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Dry Brush 14
Mineko Yoshida
Painting - 133.4 x 133.4 x 0.3 cm Painting - 52.5 x 52.5 x 0.1 inch
$420
The Land of Orchids
Mineko Yoshida
Painting - 40.6 x 30.5 x 0.3 cm Painting - 16 x 12 x 0.1 inch
$360
The Walk Around Gypsy Hill Park,
Mineko Yoshida
Painting - 66 x 66 x 0.3 cm Painting - 26 x 26 x 0.1 inch
$395
Por una vez en mi vida
Patricia Parra
Painting - 80 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$2,300
Mapping The Sky - Perspectives
Melissa McGill
Painting - 35.6 x 27.9 x 2 cm Painting - 14 x 11 x 0.8 inch
$365
Some Moments Are Nice
Melissa McGill
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 2 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 0.8 inch
$460
Rustic Streets Montefiascone 1
Liz McDonough
Painting - 20.1 x 20.1 x 3.6 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 1.4 inch
$144
Lost In Valletta No.1
Liz McDonough
Painting - 39.9 x 39.9 x 3.6 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.4 inch
$314
Portal of The Absolute Vision
Liz McDonough
Painting - 39.9 x 39.9 x 4.1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.6 inch
$458
Portal of The Expressed Soul
Liz McDonough
Painting - 39.9 x 39.9 x 4.6 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.8 inch
$458
Composition No.126
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 83.8 x 152.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 33 x 60 x 2 inch
$1,346
Composition No.123
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 84 x 152 x 4 cm Painting - 33.1 x 59.8 x 1.6 inch
$1,234
The World through my eyes
Bella Bibiluri
Painting - 150 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$2,973
Self Development
Bella Bibiluri
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,524
Beige Structure
Edyta Michalska
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,805
Depth of the Ocean
Edyta Michalska
Painting - 120 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,973
Nature’s Pigments
Edyta Michalska
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,524
Beautiful things happen
Isabelle Van cleven
Painting - 100 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$2,973
Composition No.410
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 69 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 27.2 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,683
Metallic Waves 3
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 51 x 101 x 5 cm Painting - 20.1 x 39.8 x 2 inch
$1,571
Composition No. 326
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 66 x 155 x 0.1 cm Painting - 26 x 61 x 0 inch
$1,122
Composition No.314
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 84 x 155 x 0.1 cm Painting - 33.1 x 61 x 0 inch
$1,851
Composition No.247
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 76 x 132 x 0.1 cm Painting - 29.9 x 52 x 0 inch
$1,571
Composition N°. 233
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 81 x 131 x 4 cm Painting - 31.9 x 51.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,907
Hope in the Shadow of Death
Selma Tunca
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$4,768
A dream longer than night
Janina Wierusz Kowalska
Painting - 206 x 135 x 2 cm Painting - 81.1 x 53.1 x 0.8 inch
$13,539
Tribu africaine - Soleil infini
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
$1,010
Paint in black - Lights in the sixties
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
$1,010
Explosion de couleurs - A frame in a frame
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 80 x 100 x 3.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.4 inch
$1,683
Explosion de couleurs - Smashed 3
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.4 inch
$1,683
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!