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Abstract No. 12 - Abstrait No 12
Gina Vor
Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0.2 inch
£266
A way to infinity 13
Ovidiu Kloska
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
£1,109
Passaggio a Nord Est
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 65 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
£665
Intervallum - II
Gosha Karpowicz
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 3.8 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 1.5 inch
£1,219
The red mountain - Series No.11
Shi-Guang Li
Painting - 37.9 x 51.9 x 0.1 cm Painting - 14.9 x 20.4 x 0 inch
£798
Fish N Chips for dinner - Hold the vinegar
Andrew Weir
Painting - 48 x 36 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.9 x 14.2 x 0 inch
£444
Reservoir Abstract Series No. 10
Eric Sanders
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 7.6 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 3 inch
£1,626
The time curve #1
Paulo Canilhas
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
£1,331
The Shadows of White I
Gosha Karpowicz
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 3.8 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 1.5 inch
£1,097
Intervallum - I
Gosha Karpowicz
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 3.8 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 1.5 inch
£1,219
When We Dance
Joyce Fournier
Painting - 71.1 x 55.9 x 1.9 cm Painting - 28 x 22 x 0.75 inch
£577 £491
Abstract Composition
Giorgio Lo Fermo
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
£2,129
Vogelfrei No.6
Bea Garding Schubert
Painting - 89.9 x 59.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 1.5 inch
£797
Abstrait Forme organique à la bande noire
Françoise Danel
Painting - 130 x 119 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 46.9 x 0.8 inch
£4,347
Abstrait Femmes fleurs
Françoise Danel
Painting - 146 x 114 x 2 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 0.8 inch
£4,347
Abstrait Les danseuses
Françoise Danel
Painting - 129 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 50.8 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
£4,347
Evening Violet (Grand Tableau)
Aloyzas Smilingis
Painting - 100 x 135 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 53.1 x 0.8 inch
£5,500
Un si joli petit village
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 30 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
£302
Orange, brown, white and golden
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 70 x 140 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 55.1 x 1.6 inch
£2,440
Still Life With Palette (Peinture Semi-abstraite)
Aloyzas Smilingis
Painting - 116 x 81 x 0.3 cm Painting - 45.7 x 31.9 x 0.1 inch
£4,790
Losing track of time
Maria Esmar
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
£2,573
Love is where you look for it
Maria Esmar
Painting - 100 x 150 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1 inch
£2,661
Still Life in Violet imparting Lemon shadows
Vanessa Cuthbert
Painting - 62 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 24.4 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
£2,500
Serie The Landscape No.2
Qing-Chun Diao
Painting - 80 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
£1,863
Pivoines éclatantes
Chantal Proulx
Painting - 114 x 152 x 4 cm Painting - 44.9 x 59.8 x 1.6 inch
£2,337
Viaggio nella storia
Andrea Benetti
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
£2,306
Je vous ai compris
Jean-Marc Hunt
Painting - 75 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 29.5 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
£3,548
Favorite gems.
Iryna Kastsova
Painting - 60 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£1,756 £1,581
Looking for Northern Lights Il
Kerstin Paillard
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
£2,839
Journey to meet the ocean
Harouna Ouedraogo
Painting - 144 x 144 cm Painting - 56.7 x 56.7 inch
£3,548
Perpetuum Mobile
Gagik Ghazanchyan
Painting - 140 x 200 x 2 cm Painting - 55.1 x 78.7 x 0.8 inch
£7,097 £6,387
The Beautiful Garden
Gagik Ghazanchyan
Painting - 80 x 125 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 49.2 x 0.8 inch
£4,879
The little rainbow
Gregg Simpson
Painting - 188 x 139.7 x 3.8 cm Painting - 74 x 55 x 1.5 inch
£11,876
Signs of Struggle
Gregg Simpson
Painting - 152.4 x 243.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 60 x 96 x 1 inch
£11,380
Abstract expressionism
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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