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Sculpture, Au-delà, Chloé Sontrop

Au-delà

Chloé Sontrop

Sculpture - 38 x 21 x 23 cm

$4,291

Sculpture, McQueen Drives, Jicé

McQueen Drives

Jicé

Sculpture - 90 x 90 x 15 cm

$8,018

Sculpture, Hunted-Hunter#1, Virginie Groleau

Hunted-Hunter#1

Virginie Groleau

Sculpture - 30 x 16 x 18 cm

$3,388

Sculpture, Loin, Béatrice Cols

Loin

Béatrice Cols

Sculpture - 29 x 13 x 14 cm

$4,065

Sculpture, The Head, Just Cool

The Head

Just Cool

Sculpture - 26 x 21 x 10 cm

$2,247

Sculpture, Head of Man, Amedeo Bocchi

Head of Man

Amedeo Bocchi

Sculpture - 30 x 19 x 11 cm

$6,776

Sculpture, Danakil, Jacques Darbaud

Danakil

Jacques Darbaud

Sculpture - 44 x 30 x 27 cm

$9,599

Sculpture, Adelpha, Juliette Clovis

Adelpha

Juliette Clovis

Sculpture - 34 x 34 x 27 cm

$5,590

Sculpture, Portrait of Italo Balbo, Marco Novati

Portrait of Italo Balbo

Marco Novati

Sculpture - 44 x 30 x 32 cm

$7,905

Sculpture, Head of Woman, Emilio Greco

Head of Woman

Emilio Greco

Sculpture - 48 x 27 x 17 cm

$8,470

Sculpture, Fragment d'Alepo I, Beatrice Bizot

Fragment d'Alepo I

Beatrice Bizot

Sculpture - 41 x 12 x 14 cm

$2,033

Sculpture, Tête d'homme, Christophe Charbonnel

Tête d'homme

Christophe Charbonnel

Sculpture - 127 x 64 x 71 cm

$67,758

Sculpture, Mathilde, Véronique Clanet

Mathilde

Véronique Clanet

Sculpture - 37.5 x 20 x 20 cm

$3,501

Sculpture, La Belle Mona, Véronique Clanet

La Belle Mona

Véronique Clanet

Sculpture - 30 x 22 x 23 cm

$3,501

Sculpture, Romy, Véronique Clanet

Romy

Véronique Clanet

Sculpture - 37 x 20 x 20 cm

$3,049

Sculpture, Maty, Véronique Clanet

Maty

Véronique Clanet

Sculpture - 57 x 28 x 20 cm

$4,235

Sculpture, You could tell he had the red spirit in him, Bevan Ramsay

You could tell he had the red spirit in him

Bevan Ramsay

Sculpture - 68 x 34 x 28 cm

$6,600

Sculpture, Peter en veste de jardinier, Virginie Groleau

Peter en veste de jardinier

Virginie Groleau

Sculpture - 40 x 42 x 30 cm

$5,872

Sculpture, Masai, Jacques Darbaud

Masai

Jacques Darbaud

Sculpture - 47 x 33 x 27 cm

Sold

Sculpture, Air, Isabell Beyel

Air

Isabell Beyel

Sculpture - 140 x 100 x 15 cm

Sold

Sculpture, Walk, Isabell Beyel

Walk

Isabell Beyel

Sculpture - 140 x 100 x 15 cm

Sold

Sculpture, Untitled, Isabell Beyel

Untitled

Isabell Beyel

Sculpture - 140 x 100 x 15 cm

Sold

Sculpture, Hunted-hunter#3, Virginie Groleau

Hunted-hunter#3

Virginie Groleau

Sculpture - 30 x 16 x 18 cm

Sold

Sculpture, Janus, Seyni Awa Camara

Janus

Seyni Awa Camara

Sculpture - 100 x 45 x 37 cm

Sold

Sculpture, Friedrich Engels, Gilles Fromonteil

Friedrich Engels

Gilles Fromonteil

Sculpture - 60 x 40 x 40 cm

Sold

Sculpture, Lénine, Gilles Fromonteil

Lénine

Gilles Fromonteil

Sculpture - 50 x 40 x 40 cm

Sold

Sculpture, Karl Marx, Gilles Fromonteil

Karl Marx

Gilles Fromonteil

Sculpture - 59.95 x 40 x 40 cm

Sold

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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!

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