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Regard sur soi / Look at yourself
Claudine Barclais
Painting - 40 x 32 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 12.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,992
Golden brown, white golden
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 70 x 140 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 55.1 x 1.6 inch
$1,947
Le printemps de mes amours
Sophie Petetin
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1 inch
$1,715
Soft abstraction IX
Tamara Bakhshinyan
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$663 $597
Sans titre
Joël Kermarrec
Fine Art Drawings - 62 x 48 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 24.4 x 18.9 x 0 inch
$885
Horizon - série Montagne
Constance Baudot
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,106
Activation XXXIX
Jean Dubuffet
Fine Art Drawings - 27 x 21 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.6 x 8.3 inch
$36,514
In Between Dreams
Nemanja Nikolic
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 2 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 0.78 inch
$1,328
Grand dégradé carré or rose violet
Jonathan Pradillon
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.4 inch
$387
Held by the great mother earth
Catherine Berube
Painting - 91.5 x 91.5 x 3 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.2 inch
$1,947
Blue (Diptych)
Laura Basterra Sanz
Painting - 42 x 60 x 0.1 cm Painting - 16.5 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$1,555
Shaple Pompoulaine SHPL87
Marcel Speet
Painting - 80 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$846
Tenniscourt Series I
Dorine van der Ploeg
Painting - 15 x 20 x 0.1 cm Painting - 5.9 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$609
Palimpseste
Miguel Sancho
Fine Art Drawings - 93 x 112 cm Fine Art Drawings - 36.6 x 44.1 inch
$1,660
Poulette
César Baldaccini
Fine Art Drawings - 32 x 24 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0.4 inch
$4,205
Série silence #1
Lionel Chevalier
Painting - 65 x 81 x 2.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 31.9 x 1 inch
$1,660
Competing Thoughts
Michael Mccullough
Painting - 121.9 x 96.5 x 0.8 cm Painting - 48 x 38 x 0.3 inch
$3,250
Dessin Syllabe #3
Pauline-Rose Dumas
Fine Art Drawings - 125.5 x 136.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 49.4 x 53.7 inch
$5,311
No Title #1317
Jochen Cerny
Photography - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Photography - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$2,158
Le da color
Marcello Cid Saint Jean
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$830
La jalousie (Robbe Grillet)
Michèle Sala
Painting - 61 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$885
Le temps d’un envol
Olfa Chabchoub
Painting - 60 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$2,047
REF 11-24 - Composition n° 58
Jeanne
Painting - 73 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$985
Drain color
Cynthia Coulombe-Bégin
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$1,895
Les fleurs qui s'ouvrent le soir no.5
Clo
Painting - 91.4 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$2,474
Guêpe homme - Sculpture surréaliste
Alain Plisson
Sculpture - 46 x 20 x 20 cm Sculpture - 18.1 x 7.9 x 7.9 inch
$2,075
Abstract artworks
Abstract art was born at the beginning of the 20th century, more specifically between 1911 and 1917 with the work of four influential painters: Frantisek Kupka, Vassily Kandinsky, Kasimir Malevich and Piet Mondrian . Although each of these artists formulated their own vision of abstract art, a shared historical context explains the concurrent emergence of this artistic movement.
The scientific discoveries of the early 20th century completely revolutionized man's perception of the world. These artists, who were literary and cultured men, were well aware of scientific progress. As Paul Valéry put it, "in the last twenty years neither matter nor space nor time has been what it was from time immemorial". People needed a new language to both express and to comprehend this "new world". These four artists demonstrated a keen interest in the esoteric and occult, which explains why the abstract is presented as a research of another type of truth, a way to elevate one's mind and soul towards new horizons, uncovering the deepest mysteries of humankind. The realm of music truly fascinated these artists; they identified with it and, several of them, especially Kandinsky, used it as inspiration. Music is the epitome of the imponderable and the intangible; it suggests meanings while escaping from reality at the same time.
The influence of artistic movements such as Fauvism and also served as references for the development of the abstract's aesthetic research. Abstraction did not attempt to represent the visible world, but rather to become a "visual language". However, it is essential to bear in mind that each of these four painters took a different path, and that they independently formulated their conception of abstract art.
Abstract art wanted to display an "abstract image," a non-figurative representation, outside of reality. They wanted to create art that was self-sufficient, that could look to itself to find the resources needed to support its existence. Abstract creation often required the artists to unleash their consciousness, to break free of instinctive visual associations. This approach produced powerful artworks which, although free of any literal meaning, retained the ability to provoke strong sensations and feelings in the viewer. The triumph of color, of subjectivity and the lack of conventions, foreshadowed the advent of an art that was liberated and free of any restrictive conventions. Abstract art manifestos laid the foundations of its aesthetic. Kandinsky's letters to the music composer Schönberg demonstrated the porous nature of the genres at a time where serial music was emerging. Both music and painting followed a path of growing “dissonance within the arts". These abstract artworks can demand collector to approach them in a particular. Although the interplay of shapes and colours in abstract art make it a visually accessible style, it is also important to reflect on the works more deeply. They invite the viewer to escape from reality, to consider things according to the prism of the absolute, of essence and absence. They might encourage viewers to adopt a new outlook on the world, where everything is astonishing and where our consciousness is constantly wonderstruck by the world around us.
“Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible." - Paul Klee