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Le Troll des Calanques
Marcoleptique
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 43 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 16.9 inch
£711
Traças 1
Patricia Lazcano Irazazábal
Sculpture - 29.5 x 42.5 x 4 cm Sculpture - 11.6 x 16.7 x 1.6 inch
£978
Segni di fine estate
Valeria Zaccheddu
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
£533
Fields of color 02
Marike Koot
Painting - 100 x 80 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.6 inch
£1,173
Finestres blanques...
Isabel Saludes
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£1,600
Ripple serie - Shore
Guillaume Carabin
Sculpture - 40 x 30 x 3 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
£1,368
Golden blossom at night
Sandra Lingg
Painting - 30 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
£1,260
Tempus
Purificación Fernandez Grande
Painting - 30 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
£1,498
Klecksogra family
Klekkso Bröking
Painting - 39 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 15.4 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
£1,239
Old man with dog 2011
Paolo Ambrosio
Painting - 90 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 35.4 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
£1,600
In black frame
Pedro Elias Barreta
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
£1,078
Gold rush
Michelle Jackson Mannix
Painting - 60.96 x 91.44 x 1 cm Painting - 24 x 36 x 0.4 inch
£1,440
La Rocola
Orianna Montenegro
Painting - 27.94 x 35.56 x 3.81 cm Painting - 11 x 14 x 1.5 inch
£1,497
Summerfeeling 1
Kunst Schubert
Fine Art Drawings - 59 x 42 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.2 x 16.5 x 0 inch
£920
Ascension Dust
Gregory Logan Dunn
Painting - 45 x 45 x 1 cm Painting - 17.7 x 17.7 x 0.4 inch
£1,124
Broken (Inside Out Series)
Maria Lopes
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
£1,096
Abstract #1
Sara Denkenesh Bresolin
Painting - 30 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
£782
Hot Clay under my Feet
Silvia Felizia
Painting - 45.72 x 35.56 x 1 cm Painting - 18 x 14 x 0.4 inch
£1,531
A fine balance
Bernadette Youngquist
Painting - 41 x 41 x 1 cm Painting - 16.1 x 16.1 x 0.4 inch
£1,422
You are the reason
Luise Juliana Ellerbrock
Print - 25 x 25 x 1 cm Print - 9.8 x 9.8 x 0.4 inch
£1,075
Les nauges du vent 11
Nadya Bertaux
Sculpture - 43 x 53 x 4 cm Sculpture - 16.9 x 20.9 x 1.6 inch
£871
San Pedro Mártir, Baja California
Saúl Rodríguez Montante Méndez
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 46 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 18.1 x 0.1 inch
£950
Cerro de la Mata
Saúl Rodríguez Montante Méndez
Painting - 30 x 46 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 18.1 x 0.1 inch
£951
Waterfront
Brendan Cuffe (Cuffian)
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
£1,733
Never-Ending Excursion
Naoko Shiozaki
Painting - 19 x 26.8 x 0.1 cm Painting - 7.5 x 10.6 x 0 inch
£1,118
Untitled
Alekos Hofstetter
Fine Art Drawings - 27 x 20 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.6 x 7.9 inch
£1,244
From the Series Tout-en-Karton II – Part 1
Khaled Hafez
Painting - 40 x 40 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 inch
£995
Fossile
Xavier Albert Fiala
Fine Art Drawings - 36.5 x 23 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.4 x 9.1 x 0.1 inch
£537
MAMAN Maternité 1987 Motherhood
Reza
Sculpture - 29 x 29 x 3 cm Sculpture - 11.4 x 11.4 x 1.2 inch
£1,377 £689
1972 Fleur - Flower METALLICA
Florian Hunger-Pegof
Sculpture - 4 x 3 x 3 cm Sculpture - 1.6 x 1.2 x 1.2 inch
£1,733 £866
1967 Humanité Mankind
Florian Hunger-Pegof
Painting - 50 x 30 x 0.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
£1,733
Le climat et les vents capricieux
Adrianna MJW
Painting - 40 x 30 x 5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 2 inch
£1,066
1987 Sculpture en vert Green sculpture
Catherine Reboul Berlioz
Painting - 60 x 50 x 0.3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
£1,733
Heinrich HEINE Il Romanzero 1974
Joseph Salamon
Print - 32 x 44.5 x 0.3 cm Print - 12.6 x 17.5 x 0.1 inch
£880
Still life Rocks 1972 Nature morte Roches
Joseph Salamon
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 25 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 9.8 x 0.1 inch
£844
Rouge 1959 Red 1959 Tapis persan Persian rug
Wysszbar
Painting - 99 x 61 x 0.3 cm Painting - 39 x 24 x 0.1 inch
£1,133
Abstraction 1972
Joseph Salamon
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.2 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