Abstract Interior Paintings
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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2010s Abstract Interior Paintings
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1950s Abstract Interior Paintings
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Gold Leaf
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Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
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Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Spray Paint
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1980s Abstract Interior Paintings
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Artist Comments
Artist Stanislav Sidorov presents an expressionist overhead view of Meissen Germany as part of his Cityscape series. The scene boasts old European architecture and stands beautifully in vibrant colors. Blue gusts of wind blow over the red roofs of the houses on a fantastic autumn day. Stanislav paints with a palette knife for a sharp application of structure and color.
About the Artist
Stanislav Sidorov saturates his canvas with the expressive color characteristic of the Russian...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings
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2010s Abstract Interior Paintings
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2010s Abstract Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
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Acrylic, Panel
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings
Oil
2010s Abstract Interior Paintings
Sandstone
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings
Wood, Mixed Media, Acrylic
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Canvas, Mixed Media
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings
Canvas, Mixed Media
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
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Acrylic, Oil, Cotton Canvas
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Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings
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2010s Abstract Interior Paintings
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings
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2010s Abstract Interior Paintings
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2010s Abstract Interior Paintings
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2010s Abstract Interior Paintings
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