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Bleed # 202102
Paul Snell
Photography - 180 x 115 x 0.1 cm Photography - 70.9 x 45.3 x 0 inch
£5,850
Le désenchantement
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 80 x 160 x 5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 63 x 2 inch
£7,110
If You Are Falling, Dive (018)
Jason Engelund
Painting - 76.2 x 61 cm Painting - 30 x 24 inch
£2,050
Medianoche con Hojas Doradas
Chelsea Davine
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
£3,066
Greene & Greene
Genny Puccini
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 50 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
£782
Liquibash
Sumit Mehndiratta
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 41 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 16.1 x 0 inch
£533 £453
Drawing 452
Sumit Mehndiratta
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 41 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 16.1 x 0 inch
£533 £453
9 - Whiting, black and red
Genny Puccini
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 50 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
£747
Ripples under the Surface
Claire Wiltsher
Painting - 90 x 90 x 3.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.4 inch
£1,595
Autumn Highlights
Claire Wiltsher
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.4 inch
£1,295
Children of the revolution
Thierry Corpet
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.4 inch
£1,333
Invitation voyage 2
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 60 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
£2,133
For Ever, Together (Triptych)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 80 x 240 x 0.1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 94.5 x 0 inch
£4,250
Suspends Ton Vol #4
Michèle Laurence Prévost
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£1,866
Linervinii Ninn
Philippe Halaburda
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 0.1 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 0 inch
£4,050
Horizons
Éric Dabancourt
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
£320
Un autre visage
Éric Dabancourt
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
£320
Bord de Mer
Éric Dabancourt
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
£124
Untitled in soft orange
Ronald Hunter
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£1,066
Entrelacs - 4 Rouleaux
Sophie Théodose
Painting - 50 x 50 x 8 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 3.1 inch
£1,777
Rayon de soleil après un orage, mer Noire en juin
Alexei Lantsev
Painting - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
£1,955
Bateaux à Fécamp, matinée
Alexei Lantsev
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£2,666
What are you thinking about? (stretched) (1)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 140 x 95 x 0.1 cm Painting - 55.1 x 37.4 x 0 inch
£1,644
Split Cell XV (Winter Solstice)
Peggy Bell
Painting - 102 x 76 x 4 cm Painting - 40.2 x 29.9 x 1.6 inch
£1,209
Peinture 02-2023-17
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 120 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1 inch
£800
Black 3D from the Series "Forces of Nature" minimalist landscape, mountain
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
£1,777
Embracing Imperfections
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 121.9 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 30 x 1.5 inch
£663
I wasn't expecting you
Lilly Muth
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£1,422
You Make me Smile
Katharina Hormel
Painting - 100 x 160 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 63 x 0.4 inch
£1,866
Loving our Time Together
Katharina Hormel
Painting - 120 x 160 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 63 x 1.2 inch
£2,044
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