Female Expressionist Artist
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Masonite
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Mixed Media
Mixed Media
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Monoprint
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Paint, Paper, Oil
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1940s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Masonite, Encaustic, Oil
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Woodcut
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Masonite, Encaustic, Oil
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1950s Cubist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Encaustic, Oil
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Paint, Oil
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Lithograph
1990s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Etching, Aquatint, Intaglio, Handmade Paper
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Paint, Pastel, Oil, Chalk
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Lithograph
1940s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Paper
1960s Abstract Expressionist Still-life Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Masonite, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Landscape Drawings ...
Paper, Gouache
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Landscape Drawings ...
Paper, Gouache
2010s Neo-Expressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Chalk, Charcoal, Pastel, Archival Paper
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Masonite, Encaustic, Oil
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Lithograph, Offset
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Charcoal, Watercolor, Gouache
Vintage 1960s German Expressionist Paintings
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Parchment Paper, Watercolor
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Parchment Paper, Watercolor
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Parchment Paper, Watercolor
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Parchment Paper, Watercolor
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Parchment Paper, Watercolor
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Parchment Paper, Watercolor
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Parchment Paper, Watercolor
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Parchment Paper, Oil Pastel
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Parchment Paper, Watercolor
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Paper, Oil
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Paint, Paper, Oil
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Monoprint
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Screen
1980s Abstract Abstract Prints
Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint, Intaglio
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Lithograph
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Lithograph
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
1950s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1990s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Lithograph
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Pen
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Masonite, Oil
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
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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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