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Print, Free Flow, James Ulmer

Free Flow

James Ulmer

Print - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch

$1,850

Print, Untitled, Ayako Rokkaku

Untitled

Ayako Rokkaku

Print - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch

$2,710

Print, Everything You Need is Already Within, Bar Ben Vakil

Everything You Need is Already Within

Bar Ben Vakil

Print - 29.9 x 23.2 x 0.4 inch

$4,000

Print, Shangri La Shangri, Takashi Murakami

Shangri La Shangri

Takashi Murakami

Print - 29.1 x 20.9 x 0.1 inch

$3,614

Print, Miyabi: Korin ( Korin: courtly elegance 2020), Takashi Murakami

Miyabi: Korin ( Korin: courtly elegance 2020)

Takashi Murakami

Print - 30 x 28.3 inch

$4,235

Print, Gate of heaven, Takashi Murakami

Gate of heaven

Takashi Murakami

Print - 27.6 x 27.6 inch

$6,719

Print, Flower ball (3D) Hey! You! Do you feel what I feel?, Takashi Murakami

Flower ball (3D) Hey! You! Do you feel what I feel?

Takashi Murakami

Print - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch

$4,517

Print, Vacances, Hervé  Perdriel

Vacances

Hervé Perdriel

Print - 23.6 x 35.4 x 2 inch

$1,412

Print, Do what you love, James Chiew

Do what you love

James Chiew

Print - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch

$6,211

Print, Composition pour les JO, Leonardo Cremonini

Composition pour les JO

Leonardo Cremonini

Print - 24.8 x 35.4 inch

$452

Print, Ambigender Lovers, Anthea Missy

Ambigender Lovers

Anthea Missy

Print - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch

$147

Print, Volutes, Erró

Volutes

Erró

Print - 29.9 x 22 x 0.8 inch

$1,581

Print, We Are the Jocular Clan (10 - Smile), Takashi Murakami

We Are the Jocular Clan (10 - Smile)

Takashi Murakami

Print - 19.5 x 19.5 inch

Sold

Print, I Look Back and There, My Beautiful Memories, Takashi Murakami

I Look Back and There, My Beautiful Memories

Takashi Murakami

Print - 29.1 x 20.9 inch

Sold

Print, Flower Ball: Prayer, Takashi Murakami

Flower Ball: Prayer

Takashi Murakami

Print - 28 x 28 inch

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Print, Laaaapin, Gum

Laaaapin

Gum

Print - 11 x 27.6 inch

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Print, Auto portrait, Gum

Auto portrait

Gum

Print - 14.8 x 11.8 inch

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Happy Art

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!

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