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1984 Rose Pink
Jérôme Tisserand
Painting - 52 x 50 x 0.5 cm Painting - 20.5 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
£1,733
LI JAGYONG 1992 MMCA Museum Modern Contemporary Art Seoul South Korea Composition
Li Ja-gyong
Print - 15.5 x 22.5 x 0.5 cm Print - 6.1 x 8.9 x 0.2 inch
£844
1964 Le chat The cat
François Ozenda
Painting - 6.5 x 6.5 x 0.3 cm Painting - 2.6 x 2.6 x 0.1 inch
£844
2003 Ame Amérindienne Amerindian Soul
Joe Feddersen
Print - 26 x 18 x 0.3 cm Print - 10.2 x 7.1 x 0.1 inch
£884 £443
Recherche de motifs 14
François Azambourg
Painting - 226 x 94 x 0.1 cm Painting - 89 x 37 x 0 inch
£1,422
KIM Youngjoo MYTH MMCA MUSEUM COLLECTION Coeur 1991 Heart
Young-Joo KIM
Print - 25.5 x 35 cm Print - 10 x 13.8 inch
£1,329 £665
1993 Red Still life with Malevich Rouge
John Dowdridge
Print - 33 x 26 x 0.3 cm Print - 13 x 10.2 x 0.1 inch
£884 £443
Œil 1986 Eye
Monique Lefevre
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 51 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 20.1 inch
£600
And we shall..a tribute to the Combat Paper Project
Verena Schwarz
Print - 42 x 33 x 0.3 cm Print - 16.5 x 13 x 0.1 inch
£444
El mundo de los vivos - The real world
Ofill Echevarria
Print - 52.1 x 72.4 cm Print - 20.5 x 28.5 inch
£746
Coqueiros de Klee
José Ignacio Suarez Solis
Painting - 89.9 x 89.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.1 inch
£1,343
XXII 101 343
Pierre Muckensturm
Sculpture - 60 x 60 x 22 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 23.6 x 8.7 inch
£3,733
Abstraccion lirica
Rigoberto Mena
Fine Art Drawings - 53.1 x 69.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 20.9 x 27.2 inch
£1,410
Balade nocturne 2
Léonard Rachex
Fine Art Drawings - 29 x 21 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.4 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
£755
Colour Therapy 1
Emma Carey Baxendale
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
£1,500
Untitled
Angel Ricardo Ricardo Rios
Fine Art Drawings - 100.1 x 70.1 x 0 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.01 inch
£1,244
Falling down the social slope
Catalina Vasiliu
Painting - 70 x 55 x 1.2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 21.7 x 0.5 inch
£995
Blue Table (Table Bleue)
Tristan Starowicz (WICZ)
Sculpture - 90 x 50 x 2 cm Sculpture - 35.4 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£1,324
Métamorphose N°6
Bertram Trabhardt-Oaz
Painting - 130 x 97 x 2.5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 1 inch
£1,511
Untitled (abstract)
Meltem Söylemez
Painting - 160 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 63 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
£1,066
Violoncelle
Thierry des Ouches
Photography - 50 x 75 x 1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0.4 inch
£1,777
Panoply
Edward Zelinsky
Fine Art Drawings - 55.9 x 76.2 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 22 x 30 x 0.2 inch
£435
Subtractive Variability Compact 2
Felipe Pantone
Sculpture - 47 x 45 x 5 cm Sculpture - 18.5 x 17.7 x 2 inch
£7,105
Radiant 04
Sabine Klara Lindenstreich
Painting - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
£1,609
Viaggio al centro della terra
LeoNilde Carabba
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
£1,244
The Nature of Things III
Gordon Carmichael
Painting - 49.5 x 41 cm Painting - 19.5 x 16.1 inch
£1,066
This is an Illusion
Bowyi Song
Painting - 139 x 109 x 2.9 cm Painting - 54.7 x 42.9 x 1.1 inch
£1,333
L'arbre aux carreaux Tiles tree
Martine Colignon
Sculpture - 90 x 46 x 43 cm Sculpture - 35.4 x 18.1 x 16.9 inch
£1,555 £778
Multiple de Fond et de Matière
Jérémie Rebourgeard
Painting - 50 x 66 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 26 x 0 inch
£98 £84
Echo 4
Suoyuan Wang
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
£622
December 1
John Harrison Levee
Painting - 150 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
£124,419
Quatorzième poésie du coeu
Furamaru
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
£1,111
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