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'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
Cloud Gate Sculpture, Millenium
Michael K. Yamaoka
Photography - 91.4 x 61 x 0.1 cm Photography - 36 x 24 x 0.04 inch
$4,000
1322 antique white/green
Roger König
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$5,033
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
Letter 8
Richard Saint-Amans
Fine Art Drawings - 71 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$895
Vers le vert 16
Sérgio Bello
Fine Art Drawings - 78 x 58 cm Fine Art Drawings - 30.7 x 22.8 inch
$1,342
White Top 38, Red Bottom 12, Red Dot
Anna Celie Nastasia Meyer
Sculpture - 51 x 20 x 19 cm Sculpture - 20.1 x 7.9 x 7.5 inch
$6,006
Pays minier
Pierre Alechinsky
Fine Art Drawings - 97.5 x 63 cm Fine Art Drawings - 38.4 x 24.8 inch
$35,791
Untitled
Anne and Patrick Poirier
Painting - 38.5 x 70 x 5 cm Painting - 15.2 x 27.6 x 2 inch
$7,606
Stoneforest in Red
Tung-Wen Margue
Painting - 180 x 180 x 3 cm Painting - 70.9 x 70.9 x 1.2 inch
$5,592
Les architectures de l'ombre V.XXXXI
Geraldine Wilcke
Photography - 40 x 30 x 3 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
$1,342
Suite de Pâques, Le Jardin des Oliviers
Alfred Manessier
Print - 56 x 76 cm Print - 22 x 29.9 inch
$671
L'horizon des événements N°3
Leah Desmousseaux
Photography - 36 x 55 cm Photography - 14.2 x 21.7 inch
$1,118
13.1.16
Richard Caldicott
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 21 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 8.3 inch
$1,655
Fingernails
Michael Grine
Fine Art Drawings - 30.5 x 22.9 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12 x 9 x 0.1 inch
$300
Expansion 02 Bleu - Alain Carpentier
Alain Carpentier
Painting - 61 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$727
Somewhere in the Indian Ocean
Montse Oliver
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$3,411
Deterritorialisation 4
David Agius
Photography - 66 x 100 x 3 cm Photography - 26 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,230
Abstract Ocean
Arianna Rybcenko
Painting - 80 x 60 x 3.7 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.5 inch
$2,874
Emotional Landscape 10
Kayo Shido
Painting - 92 x 122 x 0.2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 48 x 0.1 inch
$5,559
Nuns Fly Kites 2
Betty Carvajal
Painting - 91.44 x 60.96 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 24 x 1 inch
$4,854
Dreaming No.1
Bea Garding Schubert
Painting - 149.9 x 119.9 x 4.6 cm Painting - 59 x 47.2 x 1.8 inch
$4,100
El fin de una era, por así decirlo
Juan González Iglesias
Painting - 89.8 x 65 x 0.1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 25.6 x 0 inch
$3,769
We who sit but cannot sit still (tanami II)
Noah Spivak
Painting - 90 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,874
Premonition
Sergiu-Bogdan Roman
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.4 inch
$4,306
Burdened Anatomy Is Worth Keeping
Brian Matthew Truesdale
Painting - 76.2 x 60.96 x 3.81 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$3,909
Lithographie originale de Sobrino
Francisco Sobrino
Print - 80 x 80 x 0.3 cm Print - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
$2,236
La tète dans les mains
Jacques Tenenhaus
Sculpture - 90 x 47 x 33 cm Sculpture - 35.4 x 18.5 x 13 inch
$20,132
Geotropisme 19
Frédérick Mazoir
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$358
Desorientado en el espacio
Patricia Nora Indij
Painting - 60 x 120 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
$2,874
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