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Presence #3. From The Golden Ex-voto Series
Almo
Painting - 49.8 x 34.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19.6 x 13.7 x 0.1 inch
$900
Presence #2. From The Golden Ex-voto Series
Almo
Painting - 49.8 x 34.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19.6 x 13.7 x 0.1 inch
$900
Presence #1. From The Golden Ex-voto Series
Almo
Painting - 49.8 x 34.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19.6 x 13.7 x 0.1 inch
$900
Once Given a White Rose 3 (1)
Agbalaya Abdulahi Opeyemi
Painting - 33 x 25.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 13 x 10 x 1 inch
$650
Neboa en Trevinca
Paco Ascón Callejo
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,480
Nostalgic Sunflower
Karin Mikulášová
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$740
She Lay in a Meadow 2/2
Nina Narimanishvili
Painting - 19 x 25 x 0.1 cm Painting - 7.5 x 9.8 x 0 inch
$1,253
Taylor Swift's Lipsticks (Les Rouges à Lèvres de Taylor Swift)
Christian Jodin
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$393
After a Long Day 4
Eyitayo Alagbe
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1 inch
$3,250
The Muse Of The Sun
Delyafruz Bagirova
Painting - 180 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 70.9 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,782 $2,391
Thriving in Adversity
Agwunwa Theophilus
Painting - 127 x 94 x 2.5 cm Painting - 50 x 37 x 1 inch
$3,099
Magic Flip Flop
Foucaud Stéphane
Painting - 98 x 111 x 4 cm Painting - 38.6 x 43.7 x 1.6 inch
$2,373
Les abeilles grises - Roman d'Andreï Kourkov
Danielle Lamaison
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$228
Dark silver tropical flowers
Irena Tone
Painting - 24 x 19 x 0.1 cm Painting - 9.4 x 7.5 x 0 inch
$222
Bouquet of flowers
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 59 x 69 x 5 cm Painting - 23.2 x 27.2 x 2 inch
$797
Peonies and Mountains
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$797
Poppies and Two Jugs
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 59 x 69 x 2 cm Painting - 23.2 x 27.2 x 0.8 inch
$797
In the Garden
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 40 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$797
The girl with the lost pearl earring
Nef
Painting - 45 x 33 x 0.1 cm Painting - 17.7 x 13 x 0 inch
$1,594
Boiserie Baroque Rouge et Ivoire
Sophie Duplain
Painting - 120 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$2,778 $1,945
Summer morning
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,900 $2,030
Unfurling the Past
Afolayan Emmanuel
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 inch
$2,650
Identity 4
Hezekiah Oyejide Obidare
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 1 inch
$4,699
Reticulum with mask
Giorgio Lo Fermo
Painting - 70 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,050
La voiture - Scène de vie urbaine figurative
Christiane Dumon
Painting - 50 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$501
Ladder Under the Stairs
Mikheil Arbolishvili
Painting - 40 x 51 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 20.1 x 0.8 inch
$569
5 December Night
Mikheil Arbolishvili
Painting - 23 x 18 x 2 cm Painting - 9.1 x 7.1 x 0.8 inch
$569
Spring in Tbilisi
Mikheil Arbolishvili
Painting - 20 x 25 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 9.8 x 0.8 inch
$569
Receptacle #1. From The Vase Series
Almo
Painting - 41.9 x 30 x 0.3 cm Painting - 16.5 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$1,200
You and I
Ayandare Adeniran Ayanmuyiwa
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 1 inch
$3,500
Ore Ijinle (True Friendship)
Naomi Oyeniyi
Painting - 91.4 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 1 inch
$2,250
The Misunderstood (l'Incomprise)
Alain Rigollier
Painting - 55 x 46 x 1 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.4 inch
$336
Bright (Lumnineuse)
Alain Rigollier
Painting - 55 x 46 x 1 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.4 inch
$336
The Magician (Le Magicien)
Alain Rigollier
Painting - 55 x 46 x 1 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.4 inch
$336
The Queen, Vacation on the Happy Island series
Olha Vlasova
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$797
Threads of Sovereignty 2
Bakare Abubakri-sideeq Babatunde
Painting - 114.3 x 111.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 45 x 44 x 1 inch
$3,050
Tel Aviv Beach
Helena Liberman
Painting - 70 x 120 x 3.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 47.2 x 1.4 inch
$3,000
Démon et merveille
Pascal Marlin
Painting - 162 x 114 x 3 cm Painting - 63.8 x 44.9 x 1.2 inch
$5,693
Homme dans fauteuil et enfant
Pascal Marlin
Painting - 130 x 89 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 35 x 1.2 inch
$3,416
Passerelle d'un monde à l'autre
Charlotte Pivard
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,366
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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!