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III (Three) Imperfect Imperfections
Makama John
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 inch
$2,299
Don't forget your roots
Grant Arendse
Painting - 21 x 29 x 3 cm Painting - 8.3 x 11.4 x 1.2 inch
$905
Palimpsest (Bacn)
Signe Guttormsen
Painting - 21 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 8.3 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$1,131
30 janvier 2024
Raymond Attanasio
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,827
A la table (1)
Manuela Karin Knaut
Painting - 150 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$7,803
All is not what it seems
Jean-Luc Curabet
Painting - 180 x 120 x 1 cm Painting - 70.9 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
$7,916
New York City Cultural Institutions, from the New York, New York portfolio
Robert Motherwell
Print - 76.2 x 57.2 x 0.1 cm Print - 30 x 22.5 x 0 inch
$3,280
Clean Dishes with Queen Elizabeth
John Capitano
Painting - 100 x 72 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.3 x 1.6 inch
$1,923
Poetic Portrait III
Naoko Paluszak
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$1,850
Spring awakening
Nataliia Krykun
Sculpture - 100 x 150 x 4 cm Sculpture - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$5,768 $4,037
Paysages abstraits 6
Qiong qiong Shao
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,018
Empêcher que le monde ne se défasse
Jean-Roch Klethi
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$973
Topographie végétale (2)
Sophie Zénon
Sculpture - 50 x 15 x 15 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 5.9 x 5.9 inch
$2,488
Feel my body touch my soul
Mariusz Makula
Painting - 70.1 x 119.9 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$900
Pacific Sanicle (Full Bloom)
Andrea Simmonds
Painting - 122 x 91 x 4 cm Painting - 48 x 35.8 x 1.6 inch
$2,149
Sans titre
Raoul Hausman
Fine Art Drawings - 61 x 45.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 17.9 x 0 inch
$5,089
Just The 2 Of Us X
Paul Akiiki
Painting - 100 x 100 x 0.8 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.3 inch
$4,000
Masquerade of emotions
Aram Sevoyan
Painting - 90 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,000
Composition cinétique
David Lipszyc
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$3,393
Moìrai. From The Visceral Series.
Magda Von Hanau
Sculpture - 42.9 x 54.9 x 54.9 cm Sculpture - 16.9 x 21.6 x 21.6 inch
$10,750
Mindfull Gold I
Christiaan van Hedel
Sculpture - 14 x 15 x 6 cm Sculpture - 5.5 x 5.9 x 2.4 inch
$560
Let Go Let Live #2
Niki Stearman
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$1,800
Baños de luna (Moon Baths)
Sonia Domenech
Painting - 80 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,323
The feeling of autumn
Le anh Tuan
Painting - 59.9 x 79.8 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,300
How did they build that?
Gregory Orekhov
Sculpture - 181.5 x 19 x 3.8 cm Sculpture - 71.5 x 7.5 x 1.5 inch
$22,618
Fixé long n°3
Stéphane Belzère
Painting - 62 x 372 x 2 cm Painting - 24.4 x 146.5 x 0.8 inch
$12,440
Myth, Muse and Metaphor #1
Nancy Goodman Lawrence
Painting - 61 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 0.8 inch
$1,600
Guêpe homme - Sculpture surréaliste
Alain Plisson
Sculpture - 46 x 20 x 20 cm Sculpture - 18.1 x 7.9 x 7.9 inch
$2,120
Abstract Art Twenty-Three
Lynne Taetzsch
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 1.5 inch
$1,995
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