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Silhouettes. Tarifa 1
Elena Done
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
€563
Earth rhythms - 4
Stefan Fierros
Painting - 71.4 x 71.4 x 4.1 cm Painting - 28.1 x 28.1 x 1.6 inch
€679
Stepping Out, Painting, Acrylic on canvas
Anthony Dunphy
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 0.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.3 inch
€798
La beauté des couleurs d’automne
Dolores Bordon
Painting - 20 x 20 x 0.1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0 inch
€800
Drawing For Sewing 20
Kyung-Sup Byun
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€2,990
Seuils et murs-montagnes
François Bossière
Painting - 46 x 38 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 15 x 0.8 inch
€900
Framed Color World II
Jens-Christian Wittig
Print - 50.8 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Print - 20 x 20 x 1 inch
€3,723
Chien Pigeon Paris 1978 Paris Dog Pigeon
Pierre Van Poucke
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 inch
€650
Woman
Simon Goldberg
Fine Art Drawings - 12 x 15 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 4.7 x 5.9 x 0 inch
€300
Nu masculin / Male Nude - 1
Éliane Bonabel
Fine Art Drawings - 75 x 55 cm Fine Art Drawings - 29.5 x 21.7 inch
€1,650
Baise moi
Moolinex
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 70 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
€1,400
Dark Passanger
David Krovblit
Photography - 91 x 91 x 10 cm Photography - 35.8 x 35.8 x 3.9 inch
€12,409
Work Hard Play Art - Skateboard
Haim Zanzouri
Design - 90 x 20 x 1 cm Design - 35.4 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
€1,432
Le temps d’un envol
Olfa Chabchoub
Painting - 60 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€1,850
Alpha Female
Ian Leventhal
Fine Art Drawings - 38.1 x 50.8 x 5.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 20 x 2 inch
€1,289
Little devils
Ray Smith
Fine Art Drawings - 37 x 27 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.6 x 10.6 x 0 inch
€1,100
S/T II
Yamandú Canosa
Fine Art Drawings - 49 x 65 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.3 x 25.6 x 0.4 inch
€1,800
Nina H (-onymous series), Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Boy Droid
Painting - 81 x 54.1 x 1.8 cm Painting - 31.9 x 21.3 x 0.7 inch
€2,734
Oru aoi aita hana EA 6/7
Stoul
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
€400
Yellow and Yellow
Sandra Salamonová
Photography - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€800
Nocturnal Passages
Carola Orieta-Sperman
Painting - 216 x 140 x 4 cm Painting - 85 x 55.1 x 1.6 inch
€3,718
La Casa delle Cose (House of the Things)
Giuseppe Uncini
Fine Art Drawings - 35 x 55 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13.8 x 21.7 x 0 inch
€4,800
Flash Art Racconto
Primo Formenti
Painting - 32.5 x 23 x 0.2 cm Painting - 12.8 x 9.1 x 0.1 inch
€900
Moiré Indigo (Abstract painting)
Tom Henderson
Painting - 32 x 29 cm Painting - 12.6 x 11.4 inch
€2,446
Self-Portrait 20.62
Arthur Hent
Photography - 40 x 30 x 2.5 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 x 1 inch
€1,500
Untitled "Requiem 16"
Mahmoud Hamadani
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 30 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
€1,909
Veiled eye
Katherine Taylor-Schwartz
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,600
Les jardins de Fontainebleau
Cyril Destrade
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 33 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 13 inch
€600
Sans titre
Irmgard Sigg
Fine Art Drawings - 69.5 x 49.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.4 x 19.5 x 0 inch
€800
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!