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Composition with Triangles
František Kupka
Painting - 14.5 x 15 x 1 cm Painting - 5.7 x 5.9 x 0.4 inch
£137,855
Landscape
Joseph Sima
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 45 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 17.7 x 0.4 inch
£52,207
Ocean energy
Yahaira Cohinta Vannucchi
Painting - 136 x 84 x 3 cm Painting - 53.5 x 33.1 x 1.2 inch
£27,927
Acrilique sur toile "sans Titre"
Futura 2000
Painting - 200 x 134 x 4 cm Painting - 78.7 x 52.8 x 1.6 inch
£59,589
Aux abords de la maison
Francois Priser
Painting - 81 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£2,135
Migration
Vakhtang Khelashvili
Fine Art Drawings - 23 x 32 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.1 x 12.6 x 0 inch
£2,668
Dovetail small 2
Margaret Neill
Fine Art Drawings - 60.2 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
£1,750
Untitled "Requiem 16"
Mahmoud Hamadani
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 30 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
£1,675
Veiled eye
Katherine Taylor-Schwartz
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£1,423
Relationships
Brigitte Thonhauser-Merk
Painting - 80 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
£4,447
Untitled de Matilisguate
Isabel Herrera
Photography - 35.56 x 35.56 x 1 cm Photography - 14 x 14 x 0.4 inch
£845
Estudio para astrofisico
Yamandú Canosa
Fine Art Drawings - 26 x 36 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.2 x 14.2 x 0 inch
£623
Yugen bois serpent aluminium
Agnès K.
Sculpture - 40 x 40 x 3 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
£747
The late night talking 3
Luca Brandi
Painting - 111.8 x 76.2 x 0.3 cm Painting - 44 x 30 x 0.1 inch
£2,102
Man in the fields
Karl-Karol Chrobok
Painting - 49 x 64 x 0.4 cm Painting - 19.3 x 25.2 x 0.2 inch
£1,067
Pluie de cristal
Isabelle Taieb Nicolaï
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£1,779
Lovers, I’ll put a spell on you. (I was listening to Nina Simone)
Suthamma (Ta) Byrne
Painting - 130 x 180 x 4 cm Painting - 51.2 x 70.9 x 1.6 inch
£5,238
How to strange to feel so weird
Alessandro Capodici
Painting - 42 x 29.7 x 0.3 cm Painting - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0.1 inch
£76
Table d'appoint "Ondulations"
Thalia Dalecky
Design - 45 x 42 x 35 cm Design - 17.7 x 16.5 x 13.8 inch
£729
Le sourire de la solidarité
Klaus Rune
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
£4,438
There's A Song In My Heart
Joyce Fournier
Painting - 101.6 x 66 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 26 x 1.5 inch
£946 £757
Form born from Crimson Red
Deanne Eccles
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
£1,467
Les monstres intérieurs
Julie Beauchemin
Print - 50.8 x 50.8 x 1.8 cm Print - 20 x 20 x 0.7 inch
£712
Un monde nouveau
Clarisse Grenier Meynet
Painting - 50 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
£1,467
Gummi Bear Series: bathed in Gold
Ilariya Neubauer
Painting - 25 x 25 x 8 cm Painting - 9.8 x 9.8 x 3.1 inch
£1,112
Beginning, Middle, End
Krasimira Stikar
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
£1,690
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