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Bertrand De Cointet
Painting - 60 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
$805
Arlésiennes monochromiques
Juan Benito
Painting - 60 x 50 x 0.3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$772
Un bouquet de tulipes
Chantal Roux
Painting - 65 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,085
In the radiance
Serhii Cherniakovskyi
Painting - 95 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 37.4 x 31.5 x 1 inch
$2,684
In fantasies
Serhii Cherniakovskyi
Painting - 80 x 95 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 37.4 x 1 inch
$3,578
Les granges de Tugnac (Série)
Jean-François Callo
Painting - 50 x 65 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,677
Les granges de Tugnac (Série)
Jean-François Callo
Painting - 48 x 64 cm Painting - 18.9 x 25.2 inch
$1,677
Les granges de Tugnac (Série)
Jean-François Callo
Painting - 50 x 64 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,566
Pour toi mon amour
Sophie Petetin
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1 inch
$1,621
Rhythm of Elegance
Ayandare Adeniran Ayanmuyiwa
Painting - 61 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 1 inch
$1,500
Venus in Blue
Julia Niiazbekova
Painting - 59.7 x 59.7 x 2.5 cm Painting - 23.5 x 23.5 x 1 inch
$1,950
Dreamy Angel
Julia Niiazbekova
Painting - 74.9 x 59.7 x 3.8 cm Painting - 29.5 x 23.5 x 1.5 inch
$2,000
Apollo in Gold
Julia Niiazbekova
Painting - 59.7 x 59.7 x 2.5 cm Painting - 23.5 x 23.5 x 1 inch
$2,000
August, Hudson Yards. NYC
Jo Beer
Painting - 59.9 x 59.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.5 inch
$1,506
That's Me In the Corner
Jo Beer
Painting - 55.9 x 46 x 3.8 cm Painting - 22 x 18.1 x 1.5 inch
$1,061
Educated Hoops - Juggling Subjects
Denise Souza Finney
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 1.5 inch
$1,350
Sheep With Flower
Maia Kvatchadze
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
$2,236
A Great Listener
Stephanie Brody-Lederman
Painting - 30.5 x 40.6 x 2 cm Painting - 12 x 16 x 0.8 inch
$1,901
Human Connection Nr.IV
Anamaria Cepoi
Painting - 99.8 x 79.8 x 2 cm Painting - 39.3 x 31.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,720
La plage à marée basse
Martine Grégoire
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,006
The Incurable Madhouse
Renjie Gao
Painting - 200 x 300 x 4 cm Painting - 78.7 x 118.1 x 1.6 inch
$44,730
Aláàárù Ajé (Carrier of Wealth)
Ayandare Adeniran Ayanmuyiwa
Painting - 61 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 1 inch
$1,800
Sleeper Carriage
John Popkess
Painting - 39.9 x 39.9 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,386
Requiem for a Dream
Docteur Bergman
Painting - 46 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$649
Strength in Diversity
Damola Ayegbayo
Painting - 106.7 x 213.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 42 x 84 x 2 inch
$5,950
Rouge est la couleur du mystère 20
Jean-Charles Taillandier
Painting - 50 x 34.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 13.6 inch
$492
Rostros sin rostro 3-18
José Manuel Chamorro Chamorro
Painting - 65 x 46 cm Painting - 25.6 x 18.1 inch
$816
Rostros sin rostro 11-5
José Manuel Chamorro Chamorro
Painting - 73 x 60 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 inch
$1,090
1966 Paris Blanc Ouvrier sur le chantier White Paris Workers on foggy worksite
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 37.5 x 52.5 cm Painting - 14.8 x 20.7 inch
$2,181
1969 Paris Orange 6 Parisiens dans la foule Crowd
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 37.5 x 52.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 14.8 x 20.7 x 0.2 inch
$1,398
White Paris Blanc 1969 Cinq passants Five passers-by
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 26 x 37.5 cm Painting - 10.2 x 14.8 inch
$2,181
Femme aux paniers
Moïse-Lisette Grulet
Painting - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$727
Belles de nuit
David Jehan (B.boss)
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$783
A & M Cafe - Arts et Métiers, Paris 3ème
Linda Moufadil
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,789
Tea Time - Museum Ludwig Cologne
Linda Moufadil
Painting - 31 x 61 x 1.5 cm Painting - 12.2 x 24 x 0.6 inch
$1,789
Untitled
Siranush Vardanyan
Painting - 110 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,566 $1,331
How I failed to see you
Sava Harris
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,772
L'abbaye de Sénanque 1
Laurence Gasior
Painting - 38 x 33 x 2 cm Painting - 15 x 13 x 0.8 inch
$1,029
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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!