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!

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Contemporary artworks for sale

Bird and Violin

Pharrell Williams, Portrait 4. Portrait intervened by the artists

Kurt Cobain

Business modèle

Music

La mort de petit violon

Cuba la rouge

Musical Notes

Musical Notes

La femme à la cithare - Night blue

Viola

La violoniste

Odilon

Saxophonist from another world

Queen Reflected

Pink Debbie Harry

Lou Reed Transformer

Lou Reed

Joan Jett - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print

Jagger And Warhol

Iggy Raw Power - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print

Freddie Mercury On Stage

David Bowie With The Spiders

Bowie And Sax

David Bowie At Haddon Hall

Bowie Recording Pin Ups

Bowie Owl Eye

Bowie On Stage

Bowie Eating Lunch

Bowie Beverly Hills

Bowie As Ziggy

Bowie As Ziggy

Bowie And Sax - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print

Bowie And Sax

Bowie And Ronson On Stage

Bowie And Ronson On Stage

Bowie And Cyrinda Foxe

Mick Jagger On Stage

Music lady

Dispersion

Brilliant violin melody

Mystical dream

Vibrant Energy

Al Fresco Rehearsal

Its ok to be not ok

Diablo

Plaza de Toros. From La Música Ausente Series

Andante. From La Música Ausente Series

Bob Marley

Le violoncelliste

Music is Love VII

La lyre

Soul Notes Unfold Slowly Like Wine in Warmth (Giclée Print)

Romance Notes

The Song of Your First Kiss (Giclée Print)

Best Friends Duet

Echoes of the Heart

Le Sacre des saisons

Para el Tata

Mick Jagger

David Bowie

Storyteller

Renaissance

Sur un air d'accordéon

That One… Your Favorite Song

Kiss