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Untitled (Young Damsel)
Ogbonna Francis
Painting - 71.1 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 28 x 24 x 1 inch
$1,550
The musician and the bird
Liana Asatryan
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$750 $638
Ondulations - série puissance et énergie de la Nature
Zong
Painting - 120 x 40 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 15.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,454
Flame of passion
Jumoke Oyetunde
Painting - 101.6 x 83.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 33 x 1 inch
$1,700
Abishola (Born to wealth)
Oniosun Victoria Erioluwa
Painting - 71.1 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 28 x 20 x 1 inch
$1,200
En harmonie
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$425
Vacances en Provence
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 19 x 27 x 2 cm Painting - 7.5 x 10.6 x 0.8 inch
$324
L'épave - série Paysage et mer
Nicolas Pizy
Painting - 80 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$984
Friend Lighting a Cigarette
Wang Dianyu
Painting - 70 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,566
Temporary Shelter
Teona Yamanidze
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$3,131
Temporary Shelter
Teona Yamanidze
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$3,131
Against the Light
Teona Yamanidze
Painting - 50 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$3,355
1958 Parisiens Parisians
Kam Zin Choon
Painting - 48 x 64 x 0.5 cm Painting - 18.9 x 25.2 x 0.2 inch
$1,286
1956 Dieu dans la rivière River God
Kam Zin Choon
Painting - 50 x 30 x 0.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$2,181
1964 Opéra de PARIS Chanteuse Singer Opera
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.2 inch
$2,181
1958 Paris L'espion The Spyer
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 53.5 x 36 cm Painting - 21.1 x 14.2 inch
$1,957
1980 Parisienne à la fenêtre Parisian at her window
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 57.75 x 48 cm Painting - 22.7 x 18.9 inch
$2,181
1981 PARIS Elégante au marché Elegant at the market
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 58.75 x 45 cm Painting - 23.1 x 17.7 inch
$2,181
1974 Parisienne à la toque Parisian with toque
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 58.75 x 45 cm Painting - 23.1 x 17.7 inch
$2,181
1966 PARIS Homme à la casquette verte Man with green cap
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 30 x 23.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.3 x 0.2 inch
$2,181
Deux cœurs pour toi
Joseph Piermatteo
Painting - 81 x 65 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 25.6 x 1.2 inch
$2,572
Traces 1987 Remains
Moon JANG CHULL
Painting - 119 x 49 x 0.3 cm Painting - 46.9 x 19.3 x 0.1 inch
$1,230
Dusk in the village
Sergey Khachatryan
Painting - 33 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 13 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,500
Portrait PS 126 Kiev - De guerre lasse - French school
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 70 x 50 x 3.8 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1.5 inch
$1,789
Libre d'aimer, tu chériras la mer III - Paysage marin de La Nouvelle Calédonie
Caroline Degroiselle
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.4 inch
$1,051
Envol en éclats de vagues - Paysage marin de La Nouvelle Calédonie
Caroline Degroiselle
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.4 inch
$1,051
Portrait PS223 Tsunami (Large) French School oil painting Basel
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 55 x 55 x 3.5 cm Painting - 21.7 x 21.7 x 1.4 inch
$1,901
Farid Resting With His Sheeps
Dondi Schwartz
Painting - 60 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
$895
Bsor Valley Scene
Dondi Schwartz
Painting - 70 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,006
A Boat in Ethaka Island
Dondi Schwartz
Painting - 60 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,062
Still life with cezve
Sergey Khachatryan
Painting - 40 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,500
Le firmament
Jean-Baptiste Lyonnet
Painting - 65 x 54 x 3 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 1.2 inch
$2,348
El camino
Jean-Baptiste Lyonnet
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$4,920
The strenght is to be found in serenity
Gary Westall
Painting - 50 x 59.9 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,708
Edeltrauds birchtrees II in Marxener paradies
Gary Westall
Painting - 59.9 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
$1,800
Portrait PS 231 La Dormante - French School oil painting Basel
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 55 x 55 x 3.5 cm Painting - 21.7 x 21.7 x 1.4 inch
$2,013
Spending a night scooping up the stars
Hiromi Sengoku
Painting - 45.5 x 33.3 x 3 cm Painting - 17.9 x 13.1 x 1.2 inch
$1,118
Portrait in Geometric Symphony
Zakhar Shevchuk
Painting - 114 x 82 x 2 cm Painting - 44.9 x 32.3 x 0.8 inch
$2,740
Santorini View from the Sea
Dondi Schwartz
Painting - 70 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,286
Bottles in Old Jaffa
Dondi Schwartz
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,454
Temptation (Seated woman with one bare breast)
Zakhar Shevchuk
Painting - 115 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 45.3 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,355
Le poisson jaune
Laurence Leccia
Painting - 100 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,062
Vue sur les toits (Vue 7)
Marie France Garrigues
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$727
Bordure de route au soleil levant
Jules Cier
Painting - 73 x 92 x 2.5 cm Painting - 28.7 x 36.2 x 1 inch
$1,566
Le décor n'a pas changé...
Javier Navarro Avilés
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,062
Vous, vous aussi...
Javier Navarro Avilés
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,062
La route qui mène au fond de soi...
Javier Navarro Avilés
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,062
Mon bilan est sans mélancolie...
Javier Navarro Avilés
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,062
Le bonheur simplement...
Javier Navarro Avilés
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,062
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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.
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