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Red Old School
Antoine Rose
Photography - 70 x 70 x 0.5 cm Photography - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.2 inch
$4,688
Reliquaire pour un culte de venus 28e version
Jean-Jacques Lebel
Photography - 45 x 30 cm Photography - 17.7 x 11.8 inch
$391
Mario Schifano
Mario Schifano
Photography - 70 x 100 x 0.1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$949
This is so Illegal
Yann Merran
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$781
Bug in the system - Polyptique
Pierre-Emmanuel Chatiliez
Photography - 200 x 100 x 1 cm Photography - 78.7 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$3,907
We Love BB
Christophe Catelain
Photography - 120 x 80 x 5 cm Photography - 47.2 x 31.5 x 2 inch
$5,470
The Fun Archaeology #1 - “Bosom Oddities”
Thomas Mailaender
Photography - 70 x 50 x 0.4 cm Photography - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
$89
Life is not a Fairytale
Tyler Shields
Photography - 50.8 x 76.2 cm Photography - 20 x 30 inch
$5,000
Life is not a Fairytale (4)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 160 x 213.4 cm Photography - 63 x 84 inch
$50,000
Life is not a Fairytale (3)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 121.9 x 182.9 cm Photography - 48 x 72 inch
$25,000
Life is not a Fairytale (2)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 101.6 x 152.4 cm Photography - 40 x 60 inch
$15,000
Life is not a Fairytale (1)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 76.2 x 101.6 cm Photography - 30 x 40 inch
$10,000
Spell-checking William Blake's writing
David Carey
Photography - 41 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 16.1 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$111
Sans titre (9)
Julien Drogoul
Photography - 30 x 45 x 0.3 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0.1 inch
$279
Paris Tour Eiffel
Bruno Fournier
Photography - 24 x 18 x 1 cm Photography - 9.4 x 7.1 x 0.4 inch
$893
Soul - Kate Hudson, Portrait. Photograph intervened by the artists.
Hunter & Gatti
Photography - 45.7 x 35.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 18 x 14 x 0.1 inch
$2,000
Rooftop Study 1 (Belgian Coast)
Antoine Rose
Photography - 100 x 133 x 2 cm Photography - 39.4 x 52.4 x 0.8 inch
$10,326
Paris Tour Eiffel 2
Bruno Fournier
Photography - 28 x 24 x 1 cm Photography - 11 x 9.4 x 0.4 inch
$949
Orchestra (Miami)
Antoine Rose
Photography - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$8,651
Rooftop Study 2 (Belgian Coast)
Antoine Rose
Photography - 88 x 200 x 3 cm Photography - 34.6 x 78.7 x 1.2 inch
$12,837
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Tracy Hickman
Photography - 26 x 26 x 1 cm Photography - 10.2 x 10.2 x 0.4 inch
$2,400
Paris Notre Dame Cathédrale de Paris
Bruno Fournier
Photography - 24 x 18 x 1 cm Photography - 9.4 x 7.1 x 0.4 inch
$893
Paris bateaux mouches
Bruno Fournier
Photography - 18 x 24 x 1 cm Photography - 7.1 x 9.4 x 0.4 inch
$893
Paris Moulin Rouge
Bruno Fournier
Photography - 24 x 18 x 1 cm Photography - 9.4 x 7.1 x 0.4 inch
$893
V: Dogmatic thinking
Gianfranco Pezzot
Photography - 240 x 180 cm Photography - 94.5 x 70.9 inch
$17,794
Moving in Together (Till Death do us Part)
Stefanie Schneider
Photography - 160 x 320 x 0.1 cm Photography - 63 x 126 x 0 inch
$31,256
Où est Charlie ? IX
Tanguy Mendrisse
Photography - 24 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 9.4 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$140
Lewis Hamilton II, Portriat on canvas Intervened.
Hunter & Gatti
Photography - 187.9 x 132 x 3 cm Photography - 74 x 52 x 1.2 inch
$7,500
Jerusalem
Gianfranco Pezzot
Photography - 180 x 717 x 0.2 cm Photography - 70.9 x 282.3 x 0.1 inch
$22,169
Je dépense donc je suis
Yann Merran
Photography - 25 x 25 x 1 cm Photography - 9.8 x 9.8 x 0.4 inch
$61
Expé. Rouille
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,563
La plage blanche VII
Nicolas Le Beuan Bénic
Photography - 60 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$313
Chut, les bébés rêvent
Yann Merran
Photography - 25 x 25 x 0.1 cm Photography - 9.8 x 9.8 x 0 inch
$61
Série Lignes Blanches, A
Stefan Hoareau
Photography - 100 x 100 x 0.3 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.1 inch
$4,353
Untitled ( red woman)
Massimo Attardi
Photography - 100 x 130 x 2 cm Photography - 39.4 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,465
Série Lignes Blanches, Y
Stefan Hoareau
Photography - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$4,353
Holy Day (Italy - Tuscany)
Antoine Rose
Photography - 150 x 200 x 3 cm Photography - 59.1 x 78.7 x 1.2 inch
Sold
In stillness, in solitude, I count 03
Christa David
Photography - 25.4 x 22.86 x 3 cm Photography - 10 x 9 x 1.2 inch
Sold
Reflets #3
Yves Bordes Lapeyre
Photography - 40 x 60 x 1.5 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
Sold
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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!