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Phantasmagory
Mariam Odishvili
Painting - 23.5 x 28.5 x 0.2 cm Painting - 9.3 x 11.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,116
Grenade, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Evgeny Chernyakovsky
Painting - 69.9 x 69.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 27.5 x 27.5 x 1 inch
$2,000
Myth, Muse and Metaphor #7
Nancy Goodman Lawrence
Painting - 61 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 0.8 inch
$1,600
A journey of one's own_I'll come to you#4
So-Young Ahn
Painting - 90 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,009
I’ll Have Your Name Engraved in My Heart Forever
Sahara
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,228
Mashimom's Daughter, Wrath
Christina Schwermer
Painting - 70 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$2,009
One-Winged Angel of Humbleness
Christina Schwermer
Painting - 55 x 55 x 1 cm Painting - 21.7 x 21.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,674
One-Winged Angel of Tenderness
Christina Schwermer
Painting - 55 x 55 x 1 cm Painting - 21.7 x 21.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,674
Mashimom`s Daughter, Sloth
Christina Schwermer
Painting - 70 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$2,009
Bird Of Paradise
Maia Kvatchadze
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
$1,786
Iroise - série mer et poissons
Sylvie Vandensteendam
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,395
Gorilla - hominedea, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Stefanie Rogge
Painting - 99.1 x 78.7 x 1.8 cm Painting - 39 x 31 x 0.7 inch
$1,490
The Bear Wants you to Stop Fighting
Teppei Ikehila
Painting - 33 x 33 x 3 cm Painting - 13 x 13 x 1.2 inch
$670
Our Peaceful Neighborhood
Park Hyo Jung
Painting - 50 x 50 x 5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 2 inch
$1,563
Mujer deseperada
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,340
Covid 19 – The Submerged
Graça Tirelli
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,116
The Argonauts
Giorgi Kukhalashvili
Painting - 60 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$3,126
Kingdom of the Ghosts
Giorgi Kukhalashvili
Painting - 50 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$3,907
My Brother's Room
Teona Yamanidze
Painting - 100 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$6,140
Lo que no me atrevo a decir
Susana Casillas
Painting - 110 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 43.3 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,563
Abstract - Galaxy Amusement Park
Guoyi Liu
Painting - 200 x 270 x 4 cm Painting - 78.7 x 106.3 x 1.6 inch
$48,781
Abstract - Happy Bath
Guoyi Liu
Painting - 100 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$14,288
Abstract - Superstring Series No.16
Guoyi Liu
Painting - 120 x 180 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 70.9 x 1.6 inch
$25,786
Portrait - Various Appearance
Guoyi Liu
Painting - 150 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$17,191
Portrait - The Game of Life
Guoyi Liu
Painting - 150 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$14,288
Draw the table-Tianlong Babu
Fan Hong
Painting - 100 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$3,572
Camille Claudel, série Les Palpitantes
Alice Laverty
Painting - 80 x 80 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.6 inch
$3,349
Sol en la noche
Seila Otxandiano
Painting - 72 x 92 x 12 cm Painting - 28.3 x 36.2 x 4.7 inch
$1,116
Entre dos luces
Seila Otxandiano
Painting - 120 x 120 x 8 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 3.1 inch
$2,009
Angelo del Giudizio Universale serie Omaggio a Giusto de' Menabuoi
Alexander Daniloff
Painting - 48 x 66 x 0.2 cm Painting - 18.9 x 26 x 0.1 inch
$346
Centauromachia
Alexander Daniloff
Painting - 27 x 50 x 0.4 cm Painting - 10.6 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
$435 $371
Figuration
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!