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The Moonlight Coffee Together
Kirill Postovit
Painting - 120 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,344
Senza titolo. From the Portraits series
Luigi Christopher Veggetti Kanku
Painting - 48 x 33 x 0.3 cm Painting - 18.9 x 13 x 0.1 inch
$2,500
White Dog in Schönbrunn
Tinatin Chkhikvishvili
Painting - 26 x 32 x 2 cm Painting - 10.2 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch
$893
Summer II
Tinatin Chkhikvishvili
Painting - 24.5 x 20.5 x 1.5 cm Painting - 9.6 x 8.1 x 0.6 inch
$670
White Flowers
Tinatin Chkhikvishvili
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.6 inch
$558
Infinito -Serie, Nos vemos en el Azul-
Esther Aragon
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,619
Calma -Serie, Nos vemos en el Azul-
Esther Aragon
Painting - 60 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$893
Calma nocturna -Serie, Nos vemos en el Azul-
Esther Aragon
Painting - 65 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$893
Mitologías -Serie, Nos vemos en el Azul-
Esther Aragon
Painting - 65 x 93 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 36.6 x 0.8 inch
$893
Entangled Wildflowers
Christian Frederiksen
Painting - 20 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 7.9 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,422
Impermanence 09-2022
Françoise Utrel
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,233
Les oignons
Christoff Debusschere
Painting - 65 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$4,465
Ciutadella parck. Barcelona
Joan Copons
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,786
The girl with the lost pearl earring
Nef
Painting - 45 x 33 x 0.1 cm Painting - 17.7 x 13 x 0 inch
$1,563
Zero installazione
Fernando Spano
Painting - 150 x 60 x 0.5 cm Painting - 59.1 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
$12,279
Red sky at night, afternoon delight
Rob Tucker
Painting - 100 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$8,930
Beach Scene Abstraction
Maxwell Stevens
Painting - 105 x 131 x 5.5 cm Painting - 41.3 x 51.6 x 2.2 inch
$11,163
Waiting for the rain to come
Maylis Bourdet
Painting - 120 x 60 x 2.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 23.6 x 1 inch
$1,429
Smoke on the water
Maylis Bourdet
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1 inch
$1,518
Woman in Black
Fred Borghesi
Painting - 59 x 42 x 3 cm Painting - 23.2 x 16.5 x 1.2 inch
$6,474 $5,503
The Mediterranean girl II
Serghei Ghetiu
Painting - 85 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 33.5 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,786 $1,429
I Brought You the Blessing of Love
Delyafruz Bagirova
Painting - 75 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 29.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,344
Les ombres douces
Juliette Lamarca
Painting - 92 x 65 x 3 cm Painting - 36.2 x 25.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,674
Squeeze of lemon please
Rob Tucker
Painting - 100 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
Sold
Promenade dans l'espace
Yutao Ge
Painting - 100 x 50 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 1 inch
$2,344
Portrait of Nobody
Keti Bubunauri
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$5,581
Femme et Enfants Bussaghia
Karine Bartoli
Painting - 65 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 25.6 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,451 $1,233
Beach Scene (Siblings)
Maxwell Stevens
Painting - 183 x 203.2 x 5.75 cm Painting - 72 x 80 x 2.3 inch
$31,256
Ils mangent de la brioche
Marie Rauzy
Painting - 53 x 45 x 2 cm Painting - 20.9 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
$3,572
Last Days of Summer 3
Maxwell Stevens
Painting - 51 x 68.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 20.1 x 27 x 1 inch
$6,698
Last Days of Summer 2
Maxwell Stevens
Painting - 51 x 68.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 20.1 x 27 x 1 inch
$6,698
Beach Girls (Friends)
Maxwell Stevens
Painting - 135 x 183 x 5.5 cm Painting - 53.1 x 72 x 2.2 inch
$16,744
Beach Scene, In Repose
Maxwell Stevens
Painting - 130 x 160 x 5.5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 63 x 2.2 inch
$16,744
Frangipani in bliss
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 29 x 41 x 3 cm Painting - 11.4 x 16.1 x 1.2 inch
$1,340
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.
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!