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In a silent way
Hervé Pezzini
Photography - 60 x 80 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$335
Borrow a Kiss
Natan Elkanovich
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$15,628
Sweet water beach and fair
Edivaldo Barbosa
Painting - 130 x 190 x 1 cm Painting - 51.2 x 74.8 x 0.4 inch
$15,628
Your Majesty
Maria Vetkalova
Fine Art Drawings - 84 x 59 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 33.1 x 23.2 x 1.2 inch
$1,511
Megan's Demons
Joey Tranchina
Photography - 100 x 150 x 0.1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0 inch
$2,791
Hybrid Hero Sculpture
Pichi & Avo
Sculpture - 36 x 27 x 27 cm Sculpture - 14.2 x 10.6 x 10.6 inch
$2,065
1985 Sculpture Cubintra
Blaise Simon Balazs
Sculpture - 40 x 40 x 1 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$2,177
Bitter Campari - l'aperitivo
Fortunato Depero
Fine Art Drawings - 24.3 x 21.8 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.6 x 8.6 inch
$10,046
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
Matière avec ligne jaune
Yves Bordes Lapeyre
Photography - 80 x 80 x 0.5 cm Photography - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.2 inch
$993
Harley Davidson
Enrique Senis Oliver
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$26,791
Lukarrara Jukurrpa (Desert Fringe-rush Dreaming)
Valentine Nakamarra White
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
$279
Recconais qu'il y a toujours une inconnue
Julie Peiffer
Photography - 62 x 40 x 0.5 cm Photography - 24.4 x 15.7 x 0.2 inch
$1,340
The Elephant
Zdenek Legner
Sculpture - 68 x 20 x 20 cm Sculpture - 26.8 x 7.9 x 7.9 inch
$1,674 $1,122
Vers le jardin d’Eden série parcs et jardins
Danièle Badet
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,395
Integration / True 026
Casey Grace
Painting - 20.32 x 20.32 x 2.54 cm Painting - 8 x 8 x 1 inch
$1,217
I put a spell on you - Homage to Nina Simone
George McClements
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 1.3 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 0.5 inch
$1,200
Street art revolution I
Patrick Cornée
Sculpture - 37 x 30 x 15 cm Sculpture - 14.6 x 11.8 x 5.9 inch
$2,567
Tornando con le spese, Novembre 1955 - New York
Fabrizio La Torre
Photography - 60 x 42 x 0.5 cm Photography - 23.6 x 16.5 x 0.2 inch
$1,842
Hiding in the city, Paris - n°14, Pharmacy
Liu Bolin
Photography - 90 x 120 cm Photography - 35.4 x 47.2 inch
$16,186
Optimism Painting I
Stuart Christian Möller
Painting - 41 x 41 x 2.5 cm Painting - 16.1 x 16.1 x 1 inch
$1,228
Composition pour les JO
Eduardo Chillida
Print - 90 x 63 x 1 cm Print - 35.4 x 24.8 x 0.4 inch
$6,481
HRH Princess Elizabeth With HRH The Prince of Wales
Cecil Beaton
Photography - 76.2 x 76.2 cm Photography - 30 x 30 inch
$1,295
Dalmatian pelican - Pelecanus crispus
Ivaylo Zafirov
Photography - 37 x 50 cm Photography - 14.6 x 19.7 inch
$234
Le pont du Rialto, Venise
Charles Malle
Fine Art Drawings - 48 x 62 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.9 x 24.4 x 0 inch
$949
Ref. 736 - Variations
Vahid Mohammadi
Painting - 140 x 200 x 4 cm Painting - 55.1 x 78.7 x 1.6 inch
$6,698
Contemporary artworks for sale
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!