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The Layers of Perception
Candice Grant
Painting - 81.3 x 71.1 x 1.9 cm Painting - 32 x 28 x 0.75 inch
£871
Expression with Movement I
Tamara Bakhshinyan
Painting - 60 x 94 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 37 x 0.8 inch
£1,333
The Signs of the Space
Slawomir Kuszczak
Painting - 70 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
£2,133
Angelic Sweetness
Laurence Hubswerlin Diradourian
Painting - 80 x 40 cm Painting - 31.5 x 15.7 inch
£924
"Still life with melon", Painting, Oil on Canvas
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 50 x 69.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.5 x 1 inch
£1,203
Better off alone 01
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 76.2 x 121.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 30 x 48 x 2 inch
£746
Équation à trois inconnus
Florence Boré
Painting - 35 x 31.5 x 0.3 cm Painting - 13.8 x 12.4 x 0.1 inch
£1,333
African Tales (En route to Accra)
Manuela Karin Knaut
Painting - 150 x 120 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 inch
£3,839
Feather bow
Berit Louise Sara-Grønn
Painting - 250 x 200 x 4 cm Painting - 98.4 x 78.7 x 1.6 inch
£10,129
Peinture 05-2022-38
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.8 inch
£755
Almost Abstract Landscape - 1 (Ocean)
Zakhar Shevchuk
Painting - 25 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 9.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
£711
Almost Abstract Landscape - 3 (Mountain)
Zakhar Shevchuk
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
£711
Almost Abstract Landscape – 4 (Early Morning)
Zakhar Shevchuk
Painting - 25 x 35 x 2 cm Painting - 9.8 x 13.8 x 0.8 inch
£711
Almost Abstract Landscape - 6 (River Sunset)
Zakhar Shevchuk
Painting - 30 x 38 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15 x 0.8 inch
£711
Lacets en folie
Jean-Paul Jacquet
Painting - 80 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
£2,577
Parallelisme obscur
Jean-Paul Jacquet
Painting - 100 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
£3,110
La ronde linéaire
Jean-Paul Jacquet
Painting - 104 x 104 x 7 cm Painting - 40.9 x 40.9 x 2.8 inch
£2,488
Peinture 01-2022-02
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
£755
Les gorges du Tarn
Gauthier Bruel
Painting - 110 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
£1,866
Nous passâmes par cette forêt
Nathanael Koffi
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
£2,657
Blue Purple Pink Galaxy
Simon Findlay
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£978
Ideas XII (Turning Point Series)
Jeremy Annear
Painting - 42 x 37 x 0.1 cm Painting - 16.5 x 14.6 x 0 inch
£7,600
PJ 1 Houses of the Joy collection
Alessandra Bisi
Painting - 30 x 21 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
£151
Let’s .... about it
Viktoria Ganhao
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£1,066
Hommage à Delaunay - Sphère Magique
Christian Jodin
Painting - 61 x 38 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 15 x 0.8 inch
£440 £220
In The Middle Of Nowhere
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 150 x 230 x 0.1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 90.6 x 0 inch
£11,000
En La Madrugada
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 140 x 140 x 0.1 cm Painting - 55.1 x 55.1 x 0 inch
£5,700
Calm after the storm
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 150 x 150 x 0.1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0 inch
£5,600
Secret Situation
Kajazun (Kajo) Avetisyan
Painting - 70 x 58 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 22.8 x 0.8 inch
£880
Happy Emotion I
Kajazun (Kajo) Avetisyan
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
£711
PJ 4 Houses of the Joy collection
Alessandra Bisi
Painting - 30 x 21 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
£151
PJ 2 Houses of the Joy collection
Alessandra Bisi
Painting - 21 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 8.3 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
£151
East yellow "Collection the sun comes out"
Alessandra Bisi
Painting - 20 x 31 x 0.1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 12.2 x 0 inch
£151
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!