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Si tu as des rêves, n’attache pas ton pur sang à une charrue, arrime le à une étoile
Olivier Toma
Painting - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$3,530
Untitled
Ossip Zadkine
Fine Art Drawings - 62 x 45 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 24.4 x 17.7 x 0 inch
$13,320
Soft Focus Beach Scene (Fourth of July)
Maxwell Stevens
Painting - 58.5 x 58.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 23 x 23 x 1 inch
$5,550
Ranunculous 232a
Marc Kittner
Photography - 144.8 x 114.3 x 0.5 cm Photography - 57 x 45 x 0.2 inch
$2,700
Mémoire internée – Poulailler n° 2
Jean-Pierre Le Boul'ch
Painting - 114.5 x 146 x 2 cm Painting - 45.1 x 57.5 x 0.8 inch
$8,325
Ocean energy
Yahaira Cohinta Vannucchi
Painting - 136 x 84 x 3 cm Painting - 53.5 x 33.1 x 1.2 inch
$34,853
Green Reflection
Bernadette Jiyong Frank
Painting - 122 x 122 x 3 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1.2 inch
$10,267
Ignacio Egido (Anyako) - Pardalet
Ignacio Egido (Inyako)
Painting - 50 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 24 x 0.8 inch
$1,110
Garbage Color
Pauline Corto
Photography - 75 x 50 x 0.3 cm Photography - 29.5 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$688
Envol et profondeur
Alain Beraud
Painting - 81 x 65 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 25.6 x 1.2 inch
$12,765
Constructing Dawn
Delphine Hogarth
Painting - 93 x 162 x 4 cm Painting - 36.6 x 63.8 x 1.6 inch
$4,630
Comme un frémissement
Chantal Proulx
Painting - 122 x 152 x 4 cm Painting - 48 x 59.8 x 1.6 inch
$3,125
Peau de mur 20
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 146 x 114 x 3 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 1.2 inch
$4,662
Lithosphère III (SG90)
Sylvie Guyomard
Sculpture - 78 x 34 x 11 cm Sculpture - 30.7 x 13.4 x 4.3 inch
$1,887
Tambourinades
Gérard Traquandi
Fine Art Drawings - 20.5 x 11.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.1 x 4.5 inch
$499
After the rain
Anastasiya Protsenko
Sculpture - 72 x 69 x 10 cm Sculpture - 28.3 x 27.2 x 3.9 inch
$2,109
Emerging Light
Sylvia Fournier
Photography - 30 x 45 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0.4 inch
$377
Dans la plaine, les baladins…
Bruno Montpied
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 30 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$555
Too much ribbons for a birthday
Harrison Prignet
Fine Art Drawings - 120 x 100 x 4.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.8 inch
$2,775
Marines 3 - Paysage abstrait de bord de mer
Edith Heim
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$133
Come dare i primi soccorsi ann cane
Valerio Adami
Painting - 81 x 100 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 inch
$94,347
Grand Espace Cosmique
Aurélie Jeannin
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,220
Grand tilleul de Menthonnex (Haute-Savoie) #1
Christine Houssay
Sculpture - 68 x 40 x 22 cm Sculpture - 26.8 x 15.7 x 8.7 inch
$3,219
Joy of Twins Mother
Twins Seven Seven
Painting - 61 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 48 x 1 inch
$7,000
A la croiser des chemins
Alain Gremillet
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,066
Tetramorfa Hueca 12N
Diego Canogar
Sculpture - 38 x 32 x 20 cm Sculpture - 15 x 12.6 x 7.9 inch
$7,925
Graphis (metal sculpture)
Belart Collective
Sculpture - 84 x 80 x 48 cm Sculpture - 33.1 x 31.5 x 18.9 inch
$4,995
Left (paper) pieces : unknown world
Hansol Yoon
Painting - 44.7 x 27 x 1 cm Painting - 17.6 x 10.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,787
Sans titre
Patrick Villas
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 65 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 25.6 inch
$1,332
Four Times the Living Space
Brian Nash
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$1,750
Planète Mélancolie - livre d’artiste (5)
Julie Ruelle
Print - 28 x 20 x 2.5 cm Print - 11 x 7.9 x 1 inch
$555
Cabeza en la Ventana ( Head at the Window )
Rufino Tamayo
Print - 75.5 x 55.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 29.7 x 21.9 x 0 inch
$6,971
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