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Le bonheur est dans la couleur
Emily Starck
Painting - 109.2 x 88.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 43 x 35 x 1 inch
$2,846
Butterflies are back
Emily Starck
Painting - 114.3 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 45 x 36 x 1 inch
$2,973
Une étoile dans la nuit
Emily Starck
Painting - 99.1 x 94 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39 x 37 x 1 inch
$3,113
Loderne Feuerstätten; #2170
H. Pastor
Painting - 90 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$3,160
In ancient Aswan
Brian Bartlett
Painting - 100 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$2,202
The map to your heart
Maria Esmar
Painting - 102 x 102 x 4 cm Painting - 40.2 x 40.2 x 1.6 inch
$2,160
Crépuscule au Parc des Buttes-Chaumont ( Diptyque )
Edmond Li Bellefroid
Painting - 33.2 x 48.5 x 2 cm Painting - 13.1 x 19.1 x 0.8 inch
$682
Keep this memory forever
Maria Esmar
Painting - 40 x 40 x 4 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.6 inch
$625
A beautiful friendship 1
Moksananda
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,501
Playful - Disjointed reality #11
Kris Haas
Painting - 76.2 x 55.88 x 0.25 cm Painting - 30 x 22 x 0.1 inch
$1,989
Wind, black, red, white, yellow, pink, blue abstraction, texture
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 36 x 56 x 2 cm Painting - 14.2 x 22 x 0.8 inch
$1,137
A small reminder of home
Maria Esmar
Painting - 30 x 30 x 4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
$853
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
Believe in yourself
Maria Esmar
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,046
Unforgettable moments
Maria Esmar
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,274
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
$1,131
Passaggio a Nord Est
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 65 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$853
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
Mysterious Forest
Zakhar Shevchuk
Painting - 70 x 120 x 1.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 47.2 x 0.6 inch
$2,501
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
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.
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.
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