Pentagons - Stars & Blackholes
Located in New York, NY
"Patterns with regular pentagons are very interesting as empty spaces emerge between them and they reminded me of black holes lurking among the stars and galaxies in the fabric of th...
Canvas, Acrylic
Pentagons - Fractal
Located in New York, NY
The ratio between the sides and diagonals of a regular pentagon equals the golden ratio and this creates interesting patterns from five-point stars to fractal like images." - Shanthi...
Canvas, Acrylic
Multiverse - Triangle
Located in New York, NY
Using this artistic license, I have attempted to describe different universes using varied shapes and colors." - Shanthi Chandrasekar
Canvas, Acrylic
Multiverse - Square
Located in New York, NY
Using this artistic license, I have attempted to describe different universes using varied shapes and colors." - Shanthi Chandrasekar
Canvas, Acrylic
Time
Located in New York, NY
In my artistic vocabulary, the spiral line represents the flow of time." - Shanthi Chandrasekar
Paper, Pen
Chakra - Orange
Located in New York, NY
The dark spiral represents the passage of time through various cosmic events. " - Shanthi Chandrasekar
Canvas, Acrylic
Networks - Pentagon
Located in New York, NY
They serve as muse for my work as it sometimes involves visualizing the unknown through shapes and patterns that happen when playing with ink on paper, providing exciting opportuniti...
Paper, Ink, Pen
Cosmic Web - Quantun Form
Located in New York, NY
They serve as muse for my work as it sometimes involves visualizing the unknown through shapes and patterns that happen when playing with ink on paper, providing exciting opportuniti...
Paper, Ink, Pen
Cosmic Web - Filaments
Located in New York, NY
They serve as muse for my work as it sometimes involves visualizing the unknown through shapes and patterns that happen when playing with ink on paper, providing exciting opportuniti...
Paper, Ink, Pen
Black Holes & Wormholes - Red Orange
Located in New York, NY
They serve as muse for my work as it sometimes involves visualizing the unknown through shapes and patterns that happen when playing with ink on paper, providing exciting opportuniti...
Paper, Ink, Pen
Black Holes & Wormholes - Blue Green
Located in New York, NY
They serve as muse for my work as it sometimes involves visualizing the unknown through shapes and patterns that happen when playing with ink on paper, providing exciting opportuniti...
Paper, Ink, Pen
Time Crystals - Hexagon
Located in New York, NY
They serve as muse for my work as it sometimes involves visualizing the unknown through shapes and patterns that happen when playing with ink on paper, providing exciting opportuniti...
Paper, Ink, Pen
Time Crystals - Square, 2023
Located in New York, NY
They serve as muse for my work as it sometimes involves visualizing the unknown through shapes and patterns that happen when playing with ink on paper, providing exciting opportuniti...
Paper, Ink, Pen
Multiverse - Polarization
Located in New York, NY
The possibility of these hypothetical universes having different geometries, constants or even laws of physics as we know inspired me to create this series of paintings." - Shanthi C...
Canvas, Acrylic
Multiverse - Fractals
Located in New York, NY
The possibility of these hypothetical universes having different geometries, constants or even laws of physics as we know inspired me to create this series of paintings." - Shanthi C...
Canvas, Acrylic
Multiverse - Circle
Located in New York, NY
The possibility of these hypothetical universes having different geometries, constants or even laws of physics as we know inspired me to create this series of paintings." - Shanthi C...
Canvas, Acrylic
Multiverse - Square
Located in New York, NY
The possibility of these hypothetical universes having different geometries, constants or even laws of physics as we know inspired me to create this series of paintings." - Shanthi C...
Canvas, Acrylic
Multiverse - Random
Located in New York, NY
The possibility of these hypothetical universes having different geometries, constants or even laws of physics as we know inspired me to create this series of paintings." - Shanthi C...
Canvas, Acrylic
Fields - Particles
Located in New York, NY
Shanthi Chandrasekar has been drawing and painting since early childhood, and has been trained in the traditional art forms of Kolam and Tanjore-style painting.
Paper, Ink, Pen
Cosmic Vibrations - Blue Shift
Located in New York, NY
The wavelength of the light travelling towards us gets compressed and blue-shifted, inspiring this blue painting made of dots and the spiral of time." - Shanthi Chandrasekar
Canvas, Acrylic
Particles & Waves
Located in New York, NY
The alternating black and white dots and waves represent visible light and its theoretical counterparts." - Shanthi Chandrasekar
Paper, Ink, Pen
Waves - Overlap
Located in New York, NY
Shanthi Chandrasekar is a multimedia and multidisciplinary artist from Maryland who has also been trained in the traditional art forms of Kolam and Tanjore-style painting.
Canvas, Acrylic
Particles and Fields
Located in New York, NY
Shanthi Chandrasekar is a multimedia and multidisciplinary artist from Maryland who has also been trained in the traditional art forms of Kolam and Tanjore-style painting.
Canvas, Acrylic
Big Bang Inflation
Located in New York, NY
Shanthi Chandrasekar is a multimedia and multidisciplinary artist from Maryland who has also been trained in the traditional art forms of Kolam and Tanjore-style painting.
Canvas, Acrylic
Cosmic Networks
Located in New York, NY
Shanthi Chandrasekar has been trained in the traditional art forms of Kolam and Tanjore-style painting.
Resin, Paper, Ink, Pen
Black Holes & Filaments
Located in New York, NY
Shanthi Chandrasekar has been trained in the traditional art forms of Kolam and Tanjore-style painting.
Resin, Paper, Ink, Pen
Voids & Filaments
Located in New York, NY
Shanthi Chandrasekar has been trained in the traditional art forms of Kolam and Tanjore-style painting.
Thread, Resin, Paper, Pen
Multiverses
Located in New York, NY
Shanthi Chandrasekar has been trained in the traditional art forms of Kolam and Tanjore-style painting.
Resin, Ink, Pen
Black Holes & Voids
Located in New York, NY
Shanthi Chandrasekar has been trained in the traditional art forms of Kolam and Tanjore-style painting.
Resin, Paper, Ink, Pen
Voronoi Tesselation
Located in New York, NY
Shanthi Chandrasekar has been trained in the traditional art forms of Kolam and Tanjore-style painting.
Resin, Paper, Ink, Pen
Strings
Located in New York, NY
Shanthi Chandrasekar has been trained in the traditional art forms of Kolam and Tanjore-style painting.
Thread, Resin, Paper, Ink, Pen
Clusters
Located in New York, NY
Shanthi Chandrasekar has been trained in the traditional art forms of Kolam and Tanjore-style painting.
Resin, Paper, Ink, Pen
Supernova
Located in New York, NY
The process leading to the supernova became the narrative for this drawing." - Shanthi Chandrasekar
Ink, Archival Paper, Pen
Waves
Located in New York, NY
Shanthi Chandrasekar has been drawing and painting since early childhood, and has been trained in the traditional art forms of Kolam and Tanjore-style painting.
Paper, Ink, Pen
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.