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Te lo dico io
Morandi Giancarlo
Sculpture - 75 x 40 x 10 cm Sculpture - 29.5 x 15.7 x 3.9 inch
$1,563
At the water's edge / A fleur d'eau
Sylvie Gaudissart
Sculpture - 10.5 x 30 x 10 cm Sculpture - 4.1 x 11.8 x 3.9 inch
$2,177
The special hole
Lieven D'Haese
Sculpture - 38 x 16.5 x 13.5 cm Sculpture - 15 x 6.5 x 5.3 inch
$5,414
Appareil photo blanc
Les Frères Guinet
Sculpture - 9 x 15 x 10 cm Sculpture - 3.5 x 5.9 x 3.9 inch
$1,786
The Kalaw (Philippine Hornbill)
James Doran-Webb
Sculpture - 118 x 40 x 40 cm Sculpture - 46.5 x 15.7 x 15.7 inch
$4,356
Patriarche
Christine Marie Nobre
Sculpture - 35 x 30 x 26 cm Sculpture - 13.8 x 11.8 x 10.2 inch
$893
Hymne à l'amour
Emilie Teillaud
Sculpture - 42 x 22 x 12 cm Sculpture - 16.5 x 8.7 x 4.7 inch
$2,121
La jolie souris / The pretty mouse
Boris Tabacoff
Sculpture - 15 x 20 x 10 cm Sculpture - 5.9 x 7.9 x 3.9 inch
$1,395 $698
Premier soleil
Marie-Noëlle Ronayette
Sculpture - 70 x 54 x 42 cm Sculpture - 27.6 x 21.3 x 16.5 inch
$17,860
La belle endormie
Christiane Bernais
Sculpture - 29 x 33 x 16 cm Sculpture - 11.4 x 13 x 6.3 inch
$1,060
King Kong Balls Blanc
Denis Defrancesco
Sculpture - 11 x 25 x 11 cm Sculpture - 4.3 x 9.8 x 4.3 inch
$1,674
Rest and be moved
Margret Hübschen
Sculpture - 14 x 14 x 14 cm Sculpture - 5.5 x 5.5 x 5.5 inch
$2,065
El tiempo bajo las sombras
Arturo Urbina Morales
Sculpture - 50 x 35 x 37 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 13.8 x 14.6 inch
$2,233
The key to heart
Ferdinando Codognotto
Sculpture - 10 x 25 x 4 cm Sculpture - 3.9 x 9.8 x 1.6 inch
$1,340
Return to Nature - Blue
Sonali Patel
Sculpture - 21 x 19 x 12 cm Sculpture - 8.3 x 7.5 x 4.7 inch
$1,971
Pasion de Luna
Luis Enrique Toledo
Sculpture - 76 x 18 x 18 cm Sculpture - 29.9 x 7.1 x 7.1 inch
$11,163
Gaia's Garden Head
Linda Brunker
Sculpture - 70 x 64 x 24 cm Sculpture - 27.6 x 25.2 x 9.4 inch
$6,698
Dutch girl with a doll
Franz Hagenauer
Sculpture - 14 x 7 x 5.2 cm Sculpture - 5.5 x 2.8 x 2 inch
$1,786
One white paperclip
Warren Dennis
Sculpture - 30.5 x 10.3 x 10.3 cm Sculpture - 12 x 4.1 x 4.1 inch
$2,121
Ghetto Blaster
Pierre Yves Riveau
Sculpture - 25 x 10 x 10 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 3.9 x 3.9 inch
$5,581
Gold Mademoiselle Lace Steel Sculpture
Vyki
Sculpture - 55 x 45 x 30 cm Sculpture - 21.7 x 17.7 x 11.8 inch
$5,023
Dialogue de l'expérience
Graciella Castellano-Saavedra
Sculpture - 72 x 20 x 15 cm Sculpture - 28.3 x 7.9 x 5.9 inch
$670
Cardines à l'huile de Nys
Hervé Nys
Sculpture - 4 x 9 x 12.5 cm Sculpture - 1.6 x 3.5 x 4.9 inch
$190
My little giant n°3/10
Eudald De Juana Gorriz
Sculpture - 56 x 20 x 30 cm Sculpture - 22 x 7.9 x 11.8 inch
$5,414
Atlas XXI, The Epoch series
Andrey and Aleksey Kulibin
Sculpture - 115 x 115 x 8 cm Sculpture - 45.3 x 45.3 x 3.1 inch
$4,250
Ring-shin Gold
Teruri Yamawaki
Sculpture - 45 x 34 x 30 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 13.4 x 11.8 inch
$3,431
Madeleine Méditante
Marie Thérèse Tsalapatanis
Sculpture - 53 x 16 x 29 cm Sculpture - 20.9 x 6.3 x 11.4 inch
$10,716
Le voyageur et son chien
Bruno Foullon
Sculpture - 39 x 30 x 33 cm Sculpture - 15.4 x 11.8 x 13 inch
$402
Entre mirage et rêve d'un docteur
Marcel Tchopwe
Sculpture - 110 x 120 x 3 cm Sculpture - 43.3 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$4,688
Petit cheval au trot
Alessandro Montalbano
Sculpture - 21 x 19.5 x 7.5 cm Sculpture - 8.3 x 7.7 x 3 inch
$3,775
Young flower
Sergii Shaulis
Sculpture - 104.1 x 62.2 x 33 cm Sculpture - 41 x 24.5 x 13 inch
$11,500
Gold Angel - Gucci Tribute
Jimmie Martin
Sculpture - 40 x 29 x 25 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 11.4 x 9.8 inch
$4,353
Portrait de Katarina
Sylvie Bourely
Sculpture - 27 x 19 x 20 cm Sculpture - 10.6 x 7.5 x 7.9 inch
$3,014
Tennis player
Werkstätte Hagenauer
Sculpture - 28 x 27 x 8 cm Sculpture - 11 x 10.6 x 3.1 inch
$5,023
Espace Temps
Nathalie Decoster
Sculpture - 250 x 250 x 15 cm Sculpture - 98.4 x 98.4 x 5.9 inch
$50,232
Sculpture: Ensemble 1
Peter Nottrott
Sculpture - 90 x 120 x 4 cm Sculpture - 35.4 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$5,570
Deus creatio tenet
Toni Caimari
Sculpture - 55 x 20 x 43 cm Sculpture - 21.7 x 7.9 x 16.9 inch
$43,535 $39,181
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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!