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![Painting, Les canons a plasma, Hank China](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/275797_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Jour de pluie joyeuse, Hank China](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/113107_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Ultra-infra marine, Hank China](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/113104_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Rayures, Pierre François](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/60572_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Carnaval, Pierre François](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/45354_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, L'arbre aux squelettes, Hervé Di Rosa](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/334612_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, La prairie et la falaise, Hank China](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/275803_1_grid.jpg)
La prairie et la falaise
Hank China
Painting - 60 x 60 x 4.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.8 inch
Sold
![Painting, La Boîte, composición 3, Marta Lafuente](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/212797_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Torero, Yves Duffour](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/144937_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Série grands singes - 11/5, François Cognet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/64058_1_grid.jpg)
Série grands singes - 11/5
François Cognet
Painting - 80 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
Sold
![Painting, Le Port dans le Midi, Marco](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/153985_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Les marais salants, Pierre François](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/60581_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Cheval 2-3, Pierre François](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/60575_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, La galette tire les rois, Christian Esctal](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/48819_1_grid.jpg)
La galette tire les rois
Christian Esctal
Painting - 97 x 130 x 4 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 1.6 inch
Sold
![Painting, Chiens méchants, Pierre François](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/43029_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Le canal, Marco](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/153979_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Eve White - Eve Black, Guy Denning](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/177700_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Les femmes à la barque, Pierre François](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/43018_1_grid.jpg)
Les femmes à la barque
Pierre François
Painting - 100 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
Sold
![Painting, Blue Day, Arthur Bernard](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/305164_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, No Title, Woods Dynamics, Baurjan Aralov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1729356_1_grid.jpg)
No Title, Woods Dynamics
Baurjan Aralov
Painting - 21.5 x 28 x 0.1 cm Painting - 8.5 x 11 x 0 inch
€500
![Painting, Cupcake on a carpet, Matt Jacobs](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1589649_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Fusion, Emily Helstroffer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1369443_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, La Langue Bien Pendue, Claudie Baran](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1332963_1_grid.jpg)
La Langue Bien Pendue
Claudie Baran
Painting - 49 x 49 x 4 cm Painting - 19.3 x 19.3 x 1.6 inch
€680
![Painting, Sans titre, Meteo Meteo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1241757_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Surreal-Avatar, Fan Hong](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1187259_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Performance Secret Life, Fan Hong](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1187253_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Tête de Satyre, Carlos Antonio Sablon Perez](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1110648_1_grid.jpg)
Tête de Satyre
Carlos Antonio Sablon Perez
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
€3,000
![Painting, Sleep of the Naiads, Ema Szabo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2162085_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Gir with Peacock, Artavazd Talalyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2158707_1_grid.jpg)
Gir with Peacock
Artavazd Talalyan
Painting - 90 x 36 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 14.2 x 0.8 inch
€2,900
![Painting, Queen, Artavazd Talalyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2155382_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Contemplation, Nathalie Montel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2135125_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Red, White and Brush, Dwayne Wolff](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2050710_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Woma Portraite, Artavazd Talalyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2017635_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Nocturne aux Cyprès, Caroline de Piédoüe](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1999836_1_grid.jpg)
Nocturne aux Cyprès
Caroline de Piédoüe
Painting - 130 x 81 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 31.9 x 1.2 inch
€5,900
![Painting, Flower Seller, Artavazd Talalyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1975812_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The Happy Family V, Angu Walters](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1027692_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Delusion, Jennifer Makhatadze](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2142140_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, La veste en jean, Virginie Clement](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2092284_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Garden with stream - Italian villas painting, Andrea Borella](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1962198_1_grid.jpg)
Garden with stream - Italian villas painting
Andrea Borella
Painting - 60 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
€800
![Painting, The son's funeral, Iván Castellón Quiroga](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1070013_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Ensemble, Cyril Réguerre](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/698043_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Légereté de la vie, Clara Crespin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2152723_1_grid.jpg)
Légereté de la vie
Clara Crespin
Painting - 100 x 81 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1.2 inch
€3,100
![Painting, Lesconil, Caroline de Piédoüe](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1999824_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Iceberg Melting, Su Yu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1722354_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, 5 galfons marina, Miquela Vidal Barceló](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1519326_1_grid.jpg)
5 galfons marina
Miquela Vidal Barceló
Painting - 70 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
€10,958
![Painting, Caos, Javier Ortega](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1505838_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The man said very little, Ngahina Belton-Bodsworth](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1456440_1_grid.jpg)
The man said very little
Ngahina Belton-Bodsworth
Painting - 45 x 34 x 4 cm Painting - 17.7 x 13.4 x 1.6 inch
€2,570
![Painting, Spring, Patricia Dubois](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1372548_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Just Do It, Patricia Dubois](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1364697_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Les petites sardines, Dany Soyer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1290792_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Le Renard, Les Mouches et le Hérisson, Carlos Antonio Sablon Perez](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1110684_1_grid.jpg)
Le Renard, Les Mouches et le Hérisson
Carlos Antonio Sablon Perez
Painting - 80 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
€6,500
![Painting, On a Rainy Day, Jamil Boudiab](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2105526_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The miracle of life, Javier Prieto Meneses](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1938795_1_grid.jpg)
The miracle of life
Javier Prieto Meneses
Painting - 71 x 45 x 2 cm Painting - 28 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
€500
![Painting, Nature Morte, Christophe Thiry](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1788198_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Bailando, Helen Uter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/992895_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sans titre, Jean-Michel Mefort](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2157338_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sans titre, Jean-Michel Mefort](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2157337_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, A Ticking Watch, Genevieve Cohn](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2145478_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Romy, Habibatou Yaye Keita](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2138826_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Coral arlequin, Nina Urushadze](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2106999_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Emerald Chuniri, Nina Urushadze](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2106996_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Pomegranat, Nina Urushadze](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2100297_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Twinset, Nina Urushadze](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2100288_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Horses in Villacana, Elena Done](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2050953_1_grid.jpg)
Horses in Villacana
Elena Done
Painting - 146.1 x 97 x 4.1 cm Painting - 57.5 x 38.2 x 1.6 inch
€4,366
![Painting, Dream, Nino Chichinadze](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1957068_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Soviet Gadget, Alexander (Sandro) Antadze](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1411065_1_grid.jpg)
Soviet Gadget
Alexander (Sandro) Antadze
Painting - 60 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€2,400
![Painting, Le Chien qui Lâche sa Proie pour l’Ombre, Carlos Antonio Sablon Perez](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1110669_1_grid.jpg)
Le Chien qui Lâche sa Proie pour l’Ombre
Carlos Antonio Sablon Perez
Painting - 55 x 45 x 3 cm Painting - 21.7 x 17.7 x 1.2 inch
€5,000
![Painting, Le Soleil et les Grenouilles, Carlos Antonio Sablon Perez](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1110663_1_grid.jpg)
Le Soleil et les Grenouilles
Carlos Antonio Sablon Perez
Painting - 55 x 45 x 3 cm Painting - 21.7 x 17.7 x 1.2 inch
€5,000
![Painting, Luna Roja, Leticia de Prado](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1090872_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Fish, Leticia de Prado](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1090854_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The Drummer XI, Angu Walters](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1025979_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Réception, Carole Leprince](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/939690_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Le Triomphant, Clément Reinaud](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1974270_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Still life with bird and kettle, Ara Gasparyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1887606_1_grid.jpg)
Still life with bird and kettle
Ara Gasparyan
Painting - 35 x 24 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 9.4 x 0.8 inch
€291
![Painting, Still life with bird and kettle, Ara Gasparyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1887603_1_grid.jpg)
Still life with bird and kettle
Ara Gasparyan
Painting - 35 x 24 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 9.4 x 0.8 inch
€291
![Painting, Fauteuil, Serge Griggio](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1785354_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, 2 Brothers, Earl of Bushwick](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1748871_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Golf forest, Benoît Mauduech](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1698531_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Peter Piper, Noa Charuvi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1622499_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Seven Buckets, Noa Charuvi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1622493_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Dog tunning, Snach-ka](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1319979_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The Drummer and Flutist 4 painting from Africa, Angu Walters](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1315218_1_grid.jpg)
The Drummer and Flutist 4 painting from Africa
Angu Walters
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€1,261
![Painting, 2001 Prophète sur fond violet Prophet COLLECTION LUBJANA MUSEUM, SLOVENIA, Joze Ciuha](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1170135_1_grid.jpg)
2001 Prophète sur fond violet Prophet COLLECTION LUBJANA MUSEUM, SLOVENIA
Joze Ciuha
Painting - 217 x 187 x 1 cm Painting - 85.4 x 73.6 x 0.4 inch
€19,500
![Painting, All Heads Together VIII, Angu Walters](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1032216_1_grid.jpg)
All Heads Together VIII
Angu Walters
Painting - 50 x 79 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 31.1 x 0 inch
€1,067
![Painting, All Heads Together IX, Angu Walters](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1031976_1_grid.jpg)
All Heads Together IX
Angu Walters
Painting - 46 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 18.1 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€1,261
![Painting, Play the Drum IV, Angu Walters](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1029648_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Triplets, Angu Walters](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1029543_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The Xylophone Player IV, Angu Walters](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1029462_1_grid.jpg)
The Xylophone Player IV
Angu Walters
Painting - 65 x 55 x 0.1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.7 x 0 inch
€1,164
![Painting, African Juju Society VIII, Angu Walters](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1028640_1_grid.jpg)
African Juju Society VIII
Angu Walters
Painting - 80 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
€1,843
![Painting, The Drummer XVI, Angu Walters](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1027749_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The Flutist III, Angu Walters](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1027581_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The Drummer XII, Angu Walters](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1026078_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The Drummer and the Flutist III, Angu Walters](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1024605_1_grid.jpg)
The Drummer and the Flutist III
Angu Walters
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€1,455
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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