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Vibrant conversations
Imad Fakhry
Photography - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Photography - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£2,820
Essential Workers
Michael Alan
Photography - 27.9 x 35.6 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11 x 14 x 0.04 inch
£2,322
Butch Chanel: John, Robert and Michael, NYC
Michael James O'Brien
Photography - 91.4 x 61 x 0.3 cm Photography - 36 x 24 x 0.1 inch
£4,147
Memories I
Victoria Dearing
Photography - 27.5 x 44.5 x 0.3 cm Photography - 10.8 x 17.5 x 0.1 inch
£444
Melting Petals 110
Sarah Fujiwara
Photography - 28.5 x 18.8 x 2 cm Photography - 11.2 x 7.4 x 0.8 inch
£844
Dior Paris
Bart Van Leeuwen
Photography - 88.9 x 76.2 x 5.1 cm Photography - 35 x 30 x 2 inch
£1,659
Limbo from the Arte Erotica series
Alen Opsar
Photography - 76.2 x 61 x 0.3 cm Photography - 30 x 24 x 0.1 inch
£1,244
"Indira with Red Hair" mounted on aluminum/plexiglass
Efren Isaza
Photography - 146.1 x 114.3 x 0.3 cm Photography - 57.5 x 45 x 0.1 inch
£4,976
Metropolis Ostrich 2
Yu Zhaoyang
Photography - 43.5 x 32.5 x 3 cm Photography - 17.1 x 12.8 x 1.2 inch
£329
Scent of Broq-pa 04142021
Ziesook You
Photography - 91.44 x 60.96 x 0.1 cm Photography - 36 x 24 x 0 inch
£596
10.12.2010, 14h29 & 15h29
Prisca Lobjoy
Photography - 90 x 70 cm Photography - 35.4 x 27.6 inch
£2,666
Quinta de Regaleira Cintra
Antoine Kubler
Photography - 29.7 x 42 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.7 x 16.5 x 0 inch
£222 £200
Lobo con piel de oveja
Rocio Villanueva
Photography - 100 x 100 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 inch
£2,168
Fashion on the Street, Paris 1963
Uwe Ommer
Photography - 50.8 x 40.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 20 x 16 x 0.1 inch
£1,493
Manhattan Cliché
Michael K. Yamaoka
Photography - 91.4 x 61 x 0.3 cm Photography - 36 x 24 x 0.1 inch
£3,999 £3,399
Ebony Jet (Girlfriend), NYC
Michael James O'Brien
Photography - 152.4 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 60 x 40 x 0.1 inch
£6,635
The Petal of her Skin 001
Ivanna Alejandra Sanchez Moretti
Photography - 60 x 80 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 inch
£711
Rue Mouffetard
Uwe Ommer
Photography - 60 x 40 x 0.3 cm Photography - 23.62 x 15.74 x 0.1 inch
£1,244
Rue Mouffetard
Uwe Ommer
Photography - 60 x 40 x 0.3 cm Photography - 23.62 x 15.74 x 0.1 inch
£1,244
Rue Mouffetard
Uwe Ommer
Photography - 60 x 40 x 0.3 cm Photography - 23.62 x 15.74 x 0.1 inch
£1,244
Rue Mouffetard
Uwe Ommer
Photography - 60 x 40 x 0.3 cm Photography - 23.62 x 15.74 x 0.1 inch
£1,244
Breakfast, Paris
Uwe Ommer
Photography - 44 x 32 x 0.3 cm Photography - 17.3 x 12.6 x 0.1 inch
£1,576
Soliloquy. Photograph intervened by the artists
Hunter & Gatti
Photography - 30.5 x 20.3 x 0.3 cm Photography - 12 x 8 x 0.1 inch
£1,244
Leto's Daughter. Photograph intervened by the artists.
Hunter & Gatti
Photography - 36 x 28 x 0.3 cm Photography - 14.2 x 11 x 0.1 inch
£1,493
Looking at Arcadia. Photograph intervened by the artists.
Hunter & Gatti
Photography - 36 x 28 x 0.3 cm Photography - 14.2 x 11 x 0.1 inch
£1,493
Nymphs. Empty Spaces. Photograph intervened by the artists.
Hunter & Gatti
Photography - 29.5 x 21.7 x 0.3 cm Photography - 11.6 x 8.5 x 0.1 inch
£896
Weifang Sun, Portrait. Photograph intervened by the artists.
Hunter & Gatti
Photography - 29.5 x 21.7 x 0.3 cm Photography - 11.6 x 8.5 x 0.1 inch
£896
Hole. Photograph intervened by the artists.
Hunter & Gatti
Photography - 53.8 x 40.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 21.2 x 16.1 x 0.1 inch
£3,151
The Death of a Flower 003
Ivanna Alejandra Sanchez Moretti
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
£711
The Essence of Life 003
Ivanna Alejandra Sanchez Moretti
Photography - 90 x 60 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 inch
£711
The Essence of Life 001
Ivanna Alejandra Sanchez Moretti
Photography - 90 x 60 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 inch
£711
Maiol, Nymphs. Photograph intervened by the artists.
Hunter & Gatti
Photography - 29.5 x 21.7 x 0.3 cm Photography - 11.6 x 8.5 x 0.1 inch
£896
Old man with new hat
Mihaela Ivanova
Photography - 50 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
£489
Spur. Photograph intervened by the artists
Hunter & Gatti
Photography - 52.8 x 39.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 20.8 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
£3,151
Ceremony. Photograph intervened by the artists
Hunter & Gatti
Photography - 44.5 x 54.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 17.5 x 21.5 x 0.1 inch
£2,903
You are a story
Justin Pumfrey
Photography - 151 x 101 x 0.01 cm Photography - 59.4 x 39.8 x 0 inch
£2,484
The Petal of your Skin 004
Ivanna Alejandra Sanchez Moretti
Photography - 60 x 80 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 inch
£711
Out of the Blue
David Law
Photography - 80 x 80 x 0.5 cm Photography - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.2 inch
£1,777
La Catalina. De la serie Como antes
Sonia Almaguer
Photography - 36 x 24 x 2 cm Photography - 14.2 x 9.4 x 0.8 inch
£1,333
Amapola 003
Ivanna Alejandra Sanchez Moretti
Photography - 80 x 60 cm Photography - 31.5 x 23.6 inch
£711
Red Tulip 003
Ivanna Alejandra Sanchez Moretti
Photography - 80 x 60 cm Photography - 31.5 x 23.6 inch
£711
The essence of life 005
Ivanna Alejandra Sanchez Moretti
Photography - 80 x 60 cm Photography - 31.5 x 23.6 inch
£711
Ciclamen 002
Ivanna Alejandra Sanchez Moretti
Photography - 60 x 80 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 inch
£711
Ciclamen 001
Ivanna Alejandra Sanchez Moretti
Photography - 60 x 80 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 inch
£711
Dry Beauty 003
Ivanna Alejandra Sanchez Moretti
Photography - 80 x 60 cm Photography - 31.5 x 23.6 inch
£711
Amapola 002
Ivanna Alejandra Sanchez Moretti
Photography - 80 x 60 cm Photography - 31.5 x 23.6 inch
£711
Red tulip 002
Ivanna Alejandra Sanchez Moretti
Photography - 80 x 60 cm Photography - 31.5 x 23.6 inch
£711
The Petal of your Skin 003
Ivanna Alejandra Sanchez Moretti
Photography - 60 x 80 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 inch
£711
Dry beauty 002
Ivanna Alejandra Sanchez Moretti
Photography - 80 x 60 cm Photography - 31.5 x 23.6 inch
£711
Dry beauty 001
Ivanna Alejandra Sanchez Moretti
Photography - 80 x 60 cm Photography - 31.5 x 23.6 inch
£711
Amapola 004
Ivanna Alejandra Sanchez Moretti
Photography - 80 x 60 cm Photography - 31.5 x 23.6 inch
£711
Amapola 001
Ivanna Alejandra Sanchez Moretti
Photography - 80 x 60 cm Photography - 31.5 x 23.6 inch
£711
S/T Serie Del zaguán de Fico al patio de Matilde (4)
Sonia Almaguer
Photography - 24 x 32 x 2 cm Photography - 9.4 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch
£1,066
S/T Serie Del zaguán de Fico al patio de Matilde (3)
Sonia Almaguer
Photography - 32 x 24 x 2 cm Photography - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0.8 inch
£1,066
S/T Serie Del zaguán de Fico al patio de Matilde (1)
Sonia Almaguer
Photography - 24 x 32 x 2 cm Photography - 9.4 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch
£1,066
S/T. Serie, La Habana 500 detalles (4)
Sonia Almaguer
Photography - 24 x 16 x 2 cm Photography - 9.4 x 6.3 x 0.8 inch
£978
S/T. Serie, Habana 500 detalles (2)
Sonia Almaguer
Photography - 24 x 16 x 2 cm Photography - 9.4 x 6.3 x 0.8 inch
£978
Untitled Aspy-Thor II
Rodrigo Etem
Photography - 101.6 x 76.2 x 0.3 cm Photography - 40 x 30 x 0.1 inch
£1,244
Untitled Payún
Rodrigo Etem
Photography - 101.6 x 66 x 0.3 cm Photography - 40 x 26 x 0.1 inch
£1,244
Untitled Garrafa
Rodrigo Etem
Photography - 101.6 x 76.2 x 0.3 cm Photography - 40 x 30 x 0.1 inch
£1,244
Gold Griot - Wing. Portrait intervened by the artists.
Hunter & Gatti
Photography - 83.8 x 61 x 0.3 cm Photography - 33 x 24 x 0.1 inch
£3,317
The door is still open
Vava Venezia
Photography - 100 x 70 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
£1,333
Culinary Astronomy #3
Andrés Rozo Samer
Photography - 60 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0 inch
£960
Memories IV
Victoria Dearing
Photography - 27.5 x 44.5 x 0.3 cm Photography - 10.8 x 17.5 x 0.1 inch
£444
Memories III
Victoria Dearing
Photography - 27.5 x 44.5 x 0.3 cm Photography - 10.8 x 17.5 x 0.1 inch
£444
Untitled Motosierra
Rodrigo Etem
Photography - 101.6 x 66 x 0.3 cm Photography - 40 x 26 x 0.1 inch
£1,244
Urbain brutalisme - Photographie digigraphie (1) (10)
Claire Giraudeau
Photography - 70 x 50 cm Photography - 27.6 x 19.7 inch
£222
Fil et aiguille
Pierre Boillon
Photography - 60 x 42 x 3 cm Photography - 23.6 x 16.5 x 1.2 inch
£480
Figuration
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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