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Not Beneath - Series #16
Kris Haas
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 2 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.8 inch
$1,015
In ancient Aswan
Brian Bartlett
Painting - 100 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$2,187
Mysterious Forest
Zakhar Shevchuk
Painting - 70 x 120 x 1.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 47.2 x 0.6 inch
$2,466
Somewhere On Mimban I
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 121.9 x 81.3 x 3 cm Painting - 48 x 32 x 1.2 inch
$1,720
Pouring down all over me
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 81.3 x 81.3 x 3 cm Painting - 32 x 32 x 1.2 inch
$1,050
Emotional Release XXIV
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 81.3 x 81.3 x 3 cm Painting - 32 x 32 x 1.2 inch
$1,130
Satellite (Spirits of skies 100094)
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 3 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 1.2 inch
$1,750
Purple meltdown
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 3 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 1.2 inch
$1,740
New flavors at the candy store
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 71.1 x 142.2 x 3 cm Painting - 28 x 56 x 1.2 inch
$1,580
Mediterranian medley
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 101.6 x 142.2 x 4.6 cm Painting - 40 x 56 x 1.8 inch
$2,050
Initial approach (Spirits of skies 096158)
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 81.3 x 121.9 x 3 cm Painting - 32 x 48 x 1.2 inch
$1,700
Emotional release XIX (Spirits ofsSkies 064160)
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 81.3 x 81.3 x 3 cm Painting - 32 x 32 x 1.2 inch
$1,100
Amazonite revealed I
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 3 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 1.2 inch
$1,800
Amazonite revealed II
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 3 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 1.2 inch
$1,740
Sky Buzz VIII (Spirits Of Skies 098189)
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 71.1 x 142.2 x 3 cm Painting - 28 x 56 x 1.2 inch
$1,190
Cortez Gold Mine
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 121.9 x 81.3 x 3 cm Painting - 48 x 32 x 1.2 inch
$1,600
Emotional Release XXV (Spirits Of Skies 064191)
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 81.3 x 81.3 x 3 cm Painting - 32 x 32 x 1.2 inch
$1,130
First Kiss (Spirits Of Skies 100183)
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 3 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 1.2 inch
$1,700
The Southwest Diary
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 121.9 x 81.3 x 3 cm Painting - 48 x 32 x 1.2 inch
$1,670
Sudden Impact II (Spirits Of Skies 100150)
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 3 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 1.2 inch
$1,740
The Dispute (Spirits Of Skies 120184)
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 121.9 x 101.6 x 3 cm Painting - 48 x 40 x 1.2 inch
$1,920
Yellow Abstraction
Zakhar Shevchuk
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,410
Wooden sticks
Filip Pavlik
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,579 $2,321
Burned Out Land - I
Zakhar Shevchuk
Painting - 47 x 94 x 0.5 cm Painting - 18.5 x 37 x 0.2 inch
$3,924
Burned Out Land - II
Zakhar Shevchuk
Painting - 62 x 70 x 0.5 cm Painting - 24.4 x 27.6 x 0.2 inch
$3,924
Passaggio a Nord Est
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 65 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$841
Corail 1988 Coral
Catherine Reboul Berlioz
Painting - 14 x 9.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 5.5 x 3.7 x 0.2 inch
$1,115
Intervallum - II
Gosha Karpowicz
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 3.8 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 1.5 inch
$1,500
The feeling of autumn
Le anh Tuan
Painting - 59.9 x 79.8 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,550
Earth Expedition
Andrada Anghel
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$1,331
In depth, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Andrada Anghel
Painting - 101.6 x 81.3 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 32 x 1.5 inch
$1,467
Short-term change 3
Andrada Anghel
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 inch
$1,474
Again and again
Andrada Anghel
Painting - 76.2 x 152.4 x 0.3 cm Painting - 30 x 60 x 0.1 inch
$1,833
Short-term change 5
Andrada Anghel
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.8 inch
$1,474
Feelings about autumn
Le anh Tuan
Painting - 59.9 x 79.8 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,980
Breathing Mountain
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 100 x 115 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 45.3 x 0 inch
$1,962
Dervisci Rotanti
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 115 x 140 x 0.1 cm Painting - 45.3 x 55.1 x 0 inch
$2,242
Spree Waves
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,099 $879
A day in life # 2
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 150 x 115 x 2.2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 45.3 x 0.9 inch
$1,570 $1,413
Drama in the Sky
Khrystyna Kozyuk
Painting - 101.6 x 63.5 x 1.8 cm Painting - 40 x 25 x 0.7 inch
$1,450
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.
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