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Bombs birds of freedom
Mariusz Makula
Painting - 80 x 59.9 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$650
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
Thriving in the Darkness
Candice Grant
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 1.5 inch
$600
The Magic of the Unknown
Candice Grant
Painting - 45.7 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 18 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$600
Victorian Place III,IV
Ron Halfant
Painting - 91.4 x 121.9 x 1.5 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 0.6 inch
$1,333
Loderne Feuerstätten; #2170
H. Pastor
Painting - 90 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$3,103
Looking into the Depth
Vik Schroeder
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,340
Structural Primitive 1
Dunmade Ayegbayo
Painting - 101.6 x 73.7 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 29 x 1 inch
$850
New horizons
Saverio Filioli Uranio
Painting - 100 x 200 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 78.7 x 0.6 inch
$4,130
Back to the primitive (triptych)
Moksananda
Painting - 46 x 115 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 45.3 x 0.8 inch
$1,440
Poussières de sable du Sahara
Emily Starck
Painting - 119.4 x 119.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 47 x 47 x 1 inch
$4,342
Ca va durer encore longtemps?
Emily Starck
Painting - 109.2 x 188 x 2.5 cm Painting - 43 x 74 x 1 inch
$4,808
Un jour je ne serai plus
Emily Starck
Painting - 182.9 x 124.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 72 x 49 x 1 inch
$4,608
Summer 2021, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Emily Starck
Painting - 94 x 198.1 x 2.5 cm Painting - 37 x 78 x 1 inch
$4,872
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
$2,207
Butterflies are back
Emily Starck
Painting - 114.3 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 45 x 36 x 1 inch
$2,562
Une étoile dans la nuit
Emily Starck
Painting - 99.1 x 94 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39 x 37 x 1 inch
$2,701
Boiling Bubbles Light
Ronald Hunter
Painting - 120 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,115
Static Grey & Purple
Ronald Hunter
Painting - 120 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,115
Static Pink & Grey
Ronald Hunter
Painting - 120 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,115
In ancient Aswan
Brian Bartlett
Painting - 100 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$2,159
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
$670
Wind, black, red, white, yellow, pink, blue abstraction, texture
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 36 x 56 x 2 cm Painting - 14.2 x 22 x 0.8 inch
$1,116
Like an angel XL 1
Peter Nottrott
Painting - 105 x 155 x 4 cm Painting - 41.3 x 61 x 1.6 inch
$2,668
Beautiful summer landscape XL 9
Peter Nottrott
Painting - 105 x 155 x 4 cm Painting - 41.3 x 61 x 1.6 inch
$2,735
Perfect Summer Feelings XL 1
Peter Nottrott
Painting - 105 x 155 x 4 cm Painting - 41.3 x 61 x 1.6 inch
$3,684
Nature Adventure XL 13
Peter Nottrott
Painting - 105 x 155 x 4 cm Painting - 41.3 x 61 x 1.6 inch
$2,780
Emotional Daydream L 3
Peter Nottrott
Painting - 83 x 155 x 4 cm Painting - 32.7 x 61 x 1.6 inch
$2,333
Emotional Day XL 1
Peter Nottrott
Painting - 105 x 155 x 4 cm Painting - 41.3 x 61 x 1.6 inch
$2,668
Awesome Daydream L 5
Peter Nottrott
Painting - 85 x 105 x 4 cm Painting - 33.5 x 41.3 x 1.6 inch
$2,445
Positive Red Energy XL 2
Peter Nottrott
Painting - 155 x 105 x 4 cm Painting - 61 x 41.3 x 1.6 inch
$3,226
Sunny summer day XL 12
Peter Nottrott
Painting - 105 x 155 x 4 cm Painting - 41.3 x 61 x 1.6 inch
$3,338
Awesome Daydream XXL 4
Peter Nottrott
Painting - 100 x 200 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 78.7 x 1.6 inch
$4,454
Green Daydream XXL 2
Peter Nottrott
Painting - 100 x 200 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 78.7 x 1.6 inch
$3,896
One of these days XXL 9
Peter Nottrott
Painting - 100 x 200 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 78.7 x 1.6 inch
$3,896
My flowers
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,105
Abstract Fantasy
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 90 x 120 x 0.3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 47.2 x 0.1 inch
$2,009
Old Schoolboard with Alphabet on Gallery canvas
Anastasia Vasilyeva
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,233
Water Rebirth
Anastasia Vasilyeva
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1.8 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.7 inch
$893
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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