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They explore what it means to make a painting in the digital age and use contemporary research to generate new patterns and designs. Despite the diversity of these artists’ practices, a near-mystical devotion to the act of making and a desire to communicate via symbols and hues unites them all.
Emerging in the early 20th century, abstract art has since given rise to numerous styles and movements, with many significant artists revolutionising the art world through their innovative and groundbreaking works. In this blog post, we will explore some of the most famous abstract artists.
Other trailblazers like Hilma af Klint and Wassily Kandinsky created canvases that also left their mark by proving there are infinite ways to capture human experiences in the abstract. Here, we will explore 10 famous abstract paintings and uncover what it is that made them so important.
Famous painters such as Van Gogh, Mary Cassatt, Pablo Picasso, and Gustav Klimt all specialized in depicting human expression, and inspired many of today’s portrait artists who are pushing the age-old genre in new directions.
In this selection of abstract artists, we explore the figures who elevated abstract painting to a unique art form and look at their works of abstract art.
These exceptional up-and-coming contemporary abstract painters create original artwork for every taste and style. You gotta love abstract art: giant swaths of color, organic shapes, amorphous figures, splashes and splotches, and expressionistic brushstrokes. The right abstract painting can be a statement piece for any room.
Abstract art is characterized by a reduction to the elements of art; for example, color, line, shape and form. Examples of famous abstract paintings are explained, like those by Pollock, Picasso, Dali, Mondrian, Moore, Kandinsky, Miro, Rothko, and O'Keeffe.