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At Carré d’artistes, we offer a wide selection of art pieces for sale: minimalist abstract art, landscape, marine view or acrylic abstract painting, you are bound to find something you love!
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Our art curators carefully selected emerging artists and their abstract artworks, so you can find the perfect piece for you!
For example, discover Silvia Depaire, an artist from Argentina who works with the technique of fluid painting, especially with acrylic. Her marine depths vibrate cleverly with the mixture of pigments and colors.
If you prefer canvases in relief, that take up space and would be perfect as wall art, take a walk through Gérard Clisson's gallery. This visual artist invents real dynamics with the "Constructive Destruction" technique, which he achieves mainly through collage. Like many other artists of his time, he uses a lot of recycled materials.
At Carré d'artistes, you are sure to make beautiful discoveries of unique and original abstract paintings. Would you prefer the rhythmic and colored abstractions of Thierry Zdzieblo or the paintings all in materials of the South Korean Yongho Park? The hardest thing will be to choose!
If you want to create a unique abstract wall art, you can buy several paintings and make a composition with them.
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The abstract painting of Carré d'artistes
Carré d'artistes’ compositions will take you on a journey to an unreal and subjective world while bringing a touch of "radiance" to your interior decoration.
Whether you’re interested in colorful art pieces or prefer black and white abstract art, we have the perfect piece for you. Our selections of contemporary paintings are available in our art galleries as well as on our online gallery and are intended for all visual art lovers.
Carré d'artistes offers unique and certified art pieces of all styles so that everyone can find happiness. So why not buy abstract art online?
WHAT IS ABSTRACT PAINTING?
Abstract painting breaks free from realistic representation to express each artist's unique vision of the world. The aim is no longer for the public to recognize a landscape or a scene, but to discover an unknown reality, a new sensory experience.
This painting style has undergone a remarkable evolution over the years. Characterized by shapes, colors, and lines, this art does not represent concrete objects but rather seeks to create a unique visual experience. Abstract art does not appeal to the viewer's reason but to their heart and senses.
Various techniques in the abstract paintings
The techniques are becoming more and more innovative to offer us an ever-expanding palette of sensations.
Acrylic paint enables artists to manipulate textures to achieve effects that simulate fluidity and motion. Acrylic abstract painting is a modern technique that is popular with many artists. It offers a wide variety of creative possibilities in terms of colors, textures, and techniques.
Collage is also much appreciated for the relief aspect it gives to the abstract painting. The abstract watercolor technique is also used. Many artists use mixed techniques such as photography and painting with a knife.
The diversity and the mixture of the techniques allow us to escape reality.
Artists often use layering, scraping, and dripping techniques to achieve interesting and dynamic effects. The creative possibilities are endless, allowing artists to express themselves freely and explore new avenues in abstract art.
Analyze an abstract work
The most important thing is to appreciate the emotion of contemporary abstract works, the feeling of the observers that abstract painting conveys. You can set aside your reasoning and habits for a while.
In summary, the only thing we can recommend is to analyze art by feeling and experiencing it through your emotions and imagination.
SHORT HISTORY OF ABSTRACT PAINTING
Abstract art emerged in the second half of the 20th century. In the 1830s, the invention of photography, which was a rival to painting, challenged the painters who no longer felt useful to represent and figure the world. Thus they began to question their purpose.
Simultaneously, as museums modernize and begin to welcome living artists, painters start to experiment with the possibilities of painting by exploring colors, materials, lines, and geometric shapes.
From now on, artists no longer seek to represent the world faithfully but to translate it through the prism of their sensitivity, their history, and their experience. They are more interested in the way of painting than in the subject.
Vassily Kandinsky and abstract art
Even if he was criticized as an "incurable madman", the painter Vassily Kandinsky is recognized as THE founder of abstract art. He was the first to free himself from figurative representation in his paintings.
He considered that the forms, the colors, and the matter are enough to create an emotion without the need to refer to anything. According to him, this is the path to follow to create a universal art that crosses continents and eras, because the emotion is timeless.
In 1925, he painted Yellow-Red-Blue, an explosion of colors and shapes that invites the reader to imagine. For him, painting should be a means to convey an emotion or a feeling from the artist to the observer. He claimed in “Du spirituel dans l'art et dans la peinture en particulier”, in 1911: "The artist is the hand that by the proper use of such or such stoke puts the human soul in vibration."
From modern abstract painting to contemporary painting
What is the difference between lyrical abstraction and modern abstraction?
The abstract painting is an artistic movement dating from the 20th century. It is difficult to miss this art although the forms and styles have evolved since then.
The 20th century is the century of abstraction, the abstract painters have realized new experiences and pictorial forms.
The following century is less innovative and often associated with the current world. The artists rely on previous styles and techniques: abstract watercolor painting, or abstract oil painting for example.
The paintings are therefore modified in form and composition, without artistic innovation.
Other abstract painters
Other Russian artists are regarded as pioneers of abstract painting, as it was in Russia that this style first gained prominence.
Kasimir Malevich baffled his contemporaries with his Carré noir sur fond blanc, which stripped art to evoke "the feeling of the absence of the object", while Sonia Delaunay left an abundant body of work in which abstract art was combined with Fauvism and Orphism, movements that stemmed from abstraction.
Other pioneers of abstraction have left their names in the history of painting: Piet Mondrian, a Dutch painter who focused on space on the canvas or Kupka who was inspired by his scientific knowledge of colors to exalt the sensations in particular with his painting “Fugue with Two Colors” in 1912.
We can also mention Robert Delaunay, an abstract painter who was born on April 12, 1885, in Paris and died on October 25, 1941, in Montpellier.
If you want to know more about abstract painting, you can check out our blog posts and browse through portraits of our artists and painters.
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