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Thriving in Adversity
Agwunwa Theophilus
Painting - 127 x 94 x 2.5 cm Painting - 50 x 37 x 1 inch
€2,984
Lectrice aux anémones
Thérèse Boucraut
Painting - 99 x 99 x 3 cm Painting - 39 x 39 x 1.2 inch
€4,000
Belle d'Orchidees
Marie-Claude Bisson
Painting - 91.44 x 91.44 x 3 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.2 inch
€1,500
From Somewhere Deep Inside
Aba Linus
Painting - 78.7 x 78.7 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31 x 31 x 1 inch
€2,407
Jeune femme au châle et panier de fleures
L. Rubia
Painting - 44 x 33.5 x 1 cm Painting - 17.3 x 13.2 x 0.4 inch
€1,369
You and I
Ayandare Adeniran Ayanmuyiwa
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 1 inch
€3,371
Origin Stories - Warpath
Matt Lambert
Painting - 22.7 x 15.1 x 3 cm Painting - 8.9 x 5.9 x 1.2 inch
€280
In Frame Series: Relax At Home
Suanjaya Kencut
Painting - 104.14 x 88.9 x 2.54 cm Painting - 41 x 35 x 1 inch
€28,890
Vue sur la mer, Italie
Arthur Jean Baptiste Calame
Painting - 22 x 32 x 0.5 cm Painting - 8.7 x 12.6 x 0.2 inch
€1,304
Château d'eau
Georges Albert Fustier
Painting - 26 x 36 x 0.5 cm Painting - 10.2 x 14.2 x 0.2 inch
€1,271
Hommage à Bernard Buffet
Gully
Painting - 100 x 150 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
€19,000
Smoke on the Water
Marie-Ange Daudé
Painting - 84.5 x 84.5 x 1 cm Painting - 33.3 x 33.3 x 0.4 inch
€2,500
Paysage de campagne avec vue sur le Jura Suisse
Arthur Morard
Painting - 60 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,065
Harirah: One of My Days
Sayeed Momoh
Painting - 101.6 x 111.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 44 x 1 inch
€2,745
Seine (The Self Romantic)
Ajegbomogun Damilola
Painting - 152.4 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 60 x 36 x 1 inch
€3,371
Koomote Nine: The Sweet Scent of Nature, a Flowers’ Song
Taira Akiko Hiraguri
Painting - 41 x 41 cm Painting - 16.1 x 16.1 inch
€1,600
Nature of Slovakian - Bratislava
Elahe Jalili
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1 inch
€615
Manchuela fertil
Ulpiano Carrasco
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€6,500
A Bird out of Merlin's Ear
Christopher Rainham
Painting - 80 x 80 x 5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 2 inch
€2,228
Four Times the Living Space
Brian Nash
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 1.5 inch
€1,685
756 - Gorille XXVIII
Rémi Planche
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€2,700
Intimate Offerings
Genevieve Cohn
Painting - 60.96 x 45.72 x 2.54 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 1 inch
€2,408
Like Basquiat in the Midst
Adewuyi Theophilus
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1 inch
€2,745
Serenity 2
Kayimahe Ishmael Zed
Painting - 100.1 x 89.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 35.4 x 1 inch
€2,456
Epitome of Beauty
Toheeb Ibrahim
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1 inch
€2,841
The Garden of Heavenly Delights
Frank E Hollywood
Painting - 130 x 110 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 43.3 x 1.2 inch
€13,500
Adaugo (You and I in Color 3)
Lynda Charles
Painting - 91.4 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 24 x 1 inch
€3,033
Voyages immobiles 14
Yannick Fournié
Painting - 120 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
€8,500
Il était une fois
Alain Vintenon
Painting - 53.5 x 53.5 x 4 cm Painting - 21.1 x 21.1 x 1.6 inch
€4,333 €3,900
Community II
Felix Treadwell
Painting - 182.2 x 121.5 x 2.54 cm Painting - 71.7 x 47.8 x 1 inch
€33,705
La danza extatica
Rocio Mazuecos
Painting - 130 x 290 x 3.5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 114.2 x 1.4 inch
€16,000
La nuit étoilée (the starry Night)
AKET
Painting - 100 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€8,000
Des lueurs ocre et rouge
Jean-Claude Campana
Painting - 33 x 41 x 2.5 cm Painting - 13 x 16.1 x 1 inch
€2,300
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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!