Interwined in Rhythm
Barbara Schaumann
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,146
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!
Save your search and find it in your favorites
Save your search to find it quickly
Saved search
Your search is accessible from the favorites tab > My favorite searches
Unsaved search
A problem occurred
Whispers of the Revered
Papayon
Painting - 140 x 150 x 2.5 cm Painting - 55.1 x 59.1 x 1 inch
$9,537
Something to suck XL 102
Hersk
Sculpture - 123 x 45 x 9 cm Sculpture - 48.4 x 17.7 x 3.5 inch
$2,384
Abstract Composition
Mark Tobey
Fine Art Drawings - 10 x 15 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 3.9 x 5.9 x 0 inch
$16,690
D'or et de bleu (avec de la feuille d'or 24 carats)
Âme Sauvage
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2.4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.9 inch
$1,907
21 01 2025 12.32.48
Edwin Wide Donnart
Painting - 110 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 43.3 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
Price upon request
Untitled 2 and Untitled, Diptych
Ricky Cohete
Photography - 91.4 x 152.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 36 x 60 x 0.1 inch
$8,000
Pointman
Futura 2000
Fine Art Drawings - 20.4 x 27.3 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8 x 10.7 x 0 inch
$4,172
Don't Tell Me You Didn't Know
Idan Wizen
Photography - 120 x 120 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0 inch
$2,980
Desire of Secret Needs
Cobelentsz
Sculpture - 50 x 45 x 45 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 17.7 x 17.7 inch
$26,227
En pleine forme grand format / In top form large format
Sophie Verger
Sculpture - 117 x 112 x 79 cm Sculpture - 46.1 x 44.1 x 31.1 inch
$61,991
Au lieu d'un tableau
Egor Plotnikov
Sculpture - 150 x 85 x 11 cm Sculpture - 59.1 x 33.5 x 4.3 inch
$4,769
Les estrans (série)
Jacques Robert
Painting - 114 x 146 x 2 cm Painting - 44.9 x 57.5 x 0.8 inch
$8,941
Who's afraid of red, yellow, blue and death
Takashi Murakami
Print - 77 x 60 cm Print - 30.3 x 23.6 inch
$3,570
Espace magique II
Pedro Moreno Linares
Sculpture - 20 x 8 x 8 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 3.1 x 3.1 inch
$823
Floating memories 03
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 40.6 x 50.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 16 x 20 x 0.1 inch
$954
France voies navigables
Clara Castagné
Fine Art Drawings - 45 x 35 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.7 x 13.8 x 0.8 inch
$954
La Chine passe aux trente-cinq heures
Rero
Print - 76 x 59 x 0.2 cm Print - 29.9 x 23.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,431
Pool Series XVIII
Dorine van der Ploeg
Painting - 60 x 42 x 0.4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 16.5 x 0.2 inch
$1,967
Hymne d'enfants
Akira Inumaru
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 20 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 7.9 inch
$834
La cage où les gens pleurent
Sandra Chevrier
Sculpture - 30 x 22 x 17 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 8.7 x 6.7 inch
$1,967
Piaf Noir à picots argent
Valerie Marty
Sculpture - 17 x 12 x 12 cm Sculpture - 6.7 x 4.7 x 4.7 inch
$477
Composition
Kajazun (Kajo) Avetisyan
Painting - 55 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
$834
Discurso indiferente
Teo Franco
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0 inch
$656
Never another word
Mercedes Lagunas
Painting - 150 x 150 x 0.1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0 inch
$2,890
Love me tender
Virginia Benedicto
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$2,253
N° 1014 Fugato risoluto.
R. Cavalié
Painting - 81 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$954
A day in paradise
Viet Ha Tran
Photography - 59.9 x 45 x 0.3 cm Photography - 23.6 x 17.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,100
Still life with pears
Yaroshevich Anastasia
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$602
Les bois
Claire Bonnet-Masimbert
Painting - 140 x 140 x 2 cm Painting - 55.1 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
$2,861
3 Bassins - Numéro 1
Louis Bottero
Painting - 40 x 59 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 23.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,669
Untitled (SFE-117)
Sam Francis
Print - 53.5 x 46 x 0.2 cm Print - 21.1 x 18.1 x 0.1 inch
$3,457 $2,939
