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Basel Dahman
Painting - 100.1 x 80 x 4.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$40,000
Paperaty Teá Oriental
Adriana Rizkallah
Sculpture - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Sculpture - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$955
Was für ein Glück (Gestern)
Paul Thierry
Print - 100 x 50 x 8 cm Print - 39.4 x 19.7 x 3.1 inch
$2,569
Shoulder to shoulder
Lori Stanford
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 2.2 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.9 inch
$3,540
Collage 4
Lilu Fischer
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$2,972
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
$393
La Langue des Stones
Richard Boigeol
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1 inch
$13,484
Landscape. Villa Borghese (Rome, Italy)
Giulio Turcato
Painting - 44 x 52 x 0.1 cm Painting - 17.3 x 20.5 x 0 inch
$21,350
L'art du futur
Alain Husson-Dumoutier
Painting - 98 x 72 x 1 cm Painting - 38.6 x 28.3 x 0.4 inch
$10,079
Dessin de boule sur sous-main de Titi Parant
Jean-Luc Parant
Print - 70 x 100 x 0.1 cm Print - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$506
Flower Field Touch of Gold
Ans Pullens
Painting - 95 x 75 x 8 cm Painting - 37.4 x 29.5 x 3.1 inch
$6,180
The end of the dream will be when it matters
Mathias Schmied
Painting - 108 x 114 cm Painting - 42.5 x 44.9 inch
$7,866
Synchromatismos IV
Mariana Villafane
Painting - 60 x 60 x 12 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 4.7 inch
$16,855
Variation sur panneau en peuplier
Maria Chiara Re
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 45 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
$618
Blues
E Lorraine Art and design
Painting - 60.96 x 60.96 x 5.9 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 2.3 inch
$3,090
The Fusion of Time
Murielle Argoud
Painting - 160 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 63 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$14,046
Golden Symphony
Stephanie van der Beek
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$10,619
Le patriote Ref AB122
Charles Lapicque
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
$3,371
"Istanbul 2" from series: Synthetical Landscapes
Nikolaus von Wolff
Photography - 100 x 182 cm Photography - 39.4 x 71.7 inch
$4,270
Serie Parallel Universe 2
Long-Deng Xiong
Fine Art Drawings - 97 x 152 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 38.2 x 59.8 x 0 inch
$17,305
Composition 20
Clement Nicolas Kons
Painting - 49 x 34 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.3 x 13.4 x 0 inch
$281
Mostra Abstract Chromatism in Round Shape
Ferruccio Gard
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$15,731
Abstraction & courbes 1
Gisèle Desmarais
Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$169
A longing no. 14
Joseph Adolphe
Painting - 203 x 182 x 4 cm Painting - 79.9 x 71.7 x 1.6 inch
$40,452
The color cleanser no. 21
Hiroshi Mehata
Painting - 91 x 117 x 2.6 cm Painting - 35.8 x 46.1 x 1 inch
$15,057
Bô krik 2 - Abstraction intuitive
Jacqueline Faubert
Painting - 20 x 20 x 0.1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$140
Ariel View, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Howard Danelowitz
Painting - 101.6 x 152.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 40 x 60 x 2 inch
$22,000
Wally ghost 01
Thomas Campion
Photography - 75 x 50 x 2 cm Photography - 29.5 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$618
Untitled
Magda Bolumar
Fine Art Drawings - 26.5 x 35 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.4 x 13.8 x 0 inch
$3,371
Visitors to the museum
Paraskevas Papadopoulos
Painting - 70 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$14,053
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