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Bondage 70
Stephan Marienfeld
Sculpture - 70 x 70 x 70 cm Sculpture - 27.6 x 27.6 x 27.6 inch
$38,849
Pastel bleu 1423
Joel Giraud
Fine Art Drawings - 25.5 x 34.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10 x 13.6 x 0 inch
$277
Sans Titre 11 - Ref BDNW9153
Jean-Pierre Stora
Fine Art Drawings - 32 x 32 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.6 x 12.6 inch
$1,054
The grass is greener 1/3
Gabriela Madrazo
Painting - 88 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 34.6 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,831
Composition Abstraite Ref GO0877
Raymond Trameau
Painting - 38 x 55 cm Painting - 15 x 21.7 inch
$1,609
Empreinte minerale 5
Roland Moreau
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,998
Reflections on Meditation: Unveiling
Eunice Kim
Painting - 60.6 x 72.7 cm Painting - 23.9 x 28.6 inch
$1,665
Ball with red light
Olesia Dvorak-Galik
Sculpture - 16 x 16 x 16 cm Sculpture - 6.3 x 6.3 x 6.3 inch
$600
Sans Titre
Jean-Gabriel Chauvin
Fine Art Drawings - 32 x 24 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.6 x 9.4 inch
$999
Sin título I
Miquela Vidal Barceló
Painting - 30 x 30 x 4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
$2,215
Iris hysterique
Sacha Haillote
Photography - 50 x 50 x 5 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 2 inch
$1,443
Hilly Billy Willy Nilly I
Max Hammond
Painting - 40.6 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Painting - 16 x 12 x 2 inch
$2,000
Majardi Jukurrpa - Mina Mina
Madeleine Dixon Napangardi
Painting - 76 x 46 x 3 cm Painting - 29.9 x 18.1 x 1.2 inch
$1,054
Yumari Jukurrpa (Yumari Dreaming)
Alison Larry Nungarray
Painting - 46 x 91 x 3 cm Painting - 18.1 x 35.8 x 1.2 inch
$1,776
Watiya-warnu Jukurrpa (Seed Dreaming)
Jason Woods Japaltjarri
Painting - 91 x 46 x 3 cm Painting - 35.8 x 18.1 x 1.2 inch
$1,554
Simbolismo flamenco / Flamenco Symbolism
Vicente Escudero
Painting - 27.5 x 19.5 cm Painting - 10.8 x 7.7 inch
$4,995
Vers un azur
Elisabeth Delesalle
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$5,550
Lady from the past
Eliana Barbosa
Photography - 30.5 x 30.5 x 2.5 cm Photography - 12 x 12 x 1 inch
$610
Languages of Body Part 1
Chamy Shin
Painting - 52 x 78 x 0.3 cm Painting - 20.5 x 30.7 x 0.1 inch
$2,220
Chemin des remparts
Bogdan Kotewicz
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.3 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
$910
Le baiser (évolution 2)
Marc Daniel
Sculpture - 27 x 23.5 x 24 cm Sculpture - 10.6 x 9.3 x 9.4 inch
$4,590
Au Fond de L’océan
Mercedes Aparicio
Fine Art Drawings - 52.3 x 40.5 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 20.6 x 15.9 x 1.2 inch
$4,662
Good vibrations
Wilfried Habrich
Painting - 40 x 30 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.6 inch
$1,157
The Uniqueness of Emergence
Maria Lorena Lehman
Painting - 55.88 x 45.72 cm Painting - 22 x 18 inch
$2,000
Belle Sirène Sweet green Siren
SHIM SANG OK
Sculpture - 39 x 35 x 25 cm Sculpture - 15.4 x 13.8 x 9.8 inch
$2,164
ABSTRACTION 1958 Composition musicale Musical composition
Heinrich Oeltjen-Rüstringen
Painting - 16 x 11 x 0.3 cm Painting - 6.3 x 4.3 x 0.1 inch
$1,609
Sans titre
Pascal Saint-Vanne (Vladimir)
Painting - 81 x 65 x 4 cm Painting - 31.9 x 25.6 x 1.6 inch
$499
Pêcheurs à pieds
Jocelyne Audois
Painting - 60 x 80.7 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,332
Mediterranean Abstract
Renato Barisani
Print - 69.3 x 50 x 0.2 cm Print - 27.3 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$277
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