World’s Best Abstract Artists: TODD, CLARK, PESIC GROZDANOV, SAJATOVICH, POPOVA, KOVATSCH, BUCHOLTZ, HUANG, HSIEN, CHUANJIANG & ZEYUE / 2024 WORLD ART AWARDS

6 min readJun 25, 2024

Artists from 61 countries competed in the 2024 WORLD ART AWARDS where 20 of the most revered galleries in the world were sent online images to score in drawing, painting, sculpture, digital and photography. The 300+ winning works, 1st to 6th Place (and ties) in all 50 categories, will be revealed in this column one category at a time, and also an upcoming movie.

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ANNUAL ONLINE COMPETITION for painters, photographers, sculptors and digital artists, judged by 25 galleries.

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The WINNERS in CATEGORY 6. ABSTRACT represent AUSTRALIA, USA, MACEDONIA, CANADA, GERMANY, TAIWAN & CHINA.

BIO OF 1ST PLACE WINNER ALAN TODD:

After graduating from the Byam Shaw School of Art in London in 1970, I moved to Australia where I have been a practicing artist ever since. I work in a variety of mediums including paint, wood, metal and contemporary dance but the idea always comes first and draws upon lived experience. The sequence of works, which are ongoing, entitled Conversations With My Father are ironic in that the conversations never took place. These four paintings are part of an extended series based upon moments in my life that were never shared. The second iteration are all sculptures and the third will be reliefs based upon dialogue between disparate materials collected from hardware stores. As someone who lived through the Great Depression and WW2, my father learned to ‘make do’ and repurposing hardware items is a way to create a link between us four years after his death.

I work in the Adelaide Hills in the Vanilla Sky studio and exhibit extensively. Recent exhibitions included the Palmer International Sculpture competition where I installed a major work on the open hillside. https://alantoddvisualartist.com

ART COLLECTORS — CONTACT THE WINNERS HERE: CATEGORY 6. ABSTRACT

1st Place ALAN TODD AUSTRALIA https://alantoddvisualartist.com “Don’t Spiegel Me Of Gluttony” 152x152cm Acrylic on canvas. .

2nd Place — Tie JIMMY S CLARK JR USA https://www.jimmyclarkjr.com/ “Cosmic” 30x30” Acrylic on canvas.

2nd Place — Tie DIVNA PESIC GROZDANOV MACEDONIA www.divnapesic.com “How A Butterfly Can Change the World” 40x30” Oil on canvas.

3rd Place — Tie MARK SAJATOVICH CANADA https://www.instagram.com/marksajatovich/ “The Geometry of Pyramids” 61x76cm Acrylic.

3rd Place — Tie SVETLANA POPOVA MACEDONIA svetlanapopova20@yahoo.com “Piktogrami” 80x100cm Acrylic on canvas.

4th Place — Tie MONIKA ANNA KOVATSCH GERMANY https://www.kovatsch-simplyart.com/award-winning-art/ “Exceptional” 80x80cm Acrylic on canvas.

4th Place — Tie ELINORE BUCHOLTZ USA www.elinorebucholtz.com “Highlights 4” 30x30” Acrylic on canvas.

5th Place — Tie KATE HUANG TAIWAN https://www.facebook.com/KateHuangArtworks “Dialogue Series 04, Winter” 30x30cm Acrylic, canvas.

5th Place — Tie CHU HSIEN HSIEN TAIWAN https://xianxianzhu.wixsite.com/xianxian-4 “The Window” 100x100cm Acrylic on canvas.

5th Place — Tie DIVNA PESIC GROZDANOV MACEDONIA www.divnapesic.com “Revive” 40x80cm Oil on canvas.

6th Place — Tie JU CHUANJIANG CHINA juchuanjiang@126.com “Summer At The Source Of The Great River” 52x74cm Acrylic.

6th Place — Tie HU ZEYUE CHINA xydhs98@163.com “Waltz Between Snow And Me” 40x60cm Acrylic on canvas.

Art collectors can see hundreds of winning images and contact info to all 50 CATEGORIES of winning artworks:

2024 winning artists world art awards — World Art Awards & American Art Awards

ART COLLECTORS, SEE 2024 WORLD ART AWARDS WINNING IMAGES & CONTACTS: Categories 1–10 Categories 11–20 Categories 21–30…

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In 2024, WORLD ART AWARDS had submissions from these 61 countries: Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Democratic Republic Of Congo, Denmark, England, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mexico, Moldova, Nepal, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Paraguay, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Togo, UK, Ukraine, USA, Viet Nam, Wales, Zambia.