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Astronomer
Francisco Montoya Cázarez
Painting - 30.5 x 23 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12 x 9.1 x 0 inch
£300
Astronomos
Francisco Montoya Cázarez
Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
£405 £365
Nocturne aux Cyprès
Caroline de Piédoüe
Painting - 130 x 81 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 31.9 x 1.2 inch
£5,200
Garden with stream - Italian villas painting
Andrea Borella
Painting - 60 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
£705
Légereté de la vie
Clara Crespin
Painting - 100 x 81 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1.2 inch
£2,732
Argument 2
Francisco Montoya Cázarez
Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
£405
Argument 4
Francisco Montoya Cázarez
Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
£405
5 galfons marina
Miquela Vidal Barceló
Painting - 70 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
£9,657
The man said very little
Ngahina Belton-Bodsworth
Painting - 45 x 34 x 4 cm Painting - 17.7 x 13.4 x 1.6 inch
£2,265
Le Renard, Les Mouches et le Hérisson
Carlos Antonio Sablon Perez
Painting - 80 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
£5,728
The miracle of life
Javier Prieto Meneses
Painting - 71 x 45 x 2 cm Painting - 28 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
£441
Horses in Villacana
Elena Done
Painting - 146.1 x 97 x 4.1 cm Painting - 57.5 x 38.2 x 1.6 inch
£3,695
Le Chien qui Lâche sa Proie pour l’Ombre
Carlos Antonio Sablon Perez
Painting - 55 x 45 x 3 cm Painting - 21.7 x 17.7 x 1.2 inch
£4,407
Le Soleil et les Grenouilles
Carlos Antonio Sablon Perez
Painting - 55 x 45 x 3 cm Painting - 21.7 x 17.7 x 1.2 inch
£4,407
Still life with bird and kettle
Ara Gasparyan
Painting - 35 x 24 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 9.4 x 0.8 inch
£246
Still life with bird and kettle
Ara Gasparyan
Painting - 35 x 24 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 9.4 x 0.8 inch
£246
The Drummer and Flutist 4 painting from Africa
Angu Walters
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
£1,067
2001 Prophète sur fond violet Prophet COLLECTION LUBJANA MUSEUM, SLOVENIA
Joze Ciuha
Painting - 217 x 187 x 1 cm Painting - 85.4 x 73.6 x 0.4 inch
£17,185
All Heads Together VIII
Angu Walters
Painting - 50 x 79 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 31.1 x 0 inch
£903
All Heads Together IX
Angu Walters
Painting - 46 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 18.1 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
£1,067
The Xylophone Player IV
Angu Walters
Painting - 65 x 55 x 0.1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.7 x 0 inch
£985
African Juju Society VIII
Angu Walters
Painting - 80 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
£1,560
The Drummer and the Flutist III
Angu Walters
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
£1,232
Native american indian
Charlotte Lecoanet
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
£749
Character Series - Self Portrait
Zhao De-Wei
Painting - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
£3,790
Character Series - Haze Days
Zhao De-Wei
Painting - 50 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
£3,085
Character Series - I Want To Fly
Zhao De-Wei
Painting - 50 x 70 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch
£3,834
Figuration
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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.
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