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CONTEMPORARY PIONEERS OF ABSTRACT ART

For up-and-coming abstract artists, we recommend award-winning artist Daniela Schweinsberg. Her work The Smell of Green highlights a sense of urgency, with its large scale creating a forceful impact with the viewer.

Lee Ellis’s portraits use surface and depth to depict the inner turmoil of his subjects; colourist Barbara Krupp’s works play boldly with form; Nick Malone explores the boundary between abstraction and realism, encouraging the eye to travel across an archeology of marks, words and textures.

British artist Damien Hirst has dominated the modern art scene for over thirty years and has created some of the most prominent pieces of abstract art in recent decades. The topics of life, death and one’s existence is continually explored in recurring motifs of skulls, sharks and spots. Lauren Baker offers artworks similar to Hirst’s.

Discover more Abstract artists here including our female abstract artists.

ABSTRACT ART’S ORIGINS

Abstract art is a modern art movement that originated in the 20th century. The genre can be defined as a style that is non-objective, non-figurative, non-representative and, ultimately, completely detached from realism. It is seen as one of the pioneering styles that has given birth to modern and contemporary art.

The origins of abstract art can be seen in the development of Post-Impressionism and the work of Paul Gaugin, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cezanne. After the First World War, European artists felt disillusioned with reality and its depiction in traditional art forms. This disapproval paved the way for radical artistic movements to develop new ideas about abstraction.

Find out more in our Guide To Abstract Art.