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Parallel Universe /1
Viktoria Ganhao
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$600
Only Present moment (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 70 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
$1,086
Emerald Coral Reef
Olga Nikitina
Painting - 75 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 29.5 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$2,263
Cosmic consciousness
Alexandra Romano
Painting - 50.8 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 20 x 20 x 1 inch
$1,939
Colourful consciousness
Alexandra Romano
Painting - 50.8 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 20 x 20 x 1 inch
$1,935
Tree of knowledge and paradise
Alexandra Romano
Painting - 61 x 91.4 x 1.8 cm Painting - 24 x 36 x 0.7 inch
$1,550
Aurora Australis: The southern lights
Alexandra Romano
Painting - 38.1 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 15 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$1,179
Free spirit no. 2
Alexandra Romano
Painting - 38.1 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 15 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$964
Free spirit no. 21
Alexandra Romano
Painting - 61 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$1,209
Psychedelic sky
Alexandra Romano
Painting - 38.1 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 15 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$1,190
Fish Motion Coral Reef
Olga Nikitina
Painting - 60 x 60 x 0.1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$905
The Intuitive Joy II
Gor Avetisyan
Painting - 95 x 45 x 2 cm Painting - 37.4 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,584 $1,426
Secret of Intimate Dance I
Gor Avetisyan
Painting - 90 x 90 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 inch
$2,490 $2,241
Green Over Blue (Over Green Over Blue) Over Yellow Horizon
Simon Findlay
Painting - 150 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,150
Making Body Sculptures On The Field
Simon Findlay
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,471
Double Exposure Mountain Flowers
Simon Findlay
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,245
Deep velvet indigo seascape
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,094
Almost Symmetry 3
Simon Findlay
Painting - 150 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,471
Improving One thing In The Room
Simon Findlay
Painting - 150 x 135 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 53.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,471
Purple Yellow Galaxy
Simon Findlay
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,245
Azure Horizons: Where Sea and Above Collide
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$962
Dont give up No.2
Bea Garding Schubert
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3.8 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.5 inch
$1,650
Green Purple Yellow
Simon Findlay
Painting - 150 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,147
Almost Symmetry 2
Simon Findlay
Painting - 150 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,471
Blue Watermelon Drips
Simon Findlay
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,245
Green Arc Over Blue
Simon Findlay
Painting - 150 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,150
Purple Arc Over Blue (Becoming Dizzy And Out Of Breath)
Simon Findlay
Painting - 150 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,150
Abstract with red purple and gold 2
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,482
Bouquet of winter.
Vik Schroeder
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,263 $1,697
Looking into the Depth
Vik Schroeder
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,358 $1,018
Abstract 2196
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 90 x 180 x 4 cm Painting - 35.4 x 70.9 x 1.6 inch
$2,129 $1,490
Abstract 2195
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 90 x 180 x 4 cm Painting - 35.4 x 70.9 x 1.6 inch
$2,129 $1,490
My flowers
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,120
Abstract Fantasy
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 90 x 120 x 0.3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 47.2 x 0.1 inch
$2,037
The Creative Spirit
Julia Swaby
Painting - 100.1 x 100.1 x 4.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,938
Victorian Place III,IV
Ron Halfant
Painting - 91.4 x 121.9 x 1.5 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 0.6 inch
$1,333
Abstract expressionism
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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.
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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