Paper Lake, Abstract Expressionist Screenprint by Kikuo Saito
By Kikuo Saito
Located in Long Island City, NY
Kikuo Saito, Japanese (1939 - 2016) - Paper Lake, Year: 1981, Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 160, HC, Image Size: 40 x 28 inches, Size: 42 in. x 29...
Screen
Onion Train, Large Abstract Silkscreen by Kikuo Saito
By Kikuo Saito
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Kikuo Saito, Japanese (1939 - 2016) Title: Onion Train Year: 1979 Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil Edition Size: 225 Size: 42 x 29.5 inches [106.68 x 74.93 cm]
Screen
Pink Square, Large Minimalist Abstract Screenprint by Kikuo Saito
By Kikuo Saito
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Kikuo Saito, Japanese (1939 - 2016) Title: Pink Square Year: 1979 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 225 Size: 42 x 29.5 inches [106.68 x 74.93 cm]
Screen
Beggar's Ladder, Large Abstract Geometric Screenprint by Kikuo Saito
By Kikuo Saito
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Kikuo Saito, Japanese (1939 - 2016) Title: Beggar's Ladder Year: 1980 Medium: Silkscreen, Signed and Numbered in Pencil Edition: 160 Size: 42 in. x 29.5 in. (106.68 cm x 74.9...
Screen
"Larry Beans" Kikuo Saito, Color Field, Lyrical Abstraction, Stain Painting
By Kikuo Saito
Located in New York, NY
Kikuo Saito Larry Beans, 1976 Signed and titled on the reverse Acrylic on canvas 36 x 42 inches Provenance The artist Gifted by the artist Private collection, New York Kikuo Saito...
Canvas, Acrylic
Kikuo Saito - Pink Square, silkscreen, signed/N Japanese Color Field artist
By Kikuo Saito
Located in New York, NY
Color silkscreen on wove paper Pencil signed and numbered from the limited edition of 225 Unframed Kikuo Saito (1939–2016) was a Japanese American abstract painter with ties to the C...
Screen
$6,000
#3
By Ryoko Endo
Located in New Orleans, LA
Endo also spent 10 years mentoring under second generation Abstract Expressionist artist, Kikuo Saito. Her studies with Saito have profoundly affected the way in which she approaches...
Ink, Archival Paper
$17,000
Blue Current
By Ryoko Endo
Located in New Orleans, LA
Endo also spent 10 years mentoring under second generation Abstract Expressionist artist, Kikuo Saito. Her studies with Saito have profoundly affected the way in which she approaches...
Canvas, Acrylic
Where Colors Remember IV
By Ryoko Endo
Located in New Orleans, LA
Endo also spent 10 years mentoring under second generation Abstract Expressionist artist, Kikuo Saito. Her studies with Saito have profoundly affected the way in which she approaches...
Canvas, Acrylic
$17,000
Blue Current
By Ryoko Endo
Located in New Orleans, LA
Endo also spent 10 years mentoring under second generation Abstract Expressionist artist, Kikuo Saito. Her studies with Saito have profoundly affected the way in which she approaches...
Canvas, Acrylic
$6,000
#2
By Ryoko Endo
Located in New Orleans, LA
Endo also spent 10 years mentoring under second generation Abstract Expressionist artist, Kikuo Saito. Her studies with Saito have profoundly affected the way in which she approaches...
Ink, Archival Paper
Where Colors Remember V
By Ryoko Endo
Located in New Orleans, LA
Endo also spent 10 years mentoring under second generation Abstract Expressionist artist, Kikuo Saito. Her studies with Saito have profoundly affected the way in which she approaches...
Canvas, Acrylic
Where Colors Remember I
By Ryoko Endo
Located in New Orleans, LA
Endo also spent 10 years mentoring under second generation Abstract Expressionist artist, Kikuo Saito. Her studies with Saito have profoundly affected the way in which she approaches...
Canvas, Acrylic
$21,000
Feral Bloom
By Ryoko Endo
Located in New Orleans, LA
Endo also spent 10 years mentoring under second generation Abstract Expressionist artist, Kikuo Saito. Her studies with Saito have profoundly affected the way in which she approaches...
Canvas, Acrylic
$3,800
Marigold
By Ryoko Endo
Located in New Orleans, LA
Endo also spent 10 years mentoring under second generation Abstract Expressionist artist, Kikuo Saito. Her studies with Saito have profoundly affected the way in which she approaches...
Canvas, Acrylic
$8,500
Almost
By Ryoko Endo
Located in New Orleans, LA
Endo also spent 10 years mentoring under second generation Abstract Expressionist artist, Kikuo Saito. Her studies with Saito have profoundly affected the way in which she approaches...
Canvas, Acrylic
Crescendo 2 (triptych)
By Ryoko Endo
Located in New Orleans, LA
Endo also spent 10 years mentoring under second generation Abstract Expressionist artist, Kikuo Saito. Her studies with Saito have profoundly affected the way in which she approaches...
Canvas, Acrylic
Crescendo (triptych)
By Ryoko Endo
Located in New Orleans, LA
Endo also spent 10 years mentoring under second generation Abstract Expressionist artist, Kikuo Saito. Her studies with Saito have profoundly affected the way in which she approaches...
Canvas, Acrylic
Spring Voice
By Ryoko Endo
Located in New Orleans, LA
Endo also spent 10 years mentoring under second generation Abstract Expressionist artist, Kikuo Saito. Her studies with Saito have profoundly affected the way in which she approaches...
Canvas, Acrylic
Dancing in the Night 1
By Ryoko Endo
Located in New Orleans, LA
Endo also spent 10 years mentoring under second generation Abstract Expressionist artist, Kikuo Saito. Her studies with Saito have profoundly affected the way in which she approaches...
Canvas, Acrylic
$24,000
Primavera
By Ryoko Endo
Located in New Orleans, LA
Endo also spent 10 years mentoring under second generation Abstract Expressionist artist, Kikuo Saito. Her studies with Saito have profoundly affected the way in which she approaches...
Canvas, Acrylic
Price Upon Request
Monologue Bijou
By Ryoko Endo
Located in New Orleans, LA
Upon moving to New York City in 1994, one of her instructors was second-generation Abstract Expressionist painter, Kikuo Saito. Saito inspired her to create colorful abstract paintin...
Canvas, Acrylic
Price Upon Request
Monologue Drew
By Ryoko Endo
Located in New Orleans, LA
Upon moving to New York City in 1994, one of her instructors was second-generation Abstract Expressionist painter, Kikuo Saito. Saito inspired her to create colorful abstract paintin...
Canvas, Acrylic
Price Upon Request
Monologue Frank
By Ryoko Endo
Located in New Orleans, LA
Upon moving to New York City in 1994, one of her instructors was second-generation Abstract Expressionist painter, Kikuo Saito. Saito inspired her to create colorful abstract paintin...
Canvas, Acrylic
Price Upon Request
Happy Swing
By Ryoko Endo
Located in New Orleans, LA
Upon moving to New York City in 1994, one of her instructors was second-generation Abstract Expressionist painter, Kikuo Saito. Saito inspired her to create colorful abstract paintin...
Canvas, Acrylic
Price Upon Request
Monologue Adal
By Ryoko Endo
Located in New Orleans, LA
Upon moving to New York City in 1994, one of her instructors was second-generation Abstract Expressionist painter, Kikuo Saito. Saito inspired her to create colorful abstract paintin...
Canvas, Acrylic
Price Upon Request
Hey Mom, There's a Monkey on the Phone
By Ryoko Endo
Located in New Orleans, LA
Upon moving to New York City in 1994, one of her instructors was second-generation Abstract Expressionist painter, Kikuo Saito. Saito inspired her to create colorful abstract paintin...
Canvas, Acrylic
Price Upon Request
When Watermelon Breaks in Your Hands
By Ryoko Endo
Located in New Orleans, LA
Upon moving to New York City in 1994, one of her instructors was second-generation Abstract Expressionist painter, Kikuo Saito. Saito inspired her to create colorful abstract paintin...
Canvas, Acrylic
Price Upon Request
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By Ryoko Endo
Located in New Orleans, LA
One of her instructors, Kikuo Saito, inspired her to create colorful abstract paintings, which continues to be her focus today.
Paper, Mixed Media
Untitled
Located in Austin, TX
At the same time, he befriended emerging artists Kikuo Saito and Larry Poons, who have since become increasingly important post-war painters in their own right.
Canvas, Raw Linen, Oil
Untitled
Located in Austin, TX
At the same time, he befriended emerging artists Kikuo Saito and Larry Poons, who have since become increasingly important post-war painters in their own right.
Canvas, Oil, Raw Linen
Yellow Tail I
By Sherron Francis
Located in Austin, TX
By 1980, she was also creating clay works and exhibiting them alongside Kikuo Saito and Betty Woodman. In 1983, art historian Jack Flam selected one of Francis’ paintings in his 16-w...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Paper Lake, Large Abstract Expressionist Screenprint by Kikuo Saito
By Kikuo Saito
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Kikuo Saito, Japanese (1939 - 2016) Title: Paper Lake Year: 1979 Medium: Silkscreen with Collage, Signed in Pencil l.r.
Screen
Crimson
By Kikuo Saito
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Kikuo Saito’s rich constellations of gestural works offer deliberate evidence of the artist’s hand.
Canvas, Oil
Blue Harp
By Kikuo Saito
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Kikuo Saito’s rich constellations of gestural works offer deliberate evidence of the artist’s hand.
Canvas, Oil
Alligator's Noon
By Kikuo Saito
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Abstract
Acrylic, Canvas
Coral Reef II
By Frank Chiodo
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Abstract art, abstract painting, abstract expressionist, acrylic, acrylic paintings, biogrammatic art, conceptual paintings, Kikuo Saito, Jackson Pollock, Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, ...
Acrylic
Dancing Lights
By Frank Chiodo
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Abstract art, abstract painting, abstract expressionist, acrylic, acrylic paintings, biogrammatic art, conceptual paintings, Kikuo Saito, Jackson Pollock, Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, ...
Acrylic
Coral Reef I
By Frank Chiodo
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Abstract art, abstract painting, abstract expressionist, acrylic, acrylic paintings, biogrammatic art, conceptual paintings, Kikuo Saito, Jackson Pollock, Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, ...
Acrylic
garden city
By Frank Chiodo
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Abstract art, abstract painting, abstract expressionist, acrylic, acrylic paintings, biogrammatic art, conceptual paintings, Kikuo Saito, Jackson Pollock, Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, ...
Acrylic
Underwater Treasures
By Frank Chiodo
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Abstract art, abstract painting, abstract expressionist, acrylic, acrylic paintings, biogrammatic art, conceptual paintings, Kikuo Saito, Jackson Pollock, Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, ...
Acrylic
flashback path
By Frank Chiodo
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Abstract art, abstract painting, abstract expressionist, acrylic, acrylic paintings, biogrammatic art, conceptual paintings, Kikuo Saito, Jackson Pollock, Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, ...
Acrylic
Nighttime reflections
By Frank Chiodo
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Abstract art, abstract painting, abstract expressionist, acrylic, acrylic paintings, biogrammatic art, conceptual paintings, Kikuo Saito, Jackson Pollock, Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, ...
Acrylic
Morning Dew
By Frank Chiodo
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Abstract art, abstract painting, abstract expressionist, acrylic, acrylic paintings, biogrammatic art, conceptual paintings, Kikuo Saito, Jackson Pollock, Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, ...
Acrylic
Aquatic Jungle
By Frank Chiodo
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Abstract art, abstract painting, abstract expressionist, acrylic, acrylic paintings, biogrammatic art, conceptual paintings, Kikuo Saito, Jackson Pollock, Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, ...
Acrylic
Growing Season
By Frank Chiodo
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Abstract art, abstract painting, abstract expressionist, acrylic, acrylic paintings, biogrammatic art, conceptual paintings, Kikuo Saito, Jackson Pollock, Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, ...
Acrylic
Mystical Dreamland
By Frank Chiodo
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Abstract art, abstract painting, abstract expressionist, acrylic, acrylic paintings, biogrammatic art, conceptual paintings, Kikuo Saito, Jackson Pollock, Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, ...
Acrylic
white mist
By Frank Chiodo
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Abstract art, abstract painting, abstract expressionist, acrylic, acrylic paintings, biogrammatic art, conceptual paintings, Kikuo Saito, Jackson Pollock, Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, ...
Acrylic
Leap of Faith
By Frank Chiodo
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Abstract art, abstract painting, abstract expressionist, acrylic, acrylic paintings, biogrammatic art, conceptual paintings, Kikuo Saito, Jackson Pollock, Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, ...
Acrylic
Right round
By Frank Chiodo
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Abstract art, abstract painting, abstract expressionist, acrylic, acrylic paintings, biogrammatic art, conceptual paintings, Kikuo Saito, Jackson Pollock, Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, ...
Acrylic
Jumping Dreamer
By Frank Chiodo
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Abstract art, abstract painting, abstract expressionist, acrylic, acrylic paintings, biogrammatic art, conceptual paintings, Kikuo Saito, Jackson Pollock, Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, ...
Acrylic
Land of Oz
By Frank Chiodo
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Abstract art, abstract painting, abstract expressionist, acrylic, acrylic paintings, biogrammatic art, conceptual paintings, Kikuo Saito, Jackson Pollock, Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, ...
Acrylic
Blue Dream
By Frank Chiodo
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Abstract art, abstract painting, abstract expressionist, acrylic, acrylic paintings, biogrammatic art, conceptual paintings, Kikuo Saito, Jackson Pollock, Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, ...
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
Fly fishing
By Frank Chiodo
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Abstract art, abstract painting, abstract expressionist, acrylic, acrylic paintings, biogrammatic art, conceptual paintings, Kikuo Saito, Jackson Pollock, Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, ...
Acrylic
river jumping
By Frank Chiodo
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Abstract art, abstract painting, abstract expressionist, acrylic, acrylic paintings, biogrammatic art, conceptual paintings, Kikuo Saito, Jackson Pollock, Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, ...
Acrylic
Ethereal Vista
By Frank Chiodo
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Abstract art, abstract painting, abstract expressionist, acrylic, acrylic paintings, biogrammatic art, conceptual paintings, Kikuo Saito, Jackson Pollock, Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, ...
Acrylic
Border line
By Frank Chiodo
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Abstract art, abstract painting, abstract expressionist, acrylic, acrylic paintings, biogrammatic art, conceptual paintings, Kikuo Saito, Jackson Pollock, Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, ...
Acrylic
In the middle of the night
By Frank Chiodo
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Abstract art, abstract painting, abstract expressionist, acrylic, acrylic paintings, biogrammatic art, conceptual paintings, Kikuo Saito, Jackson Pollock, Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, ...
Acrylic
Magic Hour
By Frank Chiodo
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Abstract art, abstract painting, abstract expressionist, acrylic, acrylic paintings, biogrammatic art, conceptual paintings, Kikuo Saito, Jackson Pollock, Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, ...
Acrylic
Boulder Pass
By Frank Chiodo
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Abstract art, abstract painting, abstract expressionist, acrylic, acrylic paintings, biogrammatic art, conceptual paintings, Kikuo Saito, Jackson Pollock, Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, ...
Acrylic
Decisive Moment
By Frank Chiodo
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Abstract art, abstract painting, abstract expressionist, acrylic, acrylic paintings, biogrammatic art, conceptual paintings, Kikuo Saito, Jackson Pollock, Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, ...
Acrylic
White Noise
By Frank Chiodo
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Abstract art, abstract painting, abstract expressionist, acrylic, acrylic paintings, biogrammatic art, conceptual paintings, Kikuo Saito, Jackson Pollock, Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, ...
Acrylic
Stormy seas
By Frank Chiodo
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Abstract art, abstract painting, abstract expressionist, acrylic, acrylic paintings, biogrammatic art, conceptual paintings, Kikuo Saito, Jackson Pollock, Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, ...
Acrylic
Firefly Ballet
By Frank Chiodo
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Abstract art, abstract painting, abstract expressionist, acrylic, acrylic paintings, biogrammatic art, conceptual paintings, Kikuo Saito, Jackson Pollock, Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, ...
Acrylic
Elephant in the Jazz Room
By Frank Chiodo
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Abstract art, abstract painting, abstract expressionist, acrylic, acrylic paintings, biogrammatic art, conceptual paintings, Kikuo Saito, Jackson Pollock, Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, ...
Acrylic
Sold
H 22 in W 93 in
"Seven Causeways, " Kikuo Saito, Abstract Expressionism, Lyrical Abstraction
By Kikuo Saito
Located in New York, NY
Kikuo Saito Seven Causeways, 1977 Signed and dated on the reverse Acrylic on canvas 22 x 93 inches Provenance: Viart Corporation, New York Private Collection, Connecticut (acquired ...
Canvas, Acrylic
Sold
H 51 in W 54 in
"Orange Tent" Kikuo Saito, Color Field Abstract Expressionism, Japanese-American
By Kikuo Saito
Located in New York, NY
Kikuo Saito Orange Tent, 1987 Signed, titled and dated on the reverse Acrylic on canvas 49 x 52 inches Provenance: Southam Family, Montreal (acquired directly from the artist in the...
Canvas, Acrylic
Persian Drum
By Kikuo Saito
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Persian Drum is an abstract oil on canvas executed in saturated oranges, yellows, pinks and greens by Post War artist Kikuo Saito.
Oil
Spider's Hat
By Kikuo Saito
Located in New Orleans, LA
Kikuo Saito was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1939 and moved to New York City in 1966.
Canvas, Oil
Golden Shadow
By Kikuo Saito
Located in New Orleans, LA
Kikuo Saito was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1939 and moved to New York City in 1966.
Canvas, Oil
Persian Hat
By Kikuo Saito
Located in New Orleans, LA
Kikuo Saito was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1939 and moved to New York City in 1966.
Canvas, Oil
Blue Ladder II
By Kikuo Saito
Located in New Orleans, LA
Kikuo Saito was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1939 and moved to New York City in 1966.
Canvas, Oil
Turkish Rock
By Kikuo Saito
Located in New Orleans, LA
Kikuo Saito was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1939 and moved to New York City in 1966.
Canvas, Oil
Oda
By Kikuo Saito
Located in New Orleans, LA
Kikuo Saito was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1939 and moved to New York City in 1966.
Canvas, Oil
Tobari
By Kikuo Saito
Located in New Orleans, LA
Kikuo Saito was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1939 and moved to New York City in 1966.
Canvas, Oil
Crocodile Boogie, abstract contemporary Asian work
By Kikuo Saito
Located in New York, NY
Japanese born and trained Kikuo Saito (1939–2016) moved to New York in 1966 where he worked as a carpenter while acting as studio assistant to Helen Frankenthaler, Kenneth Noland, an...
Oil
Arabi
By Kikuo Saito
Located in New Orleans, LA
Kikuo Saito was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1939 and moved to New York City in 1966.
Canvas, Oil
African Red
By Kikuo Saito
Located in New Orleans, LA
Kikuo Saito was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1939 and moved to New York City in 1966.
Canvas, Oil
Marimo
By Kikuo Saito
Located in New Orleans, LA
Kikuo Saito was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1939 and moved to New York City in 1966.
Canvas, Oil
Spanish Ghost
By Kikuo Saito
Located in Austin, TX
Provenance Salander O’Reilly Galleries, New York Private Collection, Connecticut Provenance Estate of Samuel Feinstein McCormick Gallery, Chicago Kikuo Saito was born in Tokyo in 1...
Canvas, Acrylic
WHITE MOON III
By Kikuo Saito
Located in Three Oaks, MI
Oil on canvas.
Oil
TREE SONG
By Kikuo Saito
Located in Three Oaks, MI
oil on canvas
Oil
SWING
By Kikuo Saito
Located in Three Oaks, MI
acrylic on canvas
Acrylic
The Lost Trail
By Ryoko Endo
Located in New Orleans, LA
Upon moving to New York City in 1994, one of her instructors was second-generation Abstract Expressionist painter, Kikuo Saito. Saito inspired her to create colorful abstract paintin...
Canvas, Acrylic
A Brand New Day With You
By Ryoko Endo
Located in New Orleans, LA
Upon moving to New York City in 1994, one of her instructors was second-generation Abstract Expressionist painter, Kikuo Saito. Saito inspired her to create colorful abstract paintin...
Canvas, Acrylic
I Hate When Nice Things Break
By Ryoko Endo
Located in New Orleans, LA
Upon moving to New York City in 1994, one of her instructors was second-generation Abstract Expressionist painter, Kikuo Saito. Saito inspired her to create colorful abstract paintin...
Canvas, Acrylic
The Wind and the Wall
By Ryoko Endo
Located in New Orleans, LA
Upon moving to New York City in 1994, one of her instructors was second-generation Abstract Expressionist painter, Kikuo Saito. Saito inspired her to create colorful abstract paintin...
Canvas, Acrylic
Isson 2
By Ryoko Endo
Located in New Orleans, LA
Upon moving to New York City in 1994, one of her instructors was second-generation Abstract Expressionist painter, Kikuo Saito. Saito inspired her to create colorful abstract paintin...
Canvas, Acrylic
Lazy on the Sand
By Ryoko Endo
Located in New Orleans, LA
Upon moving to New York City in 1994, one of her instructors was second-generation Abstract Expressionist painter, Kikuo Saito. Saito inspired her to create colorful abstract paintin...
Canvas, Acrylic
Scene 2
By Ryoko Endo
Located in New Orleans, LA
Endo also spent 10 years mentoring under second generation Abstract Expressionist artist, Kikuo Saito. Her studies with Saito have profoundly affected the way in which she approaches...
Canvas, 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.
Bring audacious experiments with color and textures to your living room, dining room or home office. Abstract paintings, large or small, will stand out in your space, encouraging conversation and introducing a museum-like atmosphere that’s welcoming and conducive to creating memorable gatherings.
Abstract art has origins in 19th-century Europe, but it came into its own as a significant movement during the 20th century. Early practitioners of abstraction included Wassily Kandinsky, although painters were exploring nonfigurative art prior to the influential Russian artist’s efforts, which were inspired by music and religion. Abstract painters endeavored to create works that didn’t focus on the outside world’s conventional subjects, and even when artists depicted realistic subjects, they worked in an abstract mode to do so.
In 1940s-era New York City, a group of painters working in the abstract mode created radical work that looked to European avant-garde artists as well as to the art of ancient cultures, prioritizing improvisation, immediacy and direct personal expression. While they were never formally affiliated with one another, we know them today as Abstract Expressionists.
The male contingent of the Abstract Expressionists, which includes Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Robert Motherwell, is frequently cited in discussing leading figures of this internationally influential postwar art movement. However, the women of Abstract Expressionism, such as Helen Frankenthaler, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell and others, were equally involved in the art world of the time. Sexism, family obligations and societal pressures contributed to a long history of their being overlooked, but the female Abstract Expressionists experimented vigorously, developed their own style and produced significant bodies of work.
Draw your guests into abstract oil paintings across different eras and countries of origin. On 1stDibs, you’ll find an expansive range of abstract paintings along with a guide on how to arrange your wonderful new wall art.
If you’re working with a small living space, a colorful, oversize work can create depth in a given room, but there isn’t any need to overwhelm your interior with a sprawling pièce de résistance. Colorful abstractions of any size can pop against a white wall in your living room, but if you’re working with a colored backdrop, you may wish to stick to colors that complement the decor that is already in the space. Alternatively, let your painting make a statement on its own, regardless of its surroundings, or group it, gallery-style, with other works.
The Italian-American’s 2020 abstract painting “The Hoe” personifies his “art of not knowing.”
In his current show at New York's Lehmann Maupin gallery, the Puerto Rican–born talent reveals new paintings with a semiautobiographical aspect.