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Fragments d'émotion - Royale
Bonus
Painting - 54 x 65 x 0.5 cm Painting - 21.3 x 25.6 x 0.2 inch
€1,500
Fragments d'émotion - Outre mer
Bonus
Painting - 54 x 65 x 0.5 cm Painting - 21.3 x 25.6 x 0.2 inch
€1,500
Be kind (#01, from the series Blank card)
Gfeller + Hellsgård
Painting - 200 x 150 cm Painting - 78.7 x 59.1 inch
€6,400
Better off alone 03
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 5.1 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 2 inch
€213
Inner child 1
Saverio Filioli Uranio
Painting - 100 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0 inch
€230
Regatta in Venice
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 100 x 130 x 0.3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 51.2 x 0.1 inch
€2,000
Little BW 3
Saverio Filioli Uranio
Painting - 11.5 x 35.5 x 0.25 cm Painting - 4.5 x 14 x 0.1 inch
€90
Allegro
Isabelle Schenckbecher-Quint
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,900
Foglie Vibranti
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 160 x 210 x 0.1 cm Painting - 63 x 82.7 x 0 inch
€3,400
Asfalto bagnato
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 115 x 140 x 0.1 cm Painting - 45.3 x 55.1 x 0 inch
€2,300
I Leave My Days Like Autumn Forest Leaves
Ovidiu Kloska
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,000
Kafkian eternity with flowers at 7 pm
Ovidiu Kloska
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,000
Une étoile dans la nuit
Emily Starck
Painting - 100 x 95 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 37.4 x 1.2 inch
€2,750
Danza Erótica (Diptych)
Agustina Barilá Aloi
Painting - 97.5 x 137 cm Painting - 38.4 x 53.9 inch
€804
Black and white
Ellie Sanchez-Galiano
Painting - 91 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 35.8 x 24 x 0.8 inch
€1,300
La coulure des émotions
Marianne Lefevre
Painting - 61 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€590
A long long way to roam
Marianne Lefevre
Painting - 30 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€590
Contemporary Minimalism
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 115 x 95 x 2 cm Painting - 45.3 x 37.4 x 0.8 inch
€590 €531
Sans titre (TAC160393)
Hervé Ringer
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€950
Sans titre (TAC160387)
Hervé Ringer
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€950
Sans titre (TAC160386)
Hervé Ringer
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
€950
In Honour Of God - The Creator 13
Soumitra Bhattacharya
Painting - 213 x 137 x 5 cm Painting - 83.9 x 53.9 x 2 inch
€3,850
La Buena Fama
Robert van Bolderick
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€1,397
Abstrait Forme organique à la bande noire
Françoise Danel
Painting - 130 x 119 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 46.9 x 0.8 inch
€4,900
Abstrait Femmes fleurs
Françoise Danel
Painting - 146 x 114 x 2 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 0.8 inch
€4,900
Les cibles noires
Françoise Danel
Painting - 146 x 114 x 2 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 0.8 inch
€4,900
Abstrait Les danseuses
Françoise Danel
Painting - 129 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 50.8 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
€4,900
Abstrait Mise à nue
Françoise Danel
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
€4,900
Abstrait La forteresse
Françoise Danel
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
€4,900
Abstract expressionism
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.
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