In the Mirror
Christine Seiterle
Painting - 10 x 18 x 1 cm Painting - 3.9 x 7.1 x 0.4 inch
$636 $572
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.
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Tchernobyl
Guillaume Herbaut
Photography - 60 x 75 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 29.5 x 0 inch
$3,500
Orografia 8
Josep María Codina
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 40 x 5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 15.7 x 2 inch
$949
La clé de la maison - symbolique et conscience collective
Marie-Claude Quignon
Painting - 80 x 60 x 0.1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$1,038
Brigitte Bardot
Jean-Christophe Martinez
Painting - 146 x 114 x 3 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 1.2 inch
$5,339
Andy Warhol and Keith Haring
Christopher Makos
Photography - 38.1 x 48.3 cm Photography - 15 x 19 inch
$4,500
Convoy
Purvis Young
Fine Art Drawings - 35.6 x 27.9 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14 x 11 x 0.11 inch
$1,250
Vision
Christophe Czerwinski
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 70 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$890
If Money Didn't Exist (framed hand signed screen print) (1)
Hijack
Print - 57.2 x 76.2 x 0.3 cm Print - 22.5 x 30 x 0.1 inch
$1,838
Winch IV N°CCCXX - Equipier qui "mouline"
Jean-François Clair
Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$178
Little Batman revisité
Fabien Verschaere
Sculpture - 23 x 11 x 10 cm Sculpture - 9.1 x 4.3 x 3.9 inch
$1,424
Bloom Boom (framed hand signed screen print)
Pierre Yves Riveau
Print - 87.9 x 61.7 x 0.3 cm Print - 34.6 x 24.3 x 0.1 inch
$1,463
Generaciones
Adrian Gonzalez Torrez
Painting - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,708 $1,537
La Tour Humaine - Série singulière personnages de bois
Bruno Guiard
Sculpture - 21 x 8 x 8 cm Sculpture - 8.3 x 3.1 x 3.1 inch
$712
Meadow in the light of afternoon
Ingrid Knaus
Painting - 70.1 x 70.1 x 0.3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
$2,150
L'encre dansant : février
Tiantian Xu
Photography - 100 x 100 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 inch
$2,610
Melon Bi- Polar
Jarmila Kostliva
Photography - 62 x 54 x 0.2 cm Photography - 24.4 x 21.3 x 0.1 inch
$900
Un bouquet de tulipes
Chantal Roux
Painting - 65 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,151
Espace d'un rêve n°9
Carole Becam
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$2,373
Ancient Mariner (large hand signed giclee on canvas)
Robert Wyland
Print - 99.7 x 74.9 x 2.5 cm Print - 39.25 x 29.5 x 1 inch
$1,196
Salue pleureur
Patrick Baillet
Painting - 160 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 63 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$12,575 $11,318
Personnage allongé dans l'atelier ou gisant
Sam Szafran
Print - 75 x 55 x 0.1 cm Print - 29.5 x 21.7 x 0 inch
$2,373
Head in the Clouds (framed hand signed giclee)
Kayla Mahaffey
Print - 50.8 x 61 x 0.3 cm Print - 20 x 24 x 0.1 inch
$1,500
Path to the Unknown
Mayhem Art By Colin Agius
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$6,050
Olympiades des Arts de Paris
Valérie de Montvallon
Painting - 110 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,127
Lion Face On Graffiti Background
Mikko
Painting - 95 x 95 x 0.1 cm Painting - 37.4 x 37.4 x 0 inch
$2,017
Art Rodeo 2 Red (Framed Screen Print)
Kunstrasen
Print - 59.7 x 59.7 x 0.3 cm Print - 23.5 x 23.5 x 0.1 inch
$750
Music in Motion 8.0 White (Hand Painted Unique 1/1)
Shane Turner
Print - 80 x 50 x 0.3 cm Print - 31.5 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,838
1,2,3 Soleil série créatures imaginaires
Christian Mancini
Painting - 60 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,305
Paix (from Ten Painters on War and Peace)
Marcel Janco
Print - 64.8 x 49.5 x 0.3 cm Print - 25.5 x 19.5 x 0.1 inch
$375
Les imprimés 4- aquatinte originale
Martina Ziegnethaler
Print - 65 x 50 x 0.15 cm Print - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$569
Krispy Kreme (large signed giclee on canvas)
Doug Bloodworth
Print - 96.5 x 121.9 x 0.3 cm Print - 38 x 48 x 0.1 inch
$840
