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Lever de soleil à Poaka
Juliette June
Painting - 195 x 130 x 4 cm Painting - 76.8 x 51.2 x 1.6 inch
$5,830
Triptyque Paravent
Christine Tresca
Painting - 160 x 130 x 2.3 cm Painting - 63 x 51.2 x 0.9 inch
$2,130
Shakespearian Tempest the Day of the Opening Night
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 100 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$549
MOON SHIN Red ink Sculpture 1972 Collection MMCA Museum Modern Contemporary Art Seoul
Moon Shin
Painting - 15 x 12 cm Painting - 5.9 x 4.7 inch
$3,251
Floating on a Kiss - Red & Yellow
Voxx Romana
Painting - 68.5 x 51 x 0.5 cm Painting - 27 x 20.1 x 0.2 inch
$650
Blue pink Abstraction Bleue Rose 1973
Moon Shin
Painting - 24 x 18 cm Painting - 9.4 x 7.1 inch
$5,045
Black purple Abstraction 1973 Collection MMCA Museum Modern Contemporary Art, Seoul
Moon Shin
Painting - 24 x 18 x 0.5 cm Painting - 9.4 x 7.1 x 0.2 inch
$5,493
Deep Purple blue Abstraction Pourpre Bleue 1972
Moon Shin
Painting - 24 x 22 x 0.5 cm Painting - 9.4 x 8.7 x 0.2 inch
$5,045
1979 Poisson dans l'abysse Fish in Abyss
Moon Shin
Painting - 42 x 27 cm Painting - 16.5 x 10.6 inch
$5,549
1979 Losange sur fond bleu Diamond on blue
Moon Shin
Painting - 42 x 27 cm Painting - 16.5 x 10.6 inch
$5,606
1979 Losange sur fond bleu Diamond on blue
Moon Shin
Painting - 42 x 27 cm Painting - 16.5 x 10.6 inch
$5,606
1979 Playing together Jouer ensemble
Moon Shin
Painting - 42 x 27 cm Painting - 16.5 x 10.6 inch
$5,549
1979 Tête de profil Bleu Blanc Rouge Head in profile Blue White Red
Moon Shin
Painting - 42 x 27 cm Painting - 16.5 x 10.6 inch
$5,606
Espace Pétrifié & courir avec la tache jaune du bonheur au fond
Joël Kermarrec
Painting - 115 x 89 x 2 cm Painting - 45.3 x 35 x 0.8 inch
$4,036
912 Nicaragua
Laurence Hubswerlin Diradourian
Painting - 30 x 40 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 inch
$589
Face à la Mer 15 - 19 Mai
Nicolas Curmer
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,121
Divagations 5 - Vers l'espoir
Thérèse Bosc
Painting - 80 x 80 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 inch
$11,435
General Motors
Jean-Jacques Venturini
Painting - 100 x 81 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1.2 inch
$1,345
1958 Parisiens Parisians
Kam Zin Choon
Painting - 48 x 64 x 0.5 cm Painting - 18.9 x 25.2 x 0.2 inch
$1,289 $645
1956 Dieu dans la rivière River God
Kam Zin Choon
Painting - 50 x 30 x 0.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$2,186
We'll Remember Baton Rouge
Macha Poynder
Painting - 172 x 314 cm Painting - 67.7 x 123.6 inch
$19,885
Flying Allies on Their Way to Antelope Valley (to MB)
Macha Poynder
Painting - 169 x 216 cm Painting - 66.5 x 85 inch
$11,003
Organic Geometry (Fragrant Portals II)
Michael Barringer
Painting - 76.2 x 55.8 cm Painting - 30 x 22 inch
$3,845
Organic Geometry (El Buey I)
Michael Barringer
Painting - 55.8 x 76.2 cm Painting - 22 x 30 inch
$3,845
The theft of the Mona Lisa
Vladimir Kolosov
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 0.3 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.125 inch
$3,110
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Contemporary paintings for sale
Artsper has a large selection of modern and contemporary canvas paintings for you to discover, organized under our various headers and themes. Painting has been a means of expression for mankind from Prehistoric times to the modern day, making it a true ambassador for the fine arts. Even today, it embodies the visual arts par excellence.
Oil paintings, watercolors, ink washes and even acrylics; there are many different techniques which allow the painter to achieve the desired effect. Mixing pigments with synthetic resin make it acrylic, while adding delicately grinded gum arabic, transform it into gouache and watercolor. In street art, painting takes shape on walls using spray cans, but painting can adapt to all kinds of supports. Often more frequently used on canvas, paintings can also be created on wood, paper… there are no limits to the surfaces the artist can use it on.
A painting is above all the concept and ideas behind the brushstrokes and the artistic process. With this in mind, two key trends contrast with each other: figurative art and abstract art. However, they are merely two guiding principles amongst the host of pictorial movements which have been developed throughout the years and have come to establish the history of art. Each of these artistic movements have played their part, often drawing on achievements from the past or by doing the exact opposite of previous techniques. As with minimalist painting and the Pop art movement, the norms have evolved and they are no longer the same, creating new aesthetics and changing the way we view art.
The practice of painting continues to evolve with the succession of movements and artistic experimentation, as artists become interested in new techniques and try to deal with new issues. Certain artists highlight the importance of color, whilst others focus on form or light. The Impressionists, for example, gave a great deal of importance to what the eye truly saw, whereas the Surrealists allowed themselves to be guided by their subconscious and the Cubists concentrated on how to depict perspective…
If contemporary art has often been associated with abstract painting, it cannot in any way be reduced to this association. Figurative art is making a comeback on the current art scene and artists are using the style across the world. Contemporary painting is never static and the artworks shown in these pages are proof.
At Artsper, we offer a large and diverse range of paintings, both modern and contemporary, from the best international art galleries. Explore the themes which have fascinated renowned contemporary painters and young artists and discover landscape paintings, portraits, still lives, nudes and from numerous artistic movements such as Pop art, Street art or Outsider Art…
For example, discover the street art paintings of the famous Shepard Fairey, or the figuration libre (free figuration) paintings by Robert Combas, the refined and summery canvases by Marek Okrassa, the colorful and minimalist works of Nicolas Dubreuille, or even stylized portraits by Éric Odartey or Florence Dussuyer, rising stars of the contemporary art scene…
You can also browse by sizes with our selection of small format contemporary paintings or large format paintings but also by color: blue paintings, red paintings, yellow paintings, green paintings, grey contemporary paintings and more....