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Intervalles du carré
Julio Pacheco-Rivas
Painting - 49 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 19.3 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
£2,844
Untitled Clay Pieces
Derick Smith
Sculpture - 96 x 46 x 2 cm Sculpture - 37.8 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
£1,955
10e anniversaire Fondation Maeght
Joan Gardy Artigas
Print - 50 x 40 cm Print - 19.7 x 15.7 inch
£311
A break in the Rain Frogs Croak
Eric Johnston
Painting - 41 x 51 x 2 cm Painting - 16.1 x 20.1 x 0.8 inch
£5,377
Fire: Do not fear... thresholds are for crossing
Phyllis Viola Boyd
Painting - 152.4 x 177.8 x 5.1 cm Painting - 60 x 70 x 2 inch
£9,122
Concrete-constructive Composition
Friedrich Geiler
Print - 70 x 61 x 1 cm Print - 27.6 x 24 x 0.4 inch
£222
El viento, espiral de la rosa.
Martin Chirino
Sculpture - 27 x 60 x 60 cm Sculpture - 10.6 x 23.6 x 23.6 inch
£19,018
Branksome gold no.9
Michael Sole
Painting - 120 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
£9,904
Sin Necesidad de Ver Para Sentir
Lorena Martín
Painting - 97 x 97 x 2 cm Painting - 38.2 x 38.2 x 0.8 inch
£6,710
Pensando en un paisaje
José Carmona
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
£2,177
BIophilia; Cell
Kazuhiro Toyama
Sculpture - 37 x 40 x 40 cm Sculpture - 14.6 x 15.7 x 15.7 inch
£14,930
Love
Eduardo Vega de Seoane
Fine Art Drawings - 44 x 56 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.3 x 22 x 0.4 inch
£225
Outside, Inside, Beyond No. 1
Greg Brat
Painting - 60 x 58 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 22.8 x 1.2 inch
£5,066
Geogram
Hoel Gwern
Fine Art Drawings - 17 x 14 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 6.7 x 5.5 x 0.1 inch
£160
La girafe
Brigite Oury
Fine Art Drawings - 25.5 x 36 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10 x 14.2 x 0 inch
£355
Der himmel ist überall 04
Johann Rivat
Painting - 80 x 70 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch
£2,666
Universe Series - Home
Thang Chaio Mei
Painting - 90 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
£5,421
Meltdown - Black structure
Ralph Posset
Sculpture - 23 x 20 x 5 cm Sculpture - 9.1 x 7.9 x 2 inch
£755
Force bloom 24
James Verbicky
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 5.08 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 inch
£18,577
Only in the Other I recognise myself, 3
Zizi Rincolisky
Painting - 240 x 120 x 5 cm Painting - 94.5 x 47.2 x 2 inch
£4,444
Married to Success
DOC (Desire Obtain Cherish)
Sculpture - 76 x 38 x 38 cm Sculpture - 29.9 x 15 x 15 inch
£16,752
Fusión en movimiento 1
Wilmer Herrison
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
£4,266
Knar_Heart of Forest
Soilart Dojoong Jo
Painting - 53 x 45 x 3 cm Painting - 20.9 x 17.7 x 1.2 inch
£5,332
El túnel
Jordi Valls Capell
Photography - 100 x 150 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
£6,945
Lentamente lugares
Ana Pérez Pereda
Fine Art Drawings - 181 x 60 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 71.3 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
£7,554
Lukarrara Jukurrpa (Desert Fringe-rush Seed Dreaming)
Stacey Wilson Nakamarra
Painting - 40 x 30 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
£355
L'arbre de vie
Rachel Daireaux
Sculpture - 165 x 144 x 123 cm Sculpture - 65 x 56.7 x 48.4 inch
£8,443
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