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Lithographie originale de Sobrino
Francisco Sobrino
Print - 80 x 80 x 0.3 cm Print - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
$2,241
La tète dans les mains
Jacques Tenenhaus
Sculpture - 90 x 47 x 33 cm Sculpture - 35.4 x 18.5 x 13 inch
$20,180
Geotropisme 19
Frédérick Mazoir
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$359
Desorientado en el espacio
Patricia Nora Indij
Painting - 60 x 120 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
$2,881
Sans titre
Takeru Amano
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$1,457
RB M25 Edition
Ronan and Erwan Bouroulec
Print - 90 x 70 x 0.2 cm Print - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
$1,626
Touched, Touching
Remi Delaplace
Painting - 81 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,352
What do you have in mind?
Brian Otieno
Photography - 60 x 90 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
$1,457
Male Nr. 121701
Andrej Jakab
Sculpture - 48.5 x 27.5 x 9 cm Sculpture - 19.1 x 10.8 x 3.5 inch
$16,760
Family Transcendence
João Almeida (xUEkA)
Painting - 130 x 162 x 1.5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 63.8 x 0.6 inch
$4,204
Megan's Demons
Joey Tranchina
Photography - 100 x 150 x 0.1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0 inch
$2,803
Lontano
Veronica Botticelli
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 inch
$3,139
Stone Series 1
GK Austin II
Photography - 76.2 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Photography - 30 x 20 x 1 inch
$3,800
Essential Workers
Michael Alan
Photography - 27.9 x 35.6 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11 x 14 x 0.04 inch
$2,800
'Monochrome Love' Series 1, Square (unframed)
Kirsten Jackson
Painting - 123 x 123 x 7 cm Painting - 48.4 x 48.4 x 2.8 inch
$2,579
Untitled
Josep Guinovart
Fine Art Drawings - 72 x 50 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 28.3 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$2,242
Boy with Turkey
Afro Basaldella
Sculpture - 130.5 x 98 x 1.4 cm Sculpture - 51.4 x 38.6 x 0.6 inch
$60,540
Untitled 1
David Paul Kay
Fine Art Drawings - 16 x 16 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 6.3 x 6.3 x 0 inch
$673
In the end, everything comes back
Dervis Akdemir
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1 inch
$597
Poèmes insoumis
André Masson
Fine Art Drawings - 31.5 x 25 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.4 x 9.8 x 0.1 inch
$1,682 $1,513
Composition abstraite
Jacques Germain
Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 32 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 12.6 x 0 inch
$1,110
Sans Titre Ref (352)
Nicolas Dubreuille
Sculpture - 43 x 15 x 22 cm Sculpture - 16.9 x 5.9 x 8.7 inch
$3,924
Élévation
Claude André Thibaud
Fine Art Drawings - 22 x 36 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.7 x 14.2 x 0 inch
$682
Ti' punch molotov 04
Jean-Marc Hunt
Painting - 68 x 48 x 3 cm Painting - 26.8 x 18.9 x 1.2 inch
$4,372
Dynamique Chromatique 853
Dario Perez-Flores
Painting - 140 x 140 cm Painting - 55.1 x 55.1 inch
$26,906
1985 Sculpture Cubintra
Blaise Simon Balazs
Sculpture - 40 x 40 x 1 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$4,428
Traversée de la Mer Rouge
Raymond Moretti
Print - 92 x 144 x 0.4 cm Print - 36.2 x 56.7 x 0.2 inch
$5,606
Art of Rain - Spring
Hannelore Bueki
Painting - 114 x 162 x 2 cm Painting - 44.9 x 63.8 x 0.8 inch
$8,801
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