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Un peu de soleil dans l'eau froide
Claudine Tamborini
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,998
Reflet d'une vieille coque
Richard Bouts
Painting - 65.3 x 54.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 25.7 x 21.5 x 1 inch
$1,110
Blue tone cube
Jose Ricardo Contreras Gonzalez
Painting - 48.3 x 38.1 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19 x 15 x 0.1 inch
$1,000
Black glitter bucket
Jose Ricardo Contreras Gonzalez
Painting - 48.3 x 38.1 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19 x 15 x 0.1 inch
$1,000
Past, Present and... (L'amour fondamental)
Wookyung Jeong
Painting - 45.5 x 45.5 x 2 cm Painting - 17.9 x 17.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,665
Past, Present and... (L'amour fondamental)
Wookyung Jeong
Painting - 45.5 x 45.5 x 2 cm Painting - 17.9 x 17.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,665
Cosmic roots
Saverio Filioli Uranio
Painting - 42 x 27 x 11.5 cm Painting - 16.5 x 10.6 x 4.5 inch
$322
Allegro
Isabelle Schenckbecher-Quint
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,109
Hide and seek
Kotaro Machiyama
Painting - 130.3 x 97 x 0.1 cm Painting - 51.3 x 38.2 x 0 inch
$5,040
Peinture abstraite 25 Diptyque
Bruneau
Painting - 50 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$644
LES PETITES LUMIERES DE NOS VIES
Sophie Petetin
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1 inch
$2,103
La part des anges
Martine Lallement
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$777
Tamin Tigers
Manuela Karin Knaut
Painting - 230 x 140 x 4 cm Painting - 90.6 x 55.1 x 1.6 inch
$6,216
Stormy Sky
Isabelle Schenckbecher-Quint
Painting - 115 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 45.3 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$977
Sweet Taste of Success
Viktoria Ganhao
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.4 inch
$477
Body Paint (Awelye)
Abie Loy Kemarre
Painting - 92 x 122 x 3 cm Painting - 36.2 x 48 x 1.2 inch
$4,995
Downtown Christmas Party !
Aatmica Ojha
Painting - 60 x 90 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
$2,109
Fish N Chips for dinner - Hold the vinegar
Andrew Weir
Painting - 48 x 36 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.9 x 14.2 x 0 inch
$555
When the spring flowers bloom
Dongyao Liu
Painting - 29 x 67 x 1 cm Painting - 11.4 x 26.4 x 0.4 inch
$1,498
Délirium n°2
Bertram Trabhardt-Oaz
Painting - 130 x 96 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 37.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,887
Enigmatic, fragile interior (2)
Sara Chaar
Painting - 135 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 53.1 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$4,500
Enigmatic, fragile interior (1)
Sara Chaar
Painting - 135 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 53.1 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$4,500
The Strangest Places
Sara Chaar
Painting - 120 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$4,400
Trompetas en la escalera
Miguel Núñez
Painting - 126 x 78 x 3 cm Painting - 49.6 x 30.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,109
"Human" Body. Soul. Mind.
Viktoria Ganhao
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,553
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!