Abstract Art
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
Turtle Original Wall Art
Located in Valencia, ES
Every artwork is hand-made and supported with a certificate of authenticity.
Made in Spain, 2024.
The frame is included.
Package: protected cardboard box.
Dispatching terms: 2-3 work...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Steel, Stainless Steel
Edge of the Island, plein air wide view of an open glowing field and water
Located in Edgartown, MA
“People sometimes ask me how I start a painting. Starting a painting is easy. I just put down two strokes of color. The interaction between these two marks is the beginning of the di...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bear Original Wall Art
Located in Valencia, ES
Every artwork is hand-made and supported with a certificate of authenticity.
Made in Spain, 2024.
The frame is included.
Package: protected cardboard box.
Dispatching terms: 2-3 work...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Steel, Stainless Steel
Kasanari
By Toko Shinoda
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Signed and titled in pencil
39 /50 Edition
Original silver frame with wood backing from Kato Framing, Tokyo
Framed measures: 31 x 24.5 inches
Toko Shinoda is a Japanese artist worki...
Category
1970s Abstract Art
Materials
Lithograph
Ruz Grey Black Vertical original abstract acrylic painting
By Rafael Ruz
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
landscape- original abstract acrylic painting
, Rafael (Barcelona 1956)
While contemplating the painting of Ruz, we are inclined to talk about real ‘psychodrama’, in the same sense...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Ruz Black Red Grafism original abstract acrylic painting
By Rafael Ruz
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
red grafism- original abstract acrylic painting.
Original work of the artist RUZ
Acrylic on paper
Perfect state
virtual frame
While contemplating the painting of Ruz, we are incline...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic, Cardboard
Ruz Vertical Little Green original abstract acrylic painting
By Rafael Ruz
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Colors original abstract acrylic painting paper
While contemplating the painting of Ruz, we are inclined to talk about real ‘psychodrama’, in the same sense that Julius Bissier refe...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic, Cardboard
Ruz Ocher Vertical original abstract acrilic canvas painting
By Rafael Ruz
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
ocres original abstract acrilic canvas painting
Ruz, Rafael (Barcelona 1956)
While contemplating the painting of Ruz, we are inclined to talk about real ‘psychodrama’, in the same ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
R. Poch 7 three eyes original acrylic
By Ramon Poch
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
. original acrylic painting
Born in Badalona (Barcelona).
Photographer and advertising film director.
Founding partner of the advertising production company La Cosa de las Peliculas...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Rafel Egea 7 Vertical Policrom II Mixed Media . 130x90 cm. Acrylic Painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Policrom II Mixed Media . 130x90 cm. Acrylic Painting
Rafel Egea no other training than the natural impulse, he works looking for the final result of the work. He likes to search fo...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
R. Poch 11 Women Hat Red Square Big. 97. Orange Cocktail original acrylic
By Ramon Poch
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
97. Orange Cocktail 120 x 120 cm. original acrylic painting
Born in Badalona (Barcelona).
Photographer and advertising film director.
Founding partner of the advertising production...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Isidro Cahue Colors Naturaleza. original abstract acrylic painting
By Isidro Cahue
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Naturaleza. original abstract acrylic painting . framed
by Spanish artist ISIDRO CAHUE.
Acrylic on paper
Perfect state
The personality of the artist is reflected in different field...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic, Cardboard
Continuation II
Located in Paris, FR
Etching and aquatint, 1966
Handsigned by the artist in pencil
Edition : 50
Publisher : Maeght (Paris)
Catalog : [Van der Kroelen 66004]
43.80 cm. x 54.40 cm. 17.24 in. x 21.42 in. (...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
El Inocente
By Joan Miró
Located in Paris, FR
Etching and aquatint, 1974
Handsigned by the artist in pencil
Edition : 43/45
Catalog : Dupin 686
41.00 cm. x 34.00 cm. 16.14 in. x 13.39 in. (paper)
32.00 cm. x 24.00 cm. 12.6 in....
Category
1970s Abstract Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Black sun
Located in Paris, FR
Etching and aquatint
Handsigned by the artist in pencil
Edition : 14/75
66.00 cm. x 50.00 cm. 25.98 in. x 19.69 in. (paper)
30.00 cm. x 26.00 cm. 11.81 in. x 10.24 in. (image)
BFK ...
Category
1970s Abstract Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Into the Light - Expressionist Abstract Painting, Oil on Canvas, Blue Sky
Located in New York, NY
Ruggero Vanni's "Into the Light" is a 64 x 52-inch abstract expressionist oil painting. Thick brushstrokes swirl elegantly around the edges, leading your gaze towards a luminous turq...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Magia
Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph, 1979
Handsigned by the artist in pencil
Edition : XXXV/L
Publisher : Graphis Arte (Livourne)
Printer : Graphis Arte (Livourne)
Catalog : [Guastalla 385]
76.00 cm. x 56.00...
Category
1970s Abstract Art
Materials
Lithograph
Méandres et vent
By Joan Miró
Located in Paris, FR
Etching and aquatint, 1964
Handsigned by the artist in pencil and annotated "HC"
Artist proof
Edition : /50 + H.C.
Publisher : Maeght, Paris
Printer : Maeght, Levallois-Perret
Catalo...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Composition in blue
Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph
Handsigned by the artist in encil
Edition : 66/175
76.50 cm. x 56.50 cm. 30.12 in. x 22.24 in. (paper)
65.00 cm. x 50.00 cm. 25.59 in. x 19.69 in. (image)
On Arches pape...
Category
1970s Abstract Art
Materials
Lithograph
The Sword Swallower
Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph, 1968
Handsigned by the artist in pencil
Edition : 119/120
Printer : Mourlot, Paris
Catalog : [Sorlier 168]
71.50 cm. x 50.00 cm. 28.15 in. x 19.69 in. (paper)
69.00 cm. ...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Lithograph
King David
By Joan Miró
Located in Paris, FR
Etching and aquatint, 1972
Handsigned by the artist in pencil and annotated "HC"
Edition : /50 + H.C.
Publisher : Maeght, Paris
Printer : Morsang, Paris
Catalog : [Dupin 555, p. 19...
Category
1970s Abstract Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Black Cherries
Located in Paris, FR
Engraving, 1965
Publisher : Éditions Berggruen, Paris
56.00 cm. x 76.00 cm. 22.05 in. x 29.92 in. (paper)
47.00 cm. x 62.50 cm. 18.5 in. x 24.61 in. (image)
Mezzotint
BFK Rives pap...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Engraving
Untitled
Located in Paris, FR
Engraving, 1980
Handsigned by the artist in pencil
91.00 cm. x 63.00 cm. 35.83 in. x 24.8 in. (paper)
49.00 cm. x 45.50 cm. 19.29 in. x 17.91 in. (image)
Etching, drypoint and aqua...
Category
1980s Abstract Art
Materials
Engraving
Untitled
Located in Paris, FR
Engraving, 1980
Handsigned by the artist in pencil
Edition : 31/50
91.00 cm. x 63.00 cm. 35.83 in. x 24.8 in. (paper)
68.00 cm. x 44.00 cm. 26.77 in. x 17.32 in. (image)
Etching, d...
Category
1980s Abstract Art
Materials
Engraving
No title
Located in Paris, FR
Engraving, 1980
Handsigned by the artist in pencil
Edition : 31/50
91.00 cm. x 63.00 cm. 35.83 in. x 24.8 in. (paper)
69.00 cm. x 49.00 cm. 27.17 in. x 19.29 in. (image)
Etching, d...
Category
1980s Abstract Art
Materials
Engraving
Blue Sparks
Located in Paris, FR
Engraving, 1985
Handsigned by the artist in pencil
Edition : 31/99
Publisher : La Hune (Paris)
66.00 cm. x 50.00 cm. 25.98 in. x 19.69 in. (paper)
39.00 cm. x 29.00 cm. 15.35 in. x...
Category
1980s Abstract Art
Materials
Engraving
Matter and Antimatter - Abstract Expressionist Painting, Pastel Colors, Sky
Located in New York, NY
Ruggero Vanni's "Matter and Antimatter" is a 52 x 76-inch abstract expressionist painting. Yellow, blue, and rust colors collide to create a tempestuous sky filled with disintegratio...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'City of Dreams' Unique Painting
By Peter Tunney
Located in New York, NY
Peter Tunney 'City of Dreams' is a Unique Painting and Mixed Media on Canvas made in 2015. Made of Acrylic paint and collaged with newspaper clipping and book pages, stenciled typogr...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
ABSTRACT Painting Landscape Extintion Gold Spanish Artist Pau Escat 2024
By Pau Escat
Located in BARCELONA, ES
Pau Escat is an asbtract artist originating from Barcelona, Spain, born in 1984. His passion for art has led him to develop a prominent career in the field of contemporary art. His a...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Footing, 2024, vibrant, jewel-like, diaphanous strips of fabric collages
By Linda Kamille Schmidt
Located in New York, NY
Linda Kamille Schmidt plays with emotional connections and memory in her smaller, framed works. In their encasements, each collage appears as a portal; a well of both excitement and ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Fabric, Thread, Pins
Passage, 2024, vibrant, jewel-like, diaphanous strips of fabric collages
By Linda Kamille Schmidt
Located in New York, NY
Linda Kamille Schmidt plays with emotional connections and memory in her smaller, framed works. In their encasements, each collage appears as a portal; a well of both excitement and ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Fabric, Thread, Pins
Frame, 2024, vibrant, jewel-like, diaphanous strips of fabric collages
By Linda Kamille Schmidt
Located in New York, NY
Linda Kamille Schmidt plays with emotional connections and memory in her smaller, framed works. In their encasements, each collage appears as a portal; a well of both excitement and ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Fabric, Thread, Pins
Flux, 2024, vibrant, jewel-like, diaphanous strips of fabric collages
By Linda Kamille Schmidt
Located in New York, NY
Linda Kamille Schmidt plays with emotional connections and memory in her smaller, framed works. In their encasements, each collage appears as a portal; a well of both excitement and ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Fabric, Thread
Wild Summer Flowers in Champagne, Blooming Prairie, Illustration Style Poppies
Located in Barcelona, ES
"Wild Summer Flowers in Champagne" is an abstract expressionist painting by Romina Milano where a landscape of black gestures unfolds across colorful brushstrokes infused with raw em...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic, Ink, Watercolor
Thomas Ruff, Substrat - Contemporary Photography, Abstract Art, Signed Print
By Thomas Ruff
Located in Hamburg, DE
Thomas Ruff (German, b. 1958)
Substrat, 2019
Medium: Chromogenic print
Dimensions: 32 × 45.8 cm (12 3/5 × 18 in)
Edition of 300: Hand-signed and numbered in pencil
Condition: Excellent
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
C Print
Damien Hirst, Sitting Across from Somebody (The Currency) - Abstract Art
By Damien Hirst
Located in Hamburg, DE
Damien Hirst (British, born 1965)
Sitting Across from Somebody (The Currency), 2016
Medium: Enamel paint on handmade paper
Dimensions: 20 x 30 cm (7.8 x 11.8 in)
Series: Unique varia...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Enamel
Sublime Depths - original abstract waterscape painting - contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
“Sublime Depths” by Meg O'Hara is a captivating abstract painting that delves into the mysterious and profound aspects of nature’s hidden realms. The composition features a sinuous s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Carved By Glacial Waters-original abstract waterscape painting-contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
“Carved by Glacial Waters” by Meg O'Hara is a mesmerizing abstract painting that captures the fluidity and power of nature’s forces. The composition features a rounded shape that cur...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Parents", abstract, family, home, domestic, oil painting
By Anita Loomis
Located in Natick, MA
“Parents” is a very lively and colorful 30 x 60-inch oil painting on canvas by Anita Loomis. A work from her “Family” series, this vibrant scene has the feel of an animated and busy ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Body in the Field #1 - 21st Century, landscape painting, blue, yellow, velvet
Located in Berlin, DE
Body in the Field #1, 202
oil on canvas
19 ¹¹/₁₆ H x 15 ³/₄ W in.
50 H x 40 W cm
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body through the prism of the fragm...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Raventos 3 Ocher Vertical Big original abstract mixed media painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
" El poder de la tierra" original abstract mixed media painting
RAVENTÓS Mª Assumpció – (San Sadurní d’Anoia, Barcelona 1930).
Raventos trained at the elite Sant Jordi School of Fi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Raventos Ocher Informalisme original abstract mixed media painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
" Informalisme " original abstract mixed media painting
RAVENTÓS Mª Assumpció – (San Sadurní d’Anoia, Barcelona 1930).
Raventos trained at the elite Sant Jordi School of Fine Arts i...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Ruz black on green original abstract acrylic painting
By Rafael Ruz
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Ruz- original abstract acrylic painting. Virtual frame
Original work of the artist RUZ
Acrylic on paper
Perfect state
While contemplating the painting of Ruz, we are inclined to ta...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic, Cardboard
"Fire" abstract acrylic canvas linen triptych 70x150cm send wood crate red
Located in Roscoff, FR
"Fire" abstract acrylic canvas linen triptych 70x150cm send wood crate red
furnace, motion, saturation, heat
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
"Winter wind" abstract acrylic marble powder on canvas 120x120cm 2016
Located in Roscoff, FR
abstract acrylic marble canvas 120x120cm send in wood crate at cost
Emmanuelle Vroelant describes her painting as a winter without sadness, the clouds loaded and free to transform, i...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Marble
Still life with oysters, 80х80cm, print on canvas
Located in Yerevan, AM
Limited edition of 5 pieces
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Color
"Nostalgia" abstract acrylic on canvas 120x120cm 2020
Located in Roscoff, FR
"Nostalgia" abstract acrylic marble powder parchment gluing on canvas 120x120cm send in wood crate at cost
evanescent memories, softened colours, the breath of passing time…
need to ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Marble
"Formation process" abstract acrylic, collage, marble powder.
Located in Roscoff, FR
I am struck to find in the form of constellations, in the clouds of starlings, in schools of small fish, in the projections of fluids under the microscope of
spirals.
I find fascinat...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Landscape BW Original Drawing Large Size , by Marilina Marchica
Located in Agrigento, AG
Title: Black and white landscape
Artist: Marilina Marchica
Medium: Mineral oxide on Arches paper
Dimensions: 75 x 55 cm
certificate of authenticity included
Marchica's technique t...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Pigment
Ruz black on maroon original abstract acrylic painting
By Rafael Ruz
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Ruz- original abstract acrylic painting. Virtual frame
Original work of the artist RUZ
Acrylic on paper
Perfect state
While contemplating the painting of Ruz, we are inclined to ta...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic, Cardboard
Field of poppies, 80х80cm, print on canvas
Located in Yerevan, AM
Limited edition of 5 pieces
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Color
Japanese Contemporary Art by Fusako Ekuni - Into the Light
By Fusako Ekuni
Located in Paris, IDF
Artwork made with pigment (Iwaenogu), glue & water on cotton paper (Washi) marouflaged on Japanese wooden panel
Fusako Ekuni is a Japanese artist born in 1947 and who lives & works ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Glue, Panel, Wood Panel, Pigment
Ruz gray range original abstract acrylic painting
By Rafael Ruz
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Ruz- original abstract acrylic painting. Virtual frame
Original work of the artist RUZ
Acrylic on paper
Perfect state
While contemplating the painting of Ruz, we are inclined to ta...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic, Cardboard
Nature is waking up. Tempera on paper, 27 x 33 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Nature is waking up. Bilateral. Tempera on paper, 27 x 33 cm
Victor Karnauh (1950, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 2012, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine) – a painter, a monume...
Category
1990s Abstract Art
Materials
Tempera, Paper
Composition
Located in London, GB
Artsit: Olga Volha Piashko
"Tracing the Unseen" 100x200x0,1cm (105x210x0,1cm full size) cm (2020) acrilyc,oil on canvas.
hand signed
A world of energy and vibration, of subtle n...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Wind Whispers - Large Fluid Acrylic Ready to Hang Painting
Located in Zofingen, AG
The technique I used: stretched heavy canvases on resistant wooden reinforced chassis and professional acrylic pigments. At the end I covered with a glossy coat of varnish, to protec...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Flowing Energy 29 - Small Colourful Modern Painting
Located in Zofingen, AG
Ready to hang with certificate of authenticity.
Dimensions: 50x70X2 cm - 27.6x19.7x0.8 inches.
Some neon nuances could not be caught by the camera.
The technique: colorful varnished ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Close Enough to Touch, Painting, Abstract, Pink, White, Acrylic, Oil Stick
Located in Riverdale, NY
Close Enough to Touch is an abstract painting filled with pink, white and blue by Australian artist, Jill Morton. It is 40 x 30, acrylic and oil stick on canvas. It is framed with ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Oil Pastel, Acrylic
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