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Rievocazione michelangiolesca
Massimiliano Carisdeo
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$679
Thoughtfulness of Maria Magdalena
Tom Kuran
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$4,716
Désolation 1972 Desolation
Tetsuo Araki
Print - 64.5 x 49.5 x 0.3 cm Print - 25.4 x 19.5 x 0.1 inch
$1,120
Acrilique sur toile "sans Titre"
Futura 2000
Painting - 200 x 134 x 4 cm Painting - 78.7 x 52.8 x 1.6 inch
$75,770
Green Light Sphere
Yoshiyuki Miura
Sculpture - 14.8 x 14.8 x 8 cm Sculpture - 5.8 x 5.8 x 3.1 inch
$3,958
Growing Love
Claire Denarie-Soffietti
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$12,892
No Title #022322
Kunihiko Maehara
Fine Art Drawings - 50.8 x 55.88 x 3.81 cm Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 22 x 1.5 inch
$2,135
Le trait - 04
Ludovica Cholet
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$679
Melting in the Heat
Stephanie Berry
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.8 inch
$1,900
Hands, Soap and Water, 4/7
Laura Põld
Sculpture - 36 x 38 x 12 cm Sculpture - 14.2 x 15 x 4.7 inch
$1,131
Vers un azur
Elisabeth Delesalle
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$5,654
Vortex Azul
Javier Toro Blum
Sculpture - 130 x 100 x 12 cm Sculpture - 51.2 x 39.4 x 4.7 inch
$11,309
La mer des Rêves triptych 1/30
Vivianne Paris Panigiris
Sculpture - 75 x 25 x 3 cm Sculpture - 29.5 x 9.8 x 1.2 inch
$1,696
Figure Sketch
Robert Goodnough
Fine Art Drawings - 30.5 x 40.6 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12 x 16 x 0.1 inch
$1,500
Desenvoltura, osario y lujuria de (no hay) dios 1
Daniel Verbis
Print - 61.5 x 100 cm Print - 24.2 x 39.4 inch
$1,120
Untitled
Antoni Clavé
Fine Art Drawings - 77 x 57 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 30.3 x 22.4 x 0.4 inch
$3,393
Quatre quadrilatères 508
Anneke Klein-Kranenbarg
Sculpture - 25 x 25 x 3.5 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 9.8 x 1.4 inch
$1,357
Untitled from Portafolio El exilio de los sentidos
Manuel Felguerez
Print - 38.1 x 38.1 x 0 cm Print - 15 x 15 x 0.01 inch
$800
La beauté des couleurs d’automne
Dolores Bordon
Painting - 20 x 20 x 0.1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$905
“- ¿Ya viste el cielo? - ¿Ya viste el suelo?”
Soy Roy
Painting - 100 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$3,019
Seuils et murs-montagnes
François Bossière
Painting - 46 x 38 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 15 x 0.8 inch
$1,018
Framed Color World II
Jens-Christian Wittig
Print - 50.8 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Print - 20 x 20 x 1 inch
$3,900
Patrick Loste X Porcelaine de Limoges
Patrick Loste
Print - 17.5 x 17.5 x 3 cm Print - 6.9 x 6.9 x 1.2 inch
$283
Little devils
Ray Smith
Fine Art Drawings - 37 x 27 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.6 x 10.6 x 0 inch
$1,244
S/T II
Yamandú Canosa
Fine Art Drawings - 49 x 65 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.3 x 25.6 x 0.4 inch
$2,036
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