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Sunbathing Boulders in the Ellendorfer Heide
Gary Westall
Painting - 50 x 59.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
€1,506
Hillside Colours
Linda Yurgensen
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1.5 inch
€1,596
Jungle colombienne
Juan Carlos Suarez
Painting - 80 x 110 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 43.3 x 1.2 inch
€2,500
Cœur de châtaignier (ça pique)
Ben
Painting - 86 x 46 x 8.5 cm Painting - 33.9 x 18.1 x 3.3 inch
€14,000
Paysage côtier
Lison Favarger
Painting - 37 x 54.5 x 0.3 cm Painting - 14.6 x 21.5 x 0.1 inch
€1,658
India Ganesh taxis
Alain Bertrand
Painting - 92 x 73 x 3 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 1.2 inch
€5,000
India street of Mumbai
Alain Bertrand
Painting - 65 x 81 x 3 cm Painting - 25.6 x 31.9 x 1.2 inch
€4,400
La place au soleil
Jean-Pierre Lorand
Painting - 24 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 9.4 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€670
Banc au bord de l'eau
Alexandre Rochat
Painting - 38 x 46.5 x 2 cm Painting - 15 x 18.3 x 0.8 inch
€1,216
Jon Kortajarena and Luke Evans in New York City
Manuel Santelices
Painting - 22.9 x 30.5 x 0.3 cm Painting - 9 x 12 x 0.1 inch
€471
Charlotte Casiraghi in Vanity Fair 'One of a Kind Fashion Painting'
Manuel Santelices
Painting - 30.5 x 22.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 12 x 9 x 0.1 inch
€471
Valentino hat fall
Manuel Santelices
Painting - 30.5 x 22.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 12 x 9 x 0.1 inch
€471
Théâtre d'Oklaoma
Franck-Bernard Gaulier
Painting - 35 x 45 x 0.3 cm Painting - 13.8 x 17.7 x 0.1 inch
€420
El jardí dels monjos
Francesc Casademont
Painting - 65 x 54 x 3 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 1.2 inch
€1,500
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
€1,100
In The Arms of Little Cupid
Lilit Soghomonyan
Painting - 56 x 25 x 0.3 cm Painting - 22 x 9.8 x 0.1 inch
€900 €810
#302. From The Beaches series
Luigi Christopher Veggetti Kanku
Painting - 9.9 x 15 x 0.3 cm Painting - 3.9 x 5.9 x 0.1 inch
€471
#301. From The Beaches series
Luigi Christopher Veggetti Kanku
Painting - 9.9 x 15 x 0.3 cm Painting - 3.9 x 5.9 x 0.1 inch
€471
Peace and Tranquility 1
Joshua Salami
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1 inch
€2,353
Booknote 7. From The Beaches series
Luigi Christopher Veggetti Kanku
Painting - 24 x 88.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 9.45 x 35 x 1 inch
€2,165
From the series Ecology of soul and nature V
Mykola Mamchur
Painting - 50 x 60 x 0.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
€1,500
Mysterious Evening
Lilit Soghomonyan
Painting - 56 x 76 x 0.3 cm Painting - 22 x 29.9 x 0.1 inch
€1,000
Hide inside, Melancholy serie
Olha Vlasova
Painting - 60 x 40 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.6 inch
€700
Personalidad - Sofía Loren
José Luis Pagador Ponce
Painting - 100 x 73 x 3.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 1.4 inch
€2,800
Visage yeux ouverts
Hellen Halftermeyer
Painting - 116 x 89 x 3 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 1.2 inch
€2,600
Still life with flowers and pomegranate
Hayk Miqayelyan
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€706
Jeune fille aux papillons
Serge Kalinowski
Painting - 41 x 33 x 3 cm Painting - 16.1 x 13 x 1.2 inch
€730 €694
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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!