and Red With Blue Center
Located in New York, NY
Ruby Palmer was born in Boston, MA and grew up in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. Trained as an
Paper
Flower Series: Black with Yellow on Bright Blue
Located in New York, NY
Ruby Palmer was born in Boston, MA and grew up in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. Trained as an
Paper
Flower Series: Single White and Black with Red Center
Located in New York, NY
Ruby Palmer was born in Boston, MA and grew up in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. Trained as an
Paper
Flower Series: Purple and Green on Light Turquoise
Located in New York, NY
Ruby Palmer was born in Boston, MA and grew up in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. Trained as an
Paper
Flower Series: Grouping
Located in New York, NY
Ruby Palmer was born in Boston, MA and grew up in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. Trained as an
Paper
Wave
Located in New York, NY
Ruby Palmer was born in Boston, MA and grew up in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. Trained as an
Paper, Acrylic
Flower Series: Turquoise and Blue on Dark Grey
Located in New York, NY
Ruby Palmer was born in Boston, MA and grew up in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. Trained as an
Paper
Flower Series: Swirl
Located in New York, NY
Ruby Palmer was born in Boston, MA and grew up in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. Trained as an
Paper
Diamond, Sapphire and Ruby Handmade Unique Mixed Gold Autumn Art Nouveau Ring
By Julie Anne Palmer
Located in Birmingham, GB
handmade in 9k yellow, white and rose gold. It is set with good quality rubies, sapphires and diamonds all
Diamond, White Diamond, Ruby, Sapphire, Blue Sapphire, Rose Gold, White ...
Rainbow Stack
Located in New York, NY
Ruby Palmer’s new wall constructions and cut paper pieces occupy her favorite format: the liminal
Wood, Acrylic
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.