![Painting, Harley, YI Ling](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/7821_1_grid.jpg)
Abstract Painting for Sale
Save your search and find it in your favorites
Save your search to find it quickly
Saved search
Your search is accessible from the favorites tab > My favorite searches
Unsaved search
A problem occurred
![Painting, Harley, YI Ling](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/7821_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Tempête dans la Campagne, Peter Sinnige](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/48302_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Untitled, Yrjö Edelmann](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/72127_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Still life with glass, Fernand Léger](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/476773_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The 7 Hearts, Juliana Haggoo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2178759_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Electric Dream, Alexandra Romano](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1853073_1_grid.jpg)
Electric Dream
Alexandra Romano
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 1.5 inch
$1,055
![Painting, Blue and white table, Gordon Hopkins](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1480521_1_grid.jpg)
Blue and white table
Gordon Hopkins
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.4 inch
$6,166
![Painting, Stormy Night, Four Winds Artistry](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1449711_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Un monde parfait, Freddy](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1294356_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sunny Days - série Abstraction, Anne Scandella](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/957540_1_grid.jpg)
Sunny Days - série Abstraction
Anne Scandella
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,144
![Painting, Without title (TP09AP11), Teresa Pera](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/544936_1_grid.jpg)
Without title (TP09AP11)
Teresa Pera
Painting - 76.5 x 58 x 0.1 cm Painting - 30.1 x 22.8 x 0 inch
$1,099
![Painting, Tranquil XVII - Large Blue Painting, Tiberiu Soos](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1630653_1_grid.jpg)
Tranquil XVII - Large Blue Painting
Tiberiu Soos
Painting - 80 x 140 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 55.1 x 1.6 inch
$1,682
![Painting, Sunset Rooftops, Mark Jeffrey Weiss](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1608327_1_grid.jpg)
Sunset Rooftops
Mark Jeffrey Weiss
Painting - 117 x 86 x 4 cm Painting - 46.1 x 33.9 x 1.6 inch
$1,883
![Painting, Acoltando Il Sole, Mattia Novello](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1424655_1_grid.jpg)
Acoltando Il Sole
Mattia Novello
Painting - 226.1 x 147.3 x 5.1 cm Painting - 89 x 58 x 2 inch
$15,000
![Painting, Old fashioned, Roanne .](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1381287_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The gate, Hans Täckenström](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1374216_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Territoires morcelés, Chantal Proulx](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1351152_1_grid.jpg)
Territoires morcelés
Chantal Proulx
Painting - 92 x 92 x 4 cm Painting - 36.2 x 36.2 x 1.6 inch
$1,625
![Painting, Color Table 28, Hwajin Jo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1315899_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Forrest with waterfall, Jacqueline Perez Saleh](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1166721_1_grid.jpg)
Forrest with waterfall
Jacqueline Perez Saleh
Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$1,984
![Painting, Sans titre, Jan Voss](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/942084_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Blue, Peach and Black Washi abstract, Jan Sullivan Fowler](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/650454_1_grid.jpg)
Blue, Peach and Black Washi abstract
Jan Sullivan Fowler
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 1 inch
$900
![Painting, Sans titre, Stéphane Braconnier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2201872_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Laurel 2.0, Lawrence Armstrong](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1595508_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Rakete Wald, Bente Singelmann](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1581768_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Metamorphosis, Ilja Freer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1552332_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Untitled, Zuyu Wang](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1486950_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Alice and the Loch Shiel, Fanny Roche](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1467828_1_grid.jpg)
Alice and the Loch Shiel
Fanny Roche
Painting - 50 x 40 x 1.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.6 inch
$2,002
![Painting, City in the fog, Dagmara Skubisz](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1413729_1_grid.jpg)
City in the fog
Dagmara Skubisz
Painting - 40 x 50 x 1.7 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.7 inch
$1,984
![Painting, The Peace of Wild Things, Maria Alquicira](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1304433_1_grid.jpg)
The Peace of Wild Things
Maria Alquicira
Painting - 90 x 90 x 4 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,076
![Painting, Untitled 5, Wissam Beydoun](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1033545_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Bijou 53, Larry Weidel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/904371_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Vibe 2, Debora Stewart](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2050191_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Force of nature, Nigel Forbes Moores](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1456590_1_grid.jpg)
Force of nature
Nigel Forbes Moores
Painting - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$2,164
![Painting, Violet Flame 13, Veronica Vilsan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1336704_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Abstract circle, Ghost Art](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1167702_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The Portrait_03, Renjie Gao](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1056069_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Les Ames Paysannes N°1 (MR32), Marie Aimer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/944157_1_grid.jpg)
Les Ames Paysannes N°1 (MR32)
Marie Aimer
Painting - 50 x 65 x 0.2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0.1 inch
$1,682
![Painting, Innocence XXXXIV (GA46), Guillaume Allemand](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1169142_1_grid.jpg)
Innocence XXXXIV (GA46)
Guillaume Allemand
Painting - 50 x 119 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 46.9 x 0.8 inch
$4,484
![Painting, Molten ice flow, Bruno Hoopka](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1155138_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Planète carré II, Yann Guinchan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1101678_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sensation d'horizon 17, Francine Scrignac](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/547153_1_grid.jpg)
Sensation d'horizon 17
Francine Scrignac
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 0.8 inch
$1,121
![Painting, Composition, Antoni Amat](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2175934_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Mantra, Yunior Marino](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1435872_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Chaud, Jérémie Iordanoff](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1319472_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Incendie, Véronique Sudry](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1151652_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Le bal des astéroïdes, Autonne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2206611_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Skyless #3, Prag](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2201015_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Walking Big ( RAW ) Head, Niark1](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2147700_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Starry Night, Laura Spring](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1852782_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Cheval vert II, Chengyu Wang](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1680930_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Fajni w domu, Jacek Cyganek](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1524222_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Night Falls, Cr Laul](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1467879_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, We Boppin, George Pinder](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1417596_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Winter from Winter to Summer Series, Nornslife Art](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1377198_1_grid.jpg)
Winter from Winter to Summer Series
Nornslife Art
Painting - 183 x 244 x 7.62 cm Painting - 72 x 96.1 x 3 inch
$18,666
![Painting, Upstairs 2020, Valentyna Odnolko](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1057134_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Je suis un monde. Série Champs Élysées, Christophe Faso](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2135524_1_grid.jpg)
Je suis un monde. Série Champs Élysées
Christophe Faso
Painting - 76 x 56 cm Painting - 29.9 x 22 inch
$953
![Painting, NotWithstanding, Kris Haas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2074614_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, L04PG2, Giovanni Corrêa](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1537635_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Landscape, Jorge Dávalos](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1484385_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Analog (Abstract painting), Pat McDermott](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1048509_1_grid.jpg)
Analog (Abstract painting)
Pat McDermott
Painting - 38.1 x 38.1 x 4.4 cm Painting - 15 x 15 x 1.7 inch
$2,121
![Painting, Eye see you 1/3, Stephanie Larène](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2171481_1_grid.jpg)
Eye see you 1/3
Stephanie Larène
Painting - 78 x 106 x 1 cm Painting - 30.7 x 41.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,233
![Painting, Les travailleurs de la mère, Roberto Matta](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2153558_1_grid.jpg)
Les travailleurs de la mère
Roberto Matta
Painting - 102 x 98 x 2 cm Painting - 40.2 x 38.6 x 0.8 inch
$95,294
![Painting, N°1098, Pierre Fillastre](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2119101_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Forms, levels and texture, Agusti Jane](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1335219_1_grid.jpg)
Forms, levels and texture
Agusti Jane
Painting - 40 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$2,242
![Painting, Abstraction, Marianne Dencausse Robbe](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1285458_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Fluidites Marines, Josette Dubost](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1173576_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Phase Beyond Ours, Zack Goulet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/886581_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Jade, Stratos](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/336193_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, #31, Fred Olivier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2188112_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Bleu 1, Kloo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2177682_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Buttopus, Ruben Cukier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1458771_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Mad Idealist, Luka Tsetskhladze](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1432074_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, El Mar, Leonardo Nierman](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1368639_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Promenade Matinale, Valérie Zimmermann (Anna Mya Zimmer)](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1106112_1_grid.jpg)
Promenade Matinale
Valérie Zimmermann (Anna Mya Zimmer)
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,558
![Painting, Sans titre, Pierre Célice](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/979020_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sans titre (Perce-Neige), Jean-Baptiste Bernadet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/286771_1_grid.jpg)
Sans titre (Perce-Neige)
Jean-Baptiste Bernadet
Painting - 160 x 144 x 3.5 cm Painting - 63 x 56.7 x 1.4 inch
$23,543
![Painting, Deep, Shpoun](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2158671_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Narcisse, Jean-Paul Agosti](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2133964_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Aeon 10, Jason Lincoln Jeffers](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2068005_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Back from the beach, Jean-Humbert Savoldelli](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1923900_1_grid.jpg)
Back from the beach
Jean-Humbert Savoldelli
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,915
![Painting, Crystal city, Khrystyna Kozyuk](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1815429_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Arboretum Trois, Claude-Yvan Conne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1589103_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Containment, Brad Nuorala](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1483626_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Solitude, Roseline Al Oumami](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1452510_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Vignoble, Petar Kras](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1439340_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Blue II, Cyrielle Schoorens](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1332798_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Colorisation, P4NEL](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1271853_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Deep blue, Hugo Auler Jr](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1007802_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Shield, Rachel Wickremer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/560941_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Aube des Âmes Chuchotantes, Carole Framezelle - Acmiya](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2191747_1_grid.jpg)
Aube des Âmes Chuchotantes
Carole Framezelle - Acmiya
Painting - 54 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 21.3 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,525
![Painting, Universal language, Karin Lowney Seed](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1859295_1_grid.jpg)
Universal language
Karin Lowney Seed
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$1,145
![Painting, Fuor di metafora, Irene Raspollini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1831485_1_grid.jpg)
Fuor di metafora
Irene Raspollini
Painting - 100.1 x 100.1 x 1.8 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.7 inch
$2,000
![Painting, Untitled, 3/23/12, Kurt Waldo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1771236_1_grid.jpg)
Discover the styles & movements
Discover the selection of our experts
Abstract Painting for Sale
Abstract painting is a form of expression which contrasts with representational art, where capturing the likeness of the subject is presented as the artist's ultimate objective. Abstract painting is in fact the very opposite of figurative art. Even if we are not able to understand the meaning behind an abstract work without additional information, it can nonetheless succeed in conveying a sense of emotion and feeling.
We tend to associate the birth of abstraction with the artist Vassily Kandinsky and the artistic revolution he initiated during the 20th century. As one of the movement's pioneers, he was at the forefront of the breakaway from representational art along with Kazimir Malevich, Piet Mondrian and Kupka. Kandinsky not only shared his views on abstraction through his art but also in his written work. In 1910 he published his book “Concerning the Spiritual in Art" in which he defended the symbolic importance of each of the elements present in painting and which gave each artwork a spiritual dimension. In the same year, he unveiled his first abstract piece, entitled “Abstract watercolor". Abstract art was born. Figurativism had been left to one side in favour of a new movement where artists dealt directly with the intangible and immaterial, without explicitly identifying a subject matter. Several sub-genres started to emerge. Kazimir Malevich became known for his legendary 1915 painting “Black Square", followed by “White on White" in 1918, with which he laid the foundations for Suprematism. Malevich believed that a painting was composed of an ensemble of independent forces which could evolve together in the order to find a sense of harmony and equilibrium within the work. Abstraction can also take on a more lyrical form, especially when accompanied by music. Kandinsky's the “Picture with the Black Arch" is an excellent example of this. The large-scale painting was painted in 1912 and is seen as a marking the turning point for a new era in the history of art.
As well as his work on the composition of shapes and colors, Kandinsky had synesthesia. His condition can be seen as a decisive factor in triggering the artist's desire to create a new artistic language. His senses intertwined and became one, transforming sounds into shapes and colors. Kandinsky's use of color is much more than a question of aesthetics; it was inherent to the way he perceived the world. In this abstract painting, each color has been carefully chosen and is filled with symbolic meaning. In his abstract two-dimensional painting, Kandinsky succeeds in ensuring that the spectator can feel and hear an entire orchestra playing a Wagner opera.
Geometric abstraction both stems from and contrasts with lyrical abstraction, which geometric abstract artists summarized as “abstract landscaping". As its name suggests, this new form of abstraction is centred around the use of geometric shapes to create a sense of purity in the painting. Lines, squares, triangles and circles all collide with the use of bold, block colors on a two-dimensional surface. Kupka was one of the movement's leading figures but nonetheless did not want to be associated with it, believing that art should be the very opposite of abstract; it should be concrete and real. Alongside him, Mondrian laid the foundations for geometric abstraction with his characteristic use of neat shapes and rectangles. The artist developed his unique style by structuring his paintings around an underlying orthogonal grid and using sharp right angles.
And last but not least, it is important to remember the influence that both Sonia and Robert Delaunay had on the development of abstraction. The couple seduced the French critic and poet Guillaume Apollinaire with their circular shapes and use of color. Apollinaire christened their art Orphism, a reference to the mythological Greek figure Orpheus as well as to the title of one of his own poems, which he felt was reminiscent of the 'luminous language' conveyed in their paintings. In this regard, Orphism seems to have more in common with lyrical rather than geometric abstraction.
Although abstract art marked a decisive break from prior artistic traditions, the movement can also be seen as the inevitable and logical result of the work and thinking of previous artists. At the start of the century the Fauvist movement explored the importance of color, whilst the Cubists started to deconstruct shapes and play with geometry. In a similar way, German Expressionism, which was born in 1905, encouraged the idea that independent emotions, detached from reality, should be the focus of an artist's work. Thanks to abstraction, modern art has been able to excel and reach its very peak. By no longer focusing on physical subjects, artists are no longer limited to representing recognisable reality.
Abstract art has a universal language to share and convey. Since its beginnings, abstraction has been significantly shared across the world and has contributed a great deal to contemporary thinking today. Explore abstract artworks from renowned artists like Henri Matisse, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and more on Artsper!
Abstract painting refers to the type of painting that does not make visual reference to the real world. Art that does aim to do this is called figurative art. Instead, abstract art uses some combination of color, shape, line, forms and marks to achieve an outcome. This often allows the viewer the freedom to interpret the work independently and to assign to it their own meaning.
Like most art forms, abstract painting is as easy as the effort that is put into it. While someone could theoretically create an easy abstract artwork, the ones that are remembered and that resonate with their audience are certainly not easy to create. They require an excellent understanding of visual language such as shape, color and form, as well as advanced technical skills to execute them.
To create an abstract painting, you will require at least some form of surface, such as canvas, paper or wood, and paint, such as acrylic, oil or watercolor.