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In a perfect world (7)
Steven Seinberg
Painting - 152.4 x 127 x 5.1 cm Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 inch
$17,950
Optical composition
Carlo Montesi
Painting - 100 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$2,019
Mélodie infinie d'amour
Yoël Benharrouche
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$12,902
Orografia 8
Josep María Codina
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 40 x 5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 15.7 x 2 inch
$898
Perceptible Changes Over Time
Jessica Houston
Print - 56 x 84 x 2 cm Print - 22 x 33.1 x 0.8 inch
$2,000
Dos manchas azules
Pablo Lambertos
Painting - 60 x 40 x 2.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 1 inch
$1,357
La force de la mer #3
Sylvie Garibaldi
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1 inch
$1,234
Sans titre
Jacques Doucet
Fine Art Drawings - 34 x 24 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13.4 x 9.4 x 0.1 inch
$5,049
Sign Abstractionism
Wang Keliang
Painting - 50 x 70 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$2,132 $1,918
Lost Kingdom
Muraz Martirosyan
Sculpture - 102 x 64 x 12 cm Sculpture - 40.2 x 25.2 x 4.7 inch
$11,219
To Be Little Consciousness
Nancy Graves
Print - 56.3 x 86 x 0.1 cm Print - 22.2 x 33.9 x 0 inch
$987
Untitled
José Manuel Menéndez Rojas
Fine Art Drawings - 57 x 70 cm Fine Art Drawings - 22.4 x 27.6 inch
$2,019
Untitled
Jose Luis Pascual
Fine Art Drawings - 66.5 x 51.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 26.2 x 20.3 inch
$1,963
Sand clock CLVII
Daniel Cuadrado
Painting - 15.6 x 6.6 x 0.1 cm Painting - 6.1 x 2.6 x 0 inch
$1,268
Space Sample 2.5 / Eiffel
Franck Guedj
Photography - 91 x 85 x 1 cm Photography - 35.8 x 33.5 x 0.4 inch
$1,402
La Ragione della Contesa
Mirtilla Durante
Painting - 60 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,346
G_43
Alina Aldea
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 100 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.2 inch
$1,066
60lb of Dust, 2kg of Sand, 32g of Ash
Sun K. Kwak
Sculpture - 91.4 x 609.6 x 5.1 cm Sculpture - 36 x 240 x 2 inch
$72,000
Following Dots and Lines Divine Move
Sun K. Kwak
Painting - 49.5 x 64.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 19.5 x 25.5 x 1 inch
$9,000
Pointless Love series
Yumi Watanabe
Photography - 25 x 25 x 8 cm Photography - 9.8 x 9.8 x 3.1 inch
$628
Aspect Syllabary : Landscape
Jessica Stockholder
Print - 76 x 76 x 0.02 cm Print - 29.9 x 29.9 x 0 inch
$1,066
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