Modern Abstract Art Posters & Prints

Featured Modern Abstract Fine Artists

Wassily Kandinsky was born in 1866 in Moscow, Russia, and died in 1944. Kandinsky didn't take up the study of art until 1866, at the age of 30. In 1896 he moved to Munich, Germany, to study at the Academy of Fine Art. One his paintings, Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), painted in 1903, gave its name to the Blaue Reiter art movement, which Kandinsky helped form along with Auguste Macke and Franz Marc. After WWI, he taught design at the Bauhaus in Weimer, Germany until 1932. After the Bauhaus was dissolved by the Nazis, he moved to France, where he lived the rest of his life. [More...]

Joan Miro was born in 1893 in Barcelona, Spain, and died in 1983. He studied art at the Barcelona School of the Fine Arts. He was initially influenced by Fauvism and Cubism (Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso). Often included amoung the Surrealists, his work is clearly more abstract than surreal, although his abstract environments, such as Harlequin's Carnival have a decided surrealistic slant. [More...]

Piet Mondrian was born in 1872 in Amersfoort, Netherlands, and died in 1944. Mondrian initially painted on the side while working as a elementary teacher, painting mostly impressionistic. His early work was also influenced by the Pointilists and the Fauvists. Moving to Paris from 1912 to 1914, he came under the influence of Picasso and the Cubists. He helped to found and coined the term Neo-Plasticism to denote his own mature purely abstract style of painting, designing along a rectangular grid and painting primarily in primary colors. [More...]

Mark Rothko was born as Marcus Rothkowitz in 1903 to a Jewish family in Daugavpils, Latvia, in what was then part of the Russian Empire. In 1913, his family emigrated to Portland, Oregon, to escape anti-semitism and to avoid having Mark and his brothers drafted into the Czarist army during World War I. He studied art at the New School of Design and the Art Students League in New York City, with Arshile Gorky and Max Weber, both also Russian Jews, among his teachers. He is generally included among the Abstract Expressionists, although he is more closely related to "color field" painters such as Morris Louis, Barnett Newman, and Kenneth Noland. [More...]