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Lichtreflex Rotation
Hein Gravenhorst
Photography - 30 x 30 cm Photography - 11.8 x 11.8 inch
$1,696
Neige printemps 24
Adrianna MJW
Photography - 40 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$452
Duet in crimson
Zhirayr Khachatryan
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$340
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Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 95 x 205 x 0.1 cm Painting - 37.4 x 80.7 x 0 inch
$2,058
Landscape painting, Impasto olive trees
Dasha Pogodina
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$1,357
Inside, outside, manque d'image
Remi Delaplace
Painting - 54 x 81 x 3 cm Painting - 21.3 x 31.9 x 1.2 inch
$1,685
Dans le ciel plus de problèmes Il
Kerstin Paillard
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
$1,414
Dans le ciel plus de problèmes I
Kerstin Paillard
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
$1,414
Ninfe Riflesse
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 125 x 180 x 1 cm Painting - 49.2 x 70.9 x 0.4 inch
$3,958
Simfonia primaveral en el campo de la mancha
Ulpiano Carrasco
Painting - 120 x 120 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 inch
$11,874
La manchuella Florecida
Ulpiano Carrasco
Painting - 120 x 120 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 inch
$11,874
Tenderness of autumn
Alexander Shandor
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,600
Al chiar di luna
Alexander Daniloff
Painting - 65 x 75 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 29.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,029
Tincture of Myrrh, Stockton-on-Tees
Richard Heeps
Photography - 61 x 61 x 1 cm Photography - 24 x 24 x 0.4 inch
$1,131
After the rain at Happisburg
Rachael Dalzell
Painting - 75 x 55 x 1 cm Painting - 29.5 x 21.7 x 0.4 inch
$788
The Skelligs by moonlight
James Sparshatt
Photography - 50 x 75 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 inch
$1,257
Sands of the Himalaya
James Sparshatt
Photography - 50 x 75 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 inch
$1,257
Brigitte Bardot
Robert van Bolderick
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,018
LE PONT DE TERENEZ
Véronique Bourgeois-Noury
Painting - 162 x 97 x 2 cm Painting - 63.8 x 38.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,524
Hollyhocks Sketch
Tanya Sviatlichnaya
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 29.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.6 x 0 inch
$396
Ruby Lily Sketch
Tanya Sviatlichnaya
Painting - 40 x 29.5 x 0.1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.6 x 0 inch
$396
Shadow by the Tree
Tanya Sviatlichnaya
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 29.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.6 x 0 inch
$396
Red Freesia 02
Tanya Sviatlichnaya
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 29.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.6 x 0 inch
$396
Red Freesia 01
Tanya Sviatlichnaya
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 29.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.6 x 0 inch
$396
Yellow Freesia 02
Tanya Sviatlichnaya
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 29.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.6 x 0 inch
$396
Yellow Freesia 01
Tanya Sviatlichnaya
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 29.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.6 x 0 inch
$396
Reflections – Untitled VI
David Paul Kay
Sculpture - 38.1 x 22.8 x 22.8 cm Sculpture - 15 x 9 x 9 inch
$3,393
Nature regains strength
Dominique Joyeux
Painting - 60 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,357
Fog in the Basque Country
Rocio Ahnert
Painting - 70 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
$905
The face of Barcelona
Rocio Ahnert
Painting - 116 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,036
Án skipulags bleikt
Sjöfn Kolbeins
Painting - 40 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,357
Abstract landscape n24
Aude Calemard
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,131
Cosmic Stories 2
Tekla Aleksieva
Painting - 31.5 x 40 x 0.2 cm Painting - 12.4 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$837
Abstract landscape n10
Aude Calemard
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,131
Abstract landscape 2
Aude Calemard
Painting - 100 x 70 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,267
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!