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Memories of sweet summer
Natalya Mougenot
Painting - 59.4 x 42 x 0.1 cm Painting - 23.4 x 16.5 x 0 inch
$615
Conversation in the garden, Gardens of Resilience series: Cultivating Hope
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 100 x 110 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 43.3 x 1 inch
$1,510
My kitten , Gardens of Resilience series
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1.8 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.7 inch
$1,062
Beginning of life
Natalie Shiporina
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,677
Le retour du petit bancal
Philippe Vercellotti
Painting - 33 x 33 x 1 cm Painting - 13 x 13 x 0.4 inch
$2,236
Verónica
José Luis Pagador Ponce
Painting - 100 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$6,821
Toro de nimes
José Luis Pagador Ponce
Painting - 146 x 114 x 2 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 0.8 inch
$10,735
Fuenteovejuna
José Luis Pagador Ponce
Painting - 114 x 146 x 2 cm Painting - 44.9 x 57.5 x 0.8 inch
$8,946
Skiing with Snowflakes
Rusiko Chikvaidze
Painting - 52 x 52 x 3 cm Painting - 20.5 x 20.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,566
The Magic of Winter
Rusiko Chikvaidze
Painting - 50 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,125
Rio de San Travaso - Venise et son architecture
Lucien Dufour
Painting - 93 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 36.6 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,097
Le pont Alexandre III - Paris et son architecture
Lucien Dufour
Painting - 65 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,097
Pierres et rivière - Paysage et Nature
Michel Charlier-Haldorf
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,677
Painting in ancient technique (Magic image)
Natalie Shiporina
Painting - 21.5 x 15 x 1.5 cm Painting - 8.5 x 5.9 x 0.6 inch
$1,510
Light Peonies - impressionist sunny still life painting
Nikolay Dmitriev
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,040
Montrose harbor, 1977
Darren Thompson
Painting - 30.5 x 40.6 x 5.1 cm Painting - 12 x 16 x 2 inch
$1,200
Le Sacre du Printemps
Liubov Juravliova
Painting - 100 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,901
Faith 03- sailing boat
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 61 x 121.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 24 x 48 x 2 inch
$550
Aquamarine Ocean
Rusiko Chikvaidze
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,006
The Shore of Aquamarine Ocean
Rusiko Chikvaidze
Painting - 52 x 52 x 3 cm Painting - 20.5 x 20.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,845
Aquamarine Ocean and Cafe New Beginnings
Rusiko Chikvaidze
Painting - 40 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,013
Aquamarine Ocean
Rusiko Chikvaidze
Painting - 35 x 35 x 3 cm Painting - 13.8 x 13.8 x 1.2 inch
$2,125
Pink roses
Andranik Harutyunyan
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$850 $723
L'observateur
Philippe Vercellotti
Painting - 36 x 14 x 1 cm Painting - 14.2 x 5.5 x 0.4 inch
$1,342
Le bleu de Paracelse
Philippe Vercellotti
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$1,342
Victor et le petit tome vert
Philippe Vercellotti
Painting - 34 x 20 x 1 cm Painting - 13.4 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$1,789
Le secret de la pomme à trois trous
Philippe Vercellotti
Painting - 15 x 22 x 1 cm Painting - 5.9 x 8.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,342
L'apparition du 102
Philippe Vercellotti
Painting - 25 x 12 x 1 cm Painting - 9.8 x 4.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,118
Mona Lisa Vandal Desfragmentation
Utopia
Painting - 120 x 105 x 0.1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 41.3 x 0 inch
$895
Garden of joy 51
Veronica Vilsan
Painting - 78.7 x 114.3 x 5.1 cm Painting - 31 x 45 x 2 inch
$1,260
Topographie Humaine II
Olivier Furter
Painting - 60 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,013
Peace@Last vert
Patricia Dubois
Painting - 60 x 93 x 3.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 36.6 x 1.4 inch
$2,236
Le petit Tibétain
Lou Andréas Salomé Tauss
Painting - 80 x 60 x 3.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.4 inch
$995
The poet with red cheek
Ya-Wei Li
Painting - 70 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,789
Le collectionneur au fauteuil rouge
Zafi
Painting - 150 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$20,128
Chantal boit seule
Ghislaine Ferreira
Painting - 73 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
$872
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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!