abstract
The abstract tag marks work built on color, shape, and gesture instead of a recognizable subject. You’ll find it attached to paintings, drawings, and digital pieces across many different categories on WooArts, since abstraction shows up in nearly every medium. What connects these pieces isn’t a single look, some are loud and busy, others calm and minimal, but a shared choice to let form and feeling lead instead of trying to depict something literal. Use this tag to jump straight to work that leans into pure visual expression rather than a specific place, person, or object. It’s a quick way to browse art that asks you to feel first and figure out the rest later.
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Cubism Explained: History, Artists, Phases & Legacy
What is Cubism? A clear guide to its roots, the Analytic and Synthetic phases, key artists from Picasso to Gris, offshoots like Orphism, and why the movement still matters.
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Mohamed Elmoslemany
Mohamed Elmoslemany is an Egyptian painter and professor whose portraits capture the character and history written into Egyptian faces. Working across oil, watercolor, and mixed media, he blends echoes of ancient Egyptian art with everyday rural life.
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Scott Naismith
Scott Naismith is a Scottish painter who turns dramatic skies into bold, non literal bursts of color and hope. Drawing on Turner’s atmosphere and Matisse’s color, he now flies drones to find new abstract shapes in the landscape, blurring the line between altitude and ground.
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Dilshad Questani
Dilshad Questani is a Kurdish French painter whose warm, glowing canvases carry the memory of fighting as a peshmerga and fleeing into exile. Now settled in France, he paints in earthy browns and radiant yellows that he calls the colors of freedom and peace.
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David Hockney
David Hockney is a British painter born in 1937 in Bradford, known for bold color and pop art influenced work that later pushed into digital image making. His paintings hang in major institutions including the Tate, which holds several of his key works.
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Gerhard Richter
Gerhard Richter is a German painter born in Dresden in 1932, known for moving fluidly between photorealistic paintings and abstract works built with a squeegee. He often blurs or distorts photographic source images, questioning how much a painting can really tell us about what is real.
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Derek Penix
Derek Penix is an American painter born in 1980 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, who is largely self-taught and was mentored by artists Quang Ho and C.W. Mundy. Known for his strong sense of visual flow and a simple, warm and cool color palette, he was named the most awarded artist in the country by ArtDataIntel in…
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Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso was a Spanish artist born in Málaga in 1881 who co-founded Cubism with Georges Braque and constantly reinvented his style across realism, pottery, and abstraction. He created more than 20,000 works, including Guernica, his powerful anti-war statement from 1937.
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Jane Freilicher
Jane Freilicher was an American painter born in Brooklyn in 1924, associated with the New York School and known for landscapes and still lifes painted with quiet sensitivity to light. Close friends with poets like Frank O’Hara, she continued painting until her death in 2014.
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Juan Gris
Juan Gris, born José Victoriano González-Pérez in Madrid in 1887, was a Spanish painter who moved to Paris in 1906 and became close friends with Picasso, Braque, and Matisse. He began painting seriously in 1911, developing his own distinctive, mathematically precise style within Cubism, and he continued working in that movement until his death in…
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Candace Charlton
Candace Charlton is a South African painter born in Durban in 1968 who studied fine art and sculpture at Rhodes University before holding her first solo exhibition in 1998. She moved to Europe in 2000 and now lives and works between the Netherlands and Italy, focusing on portraits and figurative work that explore the depth…
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Joan Brown
Joan Brown was an American figurative painter born in San Francisco in 1938, who studied at the California School of Fine Art under her mentor Elmer Bischoff and held her first solo show while still a student. A key figure in the second generation of the Bay Area Figurative Movement, she helped shape California’s art…
