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The Park from January to Spring
Gabrielle Rul
Painting - 31 x 23 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.2 x 9.1 x 0 inch
£719
Ice Skating Together
Katharina Hormel
Painting - 120 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£1,168
The Albino Series IX
Éric Odartey
Painting - 76 x 76 x 3 cm Painting - 29.9 x 29.9 x 1.2 inch
£1,797
Oasis d'abondance
Enfant Précoce / Francis Essoua Kalu
Painting - 210 x 280 x 2 cm Painting - 82.7 x 110.2 x 0.8 inch
£20,668
Will see you when I fall asleep II
Rahma Lhoussig
Painting - 130 x 150 x 5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 59.1 x 2 inch
£4,493
Waiting for the World to be big enough
Rahma Lhoussig
Painting - 100 x 80 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 2 inch
£3,235
While time is passing by
Rahma Lhoussig
Painting - 130 x 150 x 5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 59.1 x 2 inch
£4,493
La vanité de l'existence
Céline Achour
Painting - 24 x 19 x 2 cm Painting - 9.4 x 7.5 x 0.8 inch
£198
Composition No.258
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 53 x 41 x 0.1 cm Painting - 20.9 x 16.1 x 0 inch
£629
"Bienveillance" abstrait acrylique poudre de marbre oxydation châssis lin 81x60cm 2017
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 81 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
£1,887
Échos de vie dans la forêt
Linda Clerget
Painting - 89 x 116 x 1 cm Painting - 35 x 45.7 x 0.4 inch
£3,055
Iding-Towards-Happiness-III
Sophia Oshodin
Painting - 91 x 91 x 5 cm Painting - 35.8 x 35.8 x 2 inch
£3,145
A-Farewell-to-My-Problem-Days
Sophia Oshodin
Painting - 91 x 91 x 5 cm Painting - 35.8 x 35.8 x 2 inch
£3,145
Riding-Towards-Happiness-III
Sophia Oshodin
Painting - 100 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 2 inch
£3,774
El pueblo que no tengo II
Eulogia Merle
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
£1,977
Leader Sheep (red)
Jérémie d'Angelo
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
£3,505
Run to the house!
Alexander Shandor
Painting - 80 x 110 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 43.3 x 1.2 inch
£5,903
Portrait de sieste 4
Camille Cottier
Painting - 21 x 29.7 x 1 cm Painting - 8.3 x 11.7 x 0.4 inch
£359
Portrait de sieste 5
Camille Cottier
Painting - 21 x 29.7 x 1 cm Painting - 8.3 x 11.7 x 0.4 inch
£359
Portrait de sieste 6
Camille Cottier
Painting - 21 x 29.7 x 1 cm Painting - 8.3 x 11.7 x 0.4 inch
£359
Portrait de sieste 7
Camille Cottier
Painting - 21 x 29.7 x 1 cm Painting - 8.3 x 11.7 x 0.4 inch
£359
Portrait de sieste 3
Camille Cottier
Painting - 21 x 29.7 x 1 cm Painting - 8.3 x 11.7 x 0.4 inch
£359
Portrait de sieste 2
Camille Cottier
Painting - 21 x 29.7 x 1 cm Painting - 8.3 x 11.7 x 0.4 inch
£359
Portrait de sieste 1
Camille Cottier
Painting - 21 x 29.7 x 1 cm Painting - 8.3 x 11.7 x 0.4 inch
£359
Voices in the Wind
Mario Henrique
Painting - 150 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
£7,998
Côte rose. Matinée près de la mer
Alexei Lantsev
Painting - 42 x 61 x 0.1 cm Painting - 16.5 x 24 x 0 inch
£809
Snow covered haystacks
Alexander Shandor
Painting - 60 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
£3,036
Château Rouge
Enfant Précoce / Francis Essoua Kalu
Painting - 97 x 146 x 2 cm Painting - 38.2 x 57.5 x 0.8 inch
£8,986
Esua Esua a yabe, Essoua Essoua est née
Enfant Précoce / Francis Essoua Kalu
Painting - 245 x 293 x 2 cm Painting - 96.5 x 115.4 x 0.8 inch
£21,566
République
Enfant Précoce / Francis Essoua Kalu
Painting - 116 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
£7,189
The Old Village of Kolochava
Alexander Shandor
Painting - 55 x 105 x 3 cm Painting - 21.7 x 41.3 x 1.2 inch
£2,361
The space between two seconds
Ritchelly Oliveira
Painting - 243 x 192 x 3 cm Painting - 95.7 x 75.6 x 1.2 inch
£22,016
This may come as surprise but I miss you
Ritchelly Oliveira
Painting - 186 x 146 x 3 cm Painting - 73.2 x 57.5 x 1.2 inch
£16,480
The blue in your love
Ritchelly Oliveira
Painting - 186 x 146 x 3 cm Painting - 73.2 x 57.5 x 1.2 inch
£16,480
Wounded Birds
Ritchelly Oliveira
Painting - 186 x 141 x 3 cm Painting - 73.2 x 55.5 x 1.2 inch
£16,480
Reconfiguring Gradients
Simon Findlay
Painting - 215 x 287 x 2 cm Painting - 84.6 x 113 x 0.8 inch
£4,313
La clef est toute une vie
Jade Mouge
Painting - 61 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£1,078
Pensées libres
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
£5,751
La couleur de mes envies car je t'aime
Sophie Petetin
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1 inch
£1,977
Le sacré coeur
Enfant Précoce / Francis Essoua Kalu
Painting - 216 x 278 x 2 cm Painting - 85 x 109.4 x 0.8 inch
£20,668
Tata et le vieux
Enfant Précoce / Francis Essoua Kalu
Painting - 156 x 164 x 2 cm Painting - 61.4 x 64.6 x 0.8 inch
£12,131
Titty et Coucou au marché, Saint-Denis
Enfant Précoce / Francis Essoua Kalu
Painting - 180 x 156 x 2 cm Painting - 70.9 x 61.4 x 0.8 inch
£12,580
New & remarkable Artists
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!