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Goodbye Brick Town
Mariusz Makula
Painting - 59.9 x 119.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 47.2 x 1 inch
$700
Explosion de couleurs - Smashed 7
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 80 x 80 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.6 inch
$1,674
Explosion de couleurs - Smashed 6
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 120 x 90 x 1.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 0.6 inch
$2,177 $1,741
Colors Interrupted: Grey
Ron Connors
Painting - 80 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$690
Fine Morning
Gago Chtchyan
Painting - 63 x 82 x 2 cm Painting - 24.8 x 32.3 x 0.8 inch
$1,898 $1,708
Bright and Beautiful Day
Viktoria Ganhao
Painting - 100 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,786
Emotional Eruption
Seyran Gasparyan
Painting - 45 x 35 x 0.2 cm Painting - 17.7 x 13.8 x 0.1 inch
$360
Lots Of Fish, All Swimming
Simon Findlay
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,451
Stepping out, Reasons of life
Gor Avetisyan
Painting - 110 x 95 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 37.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,465 $4,019
Iridescent Drizzles (Rain in pink)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 127 x 116.8 x 1.8 cm Painting - 50 x 46 x 0.7 inch
$8,530
New days in spring
Le Hai Linh
Painting - 79 x 99.3 x 3.3 cm Painting - 31.1 x 39.1 x 1.3 inch
$1,828
Sans titre bleu & noir
Rudolf Wiesinger
Painting - 94 x 53 x 3 cm Painting - 37 x 20.9 x 1.2 inch
$726
Seven Wonders #1
Niki Stearman
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$3,150
Take It All Away
Niki Stearman
Painting - 91.4 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$2,450
Just A Girl She Said
Niki Stearman
Painting - 121.9 x 152.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 60 x 1.5 inch
$3,350
Abstract-180 Happy Mind
Nivas Kanhere
Painting - 121.9 x 182.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 72 x 1 inch
$4,200
Abstract-182 On Voyage of Highness
Nivas Kanhere
Painting - 121.9 x 182.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 72 x 1 inch
$4,200
Time and Consequences
Newel Hunter
Painting - 50.8 x 50.8 x 3.8 cm Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 inch
$2,250
Picture Perfect (Shimmering Sky)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 71.1 x 55.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 28 x 22 x 1.5 inch
$2,165
In early spring (A closer look)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 124.5 x 86.4 x 1.8 cm Painting - 49 x 34 x 0.7 inch
$4,570
Reflections of Colors 2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 1.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 0.7 inch
$4,235
Reflection of colors 5
Nestor Toro
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.7 inch
$2,530
Caribbean reflections 2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.7 inch
$2,530
Frozen in time (Iridescent colorfield)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.7 inch
$2,280
In constant motion (City life) 4
Nestor Toro
Painting - 61 x 91.4 x 1.8 cm Painting - 24 x 36 x 0.7 inch
$4,050
One crazy dream (Colorful panorama)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 86.4 x 68.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 34 x 27 x 0.7 inch
$3,030
Under the northern lights
Nestor Toro
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.7 inch
$3,410
An instant paradise
Nestor Toro
Painting - 71.1 x 55.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 28 x 22 x 0.7 inch
$2,530
An instant paradise,
Nestor Toro
Painting - 71.1 x 55.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 28 x 22 x 0.7 inch
$2,180
Endless secret night,
Nestor Toro
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.7 inch
$3,470
An instant paradise 2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 71.1 x 55.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 28 x 22 x 0.7 inch
$2,180
Reflections of Europe 3
Nestor Toro
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.7 inch
$3,460
Torrential purple storm (A closer look) 3
Nestor Toro
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$3,970
Torrential purple storm (A closer look) 4, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Nestor Toro
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$3,970
Golden splendor (Over red)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$3,940
Ultimate brightness
Nestor Toro
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 1.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 0.7 inch
$2,460
Foliage and breeze (A forest song)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.7 inch
$2,270
A Forest Song (Circle of seasons)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.7 inch
$2,130
Dreaming of Monet,
Nancy McIntyre
Painting - 91.4 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$2,590
Not A Time To Be Afraid
Olaosun Oluwapelumi
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1 inch
$2,000
Elementals
Elizabeth Hefty-Khoury
Painting - 100 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,161
Messages from the universe
Emily Starck
Painting - 58 x 51 x 0.1 cm Painting - 22.8 x 20.1 x 0 inch
$1,005
Sans titre bleu & vert
Rudolf Wiesinger
Painting - 50 x 75 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 29.5 x 1.2 inch
$614
Explosion de couleurs - On the move 1
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.4 inch
$1,674
For All of Us Who Dare to Imagine
Laura Harris
Painting - 152 x 122 x 3 cm Painting - 59.8 x 48 x 1.2 inch
$10,074 $8,059
Abstract expressionism
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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.
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