Abstract Expressionist Pastel
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Paper, Pastel
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Pastel, Ink
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Pastel, Ink
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Pastel, Ink
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Pastel, Ink
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Pastel
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Pastel, Ink
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Pastel, Ink
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Pastel, Ink
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Pastel, Ink
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Oil Pastel, Paper
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Oil Pastel
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Oil Pastel
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Oil Pastel
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Oil Pastel
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Oil Pastel
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Oil Pastel
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Pastel, Ink
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Pastel, Ink, Pencil
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Pastel
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Pastel, Ink
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Pastel, Ink
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Pastel, Ink
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Oil Pastel, Acrylic
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Board, Oil Pastel
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Pastel, Ink
1980s Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Oil Pastel, Ink, Board
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Pastel, Acrylic
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Acrylic
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Pastel, Oil, Acrylic
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Acrylic
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Acrylic
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Acrylic
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Oil
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic, Pastel, Pigment
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic, Pastel, Pigment
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Engraving
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Paper, Acrylic, Pastel
Late 20th Century Abstract Landscape Paintings
Pastel
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Oil Pastel
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Mixed Media
Late 20th Century Abstract Landscape Paintings
Pastel
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Paper, Oil Pastel, Oil, Pencil
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Paper, Pastel, Acrylic
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Pastel, Wax, Oil, Wood Panel
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Oil Pastel, Mixed Media
1990s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Paper, Pastel
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Acrylic
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic, Pastel, Pigment
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Cotton Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Pastel, Wax, Oil, Wood Panel
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Oil Pastel
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Mixed Media, Canvas, Oil Pastel, Acrylic
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel, Acrylic
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel, Acrylic
Late 20th Century Expressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Oil Pastel
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel, Acrylic
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A Close Look at Abstract Art
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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