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Cenizas y diamantes XIX
Cecilia Méndez Casariego
Painting - 45 x 33 x 0.3 cm Painting - 17.7 x 13 x 0.1 inch
$600
Passionnément
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 123 x 195 x 2 cm Painting - 48.4 x 76.8 x 0.8 inch
$7,503
See, you need to grow
Etienne Quesnay
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2.5 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 1 inch
$2,886
Calanque de Figuerolles
Momoko Ohara
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$462
Landscaping-CXXXVII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 21 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 8.3 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$127
La délicatesse du printemps
Jeong Min Lee
Painting - 97 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,270
Red Birds and Old Ocotillo (West)
Paul Scott Malone
Painting - 36 x 27 x 5 cm Painting - 14.2 x 10.6 x 2 inch
$13,852
Time collapsed. Still life with two rhinos.
Vladimir Kolosov
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 1.9 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 0.75 inch
$1,830
Evening time
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 60 x 45 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,200 $840
There must have been an angel by my side
Ritchelly Oliveira
Painting - 65 x 54 x 3 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 1.2 inch
$8,427
Fantasy colourful landscape
Pol Ledent
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,270
Whispers of the Forest
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 100 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$3,348
Mystical Majestic Trees
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 90 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,770
Big Thicket Mysteries
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 90 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,770
Shopping day - Uncle Scrooge / Picsou & Richie Rich in Antwerp
Belart Collective
Painting - 85 x 115 x 4 cm Painting - 33.5 x 45.3 x 1.6 inch
$2,182
My soul sees only thy soul its own
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 100 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,694
Dreaming of Palm Trees
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 90 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,539
Through the Pale Twilit Meadows
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 120 x 140 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch
$4,271
Among the Flowers Face to face with the sky
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 125 x 140 x 3 cm Painting - 49.2 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch
$4,271
Love's Philosophy
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 100 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$3,001
Je l'ai sur le pouce
Béatrice Terra
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$3,348
Contemporary portrait "Cat Country"
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 90 x 55 x 1.8 cm Painting - 35.4 x 21.7 x 0.7 inch
$2,297
Le rouge nous va mieux au teint
Béatrice Terra
Painting - 73 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,886
Portrait PS 221 L'endormie Immobile perle de bleux (Large)
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 55 x 55 x 3.5 cm Painting - 21.7 x 21.7 x 1.4 inch
$2,000
You Are My Sunshine On A Cloudy Day
Yasna Godovanik
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,443
Mauvaise langue
Frédéric Blaimont
Painting - 40 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,847
Arlésiennes conciliabule
Juan Benito
Painting - 60 x 50 x 0.3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$796
Trésor - série portrait de femme
Namy
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,587
Robe à la française
Magalie Pouillard
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,655
Femme à la plage, D'après Sorolla
Magalie Pouillard
Painting - 27 x 22 x 2 cm Painting - 10.6 x 8.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,154
Femmes se coiffant au bord de l'eau, D'après Degas.
Magalie Pouillard
Painting - 16 x 22 x 2 cm Painting - 6.3 x 8.7 x 0.8 inch
$923
Jeux balnéaires, D'après Sorolla
Magalie Pouillard
Painting - 22 x 27 x 2 cm Painting - 8.7 x 10.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,154
Lit d'après-midi
Magalie Pouillard
Painting - 27 x 22 x 2 cm Painting - 10.6 x 8.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,154
Les copines à la plage
Véronique Baleste
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$693
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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!