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Com pretextos ou sem pretextos
Rui Gomes
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
£1,691
My culture and my beauty 2
Loje Oluwaseun
Painting - 50.8 x 48.3 x 2.5 cm Painting - 20 x 19 x 1 inch
£902
Etonnants voyageurs 4
Francis L'Huillier
Painting - 100 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
£1,335
Golden Epochs: The Vibrant Wheel of Life
Sofia Beltadze
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£668
Defiant Garden
Karin Goeppert
Painting - 59.9 x 59.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.7 inch
£656
Aeon 9: the ceres lights
Jason Lincoln Jeffers
Painting - 50.8 x 50.8 x 3.8 cm Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 inch
£607
Spring girl in the window
Elena Sokolova
Painting - 80 x 59.9 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
£819
Composition (2) #3
Anders Hingel
Painting - 100.1 x 70.1 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
£726
Super Mario Bros pixel
Patrick Cornée
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
£1,335
Changement de paradigme
Lela Migirov
Painting - 65 x 45 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
£757
Wherever I Go, I Meet Myself
Wande Oseni
Painting - 81.3 x 81.3 x 2.5 cm Painting - 32 x 32 x 1 inch
£1,599
The bees' dance 2
Federico Cortese
Painting - 49.8 x 49.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19.6 x 19.6 x 0.1 inch
£533
P-omme (Paix - Homme)
Youngmi Kim
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.4 inch
£1,335
Symbol of strength and beauty
Kehinde Mayowa
Painting - 90.2 x 90.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35.5 x 35.5 x 1 inch
£1,476
It Comes and Goes in Waves
Adeniyi Joshua Adetayo
Painting - 63.5 x 55.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 25 x 22 x 1 inch
£1,508
La couleur éclatante dans la lumière
Youngmi Kim
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£890
Procession of Fauns and Nymphs through Flowers and Streams of Leaves
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£436
Three block
Miquel Angel Benejam
Painting - 46.5 x 63.5 x 2.8 cm Painting - 18.3 x 25 x 1.1 inch
£534
Deep coral reef underwater
Olga Nikitina
Painting - 50 x 40 x 1.8 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.7 inch
£1,771
Pluies d'été
Corinne Medina Saludo
Painting - 76.5 x 28.5 x 0.2 cm Painting - 30.1 x 11.2 x 0.1 inch
£1,246
Lively expetations on upcoming presence
Vladimir Kolosov
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.2 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.25 inch
£2,213
Plongeon au Planey VI
Elise Barat
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£1,068
Destruction, The End of the of the Earth! Stay Calm serie
Olha Vlasova
Painting - 100 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
£801
The Star, tarot painting
Olha Vlasova
Painting - 100 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
£1,335
Three of Swords, tarot neon painting
Olha Vlasova
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
£1,024
See, you need to grow
Etienne Quesnay
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2.5 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 1 inch
£2,225
Composition abstraite N° 12012022
Pierrick Tual
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 0.8 inch
£3,631
Once upon a time it was a young bough…
Samvel Atasunts
Painting - 70 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
£1,639
Strength of a Woman
Muideen Abdulkadir
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1 inch
£1,631
Deserted Boat Santorini
Dondi Schwartz
Painting - 90 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
£979
And then she became an artist
Katrina Avotina
Painting - 40.9 x 51.1 x 4.1 cm Painting - 16.1 x 20.1 x 1.6 inch
£644
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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!