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![Painting, Tunnel - RÉSERVÉ BRANDSTATION, Clet Abraham](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/806043_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Surfers 02, Karine Bartoli](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/568755_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Bateau pour Formentera, Karine Bartoli](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/568698_1_grid.jpg)
Bateau pour Formentera
Karine Bartoli
Painting - 80 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,960
![Painting, Le gardien du désert salé, Yves Calméjane](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/523145_1_grid.jpg)
Le gardien du désert salé
Yves Calméjane
Painting - 60 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,052
![Painting, Le bocal à la rose, Yves Calméjane](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/457522_1_grid.jpg)
Le bocal à la rose
Yves Calméjane
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,052
![Painting, Dream, Gillian Brin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2183097_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Iles Lavezzi, Karine Bartoli](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1997394_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Untitled, Guy Ghazanchyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1956816_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Untitled, Guy Ghazanchyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1956807_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Porto, Karine Bartoli](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1928349_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, To the Stars III, Dane Shue](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1732113_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Ocean Beach San Francisco, Karine Bartoli](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1683834_1_grid.jpg)
Ocean Beach San Francisco
Karine Bartoli
Painting - 90 x 110 x 4 cm Painting - 35.4 x 43.3 x 1.6 inch
$1,729
![Painting, Moonrise with French Pines, Rob Buntin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1454268_1_grid.jpg)
Moonrise with French Pines
Rob Buntin
Painting - 81 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 31.9 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$4,035
![Painting, Joueurs de foot Bois de Boulogne, Karine Bartoli](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1191111_1_grid.jpg)
Joueurs de foot Bois de Boulogne
Karine Bartoli
Painting - 80 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,614
![Painting, Skater03, Karine Bartoli](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1191096_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Run, BB.Queen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1184310_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Grumpy Doodle, BB.Queen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1183479_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Lorry Station, Ablade Glover](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1026489_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Autoportrait II, Ghislaine Ferreira](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/728700_1_grid.jpg)
Autoportrait II
Ghislaine Ferreira
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$2,767
![Painting, Souvenirs, Sylvie Julkowski-Egard](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2216359_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, L'homme bleu à la cigarette1, Lila Maroun Frem](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2087352_1_grid.jpg)
L'homme bleu à la cigarette1
Lila Maroun Frem
Painting - 25 x 25 x 1.5 cm Painting - 9.8 x 9.8 x 0.6 inch
$1,614
![Painting, Shadows and Diamonds, Makama John](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1978176_1_grid.jpg)
Shadows and Diamonds
Makama John
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 inch
$2,350
![Painting, Fleurs sur fond jaune indien, Gauthier Bruel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1797333_1_grid.jpg)
Fleurs sur fond jaune indien
Gauthier Bruel
Painting - 114 x 146 x 3 cm Painting - 44.9 x 57.5 x 1.2 inch
$2,191
![Painting, Two personages, Vladimir Kolosov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1698978_1_grid.jpg)
Two personages
Vladimir Kolosov
Painting - 38.7 x 29.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 15.25 x 11.75 x 0.1 inch
$580
![Painting, Sunrise, Vladimir Kolosov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1514094_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Portrait of Frida, Valentyna Odnolko](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1238061_1_grid.jpg)
Portrait of Frida
Valentyna Odnolko
Painting - 85 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 33.5 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,268
![Painting, Dandy, David Jamin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2205179_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Broke, cObo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2202925_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Stand by, Dave Baranes](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2180520_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Thinking, Dave Baranes](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2180519_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Paysage 609, Xiu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2128234_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Paysage 607, Xiu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2118612_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Paysage 606, Xiu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2118573_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Colors of the flag, Olga Oreshnikov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2047758_1_grid.jpg)
Colors of the flag
Olga Oreshnikov
Painting - 101.6 x 92.7 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 36.5 x 1.5 inch
$5,707
![Painting, Tree of Life, Noyem Khachatryan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1933314_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The sleeping crowd II, Jade Mouge](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1803708_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Yantarnoe, 27/02/2021, 20h14, Evgeniya Buravleva](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1774095_1_grid.jpg)
Yantarnoe, 27/02/2021, 20h14
Evgeniya Buravleva
Painting - 40 x 60 x 0.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
$1,729
![Painting, Code 2227, Thierry Carrier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1723914_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Paysage 703, Xiu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1687362_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Les Nymphéas, Xiu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1681950_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, 11 of Wands, Joaquim Falcó](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/995136_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Smoker with pipe, Joaquim Falcó](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/994701_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Face, Joaquim Falcó](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/994260_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Chaplin the great dictator, Joaquim Falcó](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/994242_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Pescivendolo, Antonino Puliafico](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/991323_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, On n'est pas là 2, Franck-Bernard Gaulier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/666417_1_grid.jpg)
On n'est pas là 2
Franck-Bernard Gaulier
Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.6 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.2 inch
$404
![Painting, Enchanting Elegance, Samson Adetunji](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2205746_1_grid.jpg)
Enchanting Elegance
Samson Adetunji
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 1 inch
$2,250
![Painting, Self-Worth 2, Hezekiah Oyejide Obidare](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2205388_1_grid.jpg)
Self-Worth 2
Hezekiah Oyejide Obidare
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 2 inch
$3,250
![Painting, Efflorescence, Maude Ovize](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2203512_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Délice estival II, Maude Ovize](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2202871_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Birch forest Orange small NY, Helen Brough](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2194462_1_grid.jpg)
Birch forest Orange small NY
Helen Brough
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
$1,199
![Painting, Danaé, Maude Ovize](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2183220_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, La danse des cartes, Xavier de Vilmorin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2176099_1_grid.jpg)
La danse des cartes
Xavier de Vilmorin
Painting - 92 x 60 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36.2 x 23.6 x 1 inch
$2,191
![Painting, On the way to the light, Eugene Gorbachenko](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2152675_1_grid.jpg)
On the way to the light
Eugene Gorbachenko
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$1,729
![Painting, Pallenque, Maude Ovize](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1997343_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, You May Be Lucky, Oluwafemi Afolabi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1901754_1_grid.jpg)
You May Be Lucky
Oluwafemi Afolabi
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1 inch
$3,000
![Painting, La vie en rose... (Esprit Voile), Olivier Messas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1722336_1_grid.jpg)
La vie en rose... (Esprit Voile)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 100 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,306
![Painting, Youssef le mendiant, Marrakech, Richard Bouts](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1484865_1_grid.jpg)
Youssef le mendiant, Marrakech
Richard Bouts
Painting - 80 x 40 x 2.4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 15.7 x 0.9 inch
$1,476
![Painting, Cubisme 2.0, Alione](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/976251_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Portrait XII, Christiane Simon-Roques](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/90457_1_grid.jpg)
Portrait XII
Christiane Simon-Roques
Painting - 162 x 97 x 2 cm Painting - 63.8 x 38.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,842
![Painting, Psykedelik 1, Muriel Matt](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/889521_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, La Baleine, Julien Calot](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/590868_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Square Hifuka Floral Colorful Art, Anastassia Skopp](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2197671_1_grid.jpg)
Square Hifuka Floral Colorful Art
Anastassia Skopp
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,972
![Painting, Grand Canal of Venice, Serhii Cherniakovskyi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2194816_1_grid.jpg)
Grand Canal of Venice
Serhii Cherniakovskyi
Painting - 45 x 65 x 2.5 cm Painting - 17.7 x 25.6 x 1 inch
$840
![Painting, How it Starts, Emma Burrow](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2182983_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Abysse, Khadija El Haouchi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2178005_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Femme à l'éventail, jardin au bord du Nil, Catherine Clare](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2146358_1_grid.jpg)
Femme à l'éventail, jardin au bord du Nil
Catherine Clare
Painting - 100 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,882 $2,364
![Painting, Dreams, Marta Carceller](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2099121_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Fou de Bassan, David Jamin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1952418_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Peaceful beach, Ana Hefco](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1830714_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Femme au chapeau, Martine Fauve Dechavanne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/994848_1_grid.jpg)
Femme au chapeau
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 65 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$634
![Painting, White butterfly, bronze stripe, Svetlana Martin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2159791_1_grid.jpg)
White butterfly, bronze stripe
Svetlana Martin
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$865
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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!