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Taking Hours To Wind Down
Simon Findlay
Painting - 150 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
€1,900
Green Over Blue (Over Green Over Blue) Over Yellow Horizon
Simon Findlay
Painting - 150 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
€1,900
Making Body Sculptures On The Field
Simon Findlay
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,300
Only Present moment (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 70 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
€960 €845
Double Exposure Mountain Flowers
Simon Findlay
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,100
Almost Symmetry 3
Simon Findlay
Painting - 150 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
€1,300
Improving One thing In The Room
Simon Findlay
Painting - 150 x 135 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 53.1 x 0.8 inch
€1,300
Purple Yellow Galaxy
Simon Findlay
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,100
Green Purple Yellow
Simon Findlay
Painting - 150 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
€1,897
Almost Symmetry 2
Simon Findlay
Painting - 150 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
€1,300
Blue Watermelon Drips
Simon Findlay
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,100
Green Arc Over Blue
Simon Findlay
Painting - 150 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
€1,900
Purple Arc Over Blue (Becoming Dizzy And Out Of Breath)
Simon Findlay
Painting - 150 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
€1,900
Trying To Be Colourful
Simon Findlay
Painting - 274 x 177 x 1 cm Painting - 107.9 x 69.7 x 0.4 inch
€1,500
Boiling Bubbles XL
Ronald Hunter
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
€1,920
Infinite Flight
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 100 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
€4,259
Bouquet of winter.
Vik Schroeder
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€2,000
Looking into the Depth
Vik Schroeder
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,200
Victorian Place III,IV
Ron Halfant
Painting - 91.4 x 121.9 x 1.5 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 0.6 inch
€1,290
My flowers
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€990
Abstract Fantasy
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 90 x 120 x 0.3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 47.2 x 0.1 inch
€1,800
Structural Primitive 1
Dunmade Ayegbayo
Painting - 101.6 x 73.7 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 29 x 1 inch
€823
New horizons
Saverio Filioli Uranio
Painting - 100 x 200 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 78.7 x 0.6 inch
€3,700
Keep this memory forever
Maria Esmar
Painting - 40 x 40 x 4 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.6 inch
€550
A way to infinity 13
Ovidiu Kloska
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€1,250
INNER GARDEN - II
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 120 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1 inch
€950 €855
Sunny morning
Maria Esmar
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€1,900 €1,710
Le bonheur est dans la couleur
Emily Starck
Painting - 109.2 x 88.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 43 x 35 x 1 inch
€2,755
Butterflies are back
Emily Starck
Painting - 114.3 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 45 x 36 x 1 inch
€2,877
Une étoile dans la nuit
Emily Starck
Painting - 99.1 x 94 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39 x 37 x 1 inch
€3,013
Loderne Feuerstätten; #2170
H. Pastor
Painting - 90 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
€2,780
Crépuscule au Parc des Buttes-Chaumont ( Diptyque )
Edmond Li Bellefroid
Painting - 33.2 x 48.5 x 2 cm Painting - 13.1 x 19.1 x 0.8 inch
€600
Playful - Disjointed reality #11
Kris Haas
Painting - 76.2 x 55.88 x 0.25 cm Painting - 30 x 22 x 0.1 inch
€1,750
Landscape abstracts
Le Hai Linh
Painting - 99.3 x 79 x 3.3 cm Painting - 39.1 x 31.1 x 1.3 inch
€1,829
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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