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A Song in the Desert
Snezhana Stoyanova
Painting - 120 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$5,115
Children in the Ukraine
Eva Hoffmann
Painting - 99.1 x 73.7 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39 x 29 x 1 inch
$5,500
Sergei Sviatchenko - Capacity For Conjuring Illusion 7
Sergei Sviatchenko
Photography - 21 x 42 cm Photography - 8.3 x 16.5 inch
$3,410
The Creator Gives, I Give
Elijah Emmanuel Wilson
Painting - 55.88 x 30.48 x 3.175 cm Painting - 22 x 12 x 1.3 inch
$3,581
Portrait bleu
Albena Vatcheva
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,705 $1,620
Réaction
Notseig
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 70 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$2,615
The Happy Villagers I
Angu Walters
Painting - 99 x 119 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39 x 46.9 x 0 inch
$2,700
Après les illusions infantiles
Ivan Plusch
Painting - 180 x 180 x 4 cm Painting - 70.9 x 70.9 x 1.6 inch
$15,915
In the stable - Italian old painting
Guido Guidi
Painting - 35 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$284
The washerwomen - Italian old painting
Guido Guidi
Painting - 50 x 35 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 13.8 x 0.4 inch
$284
C. Menguante (Carpeta "La luna presente")
Magda Bolumar
Print - 70.1 x 50 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 inch
$360
C. Creciente (Carpeta "La luna presente")
Magda Bolumar
Print - 70.1 x 50 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 inch
$360
Cat On My Lap
Mario Henrique
Painting - 148.5 x 148.5 x 4 cm Painting - 58.5 x 58.5 x 1.6 inch
$8,526
The small pier
Paul J Bucknall
Photography - 30.5 x 20.3 x 0.3 cm Photography - 12 x 8 x 0.1 inch
$300
Animal imaginaire II
Thomas Lévy
Sculpture - 32 x 41.5 x 23 cm Sculpture - 12.6 x 16.3 x 9.1 inch
$5,684
Animal imaginaire I
Thomas Lévy
Sculpture - 28.5 x 42 x 25 cm Sculpture - 11.2 x 16.5 x 9.8 inch
$5,684
Paul Eluard (Un poème dans chaque livre Paul Eluard) Ref BDNW2923
Valentine Hugo
Print - 49.5 x 32.5 cm Print - 19.5 x 12.8 inch
$3,410
Circé et le vieux porc à Marseille
Marcoleptique
Fine Art Drawings - 38 x 28 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 11 inch
$512
Created To Create Something Beautiful
Elijah Emmanuel Wilson
Painting - 121.92 x 90.17 x 3.175 cm Painting - 48 x 35.5 x 1.3 inch
$17,052
La llena (Carpeta "La luna presente")
Magda Bolumar
Print - 70.1 x 50 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 inch
$360
La expulsión del paraíso
Kate Kalashnikov
Painting - 116 x 89 x 4 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 1.6 inch
$4,320
Outcome undetermined issue - Issue indéterminée
Frank Eric Zeidler
Fine Art Drawings - 26 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.2 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$250
Somewhere between heaven and earth
Frank Eric Zeidler
Fine Art Drawings - 26 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.2 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$250
The Loud Drinker
Mario Henrique
Painting - 147 x 118 x 4 cm Painting - 57.9 x 46.5 x 1.6 inch
$7,389
The Poker Player
Mario Henrique
Painting - 147 x 118 x 4 cm Painting - 57.9 x 46.5 x 1.6 inch
$7,389
Glass House
Tanner Rhines
Fine Art Drawings - 75.2 x 101.6 cm Fine Art Drawings - 29.6 x 40 inch
$34,103
Partir ou rester
Valérie Abadie
Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 10 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.9 x 3.9 x 0 inch
$136
Contemporary artworks for sale
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!