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Laying hands, naming things, bestowing fact
Christa David
Photography - 76.2 x 55.88 x 2 cm Photography - 30 x 22 x 0.8 inch
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Holding the center as I am
Christa David
Photography - 35 x 27.5 x 2 cm Photography - 13.8 x 10.8 x 0.8 inch
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Moda DIOR, Venezia 1951
Vittorio Pavan
Photography - 55 x 36.5 x 0.1 cm Photography - 21.7 x 14.4 x 0 inch
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Claudia Cardinale à Rome, Italie
Vittorio Pavan
Photography - 50 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
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Alberto Giacometti, Paris
Vittorio Pavan
Photography - 50 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
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Le petit parisien
Willy Ronis
Photography - 40 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
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Self portrait on the gulf on Naples
Daniele Sigalot
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
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Agnès Varda - Les plages d'Agnès
Jean-Loup Gautreau
Photography - 30 x 40 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 inch
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Crying Glacier, Iceland
Gonçalo Martins
Photography - 29 x 29 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.4 x 11.4 x 0 inch
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Romy Schneider et Alain Delon
Maurice Jarnoux
Photography - 40 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
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Cimetière Pere Lachaise
Paul Khayat
Photography - 40 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
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Jeune Vitrier. Rue Greneta
André Ostier
Photography - 50 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
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Marseille, Sugiton
Claude Vesco
Photography - 40 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
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Looking through the giraffe
Eric Isselée
Photography - 156 x 110 x 5 cm Photography - 61.4 x 43.3 x 2 inch
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D'Arens Cliff in Fog, Algarve
Gonçalo Martins
Photography - 19 x 19 x 0.1 cm Photography - 7.5 x 7.5 x 0 inch
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Pastorale dans le Ouaddai
José Nicolas
Photography - 54 x 86 x 1 cm Photography - 21.3 x 33.9 x 0.4 inch
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Duke Ellington et Louis Armstrong
Jacques de Potier
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
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Vue plongeante vers la rue de Castiglione et la place Vendôme
André Ostier
Photography - 50 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
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Forts des Halles en livraison au Pavillon de la Boucherie, face à l'église Saint-Eustache
André Ostier
Photography - 50 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
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Place de la Bastille le 10 Mai 1981
Jean Claude Figenwald
Photography - 50 x 70 x 1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
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Vespas à Montmartre, Paris, vers 1950
Maurice Bonnel
Photography - 50 x 40 x 0.2 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
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Ayrton Senna Victoire au GP du Brésil 1992 coupe
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
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Nous sommes tous des enfants
Jean Valera
Photography - 20 x 30 x 0.3 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
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Mer de Chine, Boat People
José Nicolas
Photography - 60 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
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Sœur pleurant son frère
James Nachtwey
Photography - 38 x 56 x 1 cm Photography - 15 x 22 x 0.4 inch
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Ming Court hotel
Camille Levert
Photography - 55 x 55 x 7 cm Photography - 21.7 x 21.7 x 2.8 inch
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Ice Block, Iceland
Gonçalo Martins
Photography - 19 x 19 x 0.1 cm Photography - 7.5 x 7.5 x 0 inch
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Legère brise
Alain Longeaud
Photography - 65 x 50 x 0.5 cm Photography - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
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Babel 14
Jean-Francois Rauzier
Photography - 170 x 100 x 0.5 cm Photography - 66.9 x 39.4 x 0.2 inch
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Fosters Pond
Arno Rafael Minkkinen
Photography - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
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Hip Hop sous la Tour Eiffel
Amadou Gaye
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
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Hip Hop sous la Tour Eiffel
Amadou Gaye
Photography - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
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24h du Mans 1970-La fumée au départ des bolides de la 38e édition, 13 juin 1970.
Jacques Violet
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
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24h du Mans 1970-La MS 650 n°32 de Brabham et Cevert accidentée lors des essais, 10 juin 1970.
Jacques Violet
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
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24h du Mans 1970-Steve McQueen venu en repérages pour son film « Le Mans » qu’il tournera l’année suivante, 13 ou 14 juin 1970.
Jacques Violet
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
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Where they fall
Kramer O'Neill
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
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La messe en Ubaye
Didier Bizet
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
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En suspension
Sébastien Mouraud
Photography - 40 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
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24h du Mans 1970-La MS 660 n°31de Beltoise et Pescarolo à une roue de la Porsche 917K n°23 d’Attwood et Herrmann, 13 juin 1970.
Jacques Violet
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
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24h du Mans 1970-La Porsche 917 LH n°3 de G. Larrousse et Willi Kauhsen suivie par la Chevron B16 de C. Baker et D. Martland. 13 ou 14 juin 1970.
Jacques Violet
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
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The Cockpit
Bernard Testemale
Photography - 70 x 100 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
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Henderson Four
Bernard Testemale
Photography - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
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L'Appel du large
Christophe Audebert
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0 inch
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Enfants courant sur une route, Cambodge
José Nicolas
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
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Petites filles goranes
José Nicolas
Photography - 30 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
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Partir... peut-être
Alain Longeaud
Photography - 96 x 120 x 0.5 cm Photography - 37.8 x 47.2 x 0.2 inch
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005- American Circus Paris
José Nicolas
Photography - 40 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
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001-American Circus Paris 1985
José Nicolas
Photography - 40 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
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Matterhorn/Cervin – Obergabelhorn – Dent d’Hérens
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
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Massif du Mont Blanc
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 90 x 180 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 70.9 x 0.4 inch
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Panorama sur le Mont-Blanc
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 70 x 210 x 1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 82.7 x 0.4 inch
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Alpinistes depuis le Mont-Blanc
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 100 x 150 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
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Les chats de Schrödinger (10)
Arthur Di Nunzio
Photography - 30 x 45 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0 inch
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Les chats de Schrödinger (8)
Arthur Di Nunzio
Photography - 30 x 45 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0 inch
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Les chats de Schrödinger (6)
Arthur Di Nunzio
Photography - 30 x 45 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0 inch
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Les chats de Schrödinger (5)
Arthur Di Nunzio
Photography - 30 x 45 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0 inch
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Les chats de Schrödinger (4)
Arthur Di Nunzio
Photography - 30 x 45 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0 inch
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Les chats de Schrödinger (3)
Arthur Di Nunzio
Photography - 30 x 45 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0 inch
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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.
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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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