Abstract Photography
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
Intersect # 201704 (Abstract Photography)
By Paul Snell
Located in London, GB
Intersect # 201704 (Abstract Photography)
Chromogenic Print Face-mounted 4.5mm Plexiglas - Unframed.
Available on request 5-6 week turnaround.
Backed with Dibond and C-channel hangi...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, C Print
Dissolve # 201801 (Abstract Photography)
By Paul Snell
Located in London, GB
Dissolve # 201801 (Abstract Photography)
Chromogenic Print Face-mounted 4.5mm Plexiglas- Unframed.
Backed with Dibond and C-channel hanging system + keyhole option.
Edition: 2/3.
...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, C Print
Mute # 201801 (Abstract Photography)
By Paul Snell
Located in London, GB
Mute # 201801 (Abstract Photography)
This work is framed 8mm face and 65mm depth.
Chromogenic print face-mounted 8 mm plexiglass.
Backed with Dibond and C-channel hanging system ...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, C Print
Flight 2 (Abstract photography)
Located in London, GB
Flight 2 (Abstract photography)
Silver Gelatin Print - Unframed.
Tenesh Webber is a Canadian artist who works in abstract black and white photography. She lives and works in the Ne...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Mute # 201705 (Abstract Photography)
By Paul Snell
Located in London, GB
Mute # 201705 (Abstract Photography)
This work is framed 8mm face and 65mm depth.
Available on request 5-6 week turnaround.
Chromogenic print face-mounted 8 mm plexiglass.
Backed ...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, C Print
Intersect # 201605 (Abstract Photography)
By Paul Snell
Located in London, GB
Intersect # 201605 (Abstract Photography)
Chromogenic Print Face-mounted 4.5mm Plexiglas - Unframed.
Available on request 5-6 week turnaround.
Backed with Dibond and C-channel hangi...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, C Print
Gravity - Liquid 04 (Abstract Photography)
By Seb Janiak
Located in London, GB
Gravity - Liquid 04 (Abstract Photography)
Chromogenic print. Edition 1/5.
In his Gravity, Liquid series, Janiak creates visual representations of the idea that form cannot exist w...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Gravity - Liquid 21 (Abstract Photography)
By Seb Janiak
Located in London, GB
Gravity - Liquid 21 (Abstract Photography)
Chromogenic print. Edition 1/5.
In his Gravity Liquid series, Janiak creates visual representations of the idea that form cannot exist wi...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Résonance - water drop 251 (Abstract Photography)
By Seb Janiak
Located in London, GB
Résonance - water drop 251 (Abstract Photography)
Chromogenic print. Edition 1/5.
In his Résonance series, Janiak explores the role of sound in creation. Taking inspiration from sa...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Bleed # 202051 (Abstract photography)
By Paul Snell
Located in London, GB
Bleed # 202051 (Abstract photography)
Chromogenic Print Face-mounted 3mm Matte Plexiglas - Unframed.
Backed with Dibond and C-channel hanging system + keyhole option.
Edition: 1/...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, C Print
Shifting the frame 101 (Abstract photography)
Located in London, GB
Shifting the frame 101 (Abstract photography)
Photography - Unframed.
Artwork exclusive to IdeelArt.
Edition of 10 +2 AP - Artworks are printed by the artist on Hahnemühle Fine Ar...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Gravity - Liquid 01 (Abstract Photography)
By Seb Janiak
Located in London, GB
Gravity - Liquid 01 (Abstract Photography)
Chromogenic print. Edition 1/5.
In his Gravity, Liquid series, Janiak creates visual representations of the idea that form cannot exist w...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Photon 01 (Abstract Photography)
By Seb Janiak
Located in London, GB
Photon 01 (Abstract Photography)
Chromogenic print. Edition 1/5.
In his Photon series, Janiak explores the intrinsic duality of light. The photons we interpret as light exist in a ...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Radius (Abstract photography)
Located in London, GB
Radius (Abstract photography)
Silver Gelatin Print - Unframed.
Tenesh Webber is a Canadian artist who works in abstract black and white photography. She lives and works in the New ...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
EM-36 Padmasambhara 2
By Bill Kane
Located in London, GB
EM-36 Padmasambhara 2
Pigment on canvas - Unframed.
Edition of 3.
The Emanations series is an attempt to express the spiritual potential of the most essential aspect of photograph...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Canvas, Pigment
Gravity - Liquid 83 (Abstract Photography)
By Seb Janiak
Located in London, GB
Gravity - Liquid 83 (Abstract Photography)
Chromogenic print. Edition 1/5.
In his Gravity Liquid series, Janiak creates visual representations of the idea that form cannot exist wi...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
To and Fro 3 (Abstract photography)
Located in London, GB
To and Fro 3 (Abstract photography)
Silver Gelatin Print - Unframed.
Tenesh Webber is a Canadian artist who works in abstract black and white photography. She lives and works in th...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled 153 (Abstract photography)
Located in London, GB
Untitled 153 (Abstract photography)
C print - Unframed.
Richard Caldicott is most well known for this earlier work series which used Tupperware containers as the subject for his ph...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
EM2020-4 ( Abstract work on paper)
By Bill Kane
Located in London, GB
Pigment on watercolor paper - Unframed.
Edition of 10.
The Emanations series is an attempt to express the spiritual potential of the most essential aspect of photography: light. Ea...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Paper, Pigment
Bleed # 202042 (Abstract Photography)
By Paul Snell
Located in London, GB
Bleed # 202042 (Abstract Photography)
Chromogenic Print Face-mounted 3mm Matte Plexiglas - Unframed.
Available on request - 4 week turnaround.
Backed with extruded polystyrene, co...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, C Print
Gravity - Bulle d
air 04 (Abstract Photography)
By Seb Janiak
Located in London, GB
Gravity - Bulle d'air 04 (Abstract Photography)
Chromogenic print. Edition 1/5.
In his Gravity Bulles d'air series, Janiak creates visual representations of the idea that form can...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Passing Through 2 (Abstract photography)
Located in London, GB
Passing Through 2 (Abstract photography)
Silver Gelatin Print - Unframed.
Tenesh Webber is a Canadian artist who works in abstract black and white photography. She lives and works ...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled 215 (Abstract photography)
Located in London, GB
Untitled 215 (Abstract photography)
C print - Unframed.
Richard Caldicott is most well known for this earlier work series which used Tupperware containers as the subject for his ph...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Trace # 201901 (Abstract photography)
By Paul Snell
Located in London, GB
Trace # 201901 (Abstract photography)
Chromogenic Print face-mounted 3mm matt plexiglas - Unframed.
Backed with Dibond and C-channel hanging system + keyhole option.
Available on ...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, C Print
EM-78 Vajra 3 (Abstract new media)
By Bill Kane
Located in London, GB
EM-78 Vajra 3 (Abstract new media)
Pigment on canvas - Unframed.
Edition of 3.
The Emanations series is an attempt to express the spiritual potential of the most essential aspect ...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Canvas, Pigment
$6,872 Sale Price
13% Off
Magnetic radiation 99 (Large) (Abstract photography)
By Seb Janiak
Located in London, GB
Magnetic radiation 99 (Large) (Abstract photography)
Chromogenic print. Edition 1/5.
In his Magnetic Radiation series, Janiak reveals the hidden world of magnetism by photographing...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
$6,545 Sale Price
20% Off
Untitled 156 (Abstract photography)
Located in London, GB
Untitled 156 (Abstract photography)
C print - Unframed.
Richard Caldicott is most well known for this earlier work series which used Tupperware containers as the subject for his ph...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
EM2020-20 (Abstract new media)
By Bill Kane
Located in London, GB
EM2020-20 (Abstract new media)
Pigment on watercolor paper - Unframed.
Edition of 10.
The Emanations series is an attempt to express the spiritual potential of the most essential ...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Paper, Pigment
Magnetic radiation 14 (Large) (Abstract photography)
By Seb Janiak
Located in London, GB
Magnetic radiation 14 (Large) (Abstract photography)
Chromogenic print. Edition 1/5.
In his Magnetic Radiation series, Janiak reveals the hidden world of magnetism by photographing...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Untitled 136 (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
Untitled 136 (Abstract Photography)
C print - Unframed.
Richard Caldicott is most well known for this earlier work series which used Tupperware containers as the subject for his pho...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Morphogenetic field - Dandelion (Pissenlit) (Abstract Photography)
By Seb Janiak
Located in London, GB
Morphogenetic field - Dandelion (Pissenlit) (Abstract Photography)
Chromogenic print. Edition 1/5.
In his Morphogenetic fields series, Janiak examines the visible manifestation of ...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Gravity - Liquid 83 (Abstract Photography)
By Seb Janiak
Located in London, GB
Gravity - Liquid 83 (Abstract Photography)
Chromogenic print. Edition 1/5.
In his Gravity Liquid series, Janiak creates visual representations of the idea that form cannot exist wi...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Intersect # 202101 (Abstract photography)
By Paul Snell
Located in London, GB
Chromogenic Print Face-mounted 4.5mm Plexiglas - Unframed.
Backed with Dibond and C-channel hanging system + keyhole option.
Available on request 5-6 week turnaround.
Edition: 1/3.
...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, C Print
Flight 2 (Abstract photography)
Located in London, GB
Flight 2 (Abstract photography)
Silver Gelatin Print - Unframed.
Tenesh Webber is a Canadian artist who works in abstract black and white photography. She lives and works in the Ne...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Radius (Abstract photography)
Located in London, GB
Radius (Abstract photography)
Silver Gelatin Print - Unframed.
Tenesh Webber is a Canadian artist who works in abstract black and white photography. She lives and works in the New ...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
End Point (Abstract photography)
Located in London, GB
End Point (Abstract photography)
Silver Gelatin Print - Unframed.
Tenesh Webber is a Canadian artist who works in abstract black and white photography. She lives and works in the N...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Unlock (Abstract photography)
Located in London, GB
Unlock (Abstract photography)
Silver Gelatin Print - Unframed.
Tenesh Webber is a Canadian artist who works in abstract black and white photography. She lives and works in the New ...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Passing Through 2 (Abstract photography)
Located in London, GB
Passing Through 2 (Abstract photography)
Silver Gelatin Print - Unframed.
Tenesh Webber is a Canadian artist who works in abstract black and white photography. She lives and works ...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Riff 3 (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
Riff 3 (Abstract Photography)
C print - Unframed.
English abstract artist Richard Caldicott works across the disciplines of painting, photography and sculpture. His work extends a ...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
EM-57 White Tara (Abstract new media)
By Bill Kane
Located in London, GB
EM-57 White Tara (Abstract new media)
Pigment on canvas - Unframed.
Edition of 3.
The Emanations series is an attempt to express the spiritual potential of the most essential aspect of photography: light. Each work in the series began its evolution as a scanned image of a Buddhist thangka—a spiritual painting of a Buddhist deity—which was then blurred and stretched until all that remained was a distilled image of color and form. These reduced images were then printed onto canvases, resulting in what Kane refers to as elemental “representations of the light bodies of the Buddhas.”
Bill Kane...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Canvas, Pigment
Intersect # 202101 (Abstract photography)
By Paul Snell
Located in London, GB
Intersect # 202101 (Abstract photography)
Chromogenic Print Face-mounted 4.5mm Plexiglas - Unframed.
Available on request 5-6 week turnaround.
Backed with Dibond and C-channel hangi...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, C Print
Bleed # 202041 (Abstract Photography)
By Paul Snell
Located in London, GB
Bleed # 202041 (Abstract Photography)
Chromogenic Print Face-mounted 3mm Matte Plexiglas - Unframed.
Available on request - 4 week turnaround.
Backed with extruded polystyrene, co...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, C Print
EM-78 Vajra 3 (Abstract new media)
By Bill Kane
Located in London, GB
Pigment on canvas - Unframed.
Edition of 3.
The Emanations series is an attempt to express the spiritual potential of the most essential aspect of photography: light. Each work in ...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Canvas, Pigment
NY # 40.78N_73.96W (Abstract photography)
By Paul Snell
Located in London, GB
Chromogenic Print Face-mounted 3mm Plexiglas - Unframed.
Artwork made with 2 elements ( 80 x 250 cm/31.5 x 98.4" each).
Available on request 5-6 week turnaround.
Backed with Dibond ...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, C Print
Magnetic radiation 14 (Medium) (Abstract photography)
By Seb Janiak
Located in London, GB
Chromogenic print. Edition 1/5
In his Magnetic Radiation series, Janiak reveals the hidden world of magnetism by photographing ferrofluids. A ferrofluid is a liquid substance magnet...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
EM-84 Protector 2 (Abstract new media)
By Bill Kane
Located in London, GB
Pigment on canvas - Unframed.
Edition of 3.
The Emanations series is an attempt to express the spiritual potential of the most essential aspect of photography: light. Each work in ...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Canvas, Pigment
Trace # 201902 (Abstract photography)
By Paul Snell
Located in London, GB
Chromogenic Print face-mounted 3mm matt plexiglas - Unframed.
Backed with Dibond and C-channel hanging system + keyhole option.
Available on request - 4 week turnaround
Edition o...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, C Print
Résonance - water drop 84 (Large)
By Seb Janiak
Located in London, GB
Chromogenic print - Unframed.
Edition 4/5.
In his Résonance series, Janiak explores the role of sound in creation. Taking inspiration from sacred texts from multiple spiritual tr...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Trace # 201901 (Abstract photography)
By Paul Snell
Located in London, GB
Chromogenic Print face-mounted 3mm matt plexiglas - Unframed.
Backed with Dibond and C-channel hanging system + keyhole option.
Available on request - 4 week turnaround
Edition o...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, C Print
Untitled 70 (Abstract photography)
Located in London, GB
C print - Unframed.
Richard Caldicott is most well known for this earlier work series which used Tupperware containers as the subject for his photographs.
As he describes : "Tupper...
Category
1990s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
EM2020-20 (Abstract new media)
By Bill Kane
Located in London, GB
Pigment on watercolor paper - Unframed.
Edition of 10.
The Emanations series is an attempt to express the spiritual potential of the most essential aspect of photography: light. Ea...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Paper, Pigment
Untitled 156 (Abstract photography)
Located in London, GB
C print - Unframed.
Richard Caldicott is most well known for this earlier work series which used Tupperware containers as the subject for his photographs.
As he describes : "Tupper...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Loops 1 (Abstract photography)
Located in London, GB
Loops 1 (Abstract photography)
Black and white photogram. Unframed.
Tenesh Webber is a Canadian artist who works in abstract black and white photography. She lives and works in the...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Black and White, Photogram
Chrysler Building Shinning Silver Abstraction
Located in Miami, FL
Photographer Mitchell Funk shoots silver facades against a deep cobalt blue sky, emphasizing his acute sense of graphic design in street photography. He waits for the perfect light a...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Bleed # 202052 (Abstract photography)
By Paul Snell
Located in London, GB
Chromogenic Print Face-mounted 3mm Matte Plexiglas - Unframed.
Backed with Dibond and C-channel hanging system + keyhole option.
Available on request 5-6 week turnaround.
Edition: 3...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, C Print
EM-54 Palden Lhamo 2 (Abstract new media)
By Bill Kane
Located in London, GB
Pigment on canvas - Unframed.
Edition of 3.
The Emanations series is an attempt to express the spiritual potential of the most essential aspect of photography: light. Each work in ...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Canvas, Pigment
Guggenheim Museum Design Inspires Clouds in New York City
Located in Miami, FL
The surrounding clouds' graphic formation pays tribute to Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum's simplified design of repetitive shapes. In this stunningly original image, Photogr...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
CB4
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC
LA -- Charney writes of her process: “For many years, I'd been trying to combine painting and photography with very contrived results...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Aluminum
$5,200
EM-3 Vajrayogini
By Bill Kane
Located in London, GB
Pigment on canvas - Unframed.
Edition of 3.
The Emanations series is an attempt to express the spiritual potential of the most essential aspect of photography: light. Each work in ...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Canvas, Pigment
Abstract photography for sale on 1stDibs.
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