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La Medicina - El Patior
Angelica Briones
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 3.81 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1.5 inch
€11,150
Commission for Melissa 50 lance
Marilyn Kalish
Painting - 40.6 x 30.5 x 0.3 cm Painting - 16 x 12 x 0.1 inch
€305
Goutte-à-goutte (warm vibration)
Sabine Nielsen
Painting - 70 x 160 cm Painting - 27.6 x 63 inch
€7,500
Ciudades en la memoria inventada
Nespolo
Painting - 60 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€4,450
The bell rings N times a day
Dahyun Kim
Painting - 53 x 45.5 x 3 cm Painting - 20.9 x 17.9 x 1.2 inch
€3,150
Now and Then
Candace Chambers-Belida
Painting - 61 x 91.5 x 3 cm Painting - 24 x 36 x 1.2 inch
€4,500
Cançó per a papa: Santa Muerte
Lybiamarie
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
€3,100
The Parade of the Winter
Snezhana Stoyanova
Painting - 120 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€4,500
Seven sisters
Wurta Amy French
Painting - 88.9 x 58.4 x 1.9 cm Painting - 35 x 23 x 0.75 inch
€1,741
Colorful moments
Georgina Mortreux
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€2,750
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
€3,000
Peace of Joy 3
Sandrine Langlade
Painting - 120 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€4,400
Summer landscape
Sandra Sélince Dubosq
Painting - 50 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
€3,000
ACT, Madonnas cycle, black
Malina Wieczorek
Painting - 50 x 50 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 inch
€3,600
Essentially, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Karen Hansen
Painting - 20.3 x 20.3 x 3.8 cm Painting - 8 x 8 x 1.5 inch
€160
Fragments in Green
Lisi Wuelfing
Painting - 110 x 110 x 3 cm Painting - 43.3 x 43.3 x 1.2 inch
€3,200
Bicycle, Painting, Oil on Paper
Jan Willem Versteeg
Painting - 30.5 x 40.6 x 0.3 cm Painting - 12 x 16 x 0.1 inch
€425
Abstract Composition
Gian Barresi
Painting - 48 x 65.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 18.9 x 25.8 x 0.2 inch
€300
In the Delicate Pink of Mountains There is a Memory
Cynthia Grow
Painting - 50.8 x 50.8 x 3 cm Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.2 inch
€3,500
Jaillissement
Adrienne Jalbert
Painting - 228 x 129 x 4 cm Painting - 89.8 x 50.8 x 1.6 inch
€14,000
No.557 Brave New World No.11 “Intersection2”
Jiwon Jang
Painting - 90.9 x 72.7 x 2 cm Painting - 35.8 x 28.6 x 0.8 inch
€4,400
Seven Sisters Dreaming (Minyipuru Jukurrpa)
Ngamaru Bidu
Painting - 121.9 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 30 x 1 inch
€3,385
Colorquantization 02
Minuitcréatif
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€400
Tingari cycle (RT03/0611BPG)
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 1.9 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 0.75 inch
€12,090
A break in the Rain Frogs Croak
Eric Johnston
Painting - 41 x 51 x 2 cm Painting - 16.1 x 20.1 x 0.8 inch
€6,050
Fire: Do not fear... thresholds are for crossing
Phyllis Viola Boyd
Painting - 152.4 x 177.8 x 5.1 cm Painting - 60 x 70 x 2 inch
€10,639
Abstract art
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!