Modern Abstract Paintings
MODERN STYLE
The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.
Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.
The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.
Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.
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Style: Modern
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1990s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Red Tonal Mixed Media Abstract with Toy Cars
Located in Houston, TX
Black and peach tonal abstract painting with a crushed toy car attached to the surface of the canvas. The work is signed by the artist in the b...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
LOVE Painting with Plastic Technique by Erika Baktay
By Erika Baktay
Located in Rome, IT
LOVE
From the "Thousand and One Nights" painting series, with individual plastic Technique, Erika Baktay.
Biography;
The paintings of Erika Baktay have long been admired by the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Heart Felt
Oil on board circa 2020
Located in Frome, Somerset
'Shift', oil on board by Sabrina Rowan Hamilton. M.A. Widely exhibited Internationally solo & group shows.
Mounted in a glazed box frame.
Sabrina's paintings are a substantial part o...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
$710 Sale Price
20% Off
"Shrimp"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Signed Lower Right
Bror Julius Olsson “B.J.O.” Nordfeldt (1878 - 1955)
Bror Julius Olsson was born in Tullstrop, Sweden in 1878. He immigrated to the United States in 1891, later adopting his mother’s maiden name of Nordfeldt. Beginning his art studies at the Art Institute of Chicago where he was chosen to assist fellow artist, Albert Herter, with a large mural project for the McCormick Harvester Company. In 1900, he was sent to Paris by McCormick to help set up the completed mural at the Paris Exposition. While there, he studied briefly at the Academie Julian before traveling to England to study woodblock printmaking under F. Morley Fletcher. Returning to Chicago in 1903, Nordfeldt would spend the next ten years painting mainly figurative works in an academic style similar to that of the Old Masters. By the mid-teens he had developed a bold dramatic modernist style and divided his time between New York and Provincetown, Massachusetts. There, he invented the “Provincetown Print...
Category
1940s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sunset Grip
By Louisa Chase
Located in New York, NY
Louisa Lizbeth Chase was born in 1951 to Benjamin and Wilda Stengel Chase in Panama City, Panama, where her father, a West Point graduate, was stationed. The family moved to Pennsylv...
Category
20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wax, Oil
$115,000
Original Abstract Mixed Media Painting “Sugar”
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Born in Tallahasee Fl, William started his artistic career as a color consultant for his family's Design and Painting company that took on constant projects of custom painted interio...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Casa Loma Stomp
Located in New York, NY
Provenance:
Harvey Koizim, County Federal Savings & Loan, acquired by Bert Chernow
Private Collection CT
Born in 1927 and raised in Cleveland, Fenton already had a successful care...
Category
1960s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Maat, 2011
Located in Atlanta, GA
Jennifer J L Jones was born in Virginia U.S.A. in 1971 and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wood, Mixed Media
Modern Acrylic Painting on Panel Titled: "2 Birds in a Tree"
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Wood Assemblage painted in Acrylic Paint and clear coat
wood cleat on back for hanging
Born in Tallahasee Fl, William started his artistic career as a color consultant for his famil...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Hana
Located in Atlanta, GA
Jennifer J L Jones was born in Virginia U.S.A. in 1971 and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$12,480
Painting Two, 2002
By Kevin Archer
Located in Atlanta, GA
Archer creates his master pieces via the exploration of liquid animation, quintessentially a process of manipulating wet paint into more wet paint. His canvases are a saturation of colors that intertwine with one another rhythmically; the actively flying and floating biomorphic forms are suggestive of human, animal, and microcosmic shapes. They are busy colliding, overlapping, and engaging each other in an imaginary landscape space, frozen in a moment of time.
Perhaps, the biggest draw to Archer’s paintings is the multiple detailed vignettes that come into play when one takes a closer look at each of his creations. Consequently, welcoming the viewer to experience the dynamic aspects of the work – the paintings also encourage engagement, making them an interactive visual...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
the painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1980s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Cardboard
XXXL painting called
Looking for the ultimate pleasure
Located in Oostende, BE
XXXL painting called 'Looking for the ultimate pleasure'
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas
CAPEZ - Modern Painting - Collage / Construction, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Rich Moyers
Located in Yardley, PA
TITLE: "CAPEZ" SERIES: "Dimensional Abstracts" MATERIALS: Gesso, Acrylic Paint on 1/16th Inch Shaped Archival Plexiglas / Canvas / Archival mount / Pintura Wood Panel / UV Con...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Rückzugsort (Retreat), Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
"Rückzugsort" is a temperamental and vibrant abstract painting on paper. The main colors are purple, blue, white, yellow, orange, red, black and brown abstract. It is a one of a kin...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Love Yourself, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
"Love Yourself" is a small abstract, acrylic artwork on canvas. The main colors are turquoise, blue, black and a bit of red. Structures and forms, many layers and all in all a very ...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Open Space, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
"Open Space" is a vibrant painting on canvas in the tradition of Informel. The main colors are mint, yellow, rose, black and white and a bit of red and orange. The work is done w...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Keep Cool, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
"Keep Cool" is a vibrant and passionate artwork on canvas. I used soft acrylic colors. It is a very happy painting that will bring joy in your daily life. The main colors are yellow...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Beautiful Life at the Lake 2, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
"Beautiful Life at the Lake 2" is a lovely acrylic painting on paper. It is inspired by the Bavarian Lake "Spitzingsee" and its gorgeous surroundings. It matches perfect with "Beau...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Beautiful Life at the Lake 2, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
"Beautiful Life at the Lake 3" is a lovely acrylic painting on paper. It is inspired by the Bavarian Lake "Spitzingsee" and its gorgeous surroundings. It matches perfect with "Beau...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Mit Speck fängt man Mäuse, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
"Mit Speck fängt man Mäuse" is a vibrant acrylic artwork on paper. It is a modern, abstract painting in the tradition of the abstract expressionism - a statement piece for every ro...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1990s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Covering Up The Past, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
This painting is the epitome of an emotional abstract creation. It was painted over a very old self portrait in black and white and therefore the title "Covering Up The Past" has bot...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tippy Toes, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
"Tippy Toes" is an expressive abstract diptychon on paper. The all in all size is 65 cm / 25,6 inches W x 100 cm / 39,4 inches H. Both paintings themselves have the size 50 cm / 19,7...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1990s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Wann werden wir uns wieder sehen 1, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
"Wann werden wir uns wieder sehen 1" ("When will we meet each other again") is the first of a mini series of three paintings painted during the Corona isolation. It is about the ...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Look in the Mirror, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
"Look in the Mirror" - be honest to yourself - are you playing a role others expect of you - or are you living the life you really want to live. The artwork was done on thick qual...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Given Time 1, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
In Times of Corona many people get more time, more time with their families. They slow down, running for money and success and even more money and power are replaced by self-reflecti...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
At Home 1, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
In times of Corona and the Social Distancing we stay much more at home then usually. That can be good as well: We do have more time to get to know ourselves better. Even we have more...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
CYAN - Modern / Minimal Geometric Painting, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Rich Moyers
Located in Yardley, PA
Original Modernist / Minimalist Acrylic Painting on Italian Polyester / Cotton Canvas over 3 /16 inches MDF Hard Board Panel. The piece is Float Mounted on a custom hidden recessed M...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Good Times Follow Bad Times, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
In Times of Corona it is very important that we believe that after this very difficult time there will come - no-one knows when - much better days again. The artwork was done on ...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Follow Your Path, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
If we believe in destiny or if we do not: We have to follow our path. The artwork is done with soft acrylic colors. The painting needs to be framed. Signed on the front. Titl...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1990s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Playa Mayor. Salamanca
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
Early 2000s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper
Starting with a Dance, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Ein neuer Morgen beginnt. Die Sonne scheint. Es ist Sommer. Die ersten Sonnenstrahlen werden auf der Haut spürbar. Warum nicht den neuen Tag mit einem Tanz begrüßen. Dieses fa...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
On the Road, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
"On the Road" is a happy painting with warm colors, full of harmony and movement. It is a love-story for all the people who move on in life and are on the road. 6 The work is done w...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"PASSION" - Modern Colorfield Painting, Painting, Acrylic on Watercolor Paper
By Rich Moyers
Located in Yardley, PA
Original Acrylic Modernist "Colorfield" Painting on Heavy 300 lb (640gsm) Cold Pressed French "Lanaquarelle" Archival 100% Cotton Watercolor Paper - The Title written in graphite 'PA...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Das Leben ist bunt, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
"Das Leben ist bunt" (Life is colorful) is a colorful, gestural painted diptych on paper. It is a mixture of monotype and abstract painting. The size of the two pictures is 21 x 29.7...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Family, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
I see an abstract painting with a lot of colors, but I can see a landscape too with flowers, a jungle landscape, a family with children...... but it's not what you look at that m...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Daphne, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
"Daphne" is a colorful, dynamic acrylic painting on canvas. It is gestural and painted in the Informel tradition. Due to the different shades of blue it conveys something of sea or s...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Eruption 3, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
"Eruption 3" is a dynamic small acrylic diptych on paper. It is a mixture of monotype and abstract painting. The size of the two pictures is 21 x 29.7 cm / 8.3 x 11.7 inches each. To...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
PERSISTENCE II - Modern / Minimal Geometric Painti, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Rich Moyers
Located in Yardley, PA
MATERIALS: Gesso / Acrylic Paint / Stretched 620gram Heavy Weight Linen Canvas SIZE: 36 H x 30 W x 1.5 Inches Deep Gallery Wrapped Linen Canvas DETAILS: The 4 Sides have no sta...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Dark Wisdom, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Max Kulich
Located in Yardley, PA
Title: Dark Wisdom Artwork ID: MK201702 Created: 2017, signed and dated Size: 40x60cm 15,7x23,6in Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Original abstract painting by Max...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Good Morning World, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
"Good Morning World" is a small acrylic painting on thick paper. It is painted expressively and gesturally. It combines the informal with monotype elements. Some days we have so m...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Back Fence with Bird. - Mid-Century - WPA Artist
Located in Miami, FL
The Mid-Century mindset
As expected, 65 years ago.. people looked at art/painting a little differently.
Back then, many artists were concerned with depicting simple and beautiful t...
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
#15-1979
Located in New York, NY
Signed (on stretcher): Twardowicz
Stanley Twardowicz (1917–2008), a one-time orphan, Golden Gloves boxer, professional baseball player and auto worker, emerged from a hardscrabble u...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Doledrum ( Industrial Environmental Pollution
Located in Miami, FL
Out of many come one. A huge back mountain is formed out of scores of gas spewing smokestacks. The foreboding back mass fills most of the pictorial area. As one gets closer to the canvas, the complexity of the mass if revealed in low on contrast as we see the diverse variety of the stacks with accompanying petrochemical architecture. Above the stacks, plums of air pollutants like sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides rise gracefully into the atmosphere. The artist focuses less on the by-product of the stacks and more on his giant pollution machine that he has so astutely rendered. The work is mostly monochromatic but the artist has indicted a red tonality of a sunset/sunrise that offsets the charcoal blacks and grays.
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Submitted by Tamarind Institute
Ian Davis...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Aolok
Located in Atlanta, GA
Jennifer J L Jones was born in Virginia U.S.A. in 1971 and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$12,480
Under The Sea Series Nº 23. Úbeda. Oil fantasy underwater blue-green landscape
Located in Segovia, ES
Under The Sea Series Nº 23. Oil on paper.
Fantasy underwater abstract landscape. Green-blue color. Transparencies effect.
Measurements:
(H) 35 cm....
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Under The Sea Series Nº 25. Úbeda. Oil fantasy underwater green landscape
Located in Segovia, ES
Under The Sea Series Nº 25. Oil on paper.
Fantasy underwater abstract landscape. Green color. Transparencies effect.
Measurements:
(H) 39 cm. / 1...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
"Tesserae". Úbeda. 4 pieces acrylic on panel forming abstract mosaic landscape
Located in Segovia, ES
"Tesserae" . 4 pieces Mosaic, Acrylic and mixed media on panel.
Painting composed by 4 small format Abstrac landscapes
Dimension art: Every item is 30 x 30 x 3 cm and the 4 pieces ...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Panel
"Tesserae" 8 acrylic on panel pieces forming abstract mosaic landscape
Located in Segovia, ES
"Tesserae" . 8 pieces Mosaic, Acrylic and mixed media on panel.
Painting composed by 8 small format abstract landscapes
Dimension art: Every item is 30 x 30 x 3 cm and the 8 pieces...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Panel
Thousand and One Nights" Painting with Plastic Technique, Erika Baktay
By Erika Baktay
Located in Rome, IT
"Thousand and One Nights" painting with individual plastic Technique, Erika Baktay.
This painting can be placed both horizontally and vertically.
Dimensions: cm 70 x 50 with frame cm...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Tesserae 7" Úbeda. Mixed media on panel Abstract orange yellow green Landscape
Located in Segovia, ES
"Tesserae 7". Mixed media on panel, 30x30 cm.
Small-format painting with intense chromaticism and texture, with relief marking the different planes. The dense brushstrokes and the play of light create a landscape of great expressive force.
This piece is also thought to be combined to form a mosaic of 4 or 8 pieces with the following reference items by the same artist:
1. Item ref. LU74439094552
2. Item ref. LU74439096932
3. Item ref. LU74439097202
4. Item ref. LU74439097242
5. Item ref. LU74439097372
6. Item ref. LU74439097452
8. Item ref. LU74439096602
(The artist frames almost all his paintings with a wooden strip between 0.5 and 1 cm. Thick, which can be removed at will of the client).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Ángel Luis Úbeda...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Panel
"Tesserae 8". Úbeda. Mixed media on panel Abstract blue orange brown Landscape
Located in Segovia, ES
"Tesserae 8". Mixed media on panel, 30 x 30 cm.
Small-format painting landscape with intense chromaticism and texture, with relief marking the different planes. The dense brushst...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Panel
"Pinky"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Ashley John is proud to offer this artwork by:
Gershon Benjamin (1899 - 1985)
Gershon Benjamin is a painter of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene. He had a pro...
Category
20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Jack of Diamonds, 2017
Located in Atlanta, GA
A natural ability for art runs in the Marshall family. Neil’s late father produced some excellent ink drawings many years ago. Art college beckoned in 1972 having been prolific in ar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Rosa
s Universe #23
Located in Atlanta, GA
Rosa McMurtray is an internationally exhibited artist who was born in Spain and currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia. Her innate artistic talent was reco...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Resin, Acrylic
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