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Biarritz. Océan. France
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,300
Phare de la jetée de Sète. France
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,300
Crocodile. Pantanal. Brésil
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,300
"Ciel 1" - St Malo après la pluie
Vesna BECHA-BOJOVIC
Photography - 19 x 27 x 0.2 cm Photography - 7.5 x 10.6 x 0.1 inch
€190
Venice Beach Purple Sea ll
P van Bolderick
Photography - 70 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
€350
Plougrescant au couchant /
Didier Cormillot
Photography - 60 x 80 x 0.2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
€270
Prince of Wale's diving #3 - Jump
Hégémon (Hedge) Chaignon
Photography - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
€1,200
Poseïdon (Till human voices wakes us)
Kramer O'Neill
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€450
100 Marches #9 Out of water
Hégémon (Hedge) Chaignon
Photography - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
€850
Sunset Beach
Drew Doggett
Photography - 45.7 x 68.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 18 x 27 x 0.1 inch
€1,650
Pointe Du Diable-2
Jean-Guy Nakars
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0 inch
€800
Ipanema #6 "Ruço"
Hégémon (Hedge) Chaignon
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€600
Marinella #11 Cooler 2
Hégémon (Hedge) Chaignon
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€600
Deauville, the sea
Fabien Olart
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€500
Contre courant
Jean-Guy Nakars
Photography - 40 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€650
Wind and storm / S
Didier Cormillot
Photography - 60 x 80 x 0.2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
€970
Sentier des douaniers à Ploumanac'h / S
Didier Cormillot
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
€970
La marée à Trébeurden /
Didier Cormillot
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
€970
Tempête en Bretagne /
Didier Cormillot
Photography - 60 x 80 x 0.2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
€970
Embruns et granit rose /
Didier Cormillot
Photography - 60 x 80 x 0.2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
€970
Ecume et granit rose /
Didier Cormillot
Photography - 60 x 80 x 0.5 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.2 inch
€970
Marée haute à Ploumanac'h
Didier Cormillot
Photography - 60 x 80 x 0.2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
€970
Tempête à Ploumanac'h /
Didier Cormillot
Photography - 60 x 80 x 0.2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
€970
Le phare de Ploumanac'h / S
Didier Cormillot
Photography - 60 x 80 x 0.2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
€970
Black tears II
Romain Liverato
Photography - 69 x 69 x 0.5 cm Photography - 27.2 x 27.2 x 0.2 inch
€750
Le grand bain IV
Nicolas Le Beuan Bénic
Photography - 60 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€280
Sea(birds) XII
Ellie Sass (Sassayiannis)
Photography - 30 x 42 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 16.5 x 0 inch
€320
Alors on danse
Jean-Guy Nakars
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€250
Terre Sainte B&W
Jean-Guy Nakars
Photography - 90 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€349
Wind and storm /
Didier Cormillot
Photography - 60 x 80 x 0.2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
€270
Le phare de Ploumanac'h
Didier Cormillot
Photography - 60 x 80 x 0.2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
€270
Sentier des douaniers à Ploumanac'h /
Didier Cormillot
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
€270
Front de mer Saint Pierre
Jean-Guy Nakars
Photography - 25 x 64.1 x 0.1 cm Photography - 9.8 x 25.2 x 0 inch
€199
Pointe du diable
Jean-Guy Nakars
Photography - 90 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€299
Guerre froide
Bruno Fournier
Photography - 37 x 37 x 1 cm Photography - 14.6 x 14.6 x 0.4 inch
€1,800
Engulfment Cartagena 6
Javier Rey
Photography - 65 x 43 x 0.3 cm Photography - 25.6 x 16.9 x 0.1 inch
€1,069
Engulfment Cartagena 5
Javier Rey
Photography - 71 x 110 x 0.3 cm Photography - 28 x 43.3 x 0.1 inch
€1,701
Would you swim with me? XI
Grzegorz Sikorski
Photography - 52.5 x 70 x 0.1 cm Photography - 20.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
€190
Would you swim with me?
Grzegorz Sikorski
Photography - 30 x 90 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 35.4 x 0 inch
€190
Ikit's Drop Knee (Landscape)
Archie Geotina
Photography - 60.96 x 88.9 cm Photography - 24 x 35 inch
Sold
Where they fall
Kramer O'Neill
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
Sold
Le surfer solitaire
Alain Longeaud
Photography - 120 x 96 x 0.5 cm Photography - 47.2 x 37.8 x 0.2 inch
€3,150
Waves
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!