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Feast & Famine 1/7
Philip Hearsey
Sculpture - 45 x 25 x 9 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 9.8 x 3.5 inch
€2,733 €2,324
Dulas Bowl I
Philip Hearsey
Design - 9.5 x 47.5 x 25 cm Design - 3.7 x 18.7 x 9.8 inch
€2,976 €2,530
Cycles XII
Philip Hearsey
Sculpture - 45 x 39 x 10 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 15.4 x 3.9 inch
€4,252 €3,614
Nailed it Series No.90
Sumit Mehndiratta
Sculpture - 79 x 246 x 5 cm Sculpture - 31.1 x 96.9 x 2 inch
€7,000 €5,950
Accumulation restructurée I (SG114)
Sylvie Guyomard
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
€2,000
White Series, Profondeur
Isabelle Fournet
Painting - 90 x 90 x 1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
€1,450 €1,233
A way to infinity 13
Ovidiu Kloska
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€1,250
Miroir d'Artistes
Jesús-Rafael Soto
Print - 50.2 x 50.2 x 5.1 cm Print - 19.75 x 19.75 x 2 inch
€23,212
L'arbre de sagesse
Mathilde de Bellecombe
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€3,000
Interstellar Voyage II
Daniela Schweinsberg
Painting - 210 x 270 cm Painting - 82.7 x 106.3 inch
€9,718
Extrait poussière des sens F_S
Feng Kaixuan
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€2,000
Le vent du printemps
Isabelle Fournet
Painting - 120 x 123 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 48.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,200 €960
Le passé
Isabelle Fournet
Painting - 130 x 195 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 76.8 x 1.2 inch
€1,750 €1,313
Suite de Paques, Le reniement de Pierre
Alfred Manessier
Print - 56 x 76 cm Print - 22 x 29.9 inch
€600
21 septembre 2016
Raymond Attanasio
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
€800
20 novembre 2008
Raymond Attanasio
Painting - 90 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
€2,000
AV_MarPlastico_003
Bernhard Lang
Photography - 90 x 63 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 24.8 x 0.4 inch
€990
AV_Tulip_Fields_001
Bernhard Lang
Photography - 90 x 140 x 0.5 cm Photography - 35.4 x 55.1 x 0.2 inch
€1,990
Senza Titolo
Emanuele Ravagnani
Painting - 100 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
€3,000
Accumulation restructurée I (SG114)
Sylvie Guyomard
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€2,000
Accumulation XVI (SG120)
Sylvie Guyomard
Painting - 60 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
€1,400
Accumulation XVIII (SG109)
Sylvie Guyomard
Painting - 61 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
€1,000
Visioni Interior
Saverio Filioli Uranio
Painting - 160 x 108 x 0.4 cm Painting - 63 x 42.5 x 0.2 inch
€1,200
Il cammino della mangrovia
Saverio Filioli Uranio
Painting - 67 x 54 x 10 cm Painting - 26.4 x 21.3 x 3.9 inch
€1,000
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