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Le Fort National, St Malo
Franck Dupire
Painting - 46 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
$593
Field of yellow
Despa Hondros
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 38 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 15 x 0 inch
$727
Medusa 2
Christian Frederiksen
Fine Art Drawings - 36 x 29 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.2 x 11.4 x 0 inch
$783
Cyclops 2
Christian Frederiksen
Fine Art Drawings - 36 x 29 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.2 x 11.4 x 0 inch
$783
Entresijos / Ins and Outs
Luis Prada
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,790
Entresijos / Ins and Outs
Luis Prada
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,790
Gaudí 014
Ivanna Alejandra Sanchez Moretti
Photography - 80 x 60 cm Photography - 31.5 x 23.6 inch
$895
Lost in your shadows
Celia Kettle
Painting - 81 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$1,365
Ecstatic Moments
Marie Julou (Tina McCallan)
Painting - 61 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,118
A small reminder of home
Maria Esmar
Painting - 30 x 30 x 4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
$839
House of Indium 49
Marie Julou (Tina McCallan)
Painting - 66 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 26 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,219
Atlantic crossing no. 17020
Anita Kaufmann
Painting - 48.3 x 200.7 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19 x 79 x 0.1 inch
$984
Lumière au couchant
Catherine Pugeat
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,857
Horror Vacui II, Pencil Doodle
Marie Julou (Tina McCallan)
Painting - 61 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
$1,118
Ode au printemps N°1
Sylvie Gedda
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,521
Ode au printemps N°2
Sylvie Gedda
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,521
Pégase ou le commencement
Sylvie Gedda
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,521
Exotic Flowers
Irini Karpikioti
Painting - 69.9 x 119.9 x 3 cm Painting - 27.5 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$924
Arty white candleholder "Small Pearls" for 2 Candles
Irena Tone
Design - 11 x 15.5 x 9.5 cm Design - 4.3 x 6.1 x 3.7 inch
$224
Fog in the Basque Country
Rocio Ahnert
Painting - 70 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
$895
The face of Barcelona
Rocio Ahnert
Painting - 116 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,013
Portables series 1
Joaquín Lara
Painting - 171 x 171 x 1 cm Painting - 67.3 x 67.3 x 0.4 inch
$1,901
Personnage cadac H.30cm Blanc
Parvine Curie
Sculpture - 30 x 9 x 8 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 3.5 x 3.1 inch
$1,342
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