Abstract Landscape 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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1920s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Oil, Board
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Paper, Acrylic
Late 20th Century Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Artist Comments
This painting offers a moody, atmospheric view where land and sky seem to blur into one. Quick, expressive brushstrokes suggest movement across the scene, as ...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Late 20th Century Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Paper, Oil
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Paper, Oil
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Acrylic
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Acrylic, Carbon Pencil
Artist Comments
Artist Onelio Marrero spends much of his summers happily gardening and caring for his pond. There are also several others within walking distance from his hom...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
Artist Patrick Duffy creates an abstract dialogue between the imagination and the fundamentals of all things space. He paints half-crescent moons emerging wit...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Paintings
Acrylic
1980s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Paper, Pastel
Late 20th Century Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Acrylic, Board
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Paintings
Oil, Panel
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Oil, Paper
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Mylar, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Paper, Oil
1970s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Board, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Charcoal, Oil Crayon, Mixed Media, Oil
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic, Gouache, Graphite
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Acrylic
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars
1960s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Artist Comments
Artist Rebecca Klementovich demonstrates an abstract landscape with flowing, warm colors. She paints a beautiful sunrise over New England–a subject she has ...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Paintings
Acrylic
Mid-20th Century Abstract Landscape Paintings
Oil, Board
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Linen, Spray Paint, Acrylic
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1970s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Birch, Oil, Wood Panel
1960s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Gesso, Oil, Acrylic, Canvas
1970s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Oil
1940s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1970s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Masonite, Oil
1930s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Paper, Acrylic
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Paper, Acrylic
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Acrylic