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Blue Lined Landscape
Ronald Hunter
Painting - 70 x 140 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
£533
Blue night
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 60 x 45 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
£984
Ville et Campagne
Arnaud Dromigny
Painting - 42 x 59.4 x 2 cm Painting - 16.5 x 23.4 x 0.8 inch
£498
Path Among the Rocky
Hrach Baghdasaryan
Painting - 60 x 97 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 38.2 x 0.8 inch
£730
Water lily pond
Evgeny Chernyakovsky
Painting - 70 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£1,148
Porthole Series #26
Gabrielle Strong
Painting - 92 x 92 x 4 cm Painting - 36.2 x 36.2 x 1.6 inch
£1,335
The Edge of Silence
Gabrielle Strong
Painting - 76 x 76 x 4 cm Painting - 29.9 x 29.9 x 1.6 inch
£1,001
Les arbres 02.03.24
Laurent Bouro
Painting - 80 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
£2,314
Les arbres 01.03.24
Laurent Bouro
Painting - 80 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
£2,314
Métronomie des pulsations I
Magdalena Lamri
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
£1,709
Les ombres du savoir
Sophie Dumont
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
£2,661
Landscape abstracts
Le Hai Linh
Painting - 99.3 x 79 x 3.3 cm Painting - 39.1 x 31.1 x 1.3 inch
£1,549
Spring in Tuscany - Italian landscape painting
Andrea Borella
Painting - 60 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
£712
Countryside in June - Tuscany landscape painting
Andrea Borella
Painting - 65 x 108 x 1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 42.5 x 0.4 inch
£846
Water irises by the pond
Natalya Mougenot
Painting - 42 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Painting - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0 inch
£285
Mesmerizing hugs and phantom stranger at the engrossing landscape with mysterious lights
Vladimir Kolosov
Painting - 61 x 76.2 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 30 x 0.8 inch
£1,771
Spruce in the forest
Simon Kozhin
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
£3,204
Defense Against Science I (second état)
Christopher Croft
Print - 50.5 x 66.5 cm Print - 19.9 x 26.2 inch
£178
Un petit coin de Paradis : Abaco
Cécile Trousse
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 1 inch
£783
Le chemin du Silence
Cécile Trousse
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1 inch
£1,015
Abstraction Paysage
Marie Dominique Ferracci
Painting - 50 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
£436
Wishing (You Were Here)
Kathy Bradshaw
Painting - 31 x 91 x 4 cm Painting - 12.2 x 35.8 x 1.6 inch
£868
L'instant Majorelle
Agnès Tiollier
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 70 x 0.18 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
£1,424
Renaissance Two
Vakhtang Khelashvili
Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.2 inch
£979
The feeling of autumn 1
Le anh Tuan
Painting - 56.9 x 79.8 x 3 cm Painting - 22.4 x 31.4 x 1.2 inch
£1,066
A glimpse into rural tranquility
Narek Qochunc
Painting - 24 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 9.4 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
£163
Champ de lumières
Frédéric Lemonnier
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£525
La danse du matin
Frédéric Lemonnier
Painting - 90 x 90 x 3.8 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.5 inch
£872
Mystic Forest
Frédéric Lemonnier
Painting - 81 x 116 x 3.5 cm Painting - 31.9 x 45.7 x 1.4 inch
£872
Paysage onirique
Yannick Bernard
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£2,296
Slipping into the fog
Alvaro Petritoli
Painting - 56 x 77 x 3 cm Painting - 22 x 30.3 x 1.2 inch
£1,299
Contemporary artworks for sale
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!