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The sea remembers (Bi?n nh?)
H-Nguyen
Painting - 75 x 95 x 2 cm Painting - 29.5 x 37.4 x 0.8 inch
£2,008
Mémoire oubliée n°17
Anne-Marie Mary
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
£3,182
Tre cavalli in corsa
Gianfranco Migliozzi
Painting - 100 x 120 x 15 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 5.9 inch
£2,222
Smoke in her face 3
Sergey Bondarev
Painting - 125 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 49.2 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£16,797
Interrogatorio quotidiano
Ugo Carrega
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
£3,000
Proposal
Gagik Ghazanchyan
Painting - 160 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 63 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
£5,688 £4,835
Tótem abstracto (B) Serie Escenografías Urbanas
José Fernández Morán
Painting - 120 x 100 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 inch
£2,000
Nuit étoilée sur le jardin d'Entrechaux
Andrée De Frémont
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
£9,776
Huile eau et soleil
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
£1,155
Untitled 5, From the series of "While You Are Surfing"
Arslan Sükan
Photography - 150 x 100 x 0.1 cm Photography - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0 inch
£5,391
Craquelure Tracteur. Rouille
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
£1,244
Rêverie d' un jour
Olfa Chabchoub
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£2,488
Sofonisba sculpture in Cedar Wood
Whirl & Whittle
Sculpture - 40 x 40 x 9.5 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 15.7 x 3.7 inch
£3,990
Abstraction, bois, fong gris
Jean-Robert Franco
Photography - 80 x 120 x 1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
£1,600
Infrared Collapse
Pedro Soares Filipe
Print - 140 x 100 x 1 cm Print - 55.1 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
£3,110
Still, Waiting (Contemporary Abstract Figure Painting)
G. Campbell Lyman
Painting - 91.4 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 1 inch
£3,127
Migration III, Jour 20
Patrice Palacio
Painting - 70 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
£2,844
Trilogie de la Nature 1
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
£1,244
Yemenisi bir garip mor - Une étrange écharpe violette
Amphora
Painting - 35 x 50 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 inch
£222
1963 Noir Rose Black
Roger-François Thépot
Painting - 28.5 x 20.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 11.2 x 8.1 x 0.2 inch
£2,622
Sans titre / A-525-3
Alain Biltereyst
Painting - 23 x 17.4 x 2 cm Painting - 9.1 x 6.9 x 0.8 inch
£3,377
Ideas in Things (Antarctic Peninsula)
Jessica Houston
Photography - 121.9 x 182.9 cm Photography - 48 x 72 inch
£6,399
Licht Punkt 11
Karl-Martin Holzhäuser
Photography - 120 x 120 x 1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
£21,151
88.4.10
Karl-Martin Holzhäuser
Photography - 62 x 52 x 35 cm Photography - 24.4 x 20.5 x 13.8 inch
£9,518
88.3.2
Karl-Martin Holzhäuser
Photography - 62 x 52 x 35 cm Photography - 24.4 x 20.5 x 13.8 inch
£9,518
88.3.1
Karl-Martin Holzhäuser
Photography - 62 x 52 x 35 cm Photography - 24.4 x 20.5 x 13.8 inch
£9,518
88.25.2001
Karl-Martin Holzhäuser
Photography - 133 x 133 x 5 cm Photography - 52.4 x 52.4 x 2 inch
£28,439
180.10.2003
Karl-Martin Holzhäuser
Photography - 133 x 133 x 5 cm Photography - 52.4 x 52.4 x 2 inch
£28,439
180.23.2003
Karl-Martin Holzhäuser
Photography - 133 x 133 x 5 cm Photography - 52.4 x 52.4 x 2 inch
£28,439
Atria - série coque de bateaux
Sylvie Le Pape dite Khali
Painting - 40 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
£333
Evening with Them II
Judit Horvath Loczi
Painting - 60 x 40 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 1.6 inch
£2,222
Arab Spring Series | Can You Read Me Now
Ghada Jamal
Painting - 170 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 66.9 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
£13,269
Composition sur fond beige
Rajendra Dhawan
Painting - 55 x 67 x 2.5 cm Painting - 21.7 x 26.4 x 1 inch
£7,998
Off to the Field of dreams 12
Thein Shwe
Painting - 72 x 85 x 1 cm Painting - 28.3 x 33.5 x 0.4 inch
£6,887
Sans titre (patchwork)
Amandine Guruceaga
Sculpture - 129 x 76 x 10 cm Sculpture - 50.8 x 29.9 x 3.9 inch
£4,444
Juste pour le plaisir
Martine Lallement
Painting - 40 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
£178
Visual Poetry
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1.5 inch
£2,488
Between a female and a male
Abdulrahman Naanseh
Painting - 150 x 90 x 1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
£5,344
Petits déjeuners au paradis
Simon Halimi
Painting - 114 x 146 x 2 cm Painting - 44.9 x 57.5 x 0.8 inch
£26,661
Amatxo (Mother)
Millan Garayalde
Sculpture - 49 x 24 x 18 cm Sculpture - 19.3 x 9.4 x 7.1 inch
£2,488
Something More Than This
Henri Venne
Photography - 96.5 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Photography - 38 x 48 x 1 inch
£5,155
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