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Yassine (Yaze) Mekhnache
Painting - 163 x 63 x 25 cm Painting - 64.2 x 24.8 x 9.8 inch
$21,316
Fabulous gentle sea.us gentle sea.
Iryna Kastsova
Painting - 60 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,975
Where the reeds bend in the cool breeze
Rachael Dalzell
Painting - 155 x 135 x 6 cm Painting - 61 x 53.1 x 2.4 inch
$6,476
1980 KIM HAN MMCA Museum Collection Geometrical Abstraction Games of Squares Quadrillage
Kim HAN
Painting - 76.5 x 56.5 x 0.3 cm Painting - 30.1 x 22.2 x 0.1 inch
$10,658
Musique by night
Christian Jodin
Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$335 $236
Hôtel Le Festival
Christian Jodin
Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$335 $236
L'Heure Bleue
Brigitte Thonhauser-Merk
Painting - 120 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,468
Serie Tierra Líquida
Rainer Splitt
Painting - 170 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 66.9 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$12,341
Lakeside reflections
Anatoly Metlan
Painting - 65 x 85 x 2.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 33.5 x 1 inch
$5,600
Abstraction & courbes 6
Gisèle Desmarais
Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$168
Composition abstraite en couleurs
Jean-Louis Bellon
Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$185
Composition abstraite en couleurs
Jean-Louis Bellon
Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$185
Traversées de L'existence
Hyacinthe Ouattara
Painting - 111 x 119 x 4 cm Painting - 43.7 x 46.9 x 1.6 inch
$6,170
À l'intérieur de nous
Hyacinthe Ouattara
Painting - 158 x 107 x 4 cm Painting - 62.2 x 42.1 x 1.6 inch
$7,629
View of a Harbor on a Swiss Lake
Kim En Joong
Painting - 50 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
$7,853
Écorce lumineuse - Abstraction et matière - série entre imaginaire et réel
Marie Mercier dite MALCQ
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$393
Aile plongeante - Abstraction et matière - série entre imaginaire et réel
Marie Mercier dite MALCQ
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$393
Poumon vert - Abstraction et matière - série entre imaginaire et réel
Marie Mercier dite MALCQ
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$393
See Beyond 2
Abiola Olabamiji
Painting - 138.4 x 162.6 x 2.5 cm Painting - 54.5 x 64 x 1 inch
$3,200 $2,880
Opera singer
Suthamma (Ta) Byrne
Painting - 130 x 180 x 4 cm Painting - 51.2 x 70.9 x 1.6 inch
$6,709
To The Wonders
Adeniyi Joshua Adetayo
Painting - 152.4 x 152.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 60 x 60 x 1 inch
$3,200
Red roofs and azure waters
Anatoly Metlan
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1 inch
$5,400
Brothers 1
Daniel Oguche Junior
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 1 inch
$3,250
Encre n°6 - Essentiel
Emmanuelle Moch
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$426
Endless Possibility
Amiolemen Emmanuel
Painting - 101.6 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 36 x 1 inch
$2,350
A Love as Deep as the Sea
Kate Seaborne
Painting - 105 x 135 x 3 cm Painting - 41.3 x 53.1 x 1.2 inch
$2,580
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs
Kate Seaborne
Painting - 95 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 37.4 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$2,580
Navi, chilling in summer shades
Adeniyi Joshua Adetayo
Painting - 101.6 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 31.5 x 1 inch
$2,560
Coup de gueule contre la pollution plastique
Cecile Gonne Victoria
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,447
The Leaf-lake
Veronika Lazareva
Painting - 75 x 175 x 7 cm Painting - 29.5 x 68.9 x 2.8 inch
$23,046
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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!