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Venus de Milo is surprised and frustrated by discovering mimeomia in herself
Vladimir Kolosov
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 0.5 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 0.2 inch
$1,260 $1,071
She walks in Beauty like the Night
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,130
Flowers of hope
Tetiana Adamovich
Painting - 100 x 60 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 23.6 x 1 inch
$1,342
The Last Rays of the Sun
Serhii Cherniakovskyi
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,600
La Damier
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 144 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 56.7 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$4,696
Evening time
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 60 x 45 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,200
Coffee Secret
Roxana Khonkulova
Painting - 90 x 80 x 1.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 31.5 x 0.6 inch
$1,118
Horaires de Nuit III
Michaël Brack
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,006
Du côté de Paimpol (Série)
Charlotte Abecassis
Painting - 56 x 42 cm Painting - 22 x 16.5 inch
$1,453
Echoes of Success and Unseen Burdens
Emmanuel Ojebola
Painting - 106.7 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 42 x 36 x 1 inch
$3,850
The Asian Boy
Nopparat Kongyoung
Painting - 135 x 88 x 4 cm Painting - 53.1 x 34.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,789 $1,520
Coffee before gardening
Dasha Pogodina
Painting - 94 x 94 x 2.5 cm Painting - 37 x 37 x 1 inch
$1,006
Blooming pink almond branch
Natalya Mougenot
Painting - 65 x 55 x 1.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.7 x 0.6 inch
$1,230
Portrait #2. From the Portraits series
Luigi Christopher Veggetti Kanku
Painting - 30 x 20.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 8.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,200
Taylor Swift's Entrance (L'Entrée de Taylor Swift)
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$324 $227
Mystic Metamorphosis
Arevik Gasparyan
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,800
Traditional Wrestling
Azin Najafi
Painting - 50 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$2,236
Fille aux macarons bleius
Albane de Saint Remy
Painting - 190.5 x 88.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 75 x 35 x 2 inch
$1,633
Enigmate Radiance (A portrait of Grace and Virtue)
Olaniyi Timothy
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 1 inch
$1,550
Fille en ballon s'échappant du mur
Miguel Guía
Painting - 110 x 90 x 4 cm Painting - 43.3 x 35.4 x 1.6 inch
$5,478
Hommage à Camille Claudel
Duytter
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
$6,596
The red house - Tuscany painting landscape
Andrea Borella
Painting - 54 x 64 x 1 cm Painting - 21.3 x 25.2 x 0.4 inch
$727
50 Shades of Serenity
Slava Ilyayev
Painting - 101 x 141 x 3 cm Painting - 39.8 x 55.5 x 1.2 inch
$19,200
Sisters in Yellow 3
Oluwafemi Afolabi
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 1 inch
$4,499
Klezmerim Around the Table
Michael Kachan
Painting - 90 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$2,900
Workday Conversations
Gegham Hunanyan
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$350
Portrait of My Barber (At The Barber Shop)
Eyitayo Alagbe
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1 inch
$4,250
Racconto di una sera
Sergio Ceccotti
Painting - 50 x 35 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 13.8 x 0.8 inch
$3,130
Self Portrait
Mikheil Arbolishvili
Painting - 30 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$2,236
Gucci en el mercado
Astolfo Funes
Painting - 141 x 135 x 0.3 cm Painting - 55.5 x 53.1 x 0.1 inch
$4,472
Portrait de jeune femme
Albert Chavaz
Painting - 46 x 38 x 0.5 cm Painting - 18.1 x 15 x 0.2 inch
$1,283
La naissance
Izabeau Jousse
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$3,242 $3,080
La Vacuité Salutaire
Hugo Pondz
Painting - 80 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$12,298
La sieste - Nap in a 70's room
Léa Dedieu
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,012
La souffleuse de rêves
Els Knockaert
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
$973
Threads of Sovereignty 2
Bakare Abubakri-sideeq Babatunde
Painting - 114.3 x 111.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 45 x 44 x 1 inch
$3,050
Paesaggio di Romagna, Italia
Giannino Marchig
Painting - 50 x 60.5 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,867
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
$2,795
Les arbres 01.03.24
Laurent Bouro
Painting - 80 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$2,907
Silent and reassuring
Alvaro Petritoli
Painting - 61 x 41 x 3 cm Painting - 24 x 16.1 x 1.2 inch
$1,744
Hope of Glory (Ireti Ogo)
Ademola Ajayi
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 1 inch
$2,350
Nothing Feels Better Than True Love
Joshua Salami
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1 inch
$2,799
Harirah: One of My Days
Sayeed Momoh
Painting - 101.6 x 111.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 44 x 1 inch
$2,850
You and I
Ayandare Adeniran Ayanmuyiwa
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 1 inch
$3,500
The Scent of Tulips
Lilith Tonakanyan
Painting - 60 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,200
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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!