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The grass is greener 1/3
Gabriela Madrazo
Painting - 88 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 34.6 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
£1,483
Composition Abstraite Ref GO0877
Raymond Trameau
Painting - 38 x 55 cm Painting - 15 x 21.7 inch
£1,303
Empreinte minerale 5
Roland Moreau
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
£1,617
Reflections on Meditation: Unveiling
Eunice Kim
Painting - 60.6 x 72.7 cm Painting - 23.9 x 28.6 inch
£1,348
Sin título I
Miquela Vidal Barceló
Painting - 30 x 30 x 4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
£1,794
Yumari Jukurrpa (Yumari Dreaming)
Alison Larry Nungarray
Painting - 46 x 91 x 3 cm Painting - 18.1 x 35.8 x 1.2 inch
£1,438
Watiya-warnu Jukurrpa (Seed Dreaming)
Jason Woods Japaltjarri
Painting - 91 x 46 x 3 cm Painting - 35.8 x 18.1 x 1.2 inch
£1,258
Simbolismo flamenco / Flamenco Symbolism
Vicente Escudero
Painting - 27.5 x 19.5 cm Painting - 10.8 x 7.7 inch
£4,044
Vers un azur
Elisabeth Delesalle
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£4,493
There is more than one I in a creature
Barbara Kuebel
Painting - 121.9 x 109.2 x 5.1 cm Painting - 48 x 43 x 2 inch
£2,277
Five Elements
Amit Mahadev Dombhare
Painting - 121.92 x 121.92 x 1.27 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 0.5 inch
£1,653
Light & Easy No. 2
Nicole Schlegel
Painting - 42 x 68 x 2 cm Painting - 16.5 x 26.8 x 0.8 inch
£1,168
Butterfly Bone
Nestan Mikeladze
Painting - 150 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
£4,134
They are watching us
Carolina Gynning
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
£4,719
Mountain Devil Lizard - Barabra Kngwarreye Long
Barbara Kngwarreye Long
Painting - 120 x 90 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 inch
£1,797
Childbirth - Accouchement
Frédérique Cantais
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£315
The houses by the bridge
Jeanette Gunnarsson
Painting - 56 x 44 x 1.6 cm Painting - 22 x 17.3 x 0.6 inch
£719
Druid forests 11.7
Milly Martionou
Painting - 180 x 140 x 4 cm Painting - 70.9 x 55.1 x 1.6 inch
£24,711
Society & a Guest
Adam Parsons
Painting - 91.4 x 45.2 x 0.8 cm Painting - 36 x 17.8 x 0.3 inch
£2,108
Le mirador des incompris
Stéphane Foucaud
Painting - 108 x 101 x 4 cm Painting - 42.5 x 39.8 x 1.6 inch
£1,797
Coz it was all Yellow
Merle Luhaäär
Painting - 91 x 122 x 3 cm Painting - 35.8 x 48 x 1.2 inch
£2,696
Autumn Clouds No.1
Nguyen The Hung
Painting - 129.5 x 97.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 51 x 38.5 x 1 inch
£6,325
Difference of Intention
Greg Minah
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 4.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1.9 inch
£4,217
Just a horse with no name and a silly flame
Teodor Genov – Pastedko
Painting - 27 x 37 x 0.2 cm Painting - 10.6 x 14.6 x 0.1 inch
£494
Teaser
Kathryn MacNaughton
Painting - 80 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
£2,606 £2,085
Epreuve sans titre
Albert Chubac
Painting - 32 x 30 x 0.5 cm Painting - 12.6 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
£2,246
Dear Forgiveness I saved a plate for you
Elaine B. Chao
Painting - 50.8 x 50.8 x 3 cm Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.2 inch
£1,168
La vague joyeuse
Jean-Claude Barthel
Painting - 24 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 9.4 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
£108
Filitoza numéro 10
Bernard Rémusat
Painting - 130 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 39.4 x 2 inch
£19,769
The currency of sleep training gimmicks
Hilary Tait Norod
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 5.1 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 inch
£1,855
The Colorful Bubble Of Hope
Gabriel Monte
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£539
Abstract art
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!