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The Pond - L’étang
Frédérique Cantais
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$392
Misunderstanding
Joyce Fournier
Painting - 61 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$1,070 $803
Moments in Time Triptych
Joyce Fournier
Painting - 61 x 144.8 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 57 x 1.5 inch
$1,800 $1,350
Time Will Tell
Joyce Fournier
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$1,450 $1,088
Spring Fever
Joyce Fournier
Painting - 71.1 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 28 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$1,130 $848
Révolte Spectrale
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 100 x 80.5 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,682
Togetherness
Joyce Fournier
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.2 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.25 inch
$2,250 $1,575
The mindful one
Joyce Fournier
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 0.3 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.1 inch
$370 $259
Elle
Jérôme Sorolla "Le parrain des arts"
Painting - 90 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$336
Le bord de l'étang, au printemps
Dam Domido
Painting - 95 x 95 x 0.01 cm Painting - 37.4 x 37.4 x 0 inch
$2,803
Persona YB2402
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
$1,989
Persona YB2401
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
$1,989
Be kind (Stretched)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 114 x 146 x 2 cm Painting - 44.9 x 57.5 x 0.8 inch
$4,709
Galactic explosion
Saverio Filioli Uranio
Painting - 89 x 116 x 2 cm Painting - 35 x 45.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,345
Raconte moi une histoire (Tell me a story)
Emily Starck
Painting - 61 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 20 x 1 inch
$1,390
Extase, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Emily Starck
Painting - 81.3 x 81.3 x 5.1 cm Painting - 32 x 32 x 2 inch
$1,850
Leader and followers
Abiodun Nafiu Azeez
Painting - 91.4 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 1 inch
$1,550 $1,395
Metropolitan Rhythm
Zakhar Shevchuk
Painting - 60 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,794
Mystery of Horizons
Zakhar Shevchuk
Painting - 40 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,794
Water Rebirth
Anastasia Vasilyeva
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1.8 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.7 inch
$897
East yellow "Collection the sun comes out"
Alessandra Bisi
Painting - 20 x 31 x 0.1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 12.2 x 0 inch
$191
North yellow "Collection the sun comes out"
Alessandra Bisi
Painting - 30 x 21 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$191
High yellow "Collection the sun comes out"
Alessandra Bisi
Painting - 30 x 21 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$191
Yellow sky "Collection the sun comes out"
Alessandra Bisi
Painting - 30 x 21 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$191
Yellow earth (Collection the sun comes out)
Alessandra Bisi
Painting - 21 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 8.3 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$191
Africa confinement
Pierre Morquin
Painting - 162 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 63.8 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,924
Emotional. November
Viktoria Ganhao
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$852
Parallel Universe /1
Viktoria Ganhao
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$594
The Journey
Atom Hovhanesyan
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 1.9 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.75 inch
$45,000
Recouvrement N°1
Jean-Marc Teillon
Painting - 90 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,139
Unconscious Spiral of Desire II
Gor Avetisyan
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,345
SN8 Arqueología de lo que escondo
David Murcia
Painting - 114 x 146 x 4 cm Painting - 44.9 x 57.5 x 1.6 inch
$5,643
Just rainy-LXXV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 71.1 x 101.6 x 2.5 cm Painting - 28 x 40 x 1 inch
$1,500
Metamorphosis
Irakli (Akuna) Kavtaradze
Painting - 115 x 165 x 4 cm Painting - 45.3 x 65 x 1.6 inch
$4,877
Conversation with privacy space violation
Vladimir Kolosov
Painting - 55.9 x 76.2 x 0 cm Painting - 22 x 30 x 0.01 inch
$890
The letters prove to be responsive
Alexei Lantsev
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,018
Because hopes are high
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 121.9 x 76.2 x 5.1 cm Painting - 48 x 30 x 2 inch
$1,200
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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