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The beauty of dance XII
Serghei Ghetiu
Painting - 80 x 49 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 19.3 x 0.8 inch
€1,700
Jungles of the Mind
Roxana Khonkulova
Painting - 90 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€800
Sunshine coast
Serhii Cherniakovskyi
Painting - 75 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 29.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,822 €1,457
The Worship of this Love
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 80 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
€1,500
Blooming pink almond branch
Natalya Mougenot
Painting - 65 x 55 x 1.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.7 x 0.6 inch
€1,100
Fille en ballon s'échappant du mur
Miguel Guía
Painting - 110 x 90 x 4 cm Painting - 43.3 x 35.4 x 1.6 inch
€4,900
Enchanting Elegance
Samson Adetunji
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 1 inch
€2,157
Portrait #2. From the Portraits series
Luigi Christopher Veggetti Kanku
Painting - 30 x 20.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 8.2 x 0.1 inch
€1,151
Floral harmony - Italian painting
Bruno Tinucci
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€525
Hommage à Camille Claudel
Duytter
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
€5,900
Composition
Kajazun (Kajo) Avetisyan
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,900
Escape trajectory variation 20
Kim Atlin
Painting - 102 x 99 x 6 cm Painting - 40.2 x 39 x 2.4 inch
€1,975 €1,778
Self-Worth 2
Hezekiah Oyejide Obidare
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 2 inch
€3,116
There must have been an angel by my side
Ritchelly Oliveira
Painting - 65 x 54 x 3 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 1.2 inch
€7,300
Dans les collines
Brigitte Di Scala
Painting - 65 x 92 x 2.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 36.2 x 1 inch
€2,600
Soulmates, Spring serie
Olha Vlasova
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,000
Arbres sur ciel or
Maylis Bourdet
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,780
La sieste - Nap in a 70's room
Léa Dedieu
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,800
Cats and Mountains
Maya Abashidze
Painting - 60 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€2,300
Ulimi wako mkuwba una faa kuenda kuenye ma shindano
George Lilanga
Painting - 61 x 61 x 1 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 0.4 inch
€790
Portrait d'un ange
Laurence Chouzenoux
Painting - 23 x 17 x 0.5 cm Painting - 9.1 x 6.7 x 0.2 inch
€1,500
La danse des cartes
Xavier de Vilmorin
Painting - 92 x 60 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36.2 x 23.6 x 1 inch
€1,900
Du côté de Paimpol (Série)
Charlotte Abecassis
Painting - 56 x 42 cm Painting - 22 x 16.5 inch
€1,000
Silent and reassuring
Alvaro Petritoli
Painting - 61 x 41 x 3 cm Painting - 24 x 16.1 x 1.2 inch
€1,560
With Cupid at Your Back
Lilit Soghomonyan
Painting - 30 x 21 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
€800
A Farewell to My Problem Days II
Sophia Oshodin
Painting - 80 x 80 x 5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 2 inch
€2,800
Glimpse of the Past
Bello Gabriel
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1 inch
€3,308
Sisters in Yellow 3
Oluwafemi Afolabi
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 1 inch
€4,314
Apéritif Marseillais
Jean-Marie Laugero
Painting - 81 x 130 x 1 cm Painting - 31.9 x 51.2 x 0.4 inch
€1,900
Des fleurs pour Salinger
Jeff Alarie
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 5.1 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 2 inch
€1,160
It_helped_me_diamond
Axel Jenny
Painting - 125 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 49.2 x 39.4 x 0 inch
€2,000
Silent Conversations
Idorenyin Umana
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1 inch
€1,870
The abstraction painting - Neural Networks. Insights
Lilya Volskaya
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,000
Birch Forest IV small
Helen Brough
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
€1,040
My Skin Colour... Gift or Curse?
Iyiola Odunayo
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 1 inch
€1,582
Tranquility
Ogunleke Festus Abiodun
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 inch
€1,678
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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!