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Alice au pays des merveilles
Barbara Petit Lisy
Painting - 33 x 24 x 2 cm Painting - 13 x 9.4 x 0.8 inch
$656
Regarder l'enfance
Véronique Baleste
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.4 inch
$670
Dames en conversation
John Reitz
Painting - 36.5 x 29 x 0.3 cm Painting - 14.4 x 11.4 x 0.1 inch
$618
Fire
Jose Ricardo Contreras Gonzalez
Painting - 74.9 x 65 x 2.5 cm Painting - 29.5 x 25.6 x 1 inch
$2,000
Ensemble, c'est vraiment ce que je préfère
Ada Kafel
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,340
La nef des fous
Cédric Marachian
Painting - 97 x 146 x 2 cm Painting - 38.2 x 57.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,791
Ombre et lumière sur Pilat
Myriam Démarez Gérat
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$804
R E C Y C L É - ZB-021019
Arseneca
Painting - 146 x 110 x 0.5 cm Painting - 57.5 x 43.3 x 0.2 inch
$993
Bord de rivière
Michel Trapezaroff
Painting - 38 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 15 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
$11,118
The inside of a watering can (Das Innere einer Gießkanne)
Paul Verstraten
Painting - 140 x 110 x 2 cm Painting - 55.1 x 43.3 x 0.8 inch
$1,953
Trois Filles dans la Rue
Caroline de Piédoüe
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$2,791 $2,372
The thing about this place
Ngahina Belton-Bodsworth
Painting - 64 x 53 x 3 cm Painting - 25.2 x 20.9 x 1.2 inch
$2,322
Two Atlantis citizens
MesecOlja
Painting - 80 x 60 x 3.8 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.5 inch
$1,060
Seeking peace of mind
Lindokuhle Khumalo
Painting - 145 x 119.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 57.1 x 47.2 x 1 inch
$6,600
Schnappschuss 1706
Baurjan Aralov
Painting - 70 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,340 $1,139
De dubai en verano
Antonio Segui
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$39,070
La sagesse dans les branches
Amor de Agua
Painting - 120 x 108 cm Painting - 47.2 x 42.5 inch
$1,228
Boucle et lys
Meriame Louattani
Painting - 65 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
$1,395
N.Y. y el rio Hudson
Alejandro Quincoces
Painting - 121 x 175 x 3 cm Painting - 47.6 x 68.9 x 1.2 inch
$18,977
God is a Negro 1
Ashola'sa Daniel
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1 inch
$1,800
Prélude 3 - série corps de femme
Luco
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,473
Rich imagination
Sergey Bondarev
Painting - 145 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 57.1 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$27,907
Actitudes comunicantes
Carmen González Castro
Painting - 35 x 27 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 10.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,228
Le vent du large, voilier
Corinne Vilcaz
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,953
Ventre de Paris
Mikhail Chemiakine
Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0 inch
$2,456
Majestic beach Lov in Blue P2017 1033
Aldema Design & Art
Painting - 200 x 140 x 3 cm Painting - 78.7 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch
$5,358
Benjami
Stephen Irving (Zero Gradient)
Painting - 76.2 x 50.8 x 5.1 cm Painting - 30 x 20 x 2 inch
$3,100
Permanent training
Mihran Manukyan
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,050
Les deux amis et l'oiseau
Rebecca de Cachard
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$2,009
Les étangs de Méjean II - Paysage de bord de mer
Michèle Capitani Manzo
Painting - 65 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,194
Zebra crossing
Samuel Njuguna Njoroge
Painting - 80.5 x 100.5 x 2 cm Painting - 31.7 x 39.6 x 0.8 inch
$3,014
MIYUKI 5 : MISTY PURPLE WHISPERS AND KAWAII TEMPTATION
Aya Toshikawa
Painting - 60 x 60 x 5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 2 inch
$2,344
Bavière Pervers
Sorrel Mocchia di Coggiola
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$5,805
Prêt à célébrer (n°1)
Harald Wolff
Painting - 100 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,451
Conker the Squirrel
Remco Schakelaar
Painting - 80 x 60 x 5.1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.63 x 2 inch
$1,674
Blue Plastic Bags Roadside African Bushes
Martin Kerntke
Painting - 120 x 160 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 63 x 0.8 inch
$14,424
1995 Portrait
Bernard Di Sciullo
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
$1,284
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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!