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What You See is Up To You No. 3
Gabrielle Nisenboim
Painting - 38 x 76 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15 x 29.9 x 0.6 inch
£1,657
Journey Through ...
Gladys Abrahante
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 35 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 13.8 x 0.4 inch
£1,249
Figure
Robert Luis Nicoidski
Fine Art Drawings - 29.5 x 17.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.6 x 6.9 x 0 inch
£546
The Third Eye of Ignorance
Stan Maksun
Painting - 20.3 x 30.5 x 0.3 cm Painting - 8 x 12 x 0.1 inch
£705
Caballero das dúas Caras
José Antonio Fondevila
Fine Art Drawings - 29.5 x 21 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.6 x 8.3 inch
£529
What happen on earth stays on earth
Otto Constantin
Sculpture - 72 x 53 x 0.5 cm Sculpture - 28.3 x 20.9 x 0.2 inch
£3,085
Rostros sin rostro 11-3
José Manuel Chamorro Chamorro
Painting - 73 x 116 cm Painting - 28.7 x 45.7 inch
£1,763
Love is a river
Benoit Ruff
Photography - 42 x 29.7 x 0.2 cm Photography - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0.1 inch
£308
Terrasse Théâtre
Julien Wolf
Fine Art Drawings - 130 x 100 cm Fine Art Drawings - 51.2 x 39.4 inch
£2,203
We Are All The Same / SAMOURAÏ
Insane 51
Painting - 135 x 135 x 3 cm Painting - 53.1 x 53.1 x 1.2 inch
£12,779
1972 Fish Eye Autoportrait
Florian Hunger-Pegof
Photography - 30 x 20 x 0.5 cm Photography - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0.2 inch
£1,674
Ayai
Abdessemed Adel
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 16 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 6.3 x 0.4 inch
£3,966
Back To The Block (Snoop Dogg)
Mark Drew
Print - 29.8 x 42 x 0.1 cm Print - 11.7 x 16.5 x 0 inch
£1,586
Serial Analog Pixels
Danny Frede
Painting - 40 x 140 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch
£1,401
Finestres blanques...
Isabel Saludes
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£1,586
Bateaux de pêche
Élisée Maclet
Fine Art Drawings - 16 x 24 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 6.3 x 9.4 x 0.1 inch
£1,058
The universal question
Anna Elizabeth
Print - 76.2 x 106.68 x 3 cm Print - 30 x 42 x 1.2 inch
£1,498
Golden blossom at night
Sandra Lingg
Painting - 30 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
£1,250
Tempus
Purificación Fernandez Grande
Painting - 30 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
£1,486
Klecksogra family
Klekkso Bröking
Painting - 39 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 15.4 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
£1,229
In black frame
Pedro Elias Barreta
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
£1,069
Summerfeeling 1
Kunst Schubert
Fine Art Drawings - 59 x 42 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.2 x 16.5 x 0 inch
£912
No Place to Go
Ghada Jamal
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 45 x 1.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0.6 inch
£985
Ascension Dust
Gregory Logan Dunn
Painting - 45 x 45 x 1 cm Painting - 17.7 x 17.7 x 0.4 inch
£1,115
Broken (Inside Out Series)
Maria Lopes
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
£1,087
Sans titre
Valérie Woillet
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 0.7 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.3 inch
£529
You are the reason
Luise Juliana Ellerbrock
Print - 25 x 25 x 1 cm Print - 9.8 x 9.8 x 0.4 inch
£1,066
Hôtel joyeux, Amboise
Eliane Diverly
Painting - 32 x 23 x 0.3 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.1 x 0.1 inch
£727
San Pedro Mártir, Baja California
Saúl Rodríguez Montante Méndez
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 46 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 18.1 x 0.1 inch
£942
Cerro de la Mata
Saúl Rodríguez Montante Méndez
Painting - 30 x 46 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 18.1 x 0.1 inch
£943
Waterfront
Brendan Cuffe (Cuffian)
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
£1,719
Untitled
Alekos Hofstetter
Fine Art Drawings - 27 x 20 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.6 x 7.9 inch
£1,234
Smat156,part2
Lassana Sarr
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 29.7 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 11.7 x 0.1 inch
£617
Higher
Sandra Szaja
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
£881
1952 Paris Portrait
Kam Zin Choon
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 45 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 17.7 x 0.2 inch
£837
Musical Notes
Tommaso Cascella
Fine Art Drawings - 33.5 x 26 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13.2 x 10.2 x 0 inch
£397
Contemporary artworks for sale
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!