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Burn, Burn, Baby
Theodor Grigoras
Painting - 120 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,233
Homage to Thelonious Monk
Sam Grigorian
Painting - 40 x 50 x 0.2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$2,000
Journal d'un confiné 37
André Cervera
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 21 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
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Abstract Composition
Antonio Sanfilippo
Print - 70 x 50 x 0.2 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$893
Tingel-tangel II
Leszek Rózga
Fine Art Drawings - 16 x 31 cm Fine Art Drawings - 6.3 x 12.2 inch
$781
Road signs I
Jakub Pasierkiewicz
Photography - 98 x 73 x 0.3 cm Photography - 38.6 x 28.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,308
From the series "Sunset" 2
Dmytro Bilous
Photography - 60 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$167
Grand canal de nuit à Venise
Christine Jacquel
Painting - 33 x 40.9 x 2 cm Painting - 13 x 16.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,259
Ombros
Christina Sprowl
Fine Art Drawings - 40.6 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16 x 20 x 1 inch
$964
Weathering the storm
Adam Colangelo
Painting - 91.4 x 61 x 5.1 cm Painting - 36 x 24 x 2 inch
$1,686
Sans titre
Blondin91
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 40 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,060
Le regard L'Oeil The Eye
Yvon Prével
Sculpture - 45 x 38 x 4 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 15 x 1.6 inch
$2,177 $1,088
Couple 1972 Couple
Aline Gagnaire
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.3 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,284
N 43.492674 E 6.364195
Marc C. Woehr
Painting - 22 x 22 x 3 cm Painting - 8.7 x 8.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,340
Untitled
Berit Louise Sara-Grønn
Sculpture - 7 x 20 x 4.5 cm Sculpture - 2.8 x 7.9 x 1.8 inch
$2,233
Printemps
Serge Plagnol
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0 inch
$558
September 4
Enric Cormenzana
Fine Art Drawings - 58 x 39 x 0.02 cm Fine Art Drawings - 22.8 x 15.4 x 0 inch
$893
Highland Hope II
Kalpana Soanes
Painting - 59.9 x 80 x 4.6 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 1.8 inch
$1,179
Red figures
Waleria Matelska
Fine Art Drawings - 40.5 x 25.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.9 x 10 x 0 inch
$335
Double standard 17. From The Series doble sStandard
James Bonachea
Fine Art Drawings - 57.9 x 39.9 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 22.8 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,500
Untitled
Duván López
Fine Art Drawings - 32 x 24 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0 inch
$670
Abstraction corrosive N°231
Bertrand Peyrot
Painting - 85 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 33.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$3,014
The invisible map bronze edition
Vincent Lamouroux
Sculpture - 2 x 6 x 11 cm Sculpture - 0.8 x 2.4 x 4.3 inch
$949
Still Life With Monkey, Fruits and Flowers
Alexey Golovin
Painting - 135 x 105 x 4 cm Painting - 53.1 x 41.3 x 1.6 inch
$20,869
1969 Paris Orange Paris Le Barbu Man with a beard
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 37.5 x 52.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 14.8 x 20.7 x 0.2 inch
$2,177
Movement | Bronze Sculpture
Aloyzas Smilingis
Sculpture - 33 x 21 x 21 cm Sculpture - 13 x 8.3 x 8.3 inch
$9,488
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