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Forever and a Day
Katharina Hormel
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,600
Beauty of the river. Water lilies
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 70 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,839 €1,471
I Love You To The Moon And Back
Yasna Godovanik
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,250
Portrait of My Barber (At The Barber Shop)
Eyitayo Alagbe
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1 inch
€4,113 €3,702
Carnevale Veneziano - II
Vladimir Kolosov
Painting - 45.7 x 91.4 x 1.9 cm Painting - 18 x 36 x 0.75 inch
€1,452
A ballerina at the window
Serghei Ghetiu
Painting - 60 x 45 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
€720
Masked Elegance in Contemporary Threads 1
Emmanuel Ojebola
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1 inch
€4,694
Fille aux macarons bleius
Albane de Saint Remy
Painting - 190.5 x 88.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 75 x 35 x 2 inch
€1,511
Blooming pink almond branch
Natalya Mougenot
Painting - 65 x 55 x 1.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.7 x 0.6 inch
€1,100
Fille en ballon s'échappant du mur
Miguel Guía
Painting - 110 x 90 x 4 cm Painting - 43.3 x 35.4 x 1.6 inch
€4,900
Traditional Wrestling
Azin Najafi
Painting - 50 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
€2,000
Portrait #2. From the Portraits series
Luigi Christopher Veggetti Kanku
Painting - 30 x 20.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 8.2 x 0.1 inch
€1,161
Les Mannequins (The Supermodels) 2
Alawaye Tope
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 1 inch
€1,791
Paysage du midi avec pins (1)
Bertrand de Visme
Painting - 50 x 65 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0.4 inch
€1,200
What doesn't kill you is dead
Paulina Halasova
Painting - 110 x 85 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 33.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,685
La jeune fille à la perle
Marie KVK
Painting - 100 x 70 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 2 inch
€3,100
The light in my mind
Zhivko Mutafchiev
Painting - 85 x 85 x 2 cm Painting - 33.5 x 33.5 x 0.8 inch
€2,200
Diva au violon 2
Christiane Guerry
Painting - 100 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,200
Rajao II
Yoann Bonneville (YBA)
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€2,800
There must have been an angel by my side
Ritchelly Oliveira
Painting - 65 x 54 x 3 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 1.2 inch
€7,300
Not so long big splash
Miquel Wert
Painting - 35 x 35 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 13.8 x 0.8 inch
€1,000
Melodies of the Sky
Armen Vahramyan
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€861
Neboa en Trevinca
Paco Ascón Callejo
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,300
Enchanting Elegance
Samson Adetunji
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 1 inch
€2,178 €1,960
Soulmates, Spring serie
Olha Vlasova
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,000
Psychédélique village
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 120 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,500
Vue sur le Jura Suisse
Eugène Louis Martin
Painting - 33 x 41 x 2 cm Painting - 13 x 16.1 x 0.8 inch
€1,446
Self Portrait Poet Soul
Troy Henriksen
Painting - 35 x 27 x 2.5 cm Painting - 13.8 x 10.6 x 1 inch
€400
La sieste - Nap in a 70's room
Léa Dedieu
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,800
Cats and Mountains
Maya Abashidze
Painting - 60 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€2,300
The Asian Boy
Nopparat Kongyoung
Painting - 135 x 88 x 4 cm Painting - 53.1 x 34.6 x 1.6 inch
€1,600
It_helped_me_diamond
Axel Jenny
Painting - 125 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 49.2 x 39.4 x 0 inch
€2,000
Self-Worth 2
Hezekiah Oyejide Obidare
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 2 inch
€3,146 €2,831
The red house - Tuscany painting landscape
Andrea Borella
Painting - 40 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€435
Portrait d'un ange
Laurence Chouzenoux
Painting - 23 x 17 x 0.5 cm Painting - 9.1 x 6.7 x 0.2 inch
€1,500
Belle d'Orchidees
Marie-Claude Bisson
Painting - 91.44 x 91.44 x 3 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.2 inch
€1,500
Silent and reassuring
Alvaro Petritoli
Painting - 61 x 41 x 3 cm Painting - 24 x 16.1 x 1.2 inch
€1,560
With Cupid at Your Back
Lilit Soghomonyan
Painting - 30 x 21 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
€800
Tranquility
Ogunleke Festus Abiodun
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 inch
€1,694 €1,524
The girl from Ipanema
Axelle Sodade
Painting - 130 x 89 x 3.5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 35 x 1.4 inch
€4,180
Ventana. Marisol
José Luis Pagador Ponce
Painting - 81 x 65 x 3.5 cm Painting - 31.9 x 25.6 x 1.4 inch
€1,800
Sisters in Yellow 3
Oluwafemi Afolabi
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 1 inch
€4,354 €3,920
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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!