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....
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Abstract Composition in Yellow and Blue
Claude Chauchet
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$3,338
Summer Landscape
Alexandar Assenov
Painting - 70 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$4,172
Femmes et feuilles (Women and leaves)
Gabriel Schmitz
Painting - 166 x 58 x 5 cm Painting - 65.4 x 22.8 x 2 inch
$6,914
Too much trafic in New York
Jeantimir
Painting - 195 x 260 x 2 cm Painting - 76.8 x 102.4 x 0.8 inch
$16,690
La vie mysterieuse dans la mer
Japani Shyam
Painting - 55 x 38 x 3 cm Painting - 21.7 x 15 x 1.2 inch
$536
Burlsque dancer. The show
Reginald Marsh
Painting - 70 x 50 x 5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 2 inch
$46,493
Steady Equilibrium ll
Wahyu Srikaryadi
Painting - 150 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$4,769
Cuerpo escueto cuadrado
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 70 x 70 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,030
Le sentier côtier
Frédéric Cadiou
Painting - 46 x 33 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 13 x 0.8 inch
$1,073 $966
Les cabanes tchanquées Arcachon
Louis Magre
Painting - 60 x 73 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 28.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,861
Monotype Fleurs de Cerisier
Aurélie Trabaud
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,907
On sort les voiles
Sophie Petetin
Painting - 60 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,729
Traffic at Charing Cross
David Hinchliffe
Painting - 60 x 90 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,681
Surface non plana. Elemento libero
Chris Carpi
Painting - 100 x 103 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 40.6 x 1.2 inch
$2,265
Le temps des Hibiscus… (Jardin secret)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,292 $3,433
Stoneforest in Red
Tung-Wen Margue
Painting - 180 x 180 x 3 cm Painting - 70.9 x 70.9 x 1.2 inch
$5,961
Pomegranate delight-texture fruit painting, red and green colors
Serhii Cherniakovskyi
Painting - 35 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$860
CARAIBES IMPRESSIONS
Sophie Petetin
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1 inch
$1,663
Street Art Allover
Benjamin SPaRK
Painting - 162 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 63.8 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
$10,848
Le beau rêveur
Nicolas Fropo de Habart
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,027
Le sentier côtier
Frédéric Cadiou
Painting - 38 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 15 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,192 $1,073
Faces Of The Streets Nr.3
Asko
Painting - 128 x 89 x 0.1 cm Painting - 50.4 x 35 x 0 inch
$2,027 $1,824
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Les espaces de Penseur de Rodin
Jesus Campos
Sculpture - 30 x 14 x 15 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 5.5 x 5.9 inch
$1,287
The gas station
Jean-Philippe Berger
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$799 $719
L'esprit Déchaîné (hand-painted)
tizlu
Painting - 50 x 35 x 2.2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 13.8 x 0.9 inch
$2,146
Méandres bleu et sable
Sophie Dumont
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$3,457
