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Abstract no. 2622 XL
Anita Kaufmann
Painting - 139.7 x 99.1 x 2 cm Painting - 55 x 39 x 0.8 inch
$1,334
Appreciate the little things
Ashu Pine
Painting - 41 x 32 x 3 cm Painting - 16.1 x 12.6 x 1.2 inch
$6,660
Series the red mountain No.3
Shi-Guang Li
Painting - 37.9 x 51.9 x 0.1 cm Painting - 14.9 x 20.4 x 0 inch
$999
Dispersed Dense Lines
Ya-Ping Dong
Painting - 50 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,776
The Palette Knife Of Spring
Alejandro Moretti
Painting - 60 x 35 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 13.8 x 0.6 inch
$555
Looking for a Better World 1
Christel Haag
Painting - 81.3 x 81.3 x 2.5 cm Painting - 32 x 32 x 1 inch
$1,750
Grand paysage lacustre 3
Sébastien Couëffic
Painting - 89 x 116 x 3 cm Painting - 35 x 45.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,664
Zakynthos fiore di levante
Eleni Denart
Painting - 101.6 x 151.6 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 59.7 x 1 inch
$1,968
Mentally Free II
Barbara Uhsadel
Painting - 80 x 70 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 27.6 x 0.6 inch
$2,053
Darling, My Mind Is a Misty Mountain
Rakel Routarinne
Painting - 23 x 23 x 0.4 cm Painting - 9.1 x 9.1 x 0.2 inch
$1,965
Ne cherchons plus tout est là
Michèle Magnien (Mileg)
Painting - 50 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$999
The Subtlety of Frames
Chuck Jones, PhD
Painting - 76.2 x 55.9 x 0.1 cm Painting - 30 x 22 x 0 inch
$2,083
Harmony & chaos
Anneta Papagianni
Painting - 60 x 50 x 3.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 1.4 inch
$1,752
Wine Layers 1
Lucia Sales Pallares
Painting - 61 x 46 x 3.5 cm Painting - 24 x 18.1 x 1.4 inch
$2,018
The lurking colour
Vaios Paraskevas
Painting - 44.5 x 74.5 x 1.2 cm Painting - 17.5 x 29.3 x 0.5 inch
$2,142
The Breaking Point
Petra Schonova
Painting - 42 x 29.7 x 0.3 cm Painting - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,707
Beauty and the Beast
Elena Samarsky
Painting - 40.6 x 30.4 x 2 cm Painting - 16 x 12 x 0.8 inch
$1,965
Kindred
Ian Alexander Bailey
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 1.905 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.8 inch
$1,665
Happy series bubble gum two
Sung Lee (Australia)
Painting - 30 x 30 x 4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
$132
Duo concerto Jian Zou
Changjian Huang
Painting - 60 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,110
High Hopes Series 2
Silvie Marie Huber
Painting - 40 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
$1,609
Floating In My Dreams
Karen Elizabeth Branco
Painting - 101.6 x 40.64 x 3.81 cm Painting - 40 x 16 x 1.5 inch
$2,053
Listening to Beethoven while ironing
Petra Schott
Painting - 100 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,994
Between the bite and the beak, Painting, Acrylic on canvas
Amy Bernays
Painting - 20.3 x 25.4 x 0.3 cm Painting - 8 x 10 x 0.1 inch
$950
Les rochers réfléchissants
Daniel Paugam
Painting - 50 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 24 x 0.8 inch
$888
Beige feelings (quadriptych)
Lesia Danilina
Painting - 70 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,600
Duo - Abstraction
Mireille Weinland
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,532
Conciliabule - série Abstraction et spiritualité de l'espace
Mano
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,665
Les Glaciers - Série Patagonie
Monique Rozanes
Painting - 55 x 70 x 1 cm Painting - 21.7 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,598
1995 Portrait
Bernard Di Sciullo
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
$1,276
Abstract art
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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.
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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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