Soundings - Contemporary Painting
By David Tobey
Located in New York, NY
The painting is unframed, acrylic on canvas. About the Artwork: Portrays the universal background radiation from the Big Bang. I call my paintings “Imaginaries” They portray the a...
Canvas, Acrylic
Storm - Abstract Painting
By David Tobey
Located in New York, NY
The painting is unframed, acrylic on canvas. About the Artwork: The crashing of stormy waves. About the Artist: As a visual artist David has been painting and sculpting most of h...
Canvas, Acrylic
Price Upon Request
Carnival - Abstract Painting
By David Tobey
Located in New York, NY
The painting is unframed, acrylic on canvas. About the Artwork: The Joy of the carnival. About the Artist: As a visual artist David has been painting and sculpting most of his li...
Canvas, Acrylic
Cosmic Tango - Abstract Painting
By David Tobey
Located in New York, NY
The painting is unframed, acrylic on canvas. About the Artwork: The cataclysmic dance of cosmic forces. About the Artist: As a visual artist David has been painting and sculpting...
Canvas, Acrylic
La Grande Occassione Della Pittura Americana Milano (Hand Signed by Jim Dine)
Located in New York, NY
Philip Guston, Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, Jim Dine, Roberto Matta, Sam Francis, Mark Rothko, Franz Kline, Kenneth Noland, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Helen Frankenthaler, John...
Lithograph, Offset
Abstract Expressionist Biomorphic Welded Metal Sculpture
By Seymour Lipton
Located in Surfside, FL
He represented the United States Pavilion with Mark Rothko, David Smith and Mark Tobey) and was thus internationally recognized as part of a small group of highly regarded avant-gard...
Metal
Unique Structure-Graphic Chase
By Claire McCarthy Falkenstein
Located in New York, NY
Putting her in the immediate milieu of many of the century’s greatest artists, she studied, worked, competed, collaborated and, in several cases, became close personal friends with s...
Metal
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H 19.5 in W 15.5 in D 12.5 in
Abstract Expressionist Biomorphic Welded Metal Sculpture
By Seymour Lipton
Located in Surfside, FL
He represented the United States Pavilion with Mark Rothko, David Smith and Mark Tobey) and was thus internationally recognized as part of a small group of highly regarded avant-gard...
Metal
Genesis - Contemporary Painting
By David Tobey
Located in New York, NY
The painting is unframed, acrylic on canvas. About the Artwork: I call my paintings “Imaginaries” They portray the awe and wonder of beginning of life. They describe “Genesis.” Ab...
Canvas, Acrylic
Falling Together, Large-Scale Contemporary Multi-Color Abstract
Located in Soquel, CA
Falling Together, Large-Scale Contemporary Multi-Color Abstract Beautiful and compelling large-scale contemporary abstract by an unknown San Francisco bay area artist (American, 20t...
Canvas, Oil
$1,090
H 24.02 in W 48.04 in D 1.58 in
Festival of Joy - Abstract Expressionism Maximalis Delight Joy Texture Statement
By Karnish Art
Located in Pretoria, Gauteng
Title: Festival of Joy Abstract Expressionism Colorful Delight Joy Movement Texture Statement Vibrant Festivitas Laetitiae - Festival of Joy This vibrant artwork, set on a deep cr...
Oil, Acrylic
$1,545Sale Price|20% Off
H 47.25 in W 31.5 in
Abstraction. Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting, Colorful, Dynamic, Polish art
By Monika Rossa
Located in Warsaw, PL
Abstract painting by Polish artist living in USA Monika Rossa. Painting in style of gestural abstraction with dynamic brush strokes and shapes. Do to the composition, the artwork can...
Canvas, Oil
$1,425
H 24 in W 48 in
Quiet Storm - Vivid Abstract Expressionism Colorful Painting on Canvas
By Dez Gaskin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Desireé Gaskin (Dez) is a self-taught artist living and working in Dallas, Texas. Her artistic style is a form of abstract expressionism ruled by her creative imagination and love fo...
Canvas, Acrylic
$1,636Sale Price|20% Off
H 59.06 in W 43.31 in
Abstraction. Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting, Colorful, Dynamic, Polish art
By Monika Rossa
Located in Warsaw, PL
Approxiate dimensions of this painting are 140 x 110 cm, unstretched canvas is 157 x 113,5 cm Abstract painting by Polish artist living in USA Monika Rossa. Painting in style of ges...
Canvas, Oil
$6,387
H 86.62 in W 59.06 in D 0.04 in
Abstract informal 2023-2104-5 (Abstract painting)
By Robert Niesse
Located in London, GB
This artwork will be shipped rolled in a dent-resistant tube. Robert Niesse is a contemporary German abstract artist, renowned for his ""Abstract Informal"" paintings that masterful...
Linen, Oil
Colorful Bold Abstract Acrylic Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Great 20th century colorful abstract painting in bold red, orange, and navy tones with a dramatic wing-like sweep through the center.
Acrylic
In a fearless reality, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Nestor Toro
Located in Yardley, PA
Each color in this impactful painting was hand mixed with mica particles and iridescent mediums to make the lavender, orange, yellow, purple, blue and teal all pop and shine. The col...
Acrylic
Booglarized, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Craig Moran
Located in Yardley, PA
A drawing of a pile of crumpled clothing inspired this painting. When it came time to create the painting, I was driven by a desire to conjure a visually challenging image from banal...
Oil
Source, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Robert van Bolderick
Located in Yardley, PA
Abstract oil painting on canvas :: Painting :: Abstract Expressionism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :: S...
Oil
Abstract Composition XVII, Painting by Jenik Cook
By Jenik Cook
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jenik Cook, American (1940 - ) Title: Untitled XVII Year: 2010 Medium: Acrylic on Paper, signed and dated Size: 22 in. x 28 in. (55.88 cm x 71.12 cm)
Acrylic, Archival Paper
CARNIVAL, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Bill Stone
Located in Yardley, PA
The vibrant spirit of celebration in a rhythmic dance of colors. :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Read...
Oil
$4,321
H 30 in W 24 in
colorful contemporary abstract oil painting expressionist busy signed
By Alayna Rose
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Erotic Song II" is an original oil painting on canvas by Alayna Rose. The artist signed the piece lower right. It features abstract, gestural, and expressionist marks in orange, blu...
Canvas, Oil
Abstract 2325
By Alex Senchenko
Located in Zofingen, AG
There’s something different about the homes of creative people. They like to surround themselves with inspiring things, from unique tablecloths to the incredible paintings on the wal...
Acrylic
What I Found, Abstract Painting
By Gary J. Noland Jr.
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Gary J. Noland Jr. explores color and balance in this abstract piece. Deliberate pours, strokes, and drips create an interplay between control and sponta...
Acrylic
$9,500
H 48 in W 72 in
Large Mod Abstract Expressionist Modernist Edward Avedisian Color Field Painting
By Edward Avedisian
Located in Surfside, FL
Edward Avedisian (American, 1936-2007) Abstract Large Painting Acrylic on panel heavily textured with a 3D effect. Dimensions: 48"h x 75"w Circa late 1970s, early 1980s Provenance: ...
Acrylic, Wood Panel
Beginning in the early 20th century, abstract art became a leading style of modernism. Rather than portray the world in a way that represented reality, as had been the dominating style of Western art in the previous centuries, abstract paintings, prints and sculptures are marked by a shift to geometric forms, gestural shapes and experimentation with color to express ideas, subject matter and scenes.
Although abstract art flourished in the early 1900s, propelled by movements like Fauvism and Cubism, it was rooted in the 19th century. In the 1840s, J.M.W. Turner emphasized light and motion for atmospheric paintings in which concrete details were blurred, and Paul Cézanne challenged traditional expectations of perspective in the 1890s.
Some of the earliest abstract artists — Wassily Kandinsky and Hilma af Klint — expanded on these breakthroughs while using vivid colors and forms to channel spiritual concepts. Painter Piet Mondrian, a Dutch pioneer of the art movement, explored geometric abstraction partly owing to his belief in Theosophy, which is grounded in a search for higher spiritual truths and embraces philosophers of the Renaissance period and medieval mystics. Black Square, a daringly simple 1913 work by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich, was a watershed statement on creating art that was free “from the dead weight of the real world,” as he later wrote.
Surrealism in the 1920s, led by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Meret Oppenheim and others, saw painters creating abstract pieces in order to connect to the subconscious. When Abstract Expressionism emerged in New York during the mid-20th century, it similarly centered on the process of creation, in which Helen Frankenthaler’s expressive “soak-stain” technique, Jackson Pollock’s drips of paint, and Mark Rothko’s planes of color were a radical new type of abstraction.
Conceptual art, Pop art, Hard-Edge painting and many other movements offered fresh approaches to abstraction that continued into the 21st century, with major contemporary artists now exploring it, including Anish Kapoor, Mark Bradford, El Anatsui and Julie Mehretu.
Find original abstract paintings, sculptures, prints and other art on 1stDibs.
The Italian-American’s 2020 abstract painting “The Hoe” personifies his “art of not knowing.”
Beneath the inky blackness, the painter’s irrepressible energy electrifies this pair of intaglio prints.
The New York Botanical Garden, in the Bronx, has mounted a multifaceted show honoring the polymath modernist's legacy, including new work by contemporary landscape maker Raymond Jungles.
In his current show at New York's Lehmann Maupin gallery, the Puerto Rican–born talent reveals new paintings with a semiautobiographical aspect.