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Le Poignard Enchanté
Fabienne Audouze (Fabie)
Painting - 60 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$856
Into the Flow II
Lia Van Leeuwen
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,037
Étude de la sculpture "Curieuse"
Aude Herlédan
Fine Art Drawings - 53 x 46 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 20.9 x 18.1 x 0.1 inch
$6,790
Massimo Greco Sea
Massimo Greco
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 13.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 5.3 x 0 inch
$1,584
TerritorioDesconocido 14
Joaquín Lara
Painting - 95 x 70 x 1 cm Painting - 37.4 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$962
Day on a luxury cruise
Ulpiano Carrasco
Painting - 120 x 160 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 63 x 0.8 inch
$15,904
Composition en noir
Ladislas Kijno
Fine Art Drawings - 31 x 24 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.2 x 9.4 x 0.1 inch
$2,829 $2,546
Through The Time - 2
Romeo Melikyan
Painting - 50 x 30 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$1,245
Defining Shadows II
Maureen J Haldeman
Photography - 101.6 x 76.2 x 0.6 cm Photography - 40 x 30 x 0.25 inch
$1,400
Toys for kids 2
Fabrice Quignette
Photography - 80 x 80 x 1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$1,697
Untitled A5
Abdullah Murad
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 30 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 11.8 inch
$1,200
Intervallum - II
Gosha Karpowicz
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 3.8 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 1.5 inch
$1,500
Espace d'un rêve n°9
Carole Becam
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$2,263
Silhouette abstraite - série métaux de récupération
Daniel Bligny
Sculpture - 48 x 20 x 20 cm Sculpture - 18.9 x 7.9 x 7.9 inch
$962
Mandala XV, Più Vicino del Paradiso
Achao
Painting - 163 x 145 x 0.1 cm Painting - 64.2 x 57.1 x 0 inch
$2,150
Le bruit du monde
Claire Bonnet-Masimbert
Painting - 80 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,811
Buried Land 02
Elise Eekhout
Painting - 149.9 x 220 x 0.3 cm Painting - 59 x 86.6 x 0.1 inch
$13,398
Autumn Leaves Abstraction 1
Maxwell Stevens
Painting - 16.1 x 30.5 x 0.6 cm Painting - 6.3 x 12 x 0.2 inch
$905
Straight from the tree 4
Ties Ten Bosch
Sculpture - 15 x 100 x 15 cm Sculpture - 5.9 x 39.4 x 5.9 inch
$679
ES 12 Empire du signe (1)
Pierre-Marc de Biasi
Print - 83 x 76 x 1 cm Print - 32.7 x 29.9 x 0.4 inch
$1,132
Abstract composition 1
Aude Calemard
Painting - 100 x 70 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,267
Numerazione lineare
Paolo Iacchetti
Painting - 42 x 40 x 3.3 cm Painting - 16.5 x 15.7 x 1.3 inch
$4,074
No es fácil de entender
Imanol Marrodán
Print - 88 x 123.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 34.6 x 48.6 x 0 inch
$905
Sans nom
Michel Soubeyrand
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 27 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 10.6 inch
$1,415
La Force de la Terre
Mercedes Aparicio
Painting - 21 x 31 x 2.5 cm Painting - 8.3 x 12.2 x 1 inch
$2,263
Envol en couleurs
Kristina Viera Wolf
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,358
Pierres 1988 Stones
Ma Desheng
Fine Art Drawings - 4 x 8 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 1.6 x 3.1 x 0.2 inch
$2,258
Traces of time I
Simeon Panayotov
Painting - 125 x 43.5 x 5 cm Painting - 49.2 x 17.1 x 2 inch
$1,075
Clouds over the Tay Rail Bridge
Alastair Faulkner
Painting - 35 x 45 x 5 cm Painting - 13.8 x 17.7 x 2 inch
$1,924
When looking at this with closed eyes (dyptique)
Shusaku Arakawa
Print - 105 x 146 x 0.1 cm Print - 41.3 x 57.5 x 0 inch
$1,584
Au bord du ciel - série Paysage imaginaire et son village perché
Lela Migirov
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$566
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