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Formas Intersiderais
Valentim Sousa
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,535
Loin de chez soi
Valérie Abadie
Fine Art Drawings - 13.5 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.3 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$909
L'homme dragon Yong
Valérie Abadie
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 59 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 23.2 x 0 inch
$2,046
Le poulailler du soleil levant
Valérie Abadie
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 59 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 23.2 x 0 inch
$1,478
Camino de la cueva santa
Valérie Abadie
Fine Art Drawings - 18 x 26 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.1 x 10.2 x 0 inch
$1,137
Bosc verd i Guspirus
Vanessa Linares
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.4 inch
$1,080
Les valérianes
Arelys Photos
Photography - 90 x 60 x 0.5 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
$1,023
Les mots n'ont plus de bouche
Valerio Adami
Print - 31 x 57 x 0.05 cm Print - 12.2 x 22.4 x 0 inch
$398
Portrait Royal Meoxit Cat - French school oil painting 21th - Basel
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,160
Triumphal Arch Starwars - Paris - French school oil painting 21th - Basel
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,160
Living sacrifice
Basel Dahman
Painting - 45 x 35.1 x 4.1 cm Painting - 17.7 x 13.8 x 1.6 inch
$25,000
Still Life in Blue
Vanessa Cuthbert
Painting - 59 x 59 x 2 cm Painting - 23.2 x 23.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,403
Few Strokes of Yellow
Miljan Vasiljevic
Painting - 15.2 x 24.1 x 5.1 cm Painting - 6 x 9.5 x 2 inch
$550
Gutta -Percha Hunter (diptych)
Zianko Vasili
Painting - 150 x 150 x 0.3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0.1 inch
$6,320
Awkward situation
Zianko Vasili
Painting - 110 x 150 x 0.3 cm Painting - 43.3 x 59.1 x 0.1 inch
$7,082
Fidelity for Akiko
Zianko Vasili
Painting - 140 x 100 x 0.3 cm Painting - 55.1 x 39.4 x 0.1 inch
$6,821
Still Life in Violet imparting Lemon shadows
Vanessa Cuthbert
Painting - 62 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 24.4 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
$3,337
Door to serenity - limited edition of 23
Valentin Zaharia
Photography - 60 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$306
Le Grand Bleu – Pure 1
Valentin Bakardjiev
Painting - 110 x 110 x 0.9 cm Painting - 43.3 x 43.3 x 0.4 inch
$6,002
Le Grand Bleu – Pure 2
Valentin Bakardjiev
Painting - 110 x 110 x 0.9 cm Painting - 43.3 x 43.3 x 0.4 inch
$6,002
Rhinocéros
Valerian Sioridzé
Sculpture - 20 x 43.5 x 13.5 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 17.1 x 5.3 inch
$1,080
Enter Sandman, dream no. 2 - limited edition of 21
Valentin Zaharia
Photography - 90 x 59 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.2 x 0.4 inch
$766
August, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Valeria Radzievska
Painting - 40.6 x 71.1 x 2 cm Painting - 16 x 28 x 0.8 inch
$1,100
Nous Sommes Tous des Enfants - 2
Jean Valera
Photography - 20 x 30 x 0.3 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$125
Lawn, From the Series Why This Restlessness?
Casey Waterman
Print - 76.2 x 61 x 0.3 cm Print - 30 x 24 x 0.1 inch
$750
Coat, From the Series “Why This Restlessness?”
Casey Waterman
Print - 127 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Print - 50 x 40 x 0.1 inch
$1,200
Red Ball, From the Series “Why This Restlessness?”
Casey Waterman
Print - 101.6 x 127 x 0.3 cm Print - 40 x 50 x 0.1 inch
$1,200
La Tour Seegmuller
Jean Valera
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.3 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
$216
Three's Company. From the origin series
Casey Waterman
Painting - 41.9 x 125.7 x 5.1 cm Painting - 16.5 x 49.5 x 2 inch
$4,000
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!