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Zakynthos fiore di levante
Eleni Denart
Painting - 101.6 x 151.6 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 59.7 x 1 inch
€1,888
Yam Seed - EDA-EK3072/23
Elizabeth Kunoth Kngwarreye
Painting - 90 x 120 cm Painting - 35.4 x 47.2 inch
€3,000
A summer dream
Francesca Autino
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.4 inch
€1,690
Burst of happiness
Weronica Dylag
Painting - 50 x 50 x 0.6 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
€1,930
Oceanic View
Andrew David Grammer
Painting - 40 x 58.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 23.1 x 1 inch
€1,690
Identità marine 02
Antonio Bettuelli
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,930
Landscape in desintegration
Bibiana Ulanosky
Painting - 65 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€1,930
Mentally Free II
Barbara Uhsadel
Painting - 80 x 70 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 27.6 x 0.6 inch
€1,850
Scribble Dream
Charlotte Hannah Crawford
Painting - 81 x 73 x 1 cm Painting - 31.9 x 28.7 x 0.4 inch
€1,600
Darling, My Mind Is a Misty Mountain
Rakel Routarinne
Painting - 23 x 23 x 0.4 cm Painting - 9.1 x 9.1 x 0.2 inch
€1,770
Benjami
Stephen Irving (Zero Gradient)
Painting - 76.2 x 50.8 x 5.1 cm Painting - 30 x 20 x 2 inch
€2,974
Sans titre - Série abstraction
Ouiza Hamoudi
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€815
Enchanted Landscape
Martine Goeyens
Painting - 20 x 20 x 0.3 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.1 inch
€1,500
Puy de Dôme sous la neige
Françoise Lavenu
Painting - 60 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,320
Entrée en matière “Il est 6h15, les corps apparaissent. Je les laisse vivre et je signe…”
Jean-Pierre Le Boul'ch
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,800
Monde du silence n°100 - série monde marin
Moniq
Painting - 46 x 36 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 14.2 x 0.8 inch
€900
Permanent training
Mihran Manukyan
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,007
Du - dedicated to the one who cares 4U
Manomono
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
€1,800
Still life with yellow
Chris Kamprad
Painting - 60 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
€1,801
The Subtlety of Frames
Chuck Jones, PhD
Painting - 76.2 x 55.9 x 0.1 cm Painting - 30 x 22 x 0 inch
€1,877
Days and nights on the rocks
Lars Fredriksson
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,144
A girl who knows all emotions
Akila Hanada
Painting - 15 x 15 x 1.5 cm Painting - 5.9 x 5.9 x 0.6 inch
€1,705
Days Departed Impasse #5
Joseph Di Bella
Painting - 50.8 x 49.5 x 1 cm Painting - 20 x 19.5 x 0.4 inch
€1,877
Timeless thought
Sabrina Jeannine Rahn
Painting - 50 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
€1,610
Harmony & chaos
Anneta Papagianni
Painting - 60 x 50 x 3.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 1.4 inch
€1,578
Wine Layers 1
Lucia Sales Pallares
Painting - 61 x 46 x 3.5 cm Painting - 24 x 18.1 x 1.4 inch
€1,818
The lurking colour
Vaios Paraskevas
Painting - 44.5 x 74.5 x 1.2 cm Painting - 17.5 x 29.3 x 0.5 inch
€1,930
Ode to Textiles
Catalina Escallón Rosselli
Painting - 12.7 x 17.78 x 1 cm Painting - 5 x 7 x 0.4 inch
€1,530
To me, you are perfect
Luise Juliana Ellerbrock
Painting - 45 x 45 x 2 cm Painting - 17.7 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,690
The Breaking Point
Petra Schonova
Painting - 42 x 29.7 x 0.3 cm Painting - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0.1 inch
€1,538
Unmet horizons, part 1.
Veronica Giorgia Carlotta Giannini
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,754
Beauty and the Beast
Elena Samarsky
Painting - 40.6 x 30.4 x 2 cm Painting - 16 x 12 x 0.8 inch
€1,770
Tension
Neishaly Narvaez Gonzalez
Painting - 51 x 51 x 2 cm Painting - 20.1 x 20.1 x 0.8 inch
€1,480
Kindred
Ian Alexander Bailey
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 1.905 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.8 inch
€1,500
Happy series bubble gum two
Sung Lee (Australia)
Painting - 30 x 30 x 4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
€119
Sans titre
Marie-France de la Cochetière (Titus)
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,320
En Avant, Marche ou Tombe
Alexandra Delya
Painting - 80 x 80 x 10 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 3.9 inch
€1,600
Les étangs de Méjean II - Paysage de bord de mer
Michèle Capitani Manzo
Painting - 65 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,070
Oceanic Orchestra
Janice Rogers
Painting - 100.1 x 100.1 x 4.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€1,500
Dripping SFDP1 - série Abstraction
Sébastien Hauduc
Painting - 80 x 67 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 26.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,000
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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.