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Les deux péniches - série bord de seine
Michel de Alvis
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,798
Rock BL4
Max Steven Grossman
Photography - 94 x 190.5 x 5.1 cm Photography - 37 x 75 x 2 inch
$11,500
Prêt à célébrer (n°1)
Harald Wolff
Painting - 100 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,443
Urban Fisher Man
Flavio Aguilera
Fine Art Drawings - 17 x 25 cm Fine Art Drawings - 6.7 x 9.8 inch
$850
Sans titre
Serge Charchoune
Fine Art Drawings - 19 x 28.3 x 0.02 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.5 x 11.1 x 0 inch
$999
Département des maladies infectieuses
Evgeny Byutenko
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 42 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 16.5 inch
$1,443
Rivages-visages-paysages du Sepik III.
Jacques Doucet
Print - 66 x 87 cm Print - 26 x 34.3 inch
$666
In flight of thoughts
Irina Yakovleva
Painting - 80 x 80 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 inch
$1,665 $1,498
Musiciens - Personnages et instruments de musique en mouvement
Forg
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,110
Conker the Squirrel
Remco Schakelaar
Painting - 80 x 60 x 5.1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.63 x 2 inch
$1,665
Les Glaciers - Série Patagonie
Monique Rozanes
Painting - 55 x 70 x 1 cm Painting - 21.7 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,598
Before and After, Science art on paper, Triptych Manuscript
Anastasia Vasilyeva
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 90 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 35.4 x 0.1 inch
$800
No es fácil de entender
Imanol Marrodán
Print - 88 x 123.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 34.6 x 48.6 x 0 inch
$888 $666
Pertinance
Casper Versluis
Sculpture - 48.5 x 24.5 x 18.5 cm Sculpture - 19.1 x 9.6 x 7.3 inch
$1,998
Acte Pulsionnel
Maurice Renoma
Photography - 70 x 200 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 78.7 x 0.8 inch
$7,215
Peace and Meeples
Andrea Van Der Hoeven
Painting - 35 x 35 x 1.5 cm Painting - 13.8 x 13.8 x 0.6 inch
$277
Shine of the presence of life - série Abstraction
Jacek Jan Tarnowski
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$2,081
Blue Plastic Bags Roadside African Bushes
Martin Kerntke
Painting - 120 x 160 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 63 x 0.8 inch
$14,343
Still (Basal Elements)
Ariadna Dane
Fine Art Drawings - 76 x 56 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 29.9 x 22 x 0.1 inch
$1,126
Une route longue comme un miroir fertile
Théo Tobiasse
Print - 57 x 38 x 0.2 cm Print - 22.4 x 15 x 0.1 inch
$610 $549
Shorelines III
Alessandro Puccinelli
Photography - 180.3 x 120 cm Photography - 71 x 47.25 inch
$9,200
Corvée d'eau, Tchétchénie
Françoise Spiekermeier
Photography - 50 x 75 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 inch
$1,665
We Used to Believe in Story
Yi Zhang
Painting - 15 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 5.9 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,665
Venise de Chine Suzhou Chinese Venise 1986
Wu Biduan
Print - 32 x 25 cm Print - 12.6 x 9.8 inch
$832
G_43
Alina Aldea
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 100 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.2 inch
$1,054
Loves who don’t know how to get by in this world (HE)
Matteo Mauro
Sculpture - 25 x 10 x 10 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 3.9 x 3.9 inch
$10,000
Patience, Thrill No.10
Deok Hee YUN
Painting - 53 x 34 x 2.5 cm Painting - 20.9 x 13.4 x 1 inch
$1,647
1995 Portrait
Bernard Di Sciullo
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
$1,276
Le Prestige Du Philtre
Loran Meldrid
Painting - 130 x 195 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 76.8 x 1.2 inch
$1,998
Without identity
Maurizio Gracceva
Fine Art Drawings - 103 x 72 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 40.6 x 28.3 x 0 inch
$1,665
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!