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Still life with books and a globe
Charlotte Fröling
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
$4,186
The Queen’s Grand Chateau (S)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 57.2 x 76.2 cm Photography - 22.5 x 30 inch
$5,000
Let them Eat Cake (S)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 57.2 x 76.2 cm Photography - 22.5 x 30 inch
$5,000
The Queen’s Grand Chateau (XXL)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 160 x 213.4 cm Photography - 63 x 84 inch
$50,000
The Queen’s Grand Chateau (XL)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 142.2 x 182.9 cm Photography - 56 x 72 inch
$15,000
The Queen’s Grand Chateau (L)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 114.3 x 152.4 cm Photography - 45 x 60 inch
$15,000
The Queen’s Grand Chateau (M)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 76.2 x 101.6 cm Photography - 30 x 40 inch
$10,000
Let them Eat Cake (XXL)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 160 x 213.4 cm Photography - 63 x 84 inch
$50,000
Let them Eat Cake (XL)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 142.2 x 182.9 cm Photography - 56 x 72 inch
$25,000
Let them Eat Cake (L)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 114.3 x 152.4 cm Photography - 45 x 60 inch
$15,000
Let them Eat Cake (M)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 76.2 x 101.6 cm Photography - 30 x 40 inch
$10,000
Mémoire de JingDeZhen
Feng Hatat
Photography - 32 x 48 x 1 cm Photography - 12.6 x 18.9 x 0.4 inch
$670
Les tanneurs. Fès. Maroc
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,451
Sur les Chemins d'Alice - La Sieste.
Brno Del Zou
Photography - 22 x 33 x 0.1 cm Photography - 8.7 x 13 x 0 inch
$223
Sur les Chemins d'Alice - Le Vieux Monsieur.
Brno Del Zou
Photography - 22 x 33 x 0.1 cm Photography - 8.7 x 13 x 0 inch
$223
Fickle Memory 09
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 72.8 x 103 x 3 cm Photography - 28.7 x 40.6 x 1.2 inch
$558
Paris Notre Dame Cathedrale de Paris 6
Bruno Fournier
Photography - 18 x 24 x 1 cm Photography - 7.1 x 9.4 x 0.4 inch
$893
Portrait du roi Rama IV, Bangkok 1865
The opium smoking white elephant
Photography - 60 x 45 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 17.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,451
Historischer Miniatur 03
Else Vinæs
Photography - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$558
Sur les Chemins d'Alice - Bulles.
Brno Del Zou
Photography - 22 x 33 x 0.1 cm Photography - 8.7 x 13 x 0 inch
$223
Barlin art XX
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,440
Traces juives du Liban
Sabyl Ghoussoub
Photography - 50 x 70 x 1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$670
Atlas et Kasbah. Maroc
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,451
Série : Berlin nord-est / rues
Manfred Paul
Photography - 40 x 30 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
$2,791
Série : Berlin nord-est / rues
Manfred Paul
Photography - 40 x 30 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
$2,791
Série : Berlin nord-est / arrière-cours: Kastanienallee
Manfred Paul
Photography - 40 x 30 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
$2,791
Série : Berlin nord-est / arrière-cours - Kastanien Allee
Manfred Paul
Photography - 40 x 30 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
$2,791
Kasbah Taourit. Grand sud marocain
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,451
Cornas en relaxation sur le dos de son éléphant. Fort Amber. Rajastahn. Inde
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,563
Sur les Chemins d'Alice - Le Cheval.
Brno Del Zou
Photography - 22 x 33 x 0.1 cm Photography - 8.7 x 13 x 0 inch
$223
Sur les Chemins d'Alice - Là-bas.
Brno Del Zou
Photography - 33 x 22 x 0.1 cm Photography - 13 x 8.7 x 0 inch
$223
Sur les Chemins d'Alice - Sous l'Arbre.
Brno Del Zou
Photography - 22 x 33 x 0.1 cm Photography - 8.7 x 13 x 0 inch
$223
Sur les Chemins d'Alice - Assurance.
Brno Del Zou
Photography - 33 x 22 x 0.1 cm Photography - 13 x 8.7 x 0 inch
$223
Sur les Chemins d'Alice - Papillon.
Brno Del Zou
Photography - 22 x 33 x 0.1 cm Photography - 8.7 x 13 x 0 inch
$223
Sur les Chemins d'Alice - Les deux Lunes.
Brno Del Zou
Photography - 22 x 33 x 0.1 cm Photography - 8.7 x 13 x 0 inch
$223
Sur les Chemins d'Alice - Réunion.
Brno Del Zou
Photography - 22 x 33 x 0.1 cm Photography - 8.7 x 13 x 0 inch
$223
Sur les Chemins d'Alice - Course.
Brno Del Zou
Photography - 22 x 33 x 0.1 cm Photography - 8.7 x 13 x 0 inch
$223
Sur les Chemins d'Alice - Dos à dos.
Brno Del Zou
Photography - 33 x 22 x 0.1 cm Photography - 13 x 8.7 x 0 inch
$223
Sergei Sviatchenko - Capacity For Conjuring Illusion 5
Sergei Sviatchenko
Photography - 21 x 42 cm Photography - 8.3 x 16.5 inch
$3,349
Sur les Chemins d'Alice - Le Lapin.
Brno Del Zou
Photography - 22 x 33 x 0.1 cm Photography - 8.7 x 13 x 0 inch
$223
Sur les Chemins d'Alice - Hésitation.
Brno Del Zou
Photography - 22 x 33 x 0.1 cm Photography - 8.7 x 13 x 0 inch
$223
Existing in Costume – Witch Hunting
Chan-Hyo Bae
Photography - 150 x 353 cm Photography - 59.1 x 139 inch
$8,149
Mitterand à Dien Bien Phu
José Nicolas
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
$1,005
People's history (Indian Home)
Diana Thorneycroft
Photography - 53.3 x 73.7 x 0.3 cm Photography - 21 x 29 x 0.1 inch
$3,907
Barrels of Love
Donna Carnahan
Photography - 91.4 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Photography - 36 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$1,695
Vukovar, the railway station
Fabien Olart
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$558
The Great Princess (S)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 57.2 x 76.2 cm Photography - 22.5 x 30 inch
$5,000
Project for a Public Building's Packaging
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Photography - 54 x 70 x 0.2 cm Photography - 21.3 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
Sold
Audeline se questionne (triptyque)
Arthur Di Nunzio
Photography - 110 x 70 x 1 cm Photography - 43.3 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
Sold
Audeline se questionne (triptyque)
Arthur Di Nunzio
Photography - 110 x 70 x 1 cm Photography - 43.3 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
Sold
Jeanne d'Arc
Pierre Boillon
Photography - 80 x 60 x 3 cm Photography - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,049
History
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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