Abstract Abstract Paintings
ABSTRACT STYLE
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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Style: Abstract
Labyrinth XXXI
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Painting. Geometric style. Oils on canvas.
About the Artist:
I work in a style I call Geometric Surrealism, abstracting physical ...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Line Color Form Number 1
By Albert Manchak
Located in New York, NY
Line, Color, Form Number 1, 1959, by Albert Manchak (b. 1925)
Oil on canvas
35 ½ x 35 ½ inches unframed
37 x 37 inches framed
Signed on bottom right
Lab...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Violet III
Located in SAINT-PAUL-DE-VENCE, FR
Collection personnelle de l'artiste Monique Frydman.
Category
1990s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Pigment
Interject
By Behzad Tabar
Located in ATLANTA, GA
About Behzad Tabar
My background is in fine and graphic arts, working in a wide range of styles and mediums. My painting has evolved from realism, to surrealism, to abstract. I am mo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Abstract Expressionist painting- Namaste
Located in Beijing, CN
Description:
Wan Rui
acrylic on canvas
150 x 170cm
dated 2020
About Wan Rui
Wan rui is a chinese contemporary artist, born in 1970 in Hunan, China. The artist received her MA fro...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Commencement 13
By Behzad Tabar
Located in ATLANTA, GA
About Behzad Tabar
My background is in fine and graphic arts, working in a wide range of styles and mediums. My painting has evolved from realism, to surrealism, to abstract. I am mo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Water Mirror
By Ira Barkoff
Located in Greenwich, CT
Abstract Expressionist seascape oil painting.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Becoming Us
Located in New York, NY
Isabel Turbán layers paintings with transfers, acrylic, charcoal, and other mixed media onto canvas or paper. Her abstract paintings manifest memory, cultural experience, and politi...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Whoosh
By James Walsh
Located in Boca Raton, FL
An abstract painter who has been an active member of the New York art scene since the early 1980s, James Walsh follows in the modernist tradition of Pollock in using art to reveal it...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Emerging from a history of innovative West Coast artists, who pioneered the Finish Fetish and Light and Space movements, Casper Brindle has mastered the industrial materials at his d...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Resin, Automotive Paint, Acrylic, Panel
Abstract Expressionist painting- Shared future for human beings
Located in Beijing, CN
Description:
Wan Rui
acrylic on canvas
150 x 100cm
dated 2022
About Wan Rui
Wan rui is a chinese contemporary artist, born in 1970 in Hunan, China. The artist received her MA fro...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Three Years
Located in New York, NY
Abstract painting. Geometric style. Acrylic & Satin Varnish on Canvas.
About the Artist:
Manhattan based mural and studio artist Tony “Rubin” Sjöman has painted all over the world and his works have been shown in galleries throughout the US and Europe.
Sjöman’s roots are in Finland and Sweden and he draws inspiration from his Scandinavian heritage for his complex abstract geometrical murals and studio works. Sjöman has become a staple of the art scene of New York City and beyond. His murals can be seen in a wide variety of spots in and around the city:
on churches, in hotels and high-end boutiques, in luxury high-rises throughout Manhattan and on the 69th floor of WTC 4.
Sjöman’s studio works are based on canvases, prints and installations and he is no stranger to painting on metal and wood. Rubin's studio works have been on display at Scope New York, Scope Miami and Art Miami during Art Basel, as well as in galleries throughout New York City, Miami and Los Angeles.
Sjöman’s art has been featured in NBC News, New York Post...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Varnish, Acrylic
The Source Index
Located in New York, NY
Abstract painting. Geometric style. Acrylic & Satin Varnish on Canvas.
About the Artist:
Manhattan based mural and studio artist Tony “Rubin” Sjöman has painted all over the world and his works have been shown in galleries throughout the US and Europe.
Sjöman’s roots are in Finland and Sweden and he draws inspiration from his Scandinavian heritage for his complex abstract geometrical murals and studio works. Sjöman has become a staple of the art scene of New York City and beyond. His murals can be seen in a wide variety of spots in and around the city:
on churches, in hotels and high-end boutiques, in luxury high-rises throughout Manhattan and on the 69th floor of WTC 4.
Sjöman’s studio works are based on canvases, prints and installations and he is no stranger to painting on metal and wood. Rubin's studio works have been on display at Scope New York, Scope Miami and Art Miami during Art Basel, as well as in galleries throughout New York City, Miami and Los Angeles.
Sjöman’s art has been featured in NBC News, New York Post...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Varnish, Acrylic
Portal-Glyph IV
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Working within the constraints of unyielding ninety-degree angles, Brindle applies color with a Fauvist abandon, creating works with an otherworldly presence.
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Silver, Gold Leaf
L.A. Nocturne #6
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Chromesthesia is a neurological phenomenon experienced in the synthesis of binary sensorial modalities (synesthesia) where sound and color converge into a joint perception. In his pa...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Geodesy 259
By Andy Moses
Located in Santa Monica, CA
A Los Angeles-based artist with a unique take on color and the relationship between space, shape and light. Andy Moses paints with pearlescent pigments on concave canvases, which cur...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Day Dream II . Abstract, Graffiti, Art Street, Modern, Plexiglass on wood framed
By Cari Cohen
Located in Miami, US
Day Dream I . 2022 Mixed Media abstract painting on Plexiglass on wood panel with white frame 251/2"H x251/2" 25.5"W x 1 1/2"D
Day Dream I is a colorful abstract painting. Has the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Plexiglass, Oil Pastel, Spray Paint, Watercolor
Bibi Nocturne XII, 2015, Oil and mixed media on canvas
By Robert Kelly
Located in Atlanta, GA
Drawing on his extensive travels, Robert Kelly’s painted collages contain found print and material from around the world. Kelly has included antique botanical drawings...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
No. 78, October 1985
Located in Quogue, NY
Acrylic on Paper
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Two Front
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Carlos J. Tirado (born on April 3, 1964 in Caracas, Venezuela) is an artist, painter and sculptor who has developed a very personal and precise line of work linked to Neo-Pop art. With plenty of personal art exhibitions, Tirado has participated in numerous collective exhibitions, receiving different awards such as “III Premio de Escultura” del Certamen Aires de Córdoba in 2004 and other recognitions, among them, at the Venezuelan Embassy in DC (2005), and the X Latin Art Festival of Atlanta (2005).
Childhood
Tirado grew up in an upper-middle-class family environment. His inclination for the arts started from an early age. At 8 years old, he was already experimenting with tridimensional forms, creating molds out of cast lead from pieces previously gathered on the streets. These first artistic experiences led by his inquisitive nature, provided the ground to continue exploring the possibilities with different materials like wood, waste and plaster. His childhood games were centered around painting and sculpting, which played an important role that ranged from recreational to aesthetics.
When Tirado turned 12 years of age, his parents agreed for him to attend private art classes with professor Javier Hernandez in Caracas. Later on, he realized that Art was a profession that required investment in materials, reason that led him to work at a furniture store painting landscapes and figurative art to decorate the exhibit room. He created numerous paintings of Caracas’ famous mountain: El Avila, and other art pieces that not only served as a source of income, but more importantly, led him to deepen his figurative expression.
In 1985, he started drawing comic sets for a renowned newspaper El Diario de Caracas, alongside Jorge Blanco...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
All Apologies, 2020 Mixed Media on Canvas 48 x 30 in.
By Justin Lyons
Located in Atlanta, GA
2020
Mixed Media on Canvas
48x48 in.
Signed by artist
Justin Lyon's credits his introduction into the world of street art as the spark that led him to his style of work. Over the next several years, Justin started to take his art production more seriously. Inspired by the li- ves and work of Cy Twombly, Barry McGee, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, Justin refined his process and worked to develop a style all his own which is both thought- provoked and thought-provoking.
Justin’s mediums include wood, acrylic, house paint, spray paint, oil stick, epoxy resin and pencil. He aims to produce art that sticks with the viewer long after they seen it. “What I am after is capturing the thoughts and feelings of the human condition with images and words that make you stop and think about what's in front of you.” Justin wants “to make honest art, raw art, vulnerable art...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Abstract Composition Inspired by Bach, Framed Abstract Watercolor Painting, Pink
Located in Denver, CO
Original vintage watercolor painting by twentieth century San Francisco woman artist, Hildegarde Haas (1926-2002). "Bach - English Suite No.2 in A Minor...
Category
20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Chance Encounters #4
Located in Singapore, SG
Consistent with Yeo Shih Yun’s long-standing fascination with spontaneous gestures, random occurrences and use of unconventional tools, the seven ink drawings in Chance Encounters《偶然...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper
June First
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Taking cues from the anti-figurative aesthetic of American Abstract Expressionists, Ripley’s process is one of spontaneity and gesture. Color is applied in broad strokes atop a black...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Luminous Black Waves . Organic sculpture on wood backlit with an LED light
By Cari Cohen
Located in Miami, US
LUMINOUS BLACK WAVES . A sculpture made by plaster and painted with acrylic and spray paint is assemble to the wood piece creating a unique peace illuminated from behind with a LED light box...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Plexiglass, Spray Paint, Plaster, Wood, LED Light, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Sostenido 7
Located in New York, NY
Miriam Peralta
Sostenido 7, 2012
Mixed media on paper
24h x 29.50w in
60.96h x 74.93w cm
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Far Arden
Located in New York, NY
Abstract painting. Geometric style. Acrylic & Satin Varnish on Canvas.
About the Artist:
Manhattan based mural and studio artist Tony “Rubin” Sjöman...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Cross Purpose Temple Series 9, Nicky Marais, abstract painting
By Nicky Marais
Located in Windhoek, NA
Cross Purpose Temple Series 9, 2022. Acrylic and acrylic ink on paper, 27 x 35cm
Nicky Marais is a Namibian artist, educator and activist who lives and works in Windhoek. Marais is ...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic
Origin
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Drawing from the ever-changing nature of California light, Gregg Renfrow works in translucent layers, pouring mixtures of polymer and pigment over sheets of cast acrylic. A disciple...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Pigment, Polymer
Lumina, ca. 1985
By Ben Wilson
Located in Quogue, NY
Oil on canvas
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Black Unicorn
By Mark Wilson
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The artist constructs his spirit animal through mixed media.
48" x 60"
Spray Paint, Oil, Construction Paper, Acrylic, Pastel, Marker
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Morphology 1101
By Andy Moses
Located in Santa Monica, CA
A Los Angeles-based artist with a unique take on color and the relationship between space, shape and light. Andy Moses paints with pearlescent pigments on concave canvases, which cur...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Después del desierto
Located in Barcelona, ES
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Cardboard
Waterfront Theatre
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Painting. Can be hung vertically or horizontally. Vibrant Colors. The surface is the result of an intriguing contrast. Acrylics glazed with resin. The acrylic’s softnes...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Epoxy Resin, Acrylic, Canvas
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
"Yellow"
By Rex Ashlock
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Rex Ashlock (1918 – 1999)
Born in Spokane, Washington in 1918 Rex Ashlock was known for his abstract, figurative expression...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Higher Ground
By Richard Saba
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Richard Saba, the American abstract painter, is best known for works that relate to Lyrical Abstraction and Abstract Expressionism. He is renowned for his colorful palette, appearing vastly open yet concise and analytically conceived.
The artist’s abstract works juxtapose geometric forms with organic splashes, much like celestial bodies seen through the Hubble Telescope...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Massive Explosion
By Joe Currie
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Painting. Vibrant Colors. Movement. Acrylic on Canvas.
About the Artist:
"Growing up in England during the 80s, the influence and love of American sub cultures through TV, and being surrounded by large non-spaces of US air bases around East Anglia, gave me a slightly odd and romantic view of America.
I finished the Masters Degree bronze-casting course at the Royal College of Art in 1999 and have pursued my passion for Art ever since. I have built up a body of work that follows the theme of a journey into abstraction, inspired by Robert Smithson, Donald Judd, Fiona Banner, Cornelia...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Blue and White
By Peter Lodato
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Lodato, Blue and White, 2017, oil on canvas, 48” x 36”, $14,500
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Paintings on paper "Nature-Universe-Tool" ( 50 pieces folder)
Located in Cuernavaca, Morelos
One piece made of a folder with 50 acrylic paintings on paper, with measures 29.5 x 20 cm each paper.
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Handmade Paper
Unbound
By David Bender
Located in New York, NY
Abstract piece on canvas. Textural quality from layering of paints. Not framed. But canvas is painted on the sides.
About the Artist:
David Bender is an award-winning Brook...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Cry me a River
Located in New York, NY
Vicky Barranguet found her own voice and colorful expression of life, emotions, and music through her studies with master painters, Larry Pons and William Scharf. Her spontaneous and...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
No. 72, September 1985
Located in Quogue, NY
Acrylic on Paper
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
RECTUS XVI
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Buscar Blue
By Peter Lodato
Located in Santa Monica, CA
A California native, Peter Lodato began making work in the late 1960s as part of the West Coast-specific Light and Space movement. Aligned with the concerns of his contemporaries, Lo...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Yellow Square, Red Square and Blue Triangle
By Marcel Janco
Located in London, GB
MARCEL JANCO 1895-1984
Bucarest 1895-1984 Ein Hod (Rumanian/Israeli)
Title: Yellow Square, Red Square and Blue Triangle
Technique: Original signed Oil ...
Category
20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Yellow Field, April 24, 2014
By Leora Armstrong
Located in New York, NY
Leora Armstrong grew up on the West Coast of Scotland surrounded by the sea, hills and Scottish weather. It was this changing light of the West Coast, upon the landscape, which happe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Red Diamond
By Peter Lodato
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Peter Lodato offers new oils on canvas, whose layers of paint and scumbled surfaces resonate like tuning forks to the soul.
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Should I go
Located in New York, NY
Vicky Barranguet found her own voice and colorful expression of life, emotions, and music through her studies with master painters, Larry Pons and William Scharf. Her spontaneous an...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Geomorphology 1706
By Andy Moses
Located in Santa Monica, CA
A Los Angeles-based artist with a unique take on color and the relationship between space, shape and light. Andy Moses paints with pearlescent pigments on concave canvases, which cur...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Creativity of Mind
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Painting. Can be hung vertically or horizontally. Muted hues. The surface is the result of an intriguing contrast. Acrylics glazed with resin. The acrylic’s softness an...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Resin, Acrylic, Canvas
Cloud Waves . Organic Sculpture on wood backlit with an LED light
By Cari Cohen
Located in Miami, US
Cloud sculpture. It is made up of a sculpture made of plaster and painted with acrylic and spray paint. The sculpture is assembled to a piece of painted wood, which in turn is assembled to a larger one, composing a single piece with several layers. The artwork is backlit with an LED light box...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Plaster, Wood, LED Light, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Dal più al meno (14)
Located in New York, NY
Roberto CARACCIOLO
Dal più al meno (14), 2016
Oil on canvas
57 1/2 x 72 inches
146 x 183 cm
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Sounds of Silence"
Located in Toronto, ON
Encaustic painting is an ancient art form and was practiced by artists as far back as the 5th century B.C. The word encaustic comes from Greek and means “to burn in”, which refers to...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Encaustic
F.P.L.P.1
By Rex Yuasa
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Yuasa achieves a brilliant, sensory color experience by layering acrylic, oil and alkyd paint over large square canvases. The artist uses the language of abstraction to express the c...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Alkyd
Stuttgart Series II No. 7, 1960s
Located in Quogue, NY
Acrylic on Canvas
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Tenri Composition
Located in New York, NY
Vicky Barranguet
Tenri Composition, 2016
Acrylic on canvas
40 x 60 in
(101.6h x 152.4w cm)
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Razorhead
Located in Fairfield, CT
"Sylvia Martins is a Brazilian born painter and printmaker whose work often incorporates soft pastels and impressionistic brushstrokes to create luminescent, dreamy images varying in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
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Find a wide variety of authentic Abstract abstract paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add abstract paintings created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple, orange, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Nestor Toro, Giorgio Lo Fermo, Newel Hunter, and Sumit Mehndiratta. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Synthetic Resin Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Abstract abstract paintings, so small editions measuring 0.1 inches across are also available.
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