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Alison Aplin Artist
Painting - 76 x 91 x 4 cm Painting - 29.9 x 35.8 x 1.6 inch
$3,226
Make Your Dream Come True
Birgit Barkhoff
Painting - 100 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$4,119
The Magic In Being Yourself
Birgit Barkhoff
Painting - 80 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$4,845
Grasses and fields
Dagmara Skubisz
Painting - 60 x 50 x 1.7 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.7 inch
$2,512
Discovery of dimensions
Amelie Monira Egenolf
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,512
We are all connected
Christine Weber-Nolte
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$3,561
I guess I am almost there
Nicole Gigatti
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$3,940
Sometimes it is all or nothing
Nicole Gigatti
Painting - 37 x 46.5 x 0.1 cm Painting - 14.6 x 18.3 x 0 inch
$2,780
Abstract Flow
Arianna Rybcenko
Painting - 100 x 70 x 3.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 1.4 inch
$3,583
Gravity'srainbow
David Zamora
Painting - 115 x 120 x 3.5 cm Painting - 45.3 x 47.2 x 1.4 inch
$4,119
Magic Universe
Amelie Monira Egenolf
Painting - 70 x 170 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 66.9 x 1.6 inch
$3,405
Artificial self-awareness technology
Leandro Moya
Painting - 80 x 90 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 35.4 x 1.6 inch
$4,298
Un Fil d'Or (Triptych)
Tomàs Sunyol
Painting - 80 x 240 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 94.5 x 1.6 inch
$10,939
Papier main
Françoise Paressant-Tual
Painting - 130 x 97 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 0.8 inch
$3,907
Character Combination Series-1
Renjie Gao
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,791
Télévision et branches mortes
Xiaoping Liu
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$3,684
Fauteuil et branches mortes
Xiaoping Liu
Painting - 60 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$3,349
Forest spirits happily chatting
Chisen
Painting - 41 x 32 x 3 cm Painting - 16.1 x 12.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,842
Stillife with watermelon and cactus
Olga Afanasiadi
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,395
Pour toi mon Amour
Sophie Petetin
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,619
Journey Home: A Mother's Tale
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,619
Across the moon
Jean-Humbert Savoldelli
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,019
North Carolina Lighthouses
Brian Nash
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$2,400
Freedom people - The beach (1)
Eka Peradze
Painting - 50 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$837
Envers et over - Abstraction
MIZ
Painting - 73 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,372
Composition abstraite
Alain Somma
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1.8 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.7 inch
$748
Wenn Spuren Furchen hinterlassen, #1073 III.
A.R. Stern
Painting - 50 x 40 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 1.6 inch
$938
Wenn Spuren Furchen hinterlassen, #1073 II.
A.R. Stern
Painting - 50 x 40 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 1.6 inch
$938
Wenn Spuren Furchen hinterlassen, #1073 I.
A.R. Stern
Painting - 50 x 40 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 1.6 inch
$938
Fantastique agitation - série Paysage et mer
Isabelle Alberge
Painting - 40 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$726
Intersections
Salvatore Travascio
Painting - 100 x 74 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 29.1 x 1 inch
$1,228
Peach blossom in spring
Le anh Tuan
Painting - 69.9 x 89.9 x 3 cm Painting - 27.5 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,800
À la gloire de nos excès
Nathanael Koffi
Painting - 60 x 67 x 7 cm Painting - 23.6 x 26.4 x 2.8 inch
$5,246
The portrait of the malice aforethought
Vladimir Kolosov
Painting - 39.4 x 30.5 x 0 cm Painting - 15.5 x 12 x 0.01 inch
$580
The true great ones
Gary Westall
Painting - 50 x 70.1 x 0.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.2 inch
$1,850
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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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