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Contemporary portrait "Photo for Memory"
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 80 x 55 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 21.7 x 0.6 inch
$1,451
Sin título
Juan Manuel Arruabarrena
Painting - 60 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,060
Contra luz
Juan Manuel Arruabarrena
Painting - 60 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,060
Nocturno nº 3
Juan Manuel Arruabarrena
Painting - 60 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,060
Agua y roca
Juan Manuel Arruabarrena
Painting - 60 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,088
Sin título
Juan Manuel Arruabarrena
Painting - 40 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,228
Contemporary portrait "The Path"
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 80 x 70 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 27.6 x 0.6 inch
$1,451
Théâtre au galet
Guillaume Couffignal
Sculpture - 35 x 43 x 33 cm Sculpture - 13.8 x 16.9 x 13 inch
$3,349
Grande Barque
Guillaume Couffignal
Sculpture - 37 x 103 x 13 cm Sculpture - 14.6 x 40.6 x 5.1 inch
$4,242
Barque cage à grillon
Guillaume Couffignal
Sculpture - 25 x 83 x 10 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 32.7 x 3.9 inch
$2,679
Diamond bridge
Ana Maria Kis
Painting - 45.72 x 60.96 x 1.27 cm Painting - 18 x 24 x 0.5 inch
$1,228
Les couleurs d'A.R. 1 : Vénus Anadyomène
Thierry Robert
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 30 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$391
Asado en la Wuinta y viaje Espacial
Franco Fasoli
Painting - 144 x 118 cm Painting - 56.7 x 46.5 inch
$7,702
La face cachée
Sylvie Julkowski-Egard
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,116
Peinture blanche pour idées noires
Clea Lala
Design - 120 x 65 x 2 cm Design - 47.2 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,791
Do you know what is sexy ? a real conversation
Clea Lala
Design - 120 x 65 x 2 cm Design - 47.2 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,791
One of these days XXL 10
Peter Nottrott
Painting - 100 x 200 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 78.7 x 1.6 inch
$3,896
Yellow Red Energy XL 8
Peter Nottrott
Painting - 105 x 155 x 4 cm Painting - 41.3 x 61 x 1.6 inch
$2,668
Magical Energy Cloud XL 4
Peter Nottrott
Painting - 105 x 155 x 4 cm Painting - 41.3 x 61 x 1.6 inch
$2,668
River in the canyon
Serhii Cherniakovskyi
Painting - 90 x 70 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 27.6 x 1 inch
$2,400
Arizona canyon
Serhii Cherniakovskyi
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$2,600
Awaiting the Unseen
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 155 x 110 x 0.1 cm Painting - 61 x 43.3 x 0 inch
$2,735
The hour in which the state of the world is changing
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 110 x 205 x 0.1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 80.7 x 0 inch
$3,907
Birch Forest Study III
Helen Brough
Painting - 30 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,540
Under One Umbrella
Samuel Oseigyei Kumah
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 1 inch
$5,850
Evening lights of new york
Serhii Cherniakovskyi
Painting - 60 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,300
Lyric Symphony (Symphonie Lyrique)
Bruno Cantais
Sculpture - 48 x 17 x 3 cm Sculpture - 18.9 x 6.7 x 1.2 inch
$435
Autumn forest
Serhii Cherniakovskyi
Painting - 55 x 110 x 2.5 cm Painting - 21.7 x 43.3 x 1 inch
$2,300
Last days of autumn
Serhii Cherniakovskyi
Painting - 80 x 95 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 37.4 x 1 inch
$2,300
Breath of Nature
Serhii Cherniakovskyi
Painting - 80 x 130 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 51.2 x 1 inch
$2,500
Gross Domestic Product
Joe Lasker
Fine Art Drawings - 41.9 x 54.6 x 5.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 21.5 x 2 inch
$2,600
Vitruvian Woman
Thandiwe Muriu
Photography - 150 x 100 x 0.1 cm Photography - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$14,512
Fashion shoot for Amica magazine, New York
Martin Parr
Photography - 126 x 105 x 1 cm Photography - 49.6 x 41.3 x 0.4 inch
$44,651
I Would Wear My Gucci
Yasna Godovanik
Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$334
Silencieusement, elle glissait sur l’air
Maylis Bourdet
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,518
Contemporary artworks for sale
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!