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
Returning Life
Located in Singapore, SG
Shop "Returning Life" by Tapas Das, an Indian contemporary artist. This one-of-a-kind contemporary artwork is made with tempera on paper medium.
Artwork Description:
The constant us...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Tempera
Floating Music
By Thea Schrack
Located in San Luis Obispo, CA
Thea Schrack is a photographer and painter with a penchant for the past. Her photographic forays have taken her to English country estates, Czech castles, vineyards and to the shores...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Transhumanismo (Oil Paint Abstract Wood Contemporary Mexican)
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
Raúl Cerillo’s creations are characterized by the construction of surfaces with multiple layers of paint, acquiring a three-dimensional appearance. Each piece, according to the artis...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Life
Located in Singapore, SG
Life is a daughter-mother co-project by Deeksha and Roma in an effort to re-create the light and energy that sustain are precious planet Earth! It is inspired by poet Rabindranath Tagore...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Gold Drop
Located in Southampton, NY
The beauty of the gold sky emits a hard 'rain' of figures determined to find their true place in the terrain.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Cosmic transformation
By Karl Momen
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Momen is the creator of the Metaphor: The Tree of Utah, an 87-foot (27 m) sculpture resembling a tree in the Bonneville Salt Flats off of Interstate 80. He financed the project himse...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Parkside Place
Located in San Luis Obispo, CA
Suzie Buchholz is a Bay Area-based abstract painter with a playful yet rebellious approach to the tradition of Abstract Expressionism. Her process is highly physical,driven by an ins...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mea Culpa #1
Located in Roselle Park, NJ
The Mea Culpa series is more about feeling than a specific vision. I attempt to use mark-making, color, and surface to explore the emotions I need to convey. I never know when they w...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
Blue Depth
Located in Marrakech, MA
Ink on Fine Art paper
Artwork done with a compass
Black exterior frame
Framed dimensions: 113x83 (x5)cm
Signed on the back
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Mini Meditation
Located in MADRID, ES
Acrylic on primed surface with cradled wooden frame
Artwork Unique
“Mini Meditation” was inspired by my meditation and mindfulness practice. It is the smaller version of the much la...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled
By Rafael Ruz
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Down To Earth
Located in Singapore, SG
Making mistakes is often a taboo in society. This forms a person's mentality and when problems come they tend to blame circumstances. This artwork invites us to be more open and acce...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic, Permanent Marker
EMKAY
Located in Marrakech, MA
Abstract calligraphy.
Mixed media on canvas.
Black exterior frame.
Framed dimensions : 115x101x5cm.
Signature on the back.
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
Here With Me
Located in Toronto, ON
Sandra Di Leo
“Fueled by memories of my joyful youth, I paint intuitively, as I am pulled between the conscious and the unconscious of my divided self. ...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Morning River in Winter
Located in Toronto, ON
Isabel Beaubien, a native of Montreal, received her training in fine arts at Concordia University. After launching her career in the UK, she later obtained her Masters degree in Contemporary Art from Villa Arson in Nice, France. She currently lives and works in Quebec.
Isabelle Beaubien...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
You will get there faster if you slow down #5
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Acrylic paint, embroidery and poly-fil video
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Cotton, Thread, Acrylic
Spill (Laocoön)
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Música del Niagara
Located in New York, NY
Valeria Vilar dissolves and gives rise to strokes of abstraction through figuration allowing viewers to recompose the story. She reconstructs and creates spaces from memories, tales...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Ocean Waves. Abstract Modern light blue, beige, Wall Sculpture.
By Cari Cohen
Located in Miami, US
Introducing 'Ocean Waves', my one-of-a-kind organic wall sculpture crafted from plaster and featuring abstract modern design with light blue and beige tones. Part of my 'organic scul...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Plaster, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Photographic Paper
Untitled
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 Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Listen
By Amrta Art
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This piece is part of the Amrta Gold Series. These pieces are incredibly unique and cannot be replicated. The are multilayered mixed media abstracts all with 24k gold leaf on top. Th...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
"LES FRUITS DE L'ACTE" Pollock style
Located in SAINT-ALPINIEN, FR
Hand-painted. Not a print. Painting is signed at front and back. Dated. Contemporary FINE ART Original PAINTING, acrylics, collage(silk, pearls) , spray paint on paper, unframed. Title:Les fruits...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic, Silk
Toxic
Located in Singapore, SG
The world is ruled by an elite class who control the lives of most people with big lies and media propaganda. Everything is displayed so convincingly that it's hard for us to see the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Curious Sound
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Lyrical abstraction in black
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Blue Moon - 21st Century, Oil painting, abstract, night, blue, gold leaf
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Oil and gold leaf on canvas
For centuries, artisans and artists have turned to gold leaf as a way to make their creations shimmer and shine. Also many contemporary artists continue ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
ET Pollination
By Karl Momen
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Momen is the creator of the Metaphor: The Tree of Utah, an 87-foot (27 m) sculpture resembling a tree in the Bonneville Salt Flats off of Interstate 80. He financed the project himself and built it from 1982 to 1986, afterwards donating the sculpture to the state of Utah.
Known For remaining true to the initiation he received early in his career into the modernist paradigm that still informs his distinctive style to the present day. Momen is the most long-lived exponent of early twentieth century Geometric abstraction movement.
bauhaus, futurism art...
Category
20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Después del desierto
Located in Barcelona, ES
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
Category
1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Cardboard
Children of the world ( Multidimensions 1 )
Located in Southampton, NY
J. Oscar Molina is a painter and sculptor as well as Founder of Oscar Molina Gallery in Southampton, NY. He is most well-known for his “Children o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Stormy Weather I
Located in Nashville, TN
This stunning abstract by contemporary artist, architect, and designer Ana Carolina Mönnaco blends a beautiful variety of colors that make the piece jump off the canvas.
This piece was made for the artist's exhibit, "Blurred & Fractured," at Modfellows Art Gallery - WeHo in Nashville, Tennessee. The piece is hand signed by the artist in the bottom-right corner and comes with a Certificate of Authenticity issued by the gallery.
Mönnaco’s history in architecture has pushed her to peer past the structured world in which we live, to convey the unbound world which surrounds us. She is interested in the continuous reaching of life. She says, “we live with this blurred and fractured vision of the world, yet inside each of us there’s an undeniable conviction that something beautiful and perfect still exists beyond our grasp.” In response to this, Mönnaco uses a sophisticated color palette and inspiration found in the beauty of the natural world to create rich environments which encapsulate the viewer by surrounding them with wonderment of the unknown.
About the Artist: Ana Carolina Mönnaco is an artist from Curitiba, Brazil, where she developed a love of art and architecture. She graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After graduating in 2002, she joined Morris Architects in Orlando, Florida. Mönnaco has won many prestigious awards including the International Watercolor Masters Merit Award, the AIP 24 Juror Award, and the AIP Hugh Ferris...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Acrylic, Graphite
Canal In The Night
Located in Provincetown, MA
The restrained use of color in this undated painting likely from the mid-1950s demonstrates Farruggio’s mastery of contrast, dimension, and perspective. The work is rendered figurati...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
"L'AU DELA DES MOTS" Pollock style
Located in SAINT-ALPINIEN, FR
Hand-painted. Not a print. Painting is signed at front and back. Dated. Contemporary FINE ART Original PAINTING, acrylics, carded wool , spray paint on paper, unframed. Title: L'au...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic
No Diesel
Located in MADRID, ES
I painted this at the start of the war in Ukraine, it pokes fun at the disorganisation of Putins attack on Ukraine with claims he would take the country within a few days. I painted ...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
El Lado Obscuro
Located in New York, NY
Mixed Media on canvas
50 x 30 in
Unstretched
Isabel Turbán layers paintings with transfers, acrylic, charcoal, and other mixed media onto canvas or paper. Her abstract paintings ma...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Abstract Landscape Painting by Victor Manuel Gomez
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Large Format Abstract Pink & Black Mixed Media Painting by Cuban Artist Victor Manuel.
Victor is an emerging talent born and raised in Havana. With a great sense of Havana’s always ...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
Highway
Located in Singapore, SG
A highway always seems never-ending. On its journey it comes across rivers, villages, cities, forests and mountains. It meets with different languages, different traditions, and many...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Cotton, Plywood, Paper
The Last Banyan Tree
Located in Singapore, SG
The form of a large tree and the city's high-rise buildings are illustrated here to depict the fate of a big tree exposed to the unstoppable concrete flat construction culture.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cotton, Pigment
Sharpcut
Located in Marrakech, MA
Oil and Acrylic on Canvas
Exterior black wood frame
Framed dimensions: 115x185 (x5) cm
Signed on the back
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
August Day
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Andrey Inozemtsev is considered to be a master of Russian impressionism. "August Day" is an impression of light along a small road in a town on the Crimean coast near the Black Sea. ...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Red Twist
By Chris Hayman
Located in San Luis Obispo, CA
In her paintings, Christine Hayman concerns herself with space. She is interested in how forms are energized by the space around them, especially when incorporated into paintings wit...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Poppies
By Tuëma Pattie
Located in Petworth, GB
Tuëma Pattie was born in Dublin, studied at the Belfast College of Art, the Central School of Art and Design and Morley College, London, and with Piers Ottey and Christopher Baker in Sussex, and Robin Child in Devon.
In her early days in Belfast and London, she took advantage of urban scenes as her subject matter. She then had a long period in which she took time out to have two children and to support her husband in his career. It was a difficult to find time for her beloved painting, as was the case for many women in that era.
Tuëma has exhibited extensively at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the London Art Fair, the Royal Hibernian Summer Exhibition, the Cork Street Gallery, Art for Youth at the Mall Gallery London, London Art Fair, Chichester Open, East Hampshire Art Fair, the Jorgensen Gallery in Dublin and at Glyndebourne. Also with Kevis House Gallery, Moncrieff Bray Gallery and Rountree Tryon Gallery...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sports Portrait of Athletic Partially Nude Boy with Rapid Brushstrokes
By Bob Peak
Located in Miami, FL
Figuration and abstraction meet in this energized quick portrait of an athletic boy with headband and resting on a bench, Most likely done for a magazine like Sports Illustrated - Si...
Category
1970s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Masonite, Mixed Media
Flying Luminous Waves Abstract, red, yellow, Painting Wall Plexiglass Sculptures
By Cari Cohen
Located in Miami, US
Flying Luminous Waves . 2022 These small sized Painting Sculptures are part of the Waves series. This mixed media wall sculptures are painted with acrylic paint, spray paint and past...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Plexiglass, Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic
The Night Journey
By Byron Browne
Located in Miami, FL
In Byron Brown's "The Night Journey", 1947, Picasso meets Jackson Pollock. Here Brown strikes a balance between fanciful representation and abstraction. ...
Category
1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Henri
Located in New York, NY
2021, Acrylic & oil on canvas
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Oil
Just holding up air
By Alyse Rosner
Located in Fairfield, CT
Alyse Rosner 2022
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite
Singapore Noon 1.3
Located in New York, NY
Acrylic on Canvas
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Honey, Honey.
Located in Toronto, ON
Sandra Di Leo
“Fueled by memories of my joyful youth, I paint intuitively, as I am pulled between the conscious and the unconscious of my divided self. ...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Encaustic and Gold Leaf "Santa Fe"
Located in San Francisco, CA
Encaustic, red earth, piñon resin, carving and 21k moon gold leaf on wood panel
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Encaustic
Obsession
By Tuëma Pattie
Located in Petworth, GB
Abstract landscape by Tuëma Pattie.
Tuëma Pattie was born in Dublin and studied at Belfast College of Art, the Central School of Art and Design and Morley College, London.
Tuëma has exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Beings Series, Nicky Marais
By Nicky Marais
Located in Windhoek, NA
Beings Series, 2018. Acrylic ink on paper.
Nicky Marais is a Namibian artist, educator and activist who lives and works in Windhoek. Marais is well-known for her abstract artworks c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper, Ink
1
Located in New York, NY
Abstract painting. Acrylic paint and ink on archival paper. In white frame.
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Ink, Acrylic
Imago, 2015
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Jacopo Scassellati was born in Sassari (Sardinia) in 1989 where he still resides today. His family is originally from Umbria. Very early on, he disp...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Judgemental Lines
Located in Singapore, SG
Illusion is always on the other side of the line of reality. It changes reality into discovery with different perspectives. This discovery of illusion is reflected in the artist’s wo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Metal
Endpass
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil
Wooden Heads
Located in Wien, 9
Since Franz Ecker’s early death in 1999 his work has been newly appreciated, what is manifested in numerous exhibitions, catalogues and in the acclaimed film about the artist. He was extremely productive and left behind an almost unmanageable scope of works in various styles. Among them some of the top works that are unparalleled in recent Austrian art history and whose significance has not yet been adequately appreciated.
After finishing his studies in 1966 in class of prof. Sergius Pauser and after receiving his two prizes, Franz Ecker moved back to Leonding where he developed his clear, abstract language of forms. Among his sources of inspiration are Cezanne and Picasso, as well as Martin Polasek who was one of his teachers. This led him to painting in a flat and abstract manner, which triggers a spatial experience through its exact color coordination and strict composition. The strongest period in his oeuvre is the time when his paintings are between figuration and abstraction. Only until around 1975 he additionally creates numerous watercolors, even though he restricts this medium to his more lyrical works.
If Franz Ecker cannot be included in the avant-garde cannon of the 70’s, it is only because he witheld from presenting his works on the art market. Instead of using the opportunities that were offered to him in Vienna, he returned after his time at the academy to Linz where there was no appreciation nor market for his works. Distanced from the established art business, Ecker lives uncompromisingly the precarious life of a lonely genius. An artist myth, which in his case certainly is a bitter reality. Unimpressed by this, Ecker develops an increasingly broad language of forms within the clear line of abstract pictorial conception, which he emphasizes with constantly new forms of signature.
At the end of the seventies his works became more gestural and expressive. His works like “Kafka” anticipate the “Neue Wilden”. When these are celebrated as the “return of painting...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paint, Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
"THE STRUGGLE WE ARE INTODAY IS GIVING US STRENGTH WE NEED ..." Pollock style
Located in SAINT-ALPINIEN, FR
Hand-painted. Not a print. Painting is signed at front and back. Dated. Contemporary FINE ART Original PAINTING, acrylics, carded wool , spray paint on paper, unframed. Title: The ...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic
SHAPED PAINTINGS #017
Located in Marrakech, MA
Acrylic paint on galvanized steel plates X2
107X132 CM, Thickness 5.5 CM, 2022
Signed on the back
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Metal
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