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Hartland Tide II B
Philip Hearsey
Sculpture - 64 x 23 x 14 cm Sculpture - 25.2 x 9.1 x 5.5 inch
$3,314
Le château dans le ciel
Tanguy Mendrisse
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.1 inch
$471
Rouge Ballon de Chien 21
Miguel Guía
Sculpture - 21.5 x 7 x 20 cm Sculpture - 8.5 x 2.8 x 7.9 inch
$762
Couple Enlacé / Couple Embracing - 1911
Egon Schiele
Print - 65 x 50 cm Print - 25.6 x 19.7 inch
$1,065
Ô langage des comparaisons
Cécile Jaunet
Painting - 225 x 225 x 1 cm Painting - 88.6 x 88.6 x 0.4 inch
$2,803
Summer Blossom
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 243.8 x 398.8 x 5.1 cm Painting - 96 x 157 x 2 inch
$1,570
Lowres Gathering
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 119.4 x 119.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 47 x 47 x 2 inch
$1,121
Heavenly Plants No.7
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 114.3 x 83.8 x 5.1 cm Painting - 45 x 33 x 2 inch
$1,121
Heavenly Plants No.6
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 109.2 x 83.8 x 5.1 cm Painting - 43 x 33 x 2 inch
$1,121
Fluid constructs
Sumit Mehndiratta
Sculpture - 63.5 x 63.5 x 7.6 cm Sculpture - 25 x 25 x 3 inch
$1,570
Exploflora Series No.72
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 104.1 x 152.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 41 x 60 x 2 inch
$1,570
Exploflora Series No.71
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 101.6 x 152.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 40 x 60 x 2 inch
$1,682
Exploflora Series No.69
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 99.1 x 154.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 39 x 61 x 2 inch
$1,457
Construct Neon
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 63.5 x 48.3 x 3.8 cm Painting - 25 x 19 x 1.5 inch
$2,018
The Glamorous One
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 112 x 112 x 3 cm Painting - 44.1 x 44.1 x 1.2 inch
$2,242
Untitled No.104
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 76 x 76 x 3 cm Painting - 29.9 x 29.9 x 1.2 inch
$1,065
Untitled No.106
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 76 x 76 x 3 cm Painting - 29.9 x 29.9 x 1.2 inch
$1,065
Exploflora Series No.68
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 86 x 86 x 3 cm Painting - 33.9 x 33.9 x 1.2 inch
$975
"Persévérer" abstrait acrylique sable poudre de marbre châssis lin 100x100cm 2019
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 100 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$4,036
Plate from 'Tristan and Isolde': Tristan's Testament
Salvador Dali
Print - 44 x 32 x 0.1 cm Print - 17.3 x 12.6 x 0 inch
$1,850
Bateau pour Formentera
Karine Bartoli
Painting - 80 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,570
AV_MarPlastico_002
Bernhard Lang
Photography - 150 x 100 x 0.5 cm Photography - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.2 inch
$3,352
Ménine Air et Bois Grand
Miguel Guía
Sculpture - 64 x 60 x 34 cm Sculpture - 25.2 x 23.6 x 13.4 inch
$9,978
Blues and Reds 7 - Minimalist Abstract (Abstrait Minimaliste)
Gina Vor
Painting - 32 x 24 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0 inch
$168 $144
Tête de lion III
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 63 x 42 x 45 cm Sculpture - 24.8 x 16.5 x 17.7 inch
$22,422
Revolutionary Woman With Brush
Shepard Fairey (Obey)
Print - 61 x 46 cm Print - 24 x 18.1 inch
$1,670
Contemporary artworks for sale
Over 200,000 pieces. That's the number of contemporary artworks and design objects currently available on Artsper. Every day, new artists and galleries from all over the world join us and trust us to showcase their work. On Artsper, all mediums have a place of choice: painting, drawing, photography, editions and sculpture.
The generic term "contemporary art" refers to all works produced in the recent period, that is to say between the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st centuries. However, there is not only one type of contemporary art. It can cover as many forms as there are artists, if not more. Contemporary art, while taking into account the individualities and the cultural specificities, takes life at the world level, in a globalized society and constantly in movement. Thus, the materials used, the processes of creation and the subjects treated by the contemporary art works often reflect these interconnections. But one constant remains, artists perpetually question the established artistic order.
Even if they are often confused, there are many differences between modern and contemporary art, notably the idea that contemporary art works are more conceptual and privilege the creative idea to the support used.
Nevertheless, the distinction between these two movements can also be purely temporal. Any work realized after 1945 can be called "contemporary". At the beginning of the 20th century, the movements followed one another according to the revolutionary reflections of the great masters of Surrealism (Salvador Dalí, René Magritte), Cubism (Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger) and Dadaism (Marcel Duchamp). From the 1950s and 1960s, artists pushed the reflection on abstraction even further. This is the birth of minimalist art as well as conceptual art. In opposition to the abstract expressionists such as Joan Mitchell, Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock, the leaders of these movements are notably Frank Stella and Sol Lewitt.
Pop art is one of the first artistic movements to emerge from contemporary art. It was the work of a whole generation caught up in the whirlwind of consumer society. Pop art uses new technologies and very bright colors to portray (sometimes ironically) this globalized world in transition. The precursors of this pictorial technique are Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, whose modern paintings represent icons of the time such as Marilyn Monroe or Elizabeth Taylor.
Born in the 1960s in Philadelphia, street art became popular in the 1980s. Illegal and controversial at first, it now occupies a major place in modern art museums, galleries and private collections. Paintings, stencil drawings, collages, sculpture, tags, graffiti... On Artsper, discover original contemporary artworks as well as prints by the greatest street artists: Shepard Fairey (Obey), JonOne, Aiko, Miss.Tic, Jef Aérosol and many others. But our catalog also highlights young stars and talents of the emerging scene, such as Death NYC or Jérôme Mesnager.
Today, contemporary art exists in many forms, more or less inspired by the movements that have shaped modern history. The beginning of the 21st century is marked by a multidisciplinary creation, an interest for creation coming from the four corners of the world, and the emergence of markets on different continents. Contemporary artworks also denote a meteoric growth in digital art, as evidenced by the recent boom in NFTs and AI (artificial intelligence)-generated art. As with all art forms, we see a globalized interest in innovative and disruptive contemporary artworks as much as in work that aims to revive the more traditional forms of fine art.
Whether you're a budding collector or a seasoned buyer, a home decorator or an art history buff, now is the time to express your personality by exploring the collections of our 1,800 partner galleries, which are constantly being updated with new works of contemporary art. Your perfect piece is waiting for you, now it's up to you to find it!