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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!

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Photography, Ambrosia, Andy Julia

Ambrosia

Andy Julia

Photography - 105 x 75 x 5 cm Photography - 41.3 x 29.5 x 2 inch

$1,907

Painting, Screen 1, Sten Lex

Screen 1

Sten Lex

Painting - 90 x 90 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 inch

$8,091

Sculpture, Poire, Andreas

Poire

Andreas

Sculpture - 39 x 23 x 23 cm Sculpture - 15.4 x 9.1 x 9.1 inch

$13,870

Painting, Arbre sacré, Anand Shyam

Arbre sacré

Anand Shyam

Painting - 90 x 81 x 4 cm Painting - 35.4 x 31.9 x 1.6 inch

$867

Print, Nina, Fred Ebami

Nina

Fred Ebami

Print - 50 x 40 cm Print - 19.7 x 15.7 inch

$1,040

Painting, Matrix 1, Adolf Gil

Matrix 1

Adolf Gil

Painting - 65 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch

$2,890

Photography, Polka Dots, Mark MacKinnon

Polka Dots

Mark MacKinnon

Photography - 102 x 102 x 3 cm Photography - 40.2 x 40.2 x 1.2 inch

$4,942

Painting, Golf, Gianfranco Migliozzi

Golf

Gianfranco Migliozzi

Painting - 100 x 100 x 10 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 3.9 inch

$2,890

Sculpture, Le marin, Patricia Simsa

Le marin

Patricia Simsa

Sculpture - 155 x 45 x 30 cm Sculpture - 61 x 17.7 x 11.8 inch

$6,935

Painting, Untitled, Regina Gimenez

Untitled

Regina Gimenez

Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch

$7,109

Painting, Love is the answer, Sane2

Love is the answer

Sane2

Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch

$1,156

Painting, Cudillero, David Mann

Cudillero

David Mann

Painting - 139 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 54.7 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch

$5,779

Painting, Marilyn Forever, Mila

Marilyn Forever

Mila

Painting - 149 x 119 cm Painting - 58.7 x 46.9 inch

$23,117

Print, Toy killer, Sane2

Toy killer

Sane2

Print - 42 x 29 cm Print - 16.5 x 11.4 inch

$91

Sculpture, Moving, Mark Brusse

Moving

Mark Brusse

Sculpture - 43 x 38 x 17 cm Sculpture - 16.9 x 15 x 6.7 inch

$13,870

Fine Art Drawings, Untitled, Olivier Marin

Untitled

Olivier Marin

Fine Art Drawings - 76 x 111 cm Fine Art Drawings - 29.9 x 43.7 inch

$1,734

Photography, Leopardi, Alfons Alt

Leopardi

Alfons Alt

Photography - 81 x 100 x 5 cm Photography - 31.9 x 39.4 x 2 inch

$3,699

Painting, Sans titre, Durga Bai

Sans titre

Durga Bai

Painting - 32 x 24 x 2 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0.8 inch

$370

Print, Sans titre, Alfred

Sans titre

Alfred

Print - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch

$173

Fine Art Drawings, Octopus, Lorys

Octopus

Lorys

Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch

$405

Fine Art Drawings, Six Geishas, Walasse Ting

Six Geishas

Walasse Ting

Fine Art Drawings - 81.3 x 94 cm Fine Art Drawings - 32 x 37 inch

$30,000

Sculpture, Alixia, Jean Laniau

Alixia

Jean Laniau

Sculpture - 61 x 50 x 40 cm Sculpture - 24 x 19.7 x 15.7 inch

$17,338

Print, Do You Miss Me, MissMe

Do You Miss Me

MissMe

Print - 113 x 67 cm Print - 44.5 x 26.4 inch

$1,618

Fine Art Drawings, Zhan, Frédéric Léglise

Zhan

Frédéric Léglise

Fine Art Drawings - 77 x 57 cm Fine Art Drawings - 30.3 x 22.4 inch

$2,312

Photography, Expire, June Stolian

Expire

June Stolian

Photography - 75 x 50 x 3 cm Photography - 29.5 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch

$1,734

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