Most Popular Abstract Artists

10 most famous abstract artists and their masterpieces 10 robert delaunay.

Most popular abstract artists. His work could be described as radical minimalism in painting while his monochromatic paintings are reduced to canvases with carefully executed gesture cuts. He is perhaps the best known abstract artist after kandinsky. An iconic abstract artist. Mark rothko 1903 1966.

8 willem de. Piet mondrian composition ii in red blue and yellow 1930. Jackson pollock was the most influential figure of abstract expressionism one of the most important movements in abstract art. Wassily kandinsky composition x 1939.

A majority of the twentieth centurys most iconic and famous abstract paintings were created by artists who sought and found new ways of producing art that will encompass the fundamental changes taking place in technology science and philosophy in the west. Ben tankard ben tankardis well known for his non figurative pieces inspired by the classic penguin covers and other pop culture icons. I produce my abstract art by building up multiple layers of acrylic paint. Lucio fontana is one of the most influential italian abstract painters world known as a founder of spatialism and his artistic practice under post war movement of arte povera.

Geometric abstraction is a form of abstract art based on the use of geometric forms. Vasily kandinsky 18661944 though vasily kandinsky pursued figurative art before 1913 he was among the first if not the first painters. Kazimir malevich 18781935 4. Piet mondrian 18721944 3.

Abstract art emerged from the artists desire to create works unrelated and unrestrained by visual references in reality. Most famous abstract artworks in the last 100 years wassily kandinsky composition x 1939. 12 april 1885 25 october 1941 the initially works of robert delaunay were. 5 1948 is the most famous as well as the most expensive painting by jackson pollock.

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