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Whispered to the river
Pinar Civan
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
£1,316
Rievocazione michelangiolesca
Massimiliano Carisdeo
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
£526
Study of all the lost faces-1
Koh Gi
Painting - 45.5 x 37.9 x 2 cm Painting - 17.9 x 14.9 x 0.8 inch
£1,707
Le doux parfum de l’amour
Tristan Saint Michel
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
£3,947
Les chants de la terre
Corinne Boureau
Painting - 109 x 91 x 3 cm Painting - 42.9 x 35.8 x 1.2 inch
£6,578
American crisis
Filippo Citterio
Painting - 75 x 115 x 2 cm Painting - 29.5 x 45.3 x 0.8 inch
£2,105
Le mas de Gros Jean
Michèle Delimeux
Painting - 92 x 73 x 5 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 2 inch
£1,842
Power Ball
Jessica Renault jrbrush
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.37 x 39.37 x 1 inch
£1,754
Portables series 1
Joaquín Lara
Painting - 171 x 171 x 1 cm Painting - 67.3 x 67.3 x 0.4 inch
£1,491
Resting my bones
Prisca Akua Kwaning
Painting - 115 x 75 x 3 cm Painting - 45.3 x 29.5 x 1.2 inch
£1,675
Zebra in turquoise, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Gardani Art
Painting - 119.4 x 99.1 x 1.8 cm Painting - 47 x 39 x 0.7 inch
£1,426
Un été gris-bleu - série Les Dames de la côte
Françoise Lucq
Painting - 60 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
£860
Wedding (Authenticated Clementine Hunter Framed Black Folk Art Painting)
Clementine Hunter
Painting - 45.7 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 18 x 24 x 1 inch
£11,399
Racines miraculeuses haïtiennes
Christophe Mert
Painting - 91 x 78 cm Painting - 35.8 x 30.7 inch
£3,508
Neo Surrealistic Sunrise
José Galant
Painting - 78.7 x 147.3 x 5.1 cm Painting - 31 x 58 x 2 inch
£1,743
Jeune fille à la plage
Valérie-Anne Bertin
Painting - 24 x 18 x 2 cm Painting - 9.4 x 7.1 x 0.8 inch
£395
Turquoisienne - série femme de dos
Fabienne Lecras
Painting - 90 x 58 x 1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 22.8 x 0.4 inch
£979
Autumn’s Arrival
Johanne Brouillette
Painting - 91 x 91 x 2 cm Painting - 35.8 x 35.8 x 0.8 inch
£1,316
Massavo the Makokean
Lazarus Massavo
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 inch
£1,585
Joie de musique I
Emily Helstroffer
Painting - 55 x 46 x 1.5 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.6 inch
£1,316
Bavière Pervers
Sorrel Mocchia di Coggiola
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
£4,561
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Contemporary paintings for sale
Artsper has a large selection of modern and contemporary canvas paintings for you to discover, organized under our various headers and themes. Painting has been a means of expression for mankind from Prehistoric times to the modern day, making it a true ambassador for the fine arts. Even today, it embodies the visual arts par excellence.
Oil paintings, watercolors, ink washes and even acrylics; there are many different techniques which allow the painter to achieve the desired effect. Mixing pigments with synthetic resin make it acrylic, while adding delicately grinded gum arabic, transform it into gouache and watercolor. In street art, painting takes shape on walls using spray cans, but painting can adapt to all kinds of supports. Often more frequently used on canvas, paintings can also be created on wood, paper… there are no limits to the surfaces the artist can use it on.
A painting is above all the concept and ideas behind the brushstrokes and the artistic process. With this in mind, two key trends contrast with each other: figurative art and abstract art. However, they are merely two guiding principles amongst the host of pictorial movements which have been developed throughout the years and have come to establish the history of art. Each of these artistic movements have played their part, often drawing on achievements from the past or by doing the exact opposite of previous techniques. As with minimalist painting and the Pop art movement, the norms have evolved and they are no longer the same, creating new aesthetics and changing the way we view art.
The practice of painting continues to evolve with the succession of movements and artistic experimentation, as artists become interested in new techniques and try to deal with new issues. Certain artists highlight the importance of color, whilst others focus on form or light. The Impressionists, for example, gave a great deal of importance to what the eye truly saw, whereas the Surrealists allowed themselves to be guided by their subconscious and the Cubists concentrated on how to depict perspective…
If contemporary art has often been associated with abstract painting, it cannot in any way be reduced to this association. Figurative art is making a comeback on the current art scene and artists are using the style across the world. Contemporary painting is never static and the artworks shown in these pages are proof.
At Artsper, we offer a large and diverse range of paintings, both modern and contemporary, from the best international art galleries. Explore the themes which have fascinated renowned contemporary painters and young artists and discover landscape paintings, portraits, still lives, nudes and from numerous artistic movements such as Pop art, Street art or Outsider Art…
For example, discover the street art paintings of the famous Shepard Fairey, or the figuration libre (free figuration) paintings by Robert Combas, the refined and summery canvases by Marek Okrassa, the colorful and minimalist works of Nicolas Dubreuille, or even stylized portraits by Éric Odartey or Florence Dussuyer, rising stars of the contemporary art scene…
You can also browse by sizes with our selection of small format contemporary paintings or large format paintings but also by color: blue paintings, red paintings, yellow paintings, green paintings, grey contemporary paintings and more....