Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
ABSTRACT STYLE
Beginning in the early 20th century, abstract art became a leading style of modernism. Rather than portray the world in a way that represented reality, as had been the dominating style of Western art in the previous centuries, abstract paintings, prints and sculptures are marked by a shift to geometric forms, gestural shapes and experimentation with color to express ideas, subject matter and scenes.
Although abstract art flourished in the early 1900s, propelled by movements like Fauvism and Cubism, it was rooted in the 19th century. In the 1840s, J.M.W. Turner emphasized light and motion for atmospheric paintings in which concrete details were blurred, and Paul Cézanne challenged traditional expectations of perspective in the 1890s.
Some of the earliest abstract artists — Wassily Kandinsky and Hilma af Klint — expanded on these breakthroughs while using vivid colors and forms to channel spiritual concepts. Painter Piet Mondrian, a Dutch pioneer of the art movement, explored geometric abstraction partly owing to his belief in Theosophy, which is grounded in a search for higher spiritual truths and embraces philosophers of the Renaissance period and medieval mystics. Black Square, a daringly simple 1913 work by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich, was a watershed statement on creating art that was free “from the dead weight of the real world,” as he later wrote.
Surrealism in the 1920s, led by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Meret Oppenheim and others, saw painters creating abstract pieces in order to connect to the subconscious. When Abstract Expressionism emerged in New York during the mid-20th century, it similarly centered on the process of creation, in which Helen Frankenthaler’s expressive “soak-stain” technique, Jackson Pollock’s drips of paint, and Mark Rothko’s planes of color were a radical new type of abstraction.
Conceptual art, Pop art, Hard-Edge painting and many other movements offered fresh approaches to abstraction that continued into the 21st century, with major contemporary artists now exploring it, including Anish Kapoor, Mark Bradford, El Anatsui and Julie Mehretu.
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Style: Abstract
Ecuadorian Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Untitled
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor, ink on Canson paper 300 g.
Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the i...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Ecuadorian Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Untitled
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor, ink on Canson paper 300 g.
Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the i...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Ecuadorian Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Untitled
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor, ink on Canson paper 300 g.
Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the i...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Ecuadorian Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Untitled
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor, ink on Canson paper 300 g.
Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the i...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Ecuadorian Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Untitled
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor, ink on Canson paper 300 g.
Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the i...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Ecuadorian Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Untitled
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor, ink on Canson paper 300 g.
Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the i...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Ecuadorian Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Untitled
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor, ink on Canson paper 300 g.
Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the i...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Ecuadorian Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Untitled
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor, ink on Canson paper 300 g.
Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the i...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Ecuadorian Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Untitled
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor, ink on Canson paper 300 g.
Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the i...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Ecuadorian Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Untitled
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor, ink on Canson paper 300 g.
Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the i...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Ecuadorian Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Untitled
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor, ink on Canson paper 300 g.
Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the i...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Ecuadorian Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Untitled
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor, ink on Canson paper 300 g.
Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the i...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Ecuadorian Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Untitled
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor, ink on Canson paper 300 g.
Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the i...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Ecuadorian Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Untitled
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor, ink on Canson paper 300 g.
Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the i...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Ecuadorian Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Untitled
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor, ink on Canson paper 300 g.
Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the i...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Ecuadorian Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Untitled
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor, ink on Canson paper 300 g.
Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the i...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Ecuadorian Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Black Flower 7
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink on Canson paper 300 g.
Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the image to the ...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Ecuadorian Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Black Flower 6
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink on Canson paper 300 g.
Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the image to the ...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Ecuadorian Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Black Flower 5
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink on Canson paper 300 g.
Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the image to the ...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Ecuadorian Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Black Flower 4
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink on Canson paper 300 g.
Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the image to the ...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Ecuadorian Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Black Flower 3
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink on Canson paper 300 g.
Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the image to the ...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Ecuadorian Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Black Flower 2
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink on Canson paper 300 g.
Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the image to the ...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Ecuadorian Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Black Flower
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink on Canson paper 300 g.
Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the image to the ...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Ecuadorian Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Untitled
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor, ink on Canson paper 300 g.
Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the i...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Ecuadorian Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Untitled
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor, ink on Canson paper 300 g.
Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the i...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Ecuadorian Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Untitled
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor, ink on Canson paper 300 g.
Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the i...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Ecuadorian Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Untitled
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor, ink on Canson paper 300 g.
Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the i...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Ink
Ecuadorian Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Bath
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor & ink on Canson paper 300
Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the ima...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Ink
Play Drawing #8 Contemporary Original Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Roselle Park, NJ
Play Drawing #8 Contemporary Original Abstract Oil Painting
This series focuses on the idea of play and the emotions involved in the act of playing. We often forget the importance o...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Oil
Play Drawing #7 Contemporary Original Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Roselle Park, NJ
Play Drawing #7 Contemporary Original Abstract Oil Painting
This series focuses on the idea of play and the emotions involved in the act of playing. We often forget the importance o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Oil
Composition Original Drwaing Hand signed dated Unique piece
Located in Tel Aviv - Jaffa, IL
Original mixed media on paper
Pastel and color pencils
Hand signed lower right
Hand dated 1953
Unique piece
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Color Pencil
Colourful Abstract Flowers on White Background by Contemporary British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Colourful Painting of Abstract Flowers on a White Background by Contemporary British Artist, Angela Wakefield. This original is from the 'Spring Burst' Interior Design Series. Framed...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor
Mood. 2019. Paper, watercolor, 15.5x23.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Mood. 2019. Paper, watercolor, 15.5x23.5 cm
Zigmunds Šņore was born in 1942 in Latvia. His works has been exhibited since 1969 and are held in private collections in Latvia, USA, S...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
French Abstract Contemporary Art by Daniel Cayo - Untitled No.26
By Daniel Cayo
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed media on paper, framed
10 x 15 cm - 18 x 24 cm with white mat passe-partout
Unique copy
Signed on the front
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
French Abstract Contemporary Art by Daniel Cayo - Untitled No.28
By Daniel Cayo
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed media on paper, framed
10 x 15 cm - 18 x 24 cm with white mat passe-partout
Unique copy
Signed on the front
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
G_44 - Minimalist, Contemporary, Drawing, Black, White
By Alina Aldea
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
G_44, 2021
white ink on black cardboard
(signed on reverse)
27 9/16 H x 39 3/8 in.
70 H x 100 W cm
Alina Aldea's drawings project all the possible forms which appear to disappear wi...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Cardboard
Der Hafen von Plit
By Paul Klee
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Der Hafen von Plit" is a drawing by Paul Klee. The drawing is signed lower left, "Klee". The framed piece measures 25 1/4 x 30 1/2 x 1 3/8 in.
Paul Klee was one of the most import...
Category
1920s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Laid Paper, Pen
G_45 - 21st Century, Drawing, Minimalist, Black, White, Abstract Art
By Alina Aldea
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
G_45, 2021
white ink on black cardboard
(signed on reverse)
27 9/16 H x 39 3/8 W in.
70 H x 100 W cm
Alina Aldea's drawings project all the possible forms which appear to disappear...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Cardboard
The Cubist - Contemporary Art, Collage, Green, Bordeaux, Funny, 21st Century
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
The Cubist, 2019
collage on paper
11 13/16 H x 15 3/4 W in.
30 H x 40 W cm
The artist’s collages describe a series of characters composed of different materials – cardboards, textil...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Black_VIII - Contemporary, Drawing, Black, Monochrome, Abstract
By Alina Aldea
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Black_VIII, 2016
pencil, black pastel on black cardboard
27.55 H x 19.68 W in.
70 H x 50 W cm
Alina Aldea's drawings project all the possible forms which appear to rapidly disappear...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Cardboard, Pencil
Abstract Red Pink Wild Flowers on Orange Design by British Contemporary Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Painting of Abstract Red, Pink, Yellow & White Wild Flowers on an Orange Background by British Contemporary Artist, Angela Wakefield. From the 'Spring Burst' Interior Design Series. ...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor
Abstract Red Pink Blue Flowers on Yellow Background by British Landscape Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Painting of Abstract Red, Pink, Orange & Blue Wild Flowers on a Yellow Background by British Landscape Artist, Angela Wakefield. From the 'Spring Burst' Interior Design Series. Frame...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor
Abstract Red & Pink Flowers on a White Background by Contemporary British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Painting of Abstract Red, Pink & Orange Wild Flowers on a White Background by Contemporary British Artist, Angela Wakefield. From the 'Spring Burst' Interior Design Series. Framed in a Contemporary Pewter...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gesso, Watercolor, Acrylic, Mixed Media, Cotton Canvas, Paint, Canvas
Larry Zox "Mosaic" Drawing, 1966
By Larry Zox
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Larry Zox (1937-2006) was a central figure in the evolution of 20th century abstraction in America.
Raised in Des Moines, Iowa, Zox studied at the University of Oklahoma and went o...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Bobine
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Bobine" is a gouache and ink on paper by Alexander Calder. The work is signed in the lower right "Calder 72".
Although renowned for his innovative and groundbreaking sculptures, Alexander Calder started his artistic career as an abstract painter, preferring to use gouache. What is gouache? Gouache is a water-soluble paint – a type of opaque watercolor.
As Calder returned to gouache painting towards the end of his life, he was now armed with a lifetime of experience as a sculptor. He explored the three-dimensional vocabulary of sculptural forms he had developed onto the two-dimensional surface of the paper. Certain shapes and colors recur throughout his gouaches and sculptures. Circles, ovals, and other geometric forms dominate the space. There is the same sense of energy and fluidity. The shapes do not sit on the surface but vibrate giving a feeling of movement in contrast to the static nature of painting.
Like his sculpture, Calder’s gouache...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache
Three Pyramids + Blue Ball
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Three Pyramids + Blue Ball" is a gouache on paper by Alexander Calder. The work is signed in the lower right, "Calder 73”.
Although renowned for his innovative and groundbreaking sculptures, Alexander Calder started his artistic career as an abstract painter, preferring to use gouache. What is gouache? Gouache is a water-soluble paint – a type of opaque watercolor.
As Calder returned to gouache painting towards the end of his life, he was now armed with a lifetime of experience as a sculptor. He explored the three-dimensional vocabulary of sculptural forms he had developed onto the two-dimensional surface of the paper. Certain shapes and colors recur throughout his gouaches and sculptures. Circles, ovals, and other geometric forms dominate the space. There is the same sense of energy and fluidity. The shapes do not sit on the surface but vibrate giving a feeling of movement in contrast to the static nature of painting.
Like his sculpture, Calder’s gouache...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache
Untitled
By Perle Fine
Located in Columbia, MO
PERLE FINE
Untitled
Graphite on paper
14 x 11 inches
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Two Crosses
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Two Crosses" is a gouache on paper by Alexander Calder. The work is signed in the lower right, "Calder 65”.
Although renowned for his innovative and groundbreaking sculptures, Alexander Calder started his artistic career as an abstract painter, preferring to use gouache. What is gouache? Gouache is a water-soluble paint – a type of opaque watercolor.
As Calder returned to gouache painting towards the end of his life, he was now armed with a lifetime of experience as a sculptor. He explored the three-dimensional vocabulary of sculptural forms he had developed onto the two-dimensional surface of the paper. Certain shapes and colors recur throughout his gouaches and sculptures. Circles, ovals, and other geometric forms dominate the space. There is the same sense of energy and fluidity. The shapes do not sit on the surface but vibrate giving a feeling of movement in contrast to the static nature of painting.
Like his sculpture, Calder’s gouache...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache
Untitled
By John Harrison Levee
Located in Columbia, MO
Untitled
1957
Gouache
9.25 x 8.5 inches
Framed: 17 x 16 inches
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Wigwam rouge et jaune
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Wigwam rouge et jaune" is a gouache on paper by Alexander Calder. The unique work is signed in the lower right, “Calder 65”.
Although renowned for his innovative and groundbreaking...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache
Lynn Chadwick, British, ink abstract figurative painting, black wash, 1966
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Lynn Russell Chadwick, CBE RA (British, 1914-2003)
Abstracted figure
Ink pen and wash
Signed and dated `Chadwick 66’ (lower right)
24 x 18.1/4 in. (61 x 46.3 cm.)
Lynn Chadwick was ...
Category
20th Century Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
Manuel Facal, Etching on paper, "Fondo VII" (Original, 1985)
Located in Carballo, ES
Esta obra se trata de un grabado original del famoso artista Manuel Facal (A Coruña, 1943), perteneciente al grupo Atlantica, el grupo de artistas mas fam...
Category
20th Century Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Etching
Bird - Watercolor Drawing by Martin Bradley - 1971
Located in Roma, IT
Bird is an artwork realized by the English artist Martin Bradley in 1971.
Watercolor on Japanese paper, titled "Bird" on the left corner, hand-signed and dated on the lower right c...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Rosy Water (Diptych) - abstraction art, made in black, rose, salmon red, white
By Elena Cher
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. Diptych. Each work is 30 by 40 inches in size. Rosy Water (Diptych)- abstraction art, made in black, rose, salmon red, white and beige on canvas.
Lena C...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Epoxy Resin, Acrylic
Untitled 04 - Contemporary, Abstract Drawing on Canvas, Minimalist, Gestural
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Untitled 04, 2017
Wax crayon on canvas (Signed on reverse)
78.74 H x 59.05 W in.
200 H x 150 W cm
Zsolt Berszán treats the first layer of the drawing as a substrate, as a surface on...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Wax Crayon
Untitled
Located in Columbia, MO
Untitled
This piece includes an artist hand-signed note attached to the back of the framed work.
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Kenneth Rowntree: 'Abstract Australian Landscape' watercolour Modern British Art
By Kenneth Rowntree
Located in London, GB
Kenneth Rowntree
Abstract Australian Landscape
Watercolour
27.5 x 33cm
Signed (top left) and dated ‘Kenneth Rowntree ’85’
Provenance: Anderson & Garland Studio sale of Kenneth Rowntree lot 263 Tuesday 8 September 2009
For biographical details and other works by Rowntree click here.
Rowntree visited Australia in 1984/85. In this painting he picks up various vignettes from the Australian landscape in six separate blocks. Two relate to the sky, with almost-unbroken blue skies stretching from horizon to horizon, three relate to desert areas, with a whole array of different textures, and one is a luscious green. In one of the desert scenes he has picked out two road signs, in typical Rowntree fashion, reducing them to their simplest form. In her essay Kenneth Rowntree: A Strange Simplicity (published in Kenneth Rowntree A Centenary Exhibition Published by Moore-Gwyn Fine Art and Liss Llewellyn Fine Art, on behalf of the artist’s estate, on the occasion of the centenary of Kenneth Rowntree’s birth) Alexandra Harris makes reference to this painting noting:
"Later, in 1986, just when the young David Hockney was collaging the signs and road-markings of Route 138 in Pearblossom Highway, Rowntree was in Australia painting yellow diamond-shaped road-signs as bright icons in open country. Wherever he went, Rowntree captured both the unfamiliarity of places and their relationship to things he knew. Heading into the Australian outback, he painted a road-sign as he would paint a rail signal at Clare in Suffolk or nautical markers at Swansea."
Hockney’s 1986 Pearblossom Highway may be seen in the Getty and it is worth noting that Rowntree was in fact painting the yellow sign in 1985, so a year before Hockney.
Kenneth Rowntree (1915-1997)
Rowntree was born in Scarborough and educated in York where his father managed the local department store. Young Kenneth’s work was displayed there and his first major commission arose from an advertisement at the store. After the Ruskin School of Drawing in Oxford he studied at the Slade School, meeting Eric Ravilious and Edward Bawden and then moving to north Essex to work with them as members of the group of Great Bardfield Artists.
Between 1940 and 1943 he was one of the team of over 60 artists engaged by the War Artists Advisory Committee for the ‘Recording Britain’ project, to record the face of England and Wales before wartime action – or development – changed it for ever. Rowntree’s keen sense of design, and fascination with the quirky and the vernacular made him an ideal candidate to interpret our built heritage’s more unusual aspects.
In 1951 he painted murals in the Lion and Unicorn pavilion for the Festival of Britain, he decorated the route of the Queen’s Coronation procession (some of the works being acquired by Her Majesty).
During a teaching job at the Ruskin School of Drawing in Oxford he was driven, perhaps by his experiences recording Britain, to record the decorated barges that belonged to the Oxford Colleges. These wooden Victorian ceremonial barges had belonged to the London livery companies, but were acquired in their later life by the Colleges to be used as changing rooms and clubhouses for the College boat clubs – depending on the size of the barge rowing eights were stored on board too. Part way through painting one of them Rowntree thought his drawing incorrect until he realised that it was the boat that was moving. It was in fact sinking. These days the Colleges have modern (but unromantic) boat houses; a handful of the barges remain – restored – in private hands.
In 1959 he was appointed Professor of Fine Art at King’s College, Newcastle (latterly part of the University), which as British art schools went was one of the most progressive. The Master of Painting was the abstract constructionist Victor Passmore...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Manuel Facal, Etching on paper, "Fondo V" (Original, 1985) Sunset, Yellow, Green
Located in Carballo, ES
Esta obra se trata de un grabado original del famoso artista Manuel Facal (A Coruña, 1943), perteneciente al grupo Atlantica, el grupo de artistas más fam...
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20th Century Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Etching, Paper
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