Famous Abstract Contemporary Art Paintings

Abstract art came about in the past centuries, where artists attempted to move away from pure realism painting and putting in their own style and emotion on the subject of his painting. Renaissance and Baroque styles almost photorealistic paintings, contemporary abstract art began to become popular.


Romanticism, Impressionism and Expressionism continued power of traditional art styles and began to allow artists to impress their own creativity. Such styles laid the foundations for subsequent art movements that are collectively referred to as abstract art in the modern era.

The Post-Impressionism continued the shift to abstract art promotes everything, thanks to the work by the likes of Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cezanne. Inspired by the likes of Paul Cezanne, Fauvism and Cubism were created, bringing famous artists like Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, Wassily Kandinsky and Pablo Picasso to public attention. Synthetic Cubism also followed. Abstract contemporary style we have now was ready to be created at this point.

In Britain the first exhibition of abstract art was opened in 1935, with paintings by the likes of Piet Mondrian, Juan Miro, Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson on display next year in a more international event.

The attack on art by the Nazi party in the 30's and 40's forced some abstract artists to flee to America which led to the tastes of modernism, the last modernist, American modernism, and surrealism that began to gain popularity , particularly in New York. These attempts to control the direction of art really helped separate the communication of these new movements of art to the world.

The '50s now have traídonos the likes of Neo-Dada, Fluxus, conceptual art, art, Neo-expressionism, installation, performance art, pop art video art y. Pop art course today remains hugely popular with the likes of Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein that still sells well.

Modern abstract styles of contemporary art include the likes of abstract expressionism, color field, the lyrical abstraction of Post-Painterly Abstraction, sculpture, and of minimal art, though the new movements are appearing all the time, particularly with the influx of computer artists and different styles of digital art.