Abstract Art

Abstract art is now generally understood to mean art that does not depict objects in the natural world, but instead uses color and form in a non-representational way. In the very early 20th century, the term was more often used to describe art, such as Cubist and Futurist art, that depicts real forms in a simplified or rather reduced way—keeping only an allusion of the original natural subject. Such paintings were often claimed to capture something of the depicted objects' immutable intrinsic qualities rather than its external appearance. 

Abstract Artists: 

   Ackermann, Max
   Ainsworth, Mark
   Albers, Josef
   Appel, Karel
   Arp, Jean
   Ashbaugh, Dennis
   Barns-Graham, Wilhelmina
   Baumeister, Willi
   Bazaine, Pierre
   Baziotes, William
   Bischoff, Elmer
   Bissier, Julius
   Boccioni, Umberto
   Burges, Michael
   Calder, Alexander
   Chillida, Eduardo
   Davie, Karin
   Davis, Stuart
   De Kooning, Willem
   De Staël, Nicolas
   Delahaut, Jo
   Delaunay, Robert
   Delaunay-Terk, Sonia
   Den Boon, Theo
   Diebenkorn, Richard
   Dove, Arthur G.
   Dubuffet, Jean
   Esteve, Maurice
   Fievet, Nadine
   Fontana, Lucio
   Forg, Gunther
   Francis, Sam
   Frankenthaler, Helen
   Gilles, Werner
   Glarner, Fritz
   Glattfelder, Hansjorg
   Gottlieb, Adolph
   Graves, Nancy
   Gris, Juan
   Guston, Philip
   Hartung, Hans
   Heinen
   Heizer, Michael
   Hepworth, Barbara
   Herbin, Auguste
   Heron, Patrick
   Hodgkin, Howard
   Hofmann, Hans
   Hollingsworth, Alvin
   Hundertwasser, Friedensreich
   Itten, Johannes
   Jenkins, Paul
   Jermolajeva, Vera
   Johns, Jasper
   Kandinsky, Wassily
   Kelly, Ellsworth
   Kirkeby, Per
   Klee, Paul
   Klein, Yves
   Kline, Franz
   Kljun, Ivan
   Lam, Wifredo
   Lasker, Jonathan
   Leger, Fernand
   Lewitt, Sol
   Lohse, Richard P.
   Louis, Morris
   Macdonald-Wright, Stanton
   Malevich, Kasimir
   Mason, Emily
   Mateo, Victor
   Miro, Joan
   Moholy-Nagy, Laszlo
   Motherwell, Robert
   Nay, Ernst  Wilhelm
   Nevelson, Louise
   Newman, Barnett
   Nicholson, Ben
   Noland, Kenneth
   Olitski, Jules
   Pasmore, Victor
   Poli, Jacques
   Pollock, Jackson
   Riley, Bridget
   Riopelle, Jean-Paul
   Rockburne, Dorothea
   Rothko, Mark
   Rozanova, Olga Vladimirovna
   Schifano, Mario
   Schooley, Elmer
   Schwitters, Kurt
   Scott, William
   Scully, Sean
   Secunda, Arthur
   Smith, Tony
   Solomon, Syd
   Sorman, Steven
   Soulages, Pierre
   Steir, Pat
   Still, Clyfford
   Tal-Coat, Pierre
   Tapies, Antoni
   Telemaque, Herve
   Tillyer, William
   Tobey, Mark
   Trova, Ernest
   van Velde, Bram
   Vasarely, Victor
   Voss, Jan
   Wegner, Jürgen
   Winters, Terry
   Zapkus, Kes
   Zox, Larry