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Located in Vancouver, CA
Bryan Ryley: Rigorous Inquiry at the Intersection of Material and Structure
Bryan Ryley, a significant figure in contemporary Canadian abstraction, operates from his studio in Verno...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Grid Notes - blue, orange, brown, contemporary, abstract, acrylic on canvas
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This colorful contemporary abstract painting was created by Milly Ristvedt.
For more than five decades Milly Ristvedt has contributed significantly to post-war abstract painting in ...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Return by Murray Duncan, Large-Scale Abstract Mixed Media on Canvas
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Return by Murray Duncan is a striking large-scale abstract mixed media painting on canvas. This piece explores the interplay of geometric and organic forms, with gestural lines and l...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Glaze, Oil Crayon, Acrylic
High Way - contemporary, minimalist, abstracted landscape, acrylic on canvas
By Pat Service
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Using bright contemporary colours Pat Service has created a joyful painting of the open highway as it winds through a mountainous landscape. The vivid colour palette—bright yellow, o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Constant Craving - vibrant, impasto, abstract expressionist, acrylic on canvas
By Adam Cohen
Located in Bloomfield, ON
American artist Adam Cohen’s abstract work is colourful and simply luscious.
The New York based artist creates work alive with the grand gestural influences of the abstract expressi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Solar Series #2: Bridge at Auver - blue, red, abstract, modernist, oil on canvas
By David Sorensen
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This colorful abstract painting was created by the Canadian artist David Sorensen.
One of Canada’s finest contemporary artists, David Sorensen actually began his art career as a sculptor, a natural path from his education as an architect.
When he began painting, Sorensen was fascinated by the interaction of light with its environment and was drawn to the work of color field painters as early as the 1950s. In his own work, he embraced abstraction as a form and in this series the concept of a central square from which lines of varying widths—both vertical and horizontal emanate. The color palette is bold and rich—cranberry red, deep blue, sienna, brown, and white. The brushstrokes are expressive and lend a natural movement to the painting. Sorensen admired and was influenced by the work of American abstract expressionists Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline. Auver is in France; famous as a place where Vincent Van Gogh...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Scattering - large, floral, contemporary, abstracted still life, oil on canvas
By Jennifer Hornyak
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A master painter whose celebrated work has spanned four decades, Jennifer Hornyak continues to create new and evocative paintings. The Montreal based artist returns to a favourite ge...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Light - rich, colorful, lyrical, gestural abstract, acrylic, gel on canvas
By Alice Teichert
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Many rich layers of acrylic and acrylic gel create a depth in this painting. The colors and light shift as the viewer moves around the painting. Rich reds, golds, bold gestural marks...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic Polymer, Crayon, Acrylic
Epiphany 6 - bold colourful, geometric abstraction, modernist, acrylic on canvas
By Burton Kramer
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Canadian modernist painter Burton Kramer finds inspiration for his work in the lyrical rhythm of music. Geometric shapes—rectangles, squares, and lines in complementary shades of orange, turquoise and hot pink pop against a chocolate brown background. Kramer explores the language of visual forms and sound much like the 20th century European painter Wassily Kandinsky, renowned for his experiments with colour and music.
“My paintings reference dancing feet, jazz, bebop, swing, baroque and folk music...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
More Or Less #1 - 6"x6", Black And White, Modern Art, Minimal Abstract Painting
By Andrea Stajan-Ferkul
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
Modern and minimal, this black and white painting on canvas places emphasis on simplifying the composition. Paint over paper collage adds a subtle textured element. The understated,...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Acrylic
Rondo 1 - bold colourful, geometric abstraction, modernist, acrylic on canvas
By Burton Kramer
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Kramer’s modern and graphic paintings express lyrical, geometric abstraction via a harmonic interplay of syncopated shapes of various sizes and colours.
Trained at Yale University ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Popsicle Stand - minimalist, contemporary, abstract, trees, acrylic on canvas
By Pat Service
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This contemporary minimalist painting is by Pat Service.
The remarkable career of Canadian artist Pat Service has spanned decades and with each passing year she has been inspired to...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Room for Mystics 13 - blue, orange, contemporary, abstract, acrylic on canvas
By Sandra Meigs
Located in Bloomfield, ON
In this joyful, evocative abstract painting by Sandra Meigs the message in cursive is fun and engaging—wake up yourself!
Known for her clever use of words and vivid colours, this piece features round shapes and faces in blue, yellow and indigo against a bright orange background. One of a series of thirty...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled
Located in Vancouver, CA
Ron Stonier (1933-2001) was a dedicated Vancouver artist celebrated for his exploration of abstract painting, influenced by his mentors Gordon Smith and Jack Shadbolt, as well as by ...
Category
1960s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Streaming - modern, contemporary, abstract, acrylic and mixed media on canvas
By Alice Teichert
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Atomic tangerine, persimmon, persian orange, petal pink and smoky plum hues. The colors in this painting shift as the viewer moves, creating a sense of depth and inner light.
"Over ...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Crayon, Acrylic
Interconnections - colorful, contemporary, geometric abstract, paper collage
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This bold contemporary composition by Yvonne Lammerich is an intriguing exploration of colour and form. Origami-like folded shapes inter-connected by fine lines dance across this col...
Category
1970s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Gouache, Color Pencil
Extension - large, bright, colourful, geometric abstract acrylic on canvas
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
In this dynamic new work by Milly Ritsvedt, bold vertical bands of pure colour run the length of the painting. As always, Ristvedt’s choice of colours in this hard-edged piece is masterful—turquoise, deep pink, blue and bright yellow. Art Critic Barry Lord (Art in America) declared that Ristvedt’s paintings were ‘more insistent than Bush, more consciously structured than Molinari.’
“The paintings of the past two or three years explore questions of form, colour and process that arise out of earlier works.” Milly Ristvedt
Born in British Columbia, Ristvedt studied at the Vancouver School of Art (now the Emily Carr University) and had her first solo exhibit at the Carmen Lamanna Gallery in Toronto. In the late 1960s, Ristvedt shared a studio with famed Canadian painter Jack Bush, met art critic Clement Greenberg and was inspired by American painters Jules Olitiski...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Momentum - rich, colorful, lyrical, gestural abstract, acrylic on canvas
By Alice Teichert
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A cloud of furious looped gestures in dove grey advances from a luminous, divided ground of berry red above and brushed grey and orange below in this large mixed media painting. Onto...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Crayon, Acrylic
Afternoon In The Old Teahouse
By Bernie Taupin
Located in Toronto, ON
30" x 20" Unframed
Original - Mixed Media on Canvas
Hand Signed by Bernie Taupin
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Fire Yellow Grid - rich, warm, colourful, geometric abstract acrylic on canvas
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A checkerboard of dynamic colour—this abstract work by master colourist Milly Ristvedt immediately engages the viewer. A classic grid pattern accentuates the interplay of light and dark colours—black, navy, red, aubergine and white highlighted by a sunny yellow.
Art Critic Barry Lord (Art in America) declared that Ristvedt’s abstract paintings were ‘more insistent than Bush, more consciously structured than Molinari.’
“Colour has been central to my explorations in painting from the beginning.” Milly Ristvedt
Born in British Columbia, Ristvedt studied at the Vancouver School of Art (now the Emily Carr University) and had her first solo exhibit at the Carmen Lamanna Gallery in Toronto. In the late 1960s, Ristvedt shared a studio with famed Canadian painter Jack Bush, met art critic Clement Greenberg and was inspired by American painters Jules Olitiski...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Rujuh 13 - atmospheric, colourful, abstract landscape, acrylic, resin on panel
By Jay Hodgins
Located in Bloomfield, ON
In a dazzling cerulean sky, a blustery cloud of white hovers over a black horizon. In this vertical landscape on panel by Jay Hodgins, curated layers of bright colors coated with a g...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Resin, Acrylic, Wood Panel
7 Pieces for Arvo Part - geometric abstract, grouping, acrylic on canvas
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This grouping of seven geometric abstract paintings is by Canadian artist Milly Ristvedt.
Milly Ristvedt named this lyrical abstract piece for Avro Part, the famous Estonian compose...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Piano Reflections 3 - bright, warm, expressive, abstracted, acrylic on canvas
By Pat Service
Located in Bloomfield, ON
At once expressive and lyrical, this abstract work was painted by Pat Service renowned as one of Canada’s finest landscape artists. Service is often inspired by natural forms and col...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Color Intersected Series No 2 - contemporary, geometric abstract, oil on panel
By Shayne Dark
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This contemporary, geometric abstract, oil painting on panel is by artist Shayne Dark.
Shayne Dark calls his extraordinary new series of dynamic oil paintings—'calculated chaotic col...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Entry 3: Orange, Yellow, Green, Violet - bold, colourful, abstract oil on canvas
By David Sorensen
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A scaffold of dark violet gives structure to painterly hot orange and teal bands in this confident abstract canvas by David Sorensen. The curated strata of fresh colors points to an ocean horizon at sunrise.
Through his painterly modern compositions, celebrated Canadian painter David Sorensen (1937-2011) sought to “give voice to the inner reality.” In the paintings from his last years, Sorensen offers solutions to the nature of abstraction – wresting nature and the horizon from pure form and brilliant colour.
Born in Vancouver in 1937, Sorensen studied at UBC and the Vancouver School of Art under Arthur...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Summering - Expressive strokes of red, blue, yellow and mauve
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Expressive strokes of red, blue, yellow, and mauve float on a soft pink colorfield. And dotted within the colorfield are subtle pea green stains that gently guide the eye through the...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Bauhaus No 02 - large, blue, green, architecture, deconstruction, mixed media
By Peter Hoffer
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Peter Hoffer’s landscapes have one foot in classic realism and the other in deconstruction. This work, created with clay silicate and pigment on linen, juxtapose the Bauhaus architec...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Clay, Linen, Pigment
6 Variations Relief - colorful, contemporary, abstract, wood, gouache, foam core
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Striking in colour and form, this contemporary composition is by Yvonne Lammerich. The Canadian artist has garnered an international reputation for her inspired exploration of abstra...
Category
1970s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache, Wood Panel, Foam Board
Bronze Leaves with Black and Red - large green, mauve, brown abstract oil
By Jennifer Hornyak
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Expressive layered passages of bronze, periwinkle, red and turquoise with highlights of yellow are framed by dark green foliage in this rich oil on canvas. Poised between abstraction...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tomorrow - rich, colorful, lyrical, gestural abstract, acrylic, crayon on canvas
By Alice Teichert
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Enigmatic shapes and calligraphic lines dance across a flood of turquoise beneath a sky of burnished orange in this large scale painting by Alice Teichert. The artist works with thin...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Crayon, Acrylic
Day-Night, Soleil - abstract, contemporary, gouache and paper collage on board
Located in Bloomfield, ON
The clean, contemporary lines of this large graphic diptych were created by Canadian artist Yvonne Lammerich. This is one of a series of paint and paper collage pieces that were shown at the Maison des Congrés in Paris. Each side of the diptych mirrors...
Category
1980s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Illuminati - large, blue, architecture, abstract landscape mixed media on linen
By Peter Hoffer
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Peter Hoffer’s landscapes have one foot in classic realism and the other in deconstruction. This work, created with clay silicate and pigment on linen, juxtapose the Bauhaus architec...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Clay, Linen, Pigment
Going Deeper - rich, colourful, layered, gestural abstract, acrylic on canvas
By Alice Teichert
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Going Deeper has a novel orientation in relation to the rest of Teichert's Connectivity series and with this orientation she has achieved a distinct feeling of falling - or possibly ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Crayon, Wax Crayon, Acrylic
Time Space Zone #2 - contemporary, geometric abstract, pencil, acrylic on paper
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This series of contemporary black acrylic and pencil on paper was created by Yvonne Lammerich. The masterful Canadian artist has spent decades exploring the nature of the human condi...
Category
1990s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper, Pencil
Time Space Zone #3 - contemporary, geometric abstract, pencil, acrylic on paper
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This series of contemporary black acrylic and pencil on paper was created by Yvonne Lammerich. The masterful Canadian artist has spent decades exploring the nature of the human condi...
Category
1990s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper, Pencil
Inner Retreat - painting, abstract, colourful, contemporary, acrylic on canvas
By Alice Teichert
Located in Bloomfield, ON
The luminous, elegantly colourful paintings of Alice Teichert have garnered her an international audience. Known for her refined sense of colour, and her contemporary form, Teichert’...
Category
2010s Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
The Wrestler with Gold - bright, colorful, abstract shapes, acrylic on canvas
By Aron Hill
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Inspired by the famed modernists like Jack Bush, Aron Hill creates playful, contemporary artwork. The colours are bold—hot pink, red, yellow, sea blue with black accented by a circle...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Citation - black, white, abstracted figurative, brushed ink on paper
By Andrew Lui
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Brushed ink in grey and black leads the eye up the picture plane in this 55-inch tall painting on paper. The intense movement suggestive of rearing horses in this painterly work is in keeping with Lui's theme of pilgrimage in which he explores the idea of "self-inflicted happiness" as a deliberate response to the melancholy and complexity of life. This painting is floated and framed. Framed Size: 60 × 35 inches
Born in Guangzhou, China, Lui participated in the Chinese Cultural Revolution as a member of the Red Guard 1968-70 and then escaped to Hong Kong by swimming. Making his way to Toronto he studied at the Ontario College of Art and became a citizen in the late 1970s. He continued studies in the UK, and Italy where he was drawn to the dynamic Uccello's Battle of San Romano...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper
Bauhaus No 01 - large, blue, green, architecture, deconstruction, mixed media
By Peter Hoffer
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Peter Hoffer’s landscapes have one foot in classic realism and the other in deconstruction. This work, created with clay silicate and pigment on linen, juxtapose the Bauhaus architec...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Clay, Linen, Pigment
Arab Spring - large, dynamic, narrative, surrealist abstract, acrylic on canvas
By Gregor Hiltner
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Inspired by drawings made by children, Hiltner has created a chaotic narrative of surreal figures and animals drawn in red acrylic across an expanse of raw canvas in this over 6 feet wide painting. A central palm tree in red outline with black leaves divides the pyramidal composition that is completed with select sections painted in with red, turquoise, white and periwinkle. The sky is brushed, bright yellow. This work is aptly titled referring to a series of protests that occurred in the Middle East and North Africa that began in 2010 and became known as the Arab Spring...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Shaded Archway with Earth and Red - bold, colorful, abstract, acrylic on canvas
By Aron Hill
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Calgary’s Aron Hill creates unique, pop art Inspired by the dynamic form and colour of abstract artists like Jack Bush. This piece in acrylic and ink on canvas combines architectural...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
Rujuh 5 - atmospheric, colourful, abstract landscape, acrylic, resin on panel
By Jay Hodgins
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A brilliant opening framed in green-blue reflected in the water below burns through an azure sky in this luminous and moody painting by Jay Hodgins. The artist applies layers of acry...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
Mott Composition - large, bright, blue, geometric abstraction, acrylic on canvas
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This masterful canvas demonstrates Ristvedt's elegant aesthetic control and points to the emotional potential of color. Strong rounds of sun yellow, turquoise, sapphire and sienna hover over a ground of cerulean.
Milly Ristvedt (b. 1942, Kimberley, BC) MA, RCA, began her career in Toronto in 1964 after studies with Takao Tanabe...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Rujuh 12 - dark, atmospheric, abstract landscape, acrylic, resin on panel
By Jay Hodgins
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A vast, stormy cloud advances through an azure sky in this moody landscape by Jay Hodgins. Layers of curated colors coated in a glossy resin create depth and light in this atmospheri...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Resin, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Pie in Sky - colorful, impasto, abstract expressionist, acrylic on canvas
By Adam Cohen
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A riot of colour—blues, green, pink, orange, and yellow pop from the canvas in this lively painting by Adam Cohen. The American abstract artist is known for his grand gestural style ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Paint steps (Lucio Fontana abstract contemporary painting impasto art purple)
By Lucas Biagini
Located in Quebec, Quebec
keywords; materiality, texture, oil painting, contemporary painting, ooze, perforation, Lucio Fontana, process-based, repetition, abstract painting, patterns, impasto, fushia, patter...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Always There - Yellow, blue, green and cream lyrical and light acrylic on canvas
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Spheres of lemon yellow intersect with dashes of lime and sky blue in this masterful composition by Milly Ristvedt. The square format of the canvas washed in light yellow and the restrained palette highlight the lyrical movement of form.
Milly Ristvedt (b. 1942, Kimberley, BC) MA, RCA, began her career in Toronto in 1964 after studies with Takao Tanabe...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Horizon Series: Mauve Brown Sky - contemporary, modernist, oil on canvas
By David Sorensen
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This abstract oil painting by David Sorensen is one of his Horizon series.
An important contemporary Canadian artist, David Sorensen’s impressive body of work spanned decades. Influ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Summer Storm - bright, lively, colourful, layered abstract, oil on canvas
By Noreen Taylor
Located in Bloomfield, ON
The gray palette of a summer storm as clouds roll in is characterized in this abstract painting by Noreen Taylor. She often uses nature as inspiration fo...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Snow Doesn't Give A Soft White Damn - abstract, oil on canvas over panel
By Mel Davis
Located in Bloomfield, ON
In this lyrical abstract work by Montreal born Mel Davis organic shapes intersect in a playful composition. Using form and colour--blue, yellow, blush pink, black and snow-white Davi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Panel
Turn - bright, colorful, abstract geometric shapes, acrylic on canvas
By Gregor Hiltner
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Begun in 2009 and completed in 2016, this acrylic painting on canvas is an opera of geometric shapes, brushed areas, lines and dots in a collision of colors, yellow, turquoise, orang...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Mosaic In Green and White - rows of small colourful floral still life oils
By Jennifer Hornyak
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Each section of this exquisite mosaic is a painted jewel. Multiple layers of loose gestural brushwork create images that hover on the edge of abstraction.
Mostly known for her fondne...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Whitestar Composition - vibrant, modernist, abstract, mixed media on paper
By Otto Donald Rogers
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A star motif in white, sapphire, charcoal and emerald are layered with geometric passages in this contemplative paper and acrylic composition by Otto Rogers. Framed dimensions are 39...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Body Motion Target 1 - bold, contemporary, geometric abstract, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
With its bold form and striking black palette, this large circular painting by Yvonne Lammerich makes a dramatic contemporary statement. The actual scale of the circle is related to ...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Double Fugue #3 - painting, abstract, contemporary, acrylic on canvas
By Burton Kramer
Located in Bloomfield, ON
In the international world of graphic design, Burton Kramer is legendary as a visionary—a true pioneer of the modernist aesthetic. The Canadian artist expresses the same inspired vis...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Capriccio 2 - bright, colourful, geometric abstract, modernist, acrylic on panel
By Burton Kramer
Located in Bloomfield, ON
In musical terms, a capriccio is a short, lively, free-form piece of music. Modernist Burton Kramer’s Capriccio 2 envisions shapes and colours inspired by beautiful music. In this way Kramer’s work is much like the 20th century European painter Wassily Kandinsky who was renowned for his experiments with colour and music.
“My paintings reference dancing feet, jazz, bebop, swing, baroque and folk music...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Three Trees" Contemporary oil painting, bold bright colors - Timothy A. McGuire
By Tim McGuire
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
“Three Trees”, is an oil painting of an ordinary residential street, lined with tall skinny trees. Houses are blocks of color, which diagonally recede alon...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Ocean No. 7 - large, muted, gestural abstract, landscape, oil on canvas
By Viktor Mitic
Located in Bloomfield, ON
At once expressive and ephemeral, this beautiful abstract landscape was created en plein air by Viktor Mitic. As part of the artistic process, Mitic exposed this oil painting to the ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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