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Abstract Painters
Here is a list of selected abstract artists
active in most of the major styles of non-representational art.
JMW
Turner (1775-1851)
His landscapes of swirling colour represent the first abstract expressionism.
Paul Cezanne (1839-1906)
His still lifes and landscapes are seen as important prototypes for abstraction.
Wassily Kandinsky
(1866-1944)
Russian painter, expressionist, later developed a more lyrical abstraction.
Georges Vantongerloo (1866-1965)
Belgian member of De Stijl, noted for his Elementarist painting.
Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956)
Used Cubist methods to imply religious feeling.
Piet Mondrian
(1872-1944)
Founded Neo-Plasticism; geometric abstractionist, member of De Stijl
group.
Kasimir Malevich
(1878-1935)
Pioneer minimalist painter and founder of Suprematism.
Louis Marcoussis (1878-1941)
Polish-French colourful Cubist painter, born Ludwig Markus.
Patrick Henry Bruce (1880-1937)
Friend of Delaunay, associated with the Synchromists style of abstraction.
Futurism
This was a semi-abstract style of Italian painting pioneered by Giacomo
Balla (1871-1958), Carlo Carra (1881-1966), Gino Severini (1883-1966)
and Luigi Russolo (1885-1947). Other members were Ardengo Soffici (1879-1964)
and Giovanni Papini (1881-1956), as well as a second generation which
included Fortunato Depero (1892-1960) and Enrico Pampolini (1894-1956).
Russian Futurism (c.1912-14) was developed by Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930).
Albert Gleizes (1881-1953)
Cubist painter, writer, exhibited at 1913 Armory Show NY.
Fernand Leger
(1881-1955)
Architectural designer, one of the key Cubist
painters, member of De Stijl.
Natalia Goncharova (1881-1962)
Co-founder of Rayonism (Luchizm), an abstract style resembling
rays of light.
Mikhail Larionov (1881-1964)
Co-inventor of Rayonism, launched at the Target Exhibition, Moscow,
1913.
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Co-founder of Cubism, and the foremost 20th century pioneer of abstract
art.
(Percy) Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957)
Founding member of the Rebel Art Centre, Vorticism,
and Group X.
Georges Braque
(1882-1963)
Co-founder of analytical and synthetic Cubism; collage expert.
Theo van Doesburg
(1883-1931)
Dutch designer, founder of Elementarism, published De
Stijl (1917-31).
Morgan Russell (1883-1953)
American painter active in Paris, co-founder of Synchromism.
Jean Metzinger (1883-1957)
Inspired by analytical Cubism; published Du Cubisme with Albert
Gleizes.
Robert Delaunay
(1885-1941)
French painter, founder of Orphism (Orphic Cubism/ Simultanism).
Vladimir Yevgrafovich Tatlin (1885-1953)
Founder of Constructivism, avant-garde painter in Neo-Primitivist style.
Roger de la Fresnaye (1885-1925)
Used Cubist geometric simplification to make a nationalistic statements.
Andre Lhote (1885-1962)
Produced Cubist works filled with semi-geometric forms and interacting
planes.
Sonia Delaunay-Terk (1885-1979)
Influenced her husband Robert Delaunay in development of Simultanism.
Juan Gris (1887-1927)
Cubism's leading theorist.
Josef Albers (1888-1976)
Ex-Bauhaus teacher, became doyen of US geometric abstractionists.
Liubov Popova (1889-1924)
Pioneer of Constructivism, noted for her Painterly Architectonics.
Bradley Walker Tomlin (1889-1953)
Abstract expressionist known for his huge grid-like works with inscriptions.
El Lissitzky (1890-1941)
Bauhaus, Suprematist painter, explored Elementarism; leading Constructivist.
Stanton MacDonald-Wright (1890-1973)
Co-founder of Synchromism, which like Orphism studied colour,
light & music.
Mark Tobey (1890-1976)
American abstract painter noted for mixing "action painting"
and calligraphy.
Alexander Rodchenko (1891-1956)
Co-founder of First Working Group of Constructivists.
Evie Hone (1894-1955)
One of the pioneer abstract
artists in Ireland. Later stained glass artist.
Mainie Jellett
(1897-1944)
Pioneer Irish Cubist painter; founder of Irish Exhibition of Living
Art.
Konstantin Medunetsky (1899-1935)
Constructivist painter, noted for his Colour Constructions.
Jean Dubuffet
(1901-85)
Avant-garde painter, pioneer of Art Brut known also as Outsider
Art.
Mark Rothko (1903-70)
Greatest American abstract artist, co-founder of Colour Field painting.
Adolph Gottlieb (1903-74)
American abstract expressionist, a founder of the Ten Group, New
York.
Arshile Gorky (1904-48)
First Abstract expressionist, combined gestural automatism & figuration.
Clyfford Still
(1904-80)
American co-founder (with Newman/Rothko) of Colour
Field painting.
Willem De Kooning
(1904-97)
One of the most influential figures in gestural abstract expressionism.
Barnett Newman
(1905-70)
Leading exponent of Colour Field, Post-Painterly Abstraction
and Minimalism.
Lee Krasner (1908-84)
Wife of Jackson Pollock, joint inventor of "action painting".
Maria Helena Vieria da Silva (1908-92)
Portugese member of Art Informel movement, known for architectural
imagery.
Victor Vasarely
(1908-97)
Hungarian-born French painter, founder of Kinetic art (cinetisme).
Franz Kline (1910-62)
Abstract expressionist gesturalist famous for huge stark black/white canvases.
Jackson Pollock
(1912-56)
Co-founder of "action-painting"
with his wife Lee Krasner.
Morris Louis (1912-62)
Minimalist, explored "stain painting" along with Frankenthaler.
Philip Guston (1912-80)
Took up abstraction when "action painting" appeared.
Nicholas Schoffer (1912-80)
Hungarian-born French painter, leading theorist of Kinetic art.
Tony Smith (1912-80)
Minimalist painter, later sculptor, associated with Newman, Pollock, Rothko.
Agnes Martin (1912-2004)
Minimalist painter noted for grid-style pictures in pencil, oil and acrylic
paint.
Tony O'Malley (1913-2003)
Irish painter known for his colourful fantasy paintings of the Bahamas.
Ad Reinhardt (1913-67)
Abstract expressionist who painted parallel red, blue, black rectangles.
William Scott
(1913-89)
Irish painter best known for his abstract still lifes.
Robert Motherwell
(1915-91)
Abstract expressionist, famous for Elegy to the Spanish Republic.
Jean Degottex (1918-88)
Calligraphy painter, noted for huge white monochrome paintings.
Art Informel
This movement (formless improvisation) flourished in Europe during the
1950s and 1960s in parallel with Abstract Expressionism in America.
Actually it was an umbrella movement which covered a diverse range of
abstract styles, including Tachisme,
Calligraphy in art, Lyrical Abstraction,
Art Brut, Gutai Group of Japanese painters, Cloudism,
Nuagisme. Exponents of Art Informel included the painters:
Jean Fautrier (1898-1964), Hans Hartung (1904-89), Jiro Yoshihara (1905-72),
Camille Bryen (1907-77), Wols (Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze) (1913-51),
Jean-Michel Atlan (1913-60), Nicolas
de Stael (1914-1955), Pierre Soulages (b.1919), Karel
Appel (1921-2006) leader of COBRA,
Georges Mathieu (b.1921), Frederic Benrath (b.1930), Antonio Saura (1930-98),
and many others.
Sam
Francis (1923-1994)
Abstract expressionist, colourist; key representative of Tachisme.
Jesus Raphael Soto (b.1923)
Kinetic artist, noted for using dots to explore optical reflectivity.
Ellsworth Kelly (b.1923)
A leading artist within Post
Painterly Abstraction.
Antoni Tapies (b.1923)
Catalan painter (echoes of Klee and Miro), known for impastoed abstracts.
Kenneth Noland (b.1924)
Minimalist painter concerned with relationship between colour & structure.
Ivan Picelj (b.1924)
Croatian geometrical abstract painter, co-founder of group EXAT-51.
Helen Frankenthaler (b.1928)
Minimalist painter, developed "stain painting" for diaphanous
effects.
Richard Anuszkiewicz (b.1930)
American Op Art painter noted for his hallucinatory effects.
Robert Ryman (b.1930)
Minimalist artist noted for totally white square paintings.
Peter Sedgley (b.1930)
English Op Art painter, known for his concentric rings of colour.
Bridget Riley
(b.1931)
Leader of the 1960s geometric Op-Art movement, a form of Kinetic art.
Frank Auerbach
(b.1931)
Noted for heavily impastoed abstract and semi-abstract portraits.
Frank Stella (b.1936)
A key exponent of hard-edge painting,
and shaped canvas.
Robert Mangold (b.1937)
Minimalist painter, whose works explore spaces and silences.
Brice Marden (b.1938)
Minimalist painter noted for large monochromes of oil and wax.
Sean Scully (b.1945)
Irish-American painter noted for large-scale minimalist, elemental shapes.
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