De nombreux peintres sont à rattacher au mouvement de l’abstraction lyrique, à commencer par
Georges Mathieu considéré comme l’initiateur, mais mais aussi parmi les artistes reconnus Pierre Alechinsky =Jean Bazaine=Roger Bissière=Olivier Debre =Jacques Doucet ==Maurice Estève =Jean Fautrier =Sam Francis =Simon Hantaï =Hans Hartung =André Lanskoy ==Alfred Manessier = Jan Meyer =Joan Miró =Henri Michaux =Jean Le Moal ==Serge Poliakoff =Jean-Paul Riopelle =Pierre Soulages ==Nicolas De Staël ==Pierre Tal-Coat
et aussi d’autres artistes moins connus mais souvent tout aussi talentueux.
François Baron-Renouard =Huguette Arthur Bertrand =Jean-Michel Atlan =Julius Baltazar =Martin Barré = =Endre Rozsda =Jean-Claude Bédard =Anna-Eva Bergman = =Albert Bitran =Bohumír Bocian =Francis Bott =Camille Bryen =Michel Carrade =Teh-Chun Chu =Jean-Michel Coulon =Wanda Davanzo ==Jean Degottex =Paul Dirmeikis =Pierre Dmitrienko =Franck Duminil =Natalia Dumitresco =Marcel Dumont =René Duvillier
Pierre Fichet ==Oscar Gauthier =Claude Georges =Jacques Germain =Roger-Edgar Gillet =Laurence Granger =James Guitet =Marc-Antoine Goulard ==Philippe Hosiasson =Alexandre Istrati =Pierre Jaouën =Elvire Jan =Laurent Jiménez-Balaguer =Antoni Karwowski =John-Franklin Koenig =Ferdinand Kulmer =Jean Labellie=Joseph Lacasse =Pierre-César Lagage =Jeanne Laganne ==René Laubies =Philippe Lepatre =Marcelle Loubchansky =David Malkin =André Marfaing ==Melito =Jean Messagier ==Guy de Montlaur =Antoine Mortier =Edo Murtić
Alexandre Orloff =Noël Pasquier =Mig Quinet =Marie Raymond =Hans Reichel ==Georges Romathier =Greta Sauer=Antonio Saura =Gérard Schneider =Joseph Sima =Gustave Singier =Waldemar Smolarek =Árpád Szenes =Yasse Tabuchi =Pierre Terbois =Gustave Tiffoche =Roger Tolmer =Raoul Ubac =Louis Van Lint =Bram van Velde =Maria Elena Vieira Da Silva =Guy de Vogüé =Wang Yan Cheng =Pierre Wemaëre =François Willi Wendt =Wols =Léon Zack =Zao Wou-Ki =Isabelle Zeltner-Salamin =Jacques Zimmermann