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Let me jump in your game #3
Paulo Canilhas
Painting - 90 x 90 x 4 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.6 inch
$3,588
I miss the Red Clay
Andrew Kinmont
Painting - 77 x 77 x 3.5 cm Painting - 30.3 x 30.3 x 1.4 inch
$2,015
Midnight in Laponia
Kerstin Paillard
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$3,139
Quantas formas tens para contar o tempo 4
Paulo Canilhas
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,691
Abstract Composition
Giorgio Lo Fermo
Painting - 100 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,570
It Came to me in a flash of a light
On Hansen
Painting - 88.9 x 63.5 x 0.3 cm Painting - 35 x 25 x 0.1 inch
$1,200
Portriat of mother earth
Amarkine Amarteifio
Painting - 61 x 116.8 x 5.1 cm Painting - 24 x 46 x 2 inch
$5,900
Spring rain
Behshad Arjomandi
Painting - 72.9 x 150.1 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,540
Wassertropfen-Symphonie
Judith Christine Riemer
Painting - 95 x 115 x 2 cm Painting - 37.4 x 45.3 x 0.8 inch
$2,780
De bruit et de fureur
Benoît Guérin
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$774
Sensation of the lost structure
Vladimir Kolosov
Painting - 35.6 x 45.7 x 1.9 cm Painting - 14 x 18 x 0.75 inch
$640
Illusion of existence
Vladimir Kolosov
Painting - 45.7 x 61 x 1.9 cm Painting - 18 x 24 x 0.75 inch
$680
White Line 4 - Black and White Abstract | Abstrait Noir et Blanc
Gina Vor
Painting - 29.7 x 21 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$168
Violet Diptych, Diptyque Violet
Gina Vor
Painting - 30.2 x 50 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.9 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$224
Sweet Taste of Success
Viktoria Ganhao
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.4 inch
$482
Nuvole Capricciose
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 65 x 90 x 0.1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 35.4 x 0 inch
$1,121
Infiorescenza
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 103 x 51 x 0.1 cm Painting - 40.6 x 20.1 x 0 inch
$1,121
Celebrating Life II
Viktoria Ganhao
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,579
Diversion
Viktoria Ganhao
Painting - 90 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,372 $3,716
Floral 12.21
Viktoria Ganhao
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,579 $2,243
Blue Abstraction III
Viktoria Ganhao
Painting - 90 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$3,700
Untitled. 23.11.21
Viktoria Ganhao
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,579
Emotional. July.
Viktoria Ganhao
Painting - 90 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,635
Stars inside
Saverio Filioli Uranio
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$774
Al Mercato delle spezie
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 115 x 145 x 0.1 cm Painting - 45.3 x 57.1 x 0 inch
$2,130
Fiori nel campo
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 70 x 120 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 47.2 x 0 inch
$2,220
We contain multitudes
Maria Esmar
Painting - 140 x 180 x 0.1 cm Painting - 55.1 x 70.9 x 0 inch
$6,166
Land of Green Ginger
Ian Lawrence
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,319
Till the End of Time
Nemanja Nikolic
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.78 inch
$1,345
The action of power and the course of a landscape
Hyung Jin PARK
Painting - 60.5 x 60.5 cm Painting - 23.8 x 23.8 inch
$4,933
Secret Situation
Kajazun (Kajo) Avetisyan
Painting - 70 x 58 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 22.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,110
Le trèfle bleu et blanc #19
Françoise Danel
Painting - 60 x 60 x 5.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 2.2 inch
$1,682
Black Line Picture 23
Ronald Hunter
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,008
Gammes matinales avril 2023 - 10
Benoît Singy
Painting - 99 x 54 cm Painting - 39 x 21.3 inch
$1,121
Gammes matinales Avril 2023 - 09
Benoît Singy
Painting - 84 x 54 cm Painting - 33.1 x 21.3 inch
$1,121
Gammes matinales Avril 2023 - 11
Benoît Singy
Painting - 66 x 54 cm Painting - 26 x 21.3 inch
$1,009
Realities of Life II
Damola Ayegbayo
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 5.1 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 inch
$1,000
Realities of Life I
Damola Ayegbayo
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 5.1 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 inch
$1,000
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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