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Abstract - Super Happiness No.86
Guoyi Liu
Painting - 80 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$9,443
Abstract - Rebirth series No.13
Guoyi Liu
Painting - 180 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 70.9 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$26,124
Portrait - Idol No.3
Guoyi Liu
Painting - 150 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$17,416
Abstract - Green House
Guoyi Liu
Painting - 200 x 300 x 4 cm Painting - 78.7 x 118.1 x 1.6 inch
$52,360
Portrait - Losing Pumpkin Lantern
Guoyi Liu
Painting - 150 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$26,124
Deux walkyries, par un matin irisé
Maylis Bourdet
Painting - 110 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 43.3 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$2,103
Les barreaux d’ombres
Frédéric Lemonnier
Painting - 70 x 70 x 3.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1.4 inch
$1,923
Roman Heritage. 3d Part of the Triptych.
Kseniia Redina
Painting - 40 x 30 x 1.2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.5 inch
$1,357
La rue de la Halle à Crécy
Daniel Chamaillard
Painting - 81 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,036
Everybody has the Right to Wear a Mask 7
Bogdan Dumitrica
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 1.3 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.5 inch
$1,800
Le débarquement
Françoise Bossut
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,866
Froggy on A branch
Sariah Anne Manning
Painting - 35 x 28 x 1 cm Painting - 13.8 x 11 x 0.4 inch
$1,275
Quartier de l'Albacin, Grenade
Yves Brayer
Painting - 19 x 24 x 2.5 cm Painting - 7.5 x 9.4 x 1 inch
$6,220
Sand clock CXXXIII (Sand clock serie)
Daniel Cuadrado
Painting - 15.6 x 6.6 x 0.1 cm Painting - 6.1 x 2.6 x 0 inch
$1,278
Helios Lyre
Giorgi Kukhalashvili
Painting - 90 x 126 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 49.6 x 1.2 inch
$7,351
The Guardian of the Threshold
Giorgi Kukhalashvili
Painting - 80 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$7,916
Preparations for the Ball
Giorgi Kukhalashvili
Painting - 120 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
$13,571
Biltmore Hotel Clock at Palmcourt
Florian Doru Crihana
Painting - 40 x 30 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
$900
Confrontació V/09
Josep María Codina
Painting - 82 x 100 x 15 cm Painting - 32.3 x 39.4 x 5.9 inch
$4,659
Beach Scene Abstraction
Maxwell Stevens
Painting - 105 x 131 x 5.5 cm Painting - 41.3 x 51.6 x 2.2 inch
$11,309
Thira Sunrise
Elena Borstein
Painting - 152.4 x 101.6 x 4.1 cm Painting - 60 x 40 x 1.6 inch
$25,106
Wahala no dey finish
Makama John
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 2 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 0.8 inch
$1,900
Around In Circles 2
Helen Warner
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.4 inch
$6,390
Through the Grapevine
Claire Denarie-Soffietti
Painting - 120 x 90 x 5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 2 inch
$10,743
Entre Ciel & Terre
Sylvia Brotons
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.4 inch
$7,916
Voyage... Voyage
Sylvia Brotons
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.4 inch
$7,916
Air ce Musique
Sylvia Brotons
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.4 inch
$7,916
Red Phone
Alexander (Sandro) Antadze
Painting - 50 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$2,262
Dada - The test of the soul
Fan Hong
Painting - 100 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$6,785
Santi serie Omaggio a Giusto de' Menabuoi
Alexander Daniloff
Painting - 28 x 38 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11 x 15 x 0 inch
$170 $153
Serie geisha 00069
Josep Pozo
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.4 inch
$2,036
Les coings, les roses et l'être aimé
Barbara Petit Lisy
Painting - 50 x 35 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 13.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,344
Nose Hill in the Rain
Christian Frederiksen
Painting - 31 x 20 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.2 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$792
Light
Jose Ricardo Contreras Gonzalez
Painting - 30 x 25 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.8 x 0.1 inch
$700
Verdes claro y oscuro
Javier Ortega
Painting - 32 x 24 x 1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0.4 inch
$3,619
Caballito que pinta
Javier Ortega
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$4,071
Bambous sous la pluie
Martine Thibaud
Painting - 40 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,036
Quelle fournaise !
Éléonore Deshayes
Painting - 115 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 45.3 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$5,089
London Bridge is Falling Down
Sarah Jack
Painting - 61 x 46 x 1 cm Painting - 24 x 18.1 x 0.4 inch
$960
Figuration
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.
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