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Les poissons
Mathilde de Bellecombe
Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 15 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.9 x 5.9 x 0.4 inch
£160
La pyramide des yeux
Jean-Luc Parant
Fine Art Drawings - 62 x 50 cm Fine Art Drawings - 24.4 x 19.7 inch
£2,222
Dancing Lovers
Moises Morgenstern
Sculpture - 198.1 x 119.4 x 111.8 cm Sculpture - 78 x 47 x 44 inch
£19,074
Le piscarius et les harpies frivoles
Didier Hamey
Print - 32 x 27 x 0.2 cm Print - 12.6 x 10.6 x 0.1 inch
£311
Good Eloquent Evening Light (Geel)
Anet Duncan
Painting - 65 x 137 x 5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 53.9 x 2 inch
£2,844
Corps et Ame #191121_009
Jérôme Rapin
Fine Art Drawings - 73 x 53 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 28.7 x 20.9 x 0 inch
£1,066
Irradiation lumineuse - Abstraction et matière - série entre imaginaire et réel
Marie Mercier dite MALCQ
Painting - 27 x 22 x 2 cm Painting - 10.6 x 8.7 x 0.8 inch
£267
Abstraction marine et spiritualité
Aurore Lyon
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.6 inch
£80
Untitled
Paul Philibert-Charrin
Photography - 15 x 20 x 1 cm Photography - 5.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
£578
J.S. Bach, Goldberg variation, Aria
Ernestine Tahedl
Painting - 165.1 x 116.8 x 4.6 cm Painting - 65 x 46 x 1.8 inch
£4,263
Sunshine duration
Reiko Kinoshita
Painting - 32.5 x 47 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.8 x 18.5 x 0 inch
£1,366
Le feu sous la glace
Lysiane Portal
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
£711
Dear Forgiveness I saved a plate for you
Elaine B. Chao
Painting - 50.8 x 50.8 x 3 cm Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.2 inch
£1,155
Le pas de la verte
Christian Nesler
Sculpture - 70 x 70 x 3 cm Sculpture - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
£3,377
La vague joyeuse
Jean-Claude Barthel
Painting - 24 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 9.4 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
£107
Untitled
Pedro Cano
Fine Art Drawings - 35 x 25 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13.8 x 9.8 x 0 inch
£3,110
Combat de coq, le duel
Jean Vodaine
Painting - 81 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 24 x 0.8 inch
£5,332
Chassé-Croisé II
Elia Kleiber
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 60 x 4 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
£444
Too much ribbons for a birthday
Harrison Prignet
Fine Art Drawings - 120 x 100 x 4.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.8 inch
£2,222
Ecorce d'Aulne ou Vergne - Triptyque - série écorces d'arbres
Eliane Dessaud
Painting - 30 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
£347
Marines 3 - Paysage abstrait de bord de mer
Edith Heim
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
£107
Filitoza numéro 10
Bernard Rémusat
Painting - 130 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 39.4 x 2 inch
£19,552
Octopus's Garden
Joe Flaherty
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 4.6 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 1.8 inch
£2,784
The currency of sleep training gimmicks
Hilary Tait Norod
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 5.1 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 inch
£1,824
Deep blue clash
Cintia García
Painting - 130 x 130 x 0.3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 51.2 x 0.1 inch
£2,961
Assemblage
Sima Jahangirian
Fine Art Drawings - 37 x 26 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.6 x 10.2 x 1.2 inch
£444
Installation 1
Sarkis Sislian
Sculpture - 60.5 x 60.5 x 17 cm Sculpture - 23.8 x 23.8 x 6.7 inch
£2,886
Ntoboase (patience)
Patrick Tagoe-Turkson
Sculpture - 129.5 x 94 x 10.2 cm Sculpture - 51 x 37 x 4 inch
£4,644
Bretagne
Aline Khieu
Fine Art Drawings - 29.8 x 41.8 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 16.5 x 0 inch
£480
Smile Sourire
Moon Shin
Sculpture - 30 x 15 x 15 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 5.9 x 5.9 inch
£31,105 £15,552
Light in the darkness
Wilds
Sculpture - 115 x 115 x 20 cm Sculpture - 45.3 x 45.3 x 7.9 inch
£15,064
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