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223 Butterfly Spinpainting with Diamond Dust
Punk Me Tender
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 5 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 inch
$12,279
Marlu Jukurrpa (Rêve de wallaby des rochers)
Glorine Martin Nungarrayi
Print - 25 x 19 x 0.1 cm Print - 9.8 x 7.5 x 0 inch
$1,563
It's a Tie 1 of 3
Larissa Schlick
Painting - 120 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$3,349
Landscape with a Moon Jar
Mun-Hyun Cho
Painting - 65.2 x 91 x 3 cm Painting - 25.7 x 35.8 x 1.2 inch
$5,023
Bug in the system - Polyptique
Pierre-Emmanuel Chatiliez
Photography - 200 x 100 x 1 cm Photography - 78.7 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$3,907
Liseuses au bord de mer, from Estampes
Francois Desnoyer
Print - 46 x 35.9 cm Print - 18.125 x 14.125 inch
$695
Happy Valentine day !
Mohammad Hossein Ariyaei
Painting - 50 x 70 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 inch
$2,121
Marine S.Liberté
Jean-Jacques Gendron
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$7,256
Le petit pisseur
Bernard Lachaniette
Fine Art Drawings - 22 x 13 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.7 x 5.1 x 0.1 inch
$614
Autel profane Piège à plumes Bird Altar
Alexis Gorodine
Sculpture - 40 x 30 x 4 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
$6,586 $3,293
Arbre 1956 Tree
Félix Billard
Fine Art Drawings - 32.5 x 50 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.8 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,060
1986 Rhinocéros
Christophe Curien
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 30 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.8 inch
$1,111 $556
Arbre 1991 Tree, 3/15
Rodrigo Barrientos
Print - 28.5 x 25 x 0.25 cm Print - 11.2 x 9.8 x 0.1 inch
$1,060
Bust of a Horse
Domenico Mazzone
Sculpture - 20 x 37 x 12 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 14.6 x 4.7 inch
$8,484
Dreux
Joël Fougman
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$335 $285
El templo de santa Barbara
Justo Pastor Acea Gomez
Painting - 67 x 95 cm Painting - 26.4 x 37.4 inch
$1,340
Sans titre
Kerry Damanakies
Fine Art Drawings - 56 x 76 cm Fine Art Drawings - 22 x 29.9 inch
$1,786
Ours au poisson
Jean-Michel Chesné
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 50 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 19.7 inch
$949
Chimère d'homme et de serpent
Chuanming Yang
Fine Art Drawings - 38 x 53 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 20.9 inch
$949
Arizona Dreamland #9
Anthony Lanneretonne
Photography - 70 x 98 x 0.4 cm Photography - 27.6 x 38.6 x 0.2 inch
$653
Lacerations guerre civile
Silvio Vigliaturo
Sculpture - 52 x 52 x 10 cm Sculpture - 20.5 x 20.5 x 3.9 inch
$4,465
Vision of dream
Prophet Royal Robertson
Painting - 70 x 54.5 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 21.5 x 0 inch
$2,791
Guitare Opus 1987
Jean Marcel Bertrand
Print - 31 x 23 x 0.2 cm Print - 12.2 x 9.1 x 0.1 inch
$1,105
Richard Wright, Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii
Jacques Boumendil
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$726
We will be dancing again
Tine Mynster
Painting - 100 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$4,800
Nicolas de Staël dans son atelier
Denise Colomb
Photography - 30.8 x 38 cm Photography - 12.1 x 15 inch
$1,786
Backlit dogwood
Jeffrey Vaughn
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 3.81 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 1.5 inch
$1,948
Elephant Louis Vuitton Blue and Orange
Art Kristin
Sculpture - 23 x 26 x 11 cm Sculpture - 9.1 x 10.2 x 4.3 inch
$1,340 $1,206
Summer landscape
Sandra Sélince Dubosq
Painting - 50 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
$3,349
ACT, Madonnas cycle, black
Malina Wieczorek
Painting - 50 x 50 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 inch
$4,019
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!