Abstract expressionism
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Tetiana Ocheredko
Painting - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
£1,824
Integration of Personality
Khachik Yeghikyan
Painting - 150 x 200 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 78.7 x 0.8 inch
£4,266
Alien invasion
Laurent Proneur
Painting - 165.1 x 165.1 x 5.1 cm Painting - 65 x 65 x 2 inch
£23,967
Playing cowboys
Laurent Proneur
Painting - 165.1 x 165.1 x 5.1 cm Painting - 65 x 65 x 2 inch
£23,967
Against each other
Laurent Proneur
Painting - 152.4 x 243.8 x 5.1 cm Painting - 60 x 96 x 2 inch
£35,826
Industrial mindset
Laurent Proneur
Painting - 152.4 x 213.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 60 x 84 x 2 inch
£20,650
Riot on Capitol hill
Laurent Proneur
Painting - 121.9 x 152.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 48 x 60 x 2 inch
£18,908
Mr je sais tout
Laurent Proneur
Painting - 134.6 x 101.6 x 5.1 cm Painting - 53 x 40 x 2 inch
£24,050
Friends watching TV
Laurent Proneur
Painting - 139.7 x 139.7 x 5.1 cm Painting - 55 x 55 x 2 inch
£22,723
Marriage force
Laurent Proneur
Painting - 139.7 x 139.7 x 5.1 cm Painting - 55 x 55 x 2 inch
£25,211
I can hear you
Laurent Proneur
Painting - 152.4 x 243.8 x 5.1 cm Painting - 60 x 96 x 2 inch
£40,636
The currency: 6274. nobody should hear it
Damien Hirst
Painting - 21.5 x 30 cm Painting - 8.5 x 11.8 inch
£16,441
Summer Kiss (Nicosia)
Brian Bartlett
Painting - 60 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
£800
Taking Hours To Wind Down
Simon Findlay
Painting - 150 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
£1,689
Green Over Blue (Over Green Over Blue) Over Yellow Horizon
Simon Findlay
Painting - 150 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
£1,689
Making Body Sculptures On The Field
Simon Findlay
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£1,155
Abstract 1186
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
£1,200 £840
Scarlet Reflections
Seyran Gasparyan
Painting - 24 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 9.4 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
£166
Unseen - Disjointed reality #19
Kris Haas
Painting - 107 x 102 x 0.25 cm Painting - 42.1 x 40.2 x 0.1 inch
£3,155
Chaotic Memories - Disjointed reality #20
Kris Haas
Painting - 94 x 68 x 0.25 cm Painting - 37 x 26.8 x 0.1 inch
£2,266
Every second matters
Maria Esmar
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
£2,044
Whatever you call it
Laurent Proneur
Painting - 127 x 213.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 50 x 84 x 2 inch
£23,552
Messy behavior
Laurent Proneur
Painting - 182.9 x 152.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 72 x 60 x 2 inch
£22,972
Three brothers
Laurent Proneur
Painting - 152.4 x 182.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 60 x 72 x 2 inch
£20,733
Ballade en campagne
Laurent Proneur
Painting - 165.1 x 190.5 x 5.1 cm Painting - 65 x 75 x 2 inch
£27,533
People and horses
Laurent Proneur
Painting - 139.7 x 190.5 x 5.1 cm Painting - 55 x 75 x 2 inch
£30,685
Natural Flow Series n8.
Rosario Briones
Painting - 163.8 x 104.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 64.5 x 41.3 x 0.1 inch
£3,151
Natural Flow Series n6.
Rosario Briones
Painting - 164.8 x 104.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 64.9 x 41.3 x 0.1 inch
£3,151
Natural Flow Series n2.
Rosario Briones
Painting - 209.8 x 116.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 82.6 x 46 x 0.1 inch
£3,732
Liquid Life Series n5.
Rosario Briones
Painting - 205 x 124.5 x 0.3 cm Painting - 80.7 x 49 x 0.1 inch
£3,732
Liquid Life Series n3.
Rosario Briones
Painting - 230.9 x 148.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 90.9 x 58.6 x 0.1 inch
£3,981
Natural Flow Series n1
Rosario Briones
Painting - 249.9 x 154.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 98.4 x 61 x 0.1 inch
£4,147
Liquid Life Series n6
Rosario Briones
Painting - 211.8 x 99.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 83.4 x 39.3 x 0.1 inch
£3,566
Natural Flow Series n7
Rosario Briones
Painting - 164.8 x 104.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 64.9 x 41.3 x 0.1 inch
£3,151
Liquid Life Series n1
Rosario Briones
Painting - 254 x 149.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 100 x 59 x 0.1 inch
£4,147
Liquid Life Series n2
Rosario Briones
Painting - 235 x 153.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 92.5 x 60.6 x 0.1 inch
£3,981
Natural Flow Series n10
Rosario Briones
Painting - 137.9 x 117.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 54.3 x 46.4 x 0.1 inch
£2,903
Natural Flow Series n3
Rosario Briones
Painting - 205 x 124.5 x 0.3 cm Painting - 80.7 x 49 x 0.1 inch
£3,317
Migratory Etiquette
Matthew Dibble
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 5.1 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 inch
£4,312
Celestial Views
Maria Bacha
Painting - 149.9 x 199.9 x 4.1 cm Painting - 59 x 78.7 x 1.6 inch
£8,177
Spellbound
Anastasiia Danilenko
Painting - 109.2 x 88.9 x 0.8 cm Painting - 43 x 35 x 0.3 inch
£3,773
Integration of Personality
Khachik Yeghikyan
Painting - 150 x 200 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 78.7 x 0.8 inch
£4,266 £3,839
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.
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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