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Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 34 x 44 x 2 cm Photography - 13.4 x 17.3 x 0.8 inch
£712
Torrent26_8248
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 48.3 x 32.9 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19 x 13 x 0 inch
£640
Torrent24_8120
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 48.3 x 32.9 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19 x 13 x 0 inch
£640
Torrent05_6713
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 32.9 x 48.3 x 0.1 cm Photography - 13 x 19 x 0 inch
£640
Real_11
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 82 x 57 x 0.5 cm Photography - 32.3 x 22.4 x 0.2 inch
£756 £680
My husband's story
Samuel Cueto
Photography - 50 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
£800
La chambre verte
Cécile Baldewyns
Photography - 60 x 60 x 0.04 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0 inch
£712
Manon à la fenêtre
Arnaud Ele
Photography - 110 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 43.3 x 31.5 x 0 inch
£712
Parc de la Courneuve
Kevin Jordan O'Shea
Photography - 45 x 30 x 0.3 cm Photography - 17.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
£374
Untitled, Naples
Kevin Jordan O'Shea
Photography - 30 x 45 x 0.3 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0.1 inch
£427
Fluid horizon IV
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
£1,681
Singapore Blur VII
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 80 x 120 x 3 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
£1,681
Architectural Extract N.10 - Archi-Lines Series
Anna Levesh
Photography - 100 x 75 cm Photography - 39.4 x 29.5 inch
£792
Identity03
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 100 x 70 x 3.5 cm Photography - 39.4 x 27.6 x 1.4 inch
£1,067
Before the storm
Joost Wensveen
Photography - 50 x 75 x 1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0.4 inch
£1,201
Yuyi cup noodle
John Yuyi
Photography - 90 x 60 x 0.2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
£3,113
All you see is me
John Yuyi
Photography - 90 x 60 x 0.2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
£3,113
Trash deliver baby 6
John Yuyi
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.3 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.1 inch
£3,113
Identity10
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 15.6 x 100 x 3.5 cm Photography - 6.1 x 39.4 x 1.4 inch
£1,067
Identity14
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 20 x 100 x 3.5 cm Photography - 7.9 x 39.4 x 1.4 inch
£1,067
Identity13
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 20 x 100 x 3.5 cm Photography - 7.9 x 39.4 x 1.4 inch
£1,067
Identity09
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 15.6 x 100 x 3.5 cm Photography - 6.1 x 39.4 x 1.4 inch
£1,067
Identity12
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 20 x 100 x 3.5 cm Photography - 7.9 x 39.4 x 1.4 inch
£1,067
Identity11
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 20 x 100 x 3.5 cm Photography - 7.9 x 39.4 x 1.4 inch
£1,067
Identity08
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 70 x 70 x 3.5 cm Photography - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1.4 inch
£1,067
Identity07
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 70 x 70 x 3.5 cm Photography - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1.4 inch
£1,067
Identity04
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 100 x 70 x 3.5 cm Photography - 39.4 x 27.6 x 1.4 inch
£1,067
Identity01
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 100 x 70 x 3.5 cm Photography - 39.4 x 27.6 x 1.4 inch
£1,067
Identity 05
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 100 x 70 x 3.5 cm Photography - 39.4 x 27.6 x 1.4 inch
£1,067
The eyes of the boat
Samuel Cueto
Photography - 40 x 50 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
£800
Little girls on the street
Samuel Cueto
Photography - 40 x 50 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
£800
Garçon dans les salons de l’hôtel Albergo dans le quartier chrétien Achrafieh, Beyrouth, Liban
José Nicolas
Photography - 60 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0 inch
£756
Martigues, Sainte-Croix 2 (3 formats)
Anthony Valon aka Bazabuque
Photography - 40 x 60 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
£551
AV_MarPlastico_001
Bernhard Lang
Photography - 84 x 120 x 0.5 cm Photography - 33.1 x 47.2 x 0.2 inch
£1,770
Le Mouton
Christophe Jacrot
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0 inch
£2,401
AV_Harbour_013
Bernhard Lang
Photography - 80 x 120 x 0.5 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.2 inch
£1,690
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!