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Riomaggiore, Cinque terre - Italian sunset coast painting, textured sea landscape
Serhii Cherniakovskyi
Painting - 59 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 23.2 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,780
Tuscan landscape at sunset, - Italy art, European landscape, Large Oil painting
Serhii Cherniakovskyi
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,700
Evening Los Angeles
Serhii Cherniakovskyi
Painting - 60 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,200
Dépaysement
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$426
Readers series - Ways of seeing
Nikolaus von Wolff
Print - 23 x 40 x 0.1 cm Print - 9.1 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$897
Beauty is like love
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 95 x 80 x 0.1 cm Painting - 37.4 x 31.5 x 0 inch
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Lumières littorales
Sophie Dumont
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,110
Crystal Cove, beside Mackenzie Beach. Single tree. Stormy.
Chrissy Nickerson
Painting - 102 x 102 x 4 cm Painting - 40.2 x 40.2 x 1.6 inch
$3,105
Crystal Cove, Beside Mackenzie Beach. With Figure.
Chrissy Nickerson
Painting - 102 x 102 x 4 cm Painting - 40.2 x 40.2 x 1.6 inch
$3,105
Spring bright meeting (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 50 x 150 x 1.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 59.1 x 0.6 inch
$774
Plage de Saint-Cast
Bernard Buffet
Painting - 50 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$201,798
Porthole Series #37
Gabrielle Strong
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 4 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 1.6 inch
$342
A sleeping city
Zhivko Mutafchiev
Painting - 95 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 37.4 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,803
Dollar Bill - Porsche Collection
Alain Mimouni
Sculpture - 30 x 60 x 2 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$673
Coral Reef Abstract Fish
Olga Nikitina
Painting - 20 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$280
River Fingers, II
Andrei Duman
Photography - 102 x 135 x 0.1 cm Photography - 40.2 x 53.1 x 0 inch
$5,157
Summer in the mountains
Igor Navrotskyi
Painting - 66 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 26 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$617
Tribute to Soulages (Hommage à Soulages)
Bruno Cantais
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 1 inch
$247
Aiguille verte
Paul de Chatelperron
Fine Art Drawings - 114 x 75 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 44.9 x 29.5 x 0 inch
$2,130
Fluvial Lot et Garonne - paysage de ville et bateau sur le fleuve
Claude Frégère
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$1,110
La Seine à Paris - Ville et quai de Paris avec sa péniche
Claude Frégère
Painting - 73 x 91 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 35.8 x 0.8 inch
$2,074
Aus dem Gruppenbuch der Christiane P. - Der Jahrhundertschritt
Matthias Leupold
Photography - 40 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$1,009
Hilton Falls - 13309
Simeon Posen
Photography - 25.4 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Photography - 10 x 12 x 2 inch
$900
Rockies - 152101
Simeon Posen
Photography - 25.4 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Photography - 10 x 12 x 2 inch
$900
Hector Falls - 121702
Simeon Posen
Photography - 25.4 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Photography - 10 x 12 x 2 inch
$900
Watkin's Glen - 121302
Simeon Posen
Photography - 15.2 x 17.8 x 5.1 cm Photography - 6 x 7 x 2 inch
$900
By the Wild Air
Christopher Rainham
Painting - 50 x 70 x 6 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 2.4 inch
$1,193
Bombardeo de Gernika
Iñaki Oreja
Painting - 81 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,074
La magia del color en un mundo imaginativo
Iñaki Oreja
Painting - 81 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,074
Dancing Blooms by the Stream
Lilith Tonakanyan
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$750
L'Arbre du Lac
Sinden Collier
Photography - 41 x 61 x 0.1 cm Photography - 16.1 x 24 x 0 inch
$1,794
Sur le sentier d'Estom - série Paysage de montagne des Pyrénées
Robert Magendie Malo
Painting - 60 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$981
Sallent de Gállego - série Paysage de montagne en Espagne
Robert Magendie Malo
Painting - 70 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,542 $1,388
Cascade du Cerisey - série Paysage de montagnes des Hautes Pyrénées
Robert Magendie Malo
Painting - 65 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,233
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!