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Poetic Landscape 9
Michel Saint-Luc
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$785
Season colors__Summer Autumn 2018
Soo Youn Kim
Painting - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,447
XXI 19 021 36
Pierre Muckensturm
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 inch
$1,346
'Monochrome Love' Series 1, Square (unframed)
Kirsten Jackson
Painting - 123 x 123 x 7 cm Painting - 48.4 x 48.4 x 2.8 inch
$2,580
L'entente dans la foi
André Lanskoy
Painting - 55 x 46.2 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.2 x 0.8 inch
$33,096
Magenta
Christian Lefevre
Photography - 75 x 100 x 0.3 cm Photography - 29.5 x 39.4 x 0.1 inch
$1,055
13.1.16
Richard Caldicott
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 21 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 8.3 inch
$1,635
The Journey 001
Angelica Tcherassi
Painting - 39.9 x 30 x 0.3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$1,400
Poèmes insoumis
André Masson
Fine Art Drawings - 31.5 x 25 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.4 x 9.8 x 0.1 inch
$1,683
Gestures
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 55.5 x 76 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 21.9 x 29.9 x 0 inch
$673
Urban blur VII
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,120
J’ai demandé à la lune
Yohan Storti
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.4 inch
$2,244
No hay que traspasar ciertas puertas
Sergio Moscona
Painting - 56 x 76 x 5 cm Painting - 22 x 29.9 x 2 inch
$5,497
Embarazada / enceinte
Federico Osorio
Sculpture - 23 x 5 x 3 cm Sculpture - 9.1 x 2 x 1.2 inch
$1,683
Rêves de nous deux
Marc Thivierge
Fine Art Drawings - 63.5 x 30.48 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 12 x 1.2 inch
$800
Les plongeurs dans les vagues vertes
Édouard Pignon
Painting - 77 x 57 x 1 cm Painting - 30.3 x 22.4 x 0.4 inch
$4,263
Coque de bateau - Cargo Tamago
Marie-Annick Priou
Painting - 80 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,066
'Pink Spring' Abstract Spring Landscape
Nguyen Xuan Anh
Painting - 129.5 x 193 x 5.1 cm Painting - 51 x 76 x 2 inch
$8,640
Clin d’œil, rêve d’un monde…
Marie-Odile Wagner
Print - 31 x 25 x 0.1 cm Print - 12.2 x 9.8 x 0 inch
$292
Study after Laocoon 3, El Greco painting and Greek sculpture
Dana Gordon
Painting - 45.72 x 60.96 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18 x 24 x 0 inch
$4,187
Nighttime Township
Christine Drummond
Painting - 61 x 61 x 5.1 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 2 inch
$3,500
1322 antique white/green
Roger König
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$5,049
Vers le vert 16
Sérgio Bello
Fine Art Drawings - 78 x 58 cm Fine Art Drawings - 30.7 x 22.8 inch
$1,346
Douce lumière de Loire
Padraig Creston
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,122
Compostela to Finisterre I
Ron Mills-Pinyas
Painting - 196 x 200 x 4 cm Painting - 77.2 x 78.7 x 1.6 inch
$16,290
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