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That's One Way to Look at It
Hal Mayforth
Painting - 114.3 x 78.7 x 0.3 cm Painting - 45 x 31 x 0.1 inch
$5,000
Harmony of the zodiac: pisces/virgo axis (1)
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,749
From an angel to a ghost
Hal Mayforth
Painting - 106.7 x 81.3 x 0.3 cm Painting - 42 x 32 x 0.1 inch
$5,000
Reasons to be cheerful
Hal Mayforth
Painting - 81.3 x 142.2 x 0.3 cm Painting - 32 x 56 x 0.1 inch
$5,000
Harmony of the zodiac: pisces/virgo axis
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,749
Argyle of my dreams
Hal Mayforth
Painting - 78.7 x 104.1 x 0.3 cm Painting - 31 x 41 x 0.1 inch
$5,000
Chiaroscuro reverie: Elegance in monochrome and gold
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,749
Orange, brown, white and golden
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 70 x 140 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 55.1 x 1.6 inch
$3,085
Tears of a snowman
Hal Mayforth
Painting - 71.1 x 134.6 x 0.3 cm Painting - 28 x 53 x 0.1 inch
$5,000
Roadtrip to a Rainbow's End
Hal Mayforth
Painting - 83.8 x 137.2 x 0.3 cm Painting - 33 x 54 x 0.1 inch
$5,000
Bestest Case Scenario
Hal Mayforth
Painting - 88.9 x 121.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 35 x 48 x 0.1 inch
$5,000
Barbarians at the Gate
Hal Mayforth
Painting - 81.3 x 116.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 32 x 46 x 1 inch
$5,000
It's now or whatever
Hal Mayforth
Painting - 86.4 x 121.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 34 x 48 x 0.1 inch
$5,000
Mansion on the Hill
Hal Mayforth
Painting - 66 x 114.3 x 0.3 cm Painting - 26 x 45 x 0.1 inch
$5,000
A Feather in Your Hat
Hal Mayforth
Painting - 78.7 x 119.4 x 0.3 cm Painting - 31 x 47 x 0.1 inch
$5,000
Three Martini Lunch
Hal Mayforth
Painting - 78.7 x 119.4 x 0.3 cm Painting - 31 x 47 x 0.1 inch
$5,000
It Has Come To This
Hal Mayforth
Painting - 81.3 x 121.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 32 x 48 x 0.1 inch
$5,000
If You Live Here, You'd Be Home By Now
Hal Mayforth
Painting - 81.3 x 119.4 x 0.3 cm Painting - 32 x 47 x 0.1 inch
$5,000
The principle of the thing
Hal Mayforth
Painting - 83.8 x 109.2 x 0.3 cm Painting - 33 x 43 x 0.1 inch
$2,500
Hope Springs Internal
Hal Mayforth
Painting - 78.7 x 119.4 x 0.3 cm Painting - 31 x 47 x 0.1 inch
$5,000
Sunny Side of the Street
Hal Mayforth
Painting - 35 x 47 x 0.1 cm Painting - 13.8 x 18.5 x 0 inch
$5,000
Catch My Drift?
Hal Mayforth
Painting - 69.9 x 92.7 x 0.3 cm Painting - 27.5 x 36.5 x 0.1 inch
$5,000
Let Me Count the Ways This Could Go Sideways
Hal Mayforth
Painting - 88.9 x 96.5 x 0.3 cm Painting - 35 x 38 x 0.1 inch
$5,000
What Happened Next
Hal Mayforth
Painting - 78.7 x 119.4 x 0.3 cm Painting - 31 x 47 x 0.1 inch
$5,000
I'm So Glad You Asked
Hal Mayforth
Painting - 78.7 x 119.4 x 0.3 cm Painting - 31 x 47 x 0.1 inch
$5,000
Sounds Like a Plan
Hal Mayforth
Painting - 78.7 x 114.3 x 0.3 cm Painting - 31 x 45 x 0.1 inch
$5,000
Toes in the Turquoise Sea
Hal Mayforth
Painting - 39.4 x 83.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 15.5 x 33 x 0.1 inch
$2,400
Here's What You Need to Know
Hal Mayforth
Painting - 81.3 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Painting - 32 x 40 x 0.1 inch
$5,000
Let me say this about that
Hal Mayforth
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.1 inch
$5,000
Large Heart Iconry
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 240 x 840 x 2 cm Painting - 94.5 x 330.7 x 0.8 inch
$123,409
Untitled (A094)
Atom Hovhanesyan
Painting - 71.1 x 55.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 28 x 22 x 1 inch
$34,000
Touching, Touched
Remi Delaplace
Painting - 96 x 128 x 3 cm Painting - 37.8 x 50.4 x 1.2 inch
$4,476
La Representation comme théâtre
Remi Delaplace
Painting - 80 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$2,794
Touching, Touched
Remi Delaplace
Painting - 65 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 25.6 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,354
Inside, Outside, Weakness, Folds and Deplis
Remi Delaplace
Painting - 81 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$3,915
Nocturne CCXXXIII (homage to Chopin)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$224
Paradise Garden
Judith Christine Riemer
Painting - 80 x 40 x 4.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 15.7 x 1.8 inch
$1,178
Just rainy-LXIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 21 x 21 x 0.5 cm Painting - 8.3 x 8.3 x 0.2 inch
$202
Improvisation-LXVII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$415
Landscaping on Jazz-XCVI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$539
Abstract landscape
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 36 x 43 x 1 cm Painting - 14.2 x 16.9 x 0.4 inch
$247
Abstract in grey-I
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 29 x 29 x 1 cm Painting - 11.4 x 11.4 x 0.4 inch
$90
Just rainy(autumn)-XXV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$488
Musical abstractions-XXIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 26 x 26 x 1 cm Painting - 10.2 x 10.2 x 0.4 inch
$107
Landscaping on Jazz-XXX
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 45 x 64 x 0.1 cm Painting - 17.7 x 25.2 x 0 inch
$280
Just rainy-LXVIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$393
Landscaping on Jazz-LXV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 46 x 64 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.1 x 25.2 x 0 inch
$280
Just rainy-XXXIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$314
Landscaping on Jazz=XXVI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 28 x 28 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11 x 11 x 0 inch
$112
Landscaping on Jazz-XXIV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 17 x 25 x 0.1 cm Painting - 6.7 x 9.8 x 0 inch
$73
Abstract landscape-XXVII (homage to Chopin)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 45 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 17.7 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$516
Landscaping on Jazz-XCV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$550
Abstract expressionism
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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.
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