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![Painting, Self-portrait, Kouta Sasai](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1265823_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Empty Bed, Ya-Wei Li](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1212255_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Comedy Man, Ya-Wei Li](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1212240_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The Black Suit and The Chicken, Ya-Wei Li](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1212234_1_grid.jpg)
The Black Suit and The Chicken
Ya-Wei Li
Painting - 75 x 75 x 4 cm Painting - 29.5 x 29.5 x 1.6 inch
$3,020
![Painting, Deep Sleep, Ya-Wei Li](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1212225_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Look at one Other, Ya-Wei Li](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1212192_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Green Table-Top, Ya-Wei Li](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1212189_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The Poet, Ya-Wei Li](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1212183_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Urban Landscape Series, Umbrella, Zhao De-Wei](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1207347_1_grid.jpg)
Urban Landscape Series, Umbrella
Zhao De-Wei
Painting - 76 x 99 x 4 cm Painting - 29.9 x 39 x 1.6 inch
$7,606
![Painting, The scarf, Marie Thuillier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1087221_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Woman in Black, Fred Borghesi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2178045_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Portrait of Nobody, Keti Bubunauri](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2176852_1_grid.jpg)
Portrait of Nobody
Keti Bubunauri
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$5,592
![Painting, Night Life, Matteo Nannini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2124720_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Moonlight, Matteo Nannini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2124675_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Memories, Matteo Nannini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2124666_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Contemporary Beauty, Matteo Nannini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2124564_1_grid.jpg)
Contemporary Beauty
Matteo Nannini
Painting - 120 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$4,921
![Painting, Happiness, Gor Avetisyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1979097_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Rising Love, Gor Avetisyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1971819_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Rêverie, Aurélie Salvaing](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1965342_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Remember, Laurence Forbin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1684758_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Portée, Laurence Forbin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1684737_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Portée 1, Laurence Forbin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1684698_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, L'eau me monte Jusqu'à l'âme, Laurence Forbin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1684656_1_grid.jpg)
L'eau me monte Jusqu'à l'âme
Laurence Forbin
Painting - 146 x 89 x 4 cm Painting - 57.5 x 35 x 1.6 inch
$4,362
![Painting, Grande Etreinte, Laurence Forbin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1684608_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sous le vent, Laurence Forbin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1677840_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Cut Flowers, Mazarine Memon](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1476771_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Fish Tank, George Maskharashvili](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1358997_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Nipple, Joanna Raad](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1287228_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Draw table-Tianlong Babu, Fan Hong](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1187310_1_grid.jpg)
Draw table-Tianlong Babu
Fan Hong
Painting - 80 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$4,250
![Painting, Series: Chinese traditional fresco painting, painting of the serving girl No.4, Qing-Chun Diao](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1180065_1_grid.jpg)
Series: Chinese traditional fresco painting, painting of the serving girl No.4
Qing-Chun Diao
Painting - 80 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,349
![Painting, Series: Chinese traditional fresco painting, painting of the serving girl No.3, Qing-Chun Diao](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1180062_1_grid.jpg)
Series: Chinese traditional fresco painting, painting of the serving girl No.3
Qing-Chun Diao
Painting - 80 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,349
![Painting, Continuation of the Road, Nina Narimanishvili](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2168593_1_grid.jpg)
Continuation of the Road
Nina Narimanishvili
Painting - 100 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$2,796
![Painting, Fatherhood, Nina Narimanishvili](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2162116_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Grenier II, Simon Blau](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2153218_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Matera 7, Simon Blau](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2153200_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The Illusion of Fear, Nina Narimanishvili](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2105358_1_grid.jpg)
The Illusion of Fear
Nina Narimanishvili
Painting - 153 x 153 x 5 cm Painting - 60.2 x 60.2 x 2 inch
$3,619
![Painting, You, Me and a Pollock vibe, Jo Beer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2068491_1_grid.jpg)
You, Me and a Pollock vibe
Jo Beer
Painting - 80 x 59.9 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,410
![Painting, A Man Brushing up the Sky, Hiromi Sengoku](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2041071_1_grid.jpg)
A Man Brushing up the Sky
Hiromi Sengoku
Painting - 146 x 114 x 5 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 2 inch
$5,648
![Painting, Sowing Seeds in the Sky to Nurture the Earth, Hiromi Sengoku](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2041068_1_grid.jpg)
Sowing Seeds in the Sky to Nurture the Earth
Hiromi Sengoku
Painting - 162 x 130 x 5 cm Painting - 63.8 x 51.2 x 2 inch
$6,599
![Painting, Ring-a-ring O’Roses, the Circle Goes Around and Takes You to an Unknown Place, Hiromi Sengoku](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2041065_1_grid.jpg)
Ring-a-ring O’Roses, the Circle Goes Around and Takes You to an Unknown Place
Hiromi Sengoku
Painting - 162 x 162 x 5 cm Painting - 63.8 x 63.8 x 2 inch
$7,046
![Painting, Girl With Pink Hat, Maia Kvatchadze](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2041038_1_grid.jpg)
Girl With Pink Hat
Maia Kvatchadze
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
$2,684
![Painting, Ship, Maia Kvatchadze](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2041035_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Doughters, Maia Kvatchadze](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2041023_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The clown, Sergey Khachatryan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2016843_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Ail, Doïna Vieru](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1963011_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Livraison, Etienne Boissier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1915986_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Prison à ciel ouvert, Etienne Boissier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1915977_1_grid.jpg)
Prison à ciel ouvert
Etienne Boissier
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$626
![Painting, L'aube, Etienne Boissier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1915830_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Black Girl Matters, Etienne Boissier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1915824_1_grid.jpg)
Black Girl Matters
Etienne Boissier
Painting - 60 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,286
![Painting, Conjonctivite sur tapis en moumoute, Etienne Boissier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1915671_1_grid.jpg)
Conjonctivite sur tapis en moumoute
Etienne Boissier
Painting - 90 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,286
![Painting, Le boucher, Etienne Boissier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1915641_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Life Under Bridge 2, Segun Phillips](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1794543_1_grid.jpg)
Life Under Bridge 2
Segun Phillips
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1 inch
$4,000
![Painting, Le morcellement, Nadine Bourgne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1760139_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, La sagesse des sorcières, Nadine Bourgne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1760118_1_grid.jpg)
La sagesse des sorcières
Nadine Bourgne
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,007
![Painting, Bimbo, Joaquim Falcó](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1527375_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Pivoines, Erica Boimare](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1451790_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Le Taureau libre, Hervé Le Bis](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1394895_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Character Series - Girl and apple, Zhao De-Wei](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1238415_1_grid.jpg)
Character Series - Girl and apple
Zhao De-Wei
Painting - 70 x 70 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch
$5,480
![Painting, All Heads Together VI, Angu Walters](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1029054_1_grid.jpg)
All Heads Together VI
Angu Walters
Painting - 107 x 120 x 1 cm Painting - 42.1 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
$2,800
![Painting, Dettagli dal Bagno #2, Luigi Iona](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2176424_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Elegance of the Wild, Jennifer Makhatadze](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2142137_1_grid.jpg)
Elegance of the Wild
Jennifer Makhatadze
Painting - 70 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,796
![Painting, Still life with lilacs, Simon Kozhin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1990566_1_grid.jpg)
Still life with lilacs
Simon Kozhin
Painting - 60 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$10,625
![Painting, Landschaft, Bettina von Arnim](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1978596_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Pour acquit, Hélene Maris](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1970178_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, La lecture, Zwy Milshtein](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1958865_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Walking on a Distant Glacier, Hua Qing](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1953474_1_grid.jpg)
Walking on a Distant Glacier
Hua Qing
Painting - 300 x 400 x 6 cm Painting - 118.1 x 157.5 x 2.4 inch
$51,225
![Painting, My Hometown, Hua Qing](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1953396_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Boy with Palm Leaf, Tamar Sulakvelidze](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1928805_1_grid.jpg)
Boy with Palm Leaf
Tamar Sulakvelidze
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$11,185
![Painting, An Arrow, Tamar Sulakvelidze](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1928793_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Souffle de vie, Carlos Antonio Sablon Perez](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1784733_1_grid.jpg)
Souffle de vie
Carlos Antonio Sablon Perez
Painting - 100 x 81 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1.6 inch
$10,066
![Painting, Mayhem, Salome Khubashvili](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1777296_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Adosadas I, Seila Otxandiano](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1478556_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Roses Dorées, Mercedes Aparicio](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1255236_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Attribution, Nguyen Vinh Trung](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1253379_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, L’Aigle et le Hibou, Carlos Antonio Sablon Perez](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1110660_1_grid.jpg)
L’Aigle et le Hibou
Carlos Antonio Sablon Perez
Painting - 70 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$6,711
![Painting, Le Pot de Terre et le Pot de Fer, Carlos Antonio Sablon Perez](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1110651_1_grid.jpg)
Le Pot de Terre et le Pot de Fer
Carlos Antonio Sablon Perez
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$8,948
![Painting, Bravo, super, dobre!, Francisco Montoya Cázarez](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2118477_1_grid.jpg)
Bravo, super, dobre!
Francisco Montoya Cázarez
Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$514
![Painting, Enfants au bord de la rivière, Pierre Sojo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2118441_1_grid.jpg)
Enfants au bord de la rivière
Pierre Sojo
Painting - 62 x 74 x 2 cm Painting - 24.4 x 29.1 x 0.8 inch
$3,244
![Painting, Argument 2, Francisco Montoya Cázarez](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2114859_1_grid.jpg)
Argument 2
Francisco Montoya Cázarez
Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$514
![Painting, Argument 4, Francisco Montoya Cázarez](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2114856_1_grid.jpg)
Argument 4
Francisco Montoya Cázarez
Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$514
![Painting, Astronomer, Francisco Montoya Cázarez](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2114853_1_grid.jpg)
Astronomer
Francisco Montoya Cázarez
Painting - 30.5 x 23 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12 x 9.1 x 0 inch
$380
![Painting, Astronomos, Francisco Montoya Cázarez](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2114850_1_grid.jpg)
Astronomos
Francisco Montoya Cázarez
Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$514
![Painting, Infinity dreamers, Francisco Montoya Cázarez](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2114847_1_grid.jpg)
Infinity dreamers
Francisco Montoya Cázarez
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$514
![Painting, Composizione 4, Andrea Vandoni](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2114226_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Tourbillon Noir et Blanc, Kaouteur Souibgui](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1979700_1_grid.jpg)
Tourbillon Noir et Blanc
Kaouteur Souibgui
Painting - 73 x 52 x 2.5 cm Painting - 28.7 x 20.5 x 1 inch
$691
![Painting, Signal Flare, Wang Dianyu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1975284_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Black under Lights, Wang Dianyu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1975197_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, La rentrée des troupeaux, Pierre Sojo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1957341_1_grid.jpg)
La rentrée des troupeaux
Pierre Sojo
Painting - 65 x 92 x 4 cm Painting - 25.6 x 36.2 x 1.6 inch
$4,026
![Painting, Forêt Recyclée, Valérie Maurand](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1905501_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, La Fuite, Valérie Maurand](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1905465_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Smell of Bubble Gum, Tamta Chachanidze](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1845114_1_grid.jpg)
Smell of Bubble Gum
Tamta Chachanidze
Painting - 80 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$671
![Painting, Rassemblement, Pierre Sojo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1776117_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The walking stone, Benoît Mauduech](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1727154_1_grid.jpg)
The walking stone
Benoît Mauduech
Painting - 110 x 200 x 3 cm Painting - 43.3 x 78.7 x 1.2 inch
$6,823
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.
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!