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Purple Arc Over Blue (Becoming Dizzy And Out Of Breath)
Simon Findlay
Painting - 150 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
£1,689
Trying To Be Colourful
Simon Findlay
Painting - 274 x 177 x 1 cm Painting - 107.9 x 69.7 x 0.4 inch
£1,333
Orange Yellow Cream
Simon Findlay
Painting - 145 x 450 x 1 cm Painting - 57.1 x 177.2 x 0.4 inch
£1,689
In to the Charm
Robert van Bolderick
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
£844
La Buena Fama
Robert van Bolderick
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
£1,242
Synchronicity
Joyce Fournier
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 2 inch
£3,425 £2,227
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
£4,799
Inspired By Nature L 6
Peter Nottrott
Painting - 155 x 85 x 4 cm Painting - 61 x 33.5 x 1.6 inch
£1,769
Inspired By Nature L 5
Peter Nottrott
Painting - 155 x 85 x 4 cm Painting - 61 x 33.5 x 1.6 inch
£1,769
Restrained summer colors 2
Geert Lemmers
Painting - 81.3 x 81.3 x 2.5 cm Painting - 32 x 32 x 1 inch
£979
Nature Adventure S 2
Peter Nottrott
Painting - 100 x 70 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch
£835
Beautiful Nature Adventure L 1
Peter Nottrott
Painting - 85 x 155 x 4 cm Painting - 33.5 x 61 x 1.6 inch
£1,769
Nature adventure L 18
Peter Nottrott
Painting - 83 x 155 x 4 cm Painting - 32.7 x 61 x 1.6 inch
£1,769
Not friendly for copy / study #12
Ayoung JO
Painting - 49 x 37.5 cm Painting - 19.3 x 14.8 inch
£889
Not friendly for copy / study #11
Ayoung JO
Painting - 49 x 37.5 cm Painting - 19.3 x 14.8 inch
£889
Not friendly for copy / study #10
Ayoung JO
Painting - 49 x 37.5 cm Painting - 19.3 x 14.8 inch
£889
What We Stay For (Abstract Expressionism painting)
Macha Poynder
Painting - 123 x 112 cm Painting - 48.4 x 44.1 inch
£4,500
Anthology of Passion
Macha Poynder
Painting - 118 x 152.5 x 0.1 cm Painting - 46.5 x 60 x 0 inch
£8,500
Sky sea / abstraction sea
Natalie Shiporina
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£2,088
We Were Taken Over by These Tattooed Times
Macha Poynder
Painting - 118 x 152.5 x 0.1 cm Painting - 46.5 x 60 x 0 inch
£7,900
Perhaps the Desert Dust and Cosmos Will Align, Yovonne Said
Macha Poynder
Painting - 125 x 162 x 0.1 cm Painting - 49.2 x 63.8 x 0 inch
£7,900
Lone Pine Milestone
Macha Poynder
Painting - 153 x 219 x 0.1 cm Painting - 60.2 x 86.2 x 0 inch
£8,500
Spring dance (60-120cm)
Le Hai Linh
Painting - 59.7 x 119.9 x 3 cm Painting - 23.5 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
£2,330
Letters I Wrote You From Needles
Macha Poynder
Painting - 123 x 162 cm Painting - 48.4 x 63.8 inch
£7,900
Have You Heard About Lily Brown?
Macha Poynder
Painting - 125 x 163 cm Painting - 49.2 x 64.2 inch
£7,900
Ride a horse and get away
Macha Poynder
Painting - 117.5 x 166.5 cm Painting - 46.3 x 65.6 inch
£9,000
Topography of Blue Rebellion
Macha Poynder
Painting - 116 x 167 cm Painting - 45.7 x 65.7 inch
£8,800
Their outrageous bravery and their cheeky charm
Macha Poynder
Painting - 111 x 169 cm Painting - 43.7 x 66.5 inch
£8,800
Why can we not be in many places at the same time?
Macha Poynder
Painting - 118 x 169 cm Painting - 46.5 x 66.5 inch
£9,000
You don't need to play any role
Macha Poynder
Painting - 117 x 168 cm Painting - 46.1 x 66.1 inch
£8,600
In the heat of the night #3
Volker Mayr
Painting - 43 x 54.5 x 0.1 cm Painting - 16.9 x 21.5 x 0 inch
£800
Life in colors 62
Veronica Vilsan
Painting - 90 x 180 x 7 cm Painting - 35.4 x 70.9 x 2.8 inch
£2,311
Naissance d'un djinn
Pierre Morquin
Painting - 162 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 63.8 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
£3,555
Djinn imprévisible
Pierre Morquin
Painting - 162 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 63.8 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
£3,555
The Emotional Creation #311
Carla Sá Fernandes
Painting - 89.9 x 119.9 x 4.1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
£3,500
Travelling through the seasons
Anelia Raikova
Painting - 25 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 9.8 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
£622
A Timeside (like in Riverside, or Seaside)
Anelia Raikova
Painting - 33 x 41 x 2 cm Painting - 13 x 16.1 x 0.8 inch
£444
The project of landscape: Implantation of the supermarket
Ya-Wei Li
Painting - 210 x 553 x 4 cm Painting - 82.7 x 217.7 x 1.6 inch
£50,656
Puce & Chartreuse After Dylan Thomas #3
Linda Saccoccio
Painting - 40.6 x 30.5 x 7.6 cm Painting - 16 x 12 x 3 inch
£560
Puce & Chartreuse After Dylan Thomas #2
Linda Saccoccio
Painting - 40.6 x 30.5 x 7.6 cm Painting - 16 x 12 x 3 inch
£560
Puce & Chartreuse After Dylan Thomas #1
Linda Saccoccio
Painting - 40.6 x 30.5 x 7.6 cm Painting - 16 x 12 x 3 inch
£560
Abstract expressionism
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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.
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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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