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Personnage en vert
Jean-François Laurent
Sculpture - 26 x 5 x 3 cm Sculpture - 10.2 x 2 x 1.2 inch
$609
Vive les cooleurs (2)
Seb Paul Michel
Painting - 80 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,217
Empêcher que le monde ne se défasse
Jean-Roch Klethi
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$952
Code barre (Circus )
David Ferreira
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,987
El verano trae tanto
Carmen Aztibia
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$642
Altamar [Open Sea]
Natasha Vázquez
Sculpture - 72 x 72 x 8 cm Sculpture - 28.3 x 28.3 x 3.1 inch
$778
Virus - série monde cosmique et planète
Delphine Rapaport
Painting - 132 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 52 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,521
Soulmates
Marie Julou (Tina McCallan)
Painting - 50 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
$1,095
1st Wall St Journal, Dinner Triangles (2nd State)
James Rosenquist
Print - 57.8 x 100.3 x 0.5 cm Print - 22.75 x 39.5 x 0.2 inch
$3,500
Ochestrale mecanique
Muriel Charbonnier
Painting - 60 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,300
Circling thoughts
Ventzislav Dikov
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,766
Variations cinétiques 1
Piero Cipolat
Painting - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,295
Oppressor and the Oppressed
Abiodun Nafiu Azeez
Painting - 116.8 x 88.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 46 x 35 x 1 inch
$1,550
Victoria horkan
Victoria Horkan
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$4,406
Composition abstraite
Marcel Mouly
Painting - 35 x 33.3 x 0.1 cm Painting - 13.8 x 13.1 x 0 inch
$13,278
Pink city Abstract-187
Nivas Kanhere
Painting - 121.9 x 100.3 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 39.5 x 1 inch
$1,750
Ma Tete d'Amazone
Christine Hodgson
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 5.1 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 inch
$1,600
Studio Series - II #4
Sam Perry
Painting - 66.675 x 51.12 x 2 cm Painting - 26.3 x 20.1 x 0.8 inch
$950
Strange Phenomena (dos)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.7 inch
$1,525
Abstract n°310-5
Harry James Moody
Painting - 61 x 50.8 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 20 x 1.5 inch
$1,328
Le maître des forces de la nature
Bengt Lindström
Painting - 180 x 194 x 2 cm Painting - 70.9 x 76.4 x 0.8 inch
$71,921
Elkarri Begiratuz
Alberto Letamendi
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 0.8 inch
$7,192
Astrea. From the Visceral Series
Magda Von Hanau
Sculpture - 36.8 x 36.8 x 36.8 cm Sculpture - 14.5 x 14.5 x 14.5 inch
$6,500
Golden Countryside
Nancy McIntyre
Painting - 50.8 x 50.8 x 3.8 cm Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 inch
$1,050
La Lisière
Éric Dabancourt
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 99 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 39 x 0.8 inch
$1,416
Pink lotus garden
Saverio Filioli Uranio
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
$996
Persiennes
Pierre Morquin
Painting - 146 x 114 x 3 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 1.2 inch
$1,992 $1,792
Aspérités
Jean-Robert Franco
Photography - 100 x 70 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$2,213
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