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Hügelauf (Hill Run)
Margarita Strena-Schirch
Painting - 15 x 21 x 2 cm Painting - 5.9 x 8.3 x 0.8 inch
$792
Quantum mechanics
Ventzislav Dikov
Painting - 46 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,187
Canvas 72
Frantisek Florian
Painting - 110 x 129.8 x 3.8 cm Painting - 43.3 x 51.1 x 1.5 inch
$1,809
Outdoor lifestyle - kayaking on the lake
Cristina Stefan
Painting - 61 x 76.2 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 30 x 0.8 inch
$1,720
Spirit Island, Lake Maligne, Rocky Mountains
Cristina Stefan
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$1,984
New rain in empty mountains
Alexandra Petropoulou
Painting - 99.8 x 149.9 x 2 cm Painting - 39.3 x 59 x 0.8 inch
$2,096
Paysages de Chine 7
Guoquan Zeng
Painting - 80 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$4,750
Paysages de Chine 2
Guoquan Zeng
Painting - 120 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
$4,071
Bitcoin X Shoot the bank.
JP Malot
Painting - 65 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,470
Myth, muse and metaphor #5
Nancy Goodman Lawrence
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 1.5 inch
$1,300
Canola field in Ukraine
Valeria Radzievska
Painting - 61 x 91.4 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 36 x 0.8 inch
$1,750
August, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Valeria Radzievska
Painting - 40.6 x 71.1 x 2 cm Painting - 16 x 28 x 0.8 inch
$1,100
Time flows with holy heptagon_190321
Soo Youn Kim
Painting - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,334
Time flows with holy heptagon_180622
Soo Youn Kim
Painting - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,640
Grands voyageurs les docks
Francis L'Huillier
Painting - 40 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 15.7 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,131
Escaliers tentaculaires
André Guillarmain
Painting - 93 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 36.6 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,583
Escaliers bleus
André Guillarmain
Painting - 130 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$2,036
Effet de nuages Ref BDNW10733
Jacques Poncet
Painting - 73 x 92 cm Painting - 28.7 x 36.2 inch
$3,958
Cimetiere 04
Ismaël Kachtihi del Moral
Painting - 160 x 160 x 2 cm Painting - 63 x 63 x 0.8 inch
$5,089
Jardin à la géométrie sacrée
Patricia de Boysson
Painting - 80 x 60 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 inch
$4,524
Light Visible by Transparency
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 100 x 70 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$554
A philosoph between Marbles and Columns
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$554
C'est beau une ville la nuit
Michel Narbonne
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$368
Monsieur le Professeur est amoureux
Michel Philippon
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,074
La seine 3
Pascale Jacquemond-Collet
Painting - 20 x 74 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 29.1 x 0.8 inch
$249
Libre arbitre - Composition abstraite
Carole Aurore
Painting - 100 x 70 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 2 inch
$2,545
Coffee pot with lemon tree in blue
Gordon Hopkins
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.4 inch
$5,089
Orsay Oner tags and abstract
JP Malot
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,393
Destination Amalfi
Katrina Avotina
Painting - 50 x 59.9 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$917
Truly breathtaking
Katrina Avotina
Painting - 59.9 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,572
Disaster fantastic!
Katrina Avotina
Painting - 51.1 x 76.5 x 4.1 cm Painting - 20.1 x 30.1 x 1.6 inch
$1,965
The City Never Sleeps
Katrina Avotina
Painting - 50 x 59.9 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,048
Walking With Floyd
Joan Blumenfeld
Painting - 45.7 x 61 x 3.6 cm Painting - 18 x 24 x 1.4 inch
$1,450
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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!