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What my eyes have seen
Emmanuel Ojebola
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1 inch
$4,500
Matinée à Rome V
Alexei Lantsev
Painting - 110 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$5,133
Une tour et un pont, Espagne
Alexei Lantsev
Painting - 110 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,106
Jeux d'enfant le crane de cerf
Cécile Duchêne-Malissin
Painting - 120 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$3,194
La cantatrice
Anne-Marie Torrisi
Painting - 93 x 72 x 2 cm Painting - 36.6 x 28.3 x 0.8 inch
$17,110
I'm Not Alone
Abiodun Nafiu Azeez
Painting - 119.4 x 99.1 x 2.5 cm Painting - 47 x 39 x 1 inch
$1,850
Energy structure #2
Vladimir Kolosov
Painting - 30.5 x 61 x 1.9 cm Painting - 12 x 24 x 0.75 inch
$890
Versailles IV
Cécile Duchêne-Malissin
Painting - 150 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,734
Underwater painting Soft Coral was made underwater
Olga Nikitina
Painting - 50 x 70 x 1.8 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.7 inch
$2,053
Portrait raté 2
Petrus Von Tricht
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,711
View from the outside. Eyes
Ljubow Jung
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,218
Le fil rouge - série lien de la vie
Jackie Spaeter
Painting - 90 x 30 x 4 cm Painting - 35.4 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
$1,129
Coup de ciseaux - série cordon de la vie
Jackie Spaeter
Painting - 90 x 30 x 4 cm Painting - 35.4 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
$1,129
L'orgue céleste - série Semi-Abstrait
Jackie Spaeter
Painting - 90 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,129
Dans le mille - série Semi-abstrait
Jackie Spaeter
Painting - 90 x 30 x 4 cm Painting - 35.4 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
$1,129
Lumière d'Asie - série Semi-abstrait
Jackie Spaeter
Painting - 90 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,129
Doux soleil d'automne
Brigitte Di Scala
Painting - 70 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,053
On the Bow Bridge at Central Park
Ruslana Levandovska
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.9 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.75 inch
$1,500
The Magic Hidden In The Portraits
Ya-Wei Li
Painting - 45 x 35 x 4 cm Painting - 17.7 x 13.8 x 1.6 inch
$2,281
Untitled (plants, bodies, child)
Zena Blackwell
Painting - 49.5 x 40.6 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.5 x 16 x 0 inch
$866
Cannes La Croisette
Karine Bartoli
Painting - 80 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,597
Boys and girls online
Marcos Zrihen
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$684
Foule multicolore
David Jehan (B.boss)
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,027
En concert
David Jehan (B.boss)
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,027
Petit chemin en Bourgogne
Michel Trapezaroff
Painting - 33 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 13 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$8,988
Au mont Boisy en automne
Michel Trapezaroff
Painting - 33 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 13 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$8,988
Temptation
Marion Katharina Haas
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.4 inch
$5,851
Le hangar à bateaux
Charles Malle
Painting - 36.4 x 45.8 x 0.2 cm Painting - 14.3 x 18 x 0.1 inch
$1,141
Une terrasse Plaça Catalunya
Josep Teixido
Painting - 54 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 21.3 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,281
Construction de péniche
Frederic Weisz
Painting - 130 x 89 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 35 x 0.8 inch
$2,852
Lumière du soir III
Agnès Tiollier
Painting - 81 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$3,992
Pendant que je t'aimais
Alexandra Battezzati
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$6,274
Ma liberté
Alexandra Battezzati
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$6,274
Le sable dort
Alexandra Battezzati
Painting - 97 x 160 x 3 cm Painting - 38.2 x 63 x 1.2 inch
$6,730
Kaleidoscope Of Graceful Carnage
Danny O'Connor
Painting - 152 x 152 x 4 cm Painting - 59.8 x 59.8 x 1.6 inch
$8,281
Fruit market in Embakasi
Leonard Ngure
Painting - 87.5 x 97.5 x 2 cm Painting - 34.4 x 38.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,852
Market day in Kawangware
Leonard Ngure
Painting - 70.5 x 96.5 x 2 cm Painting - 27.8 x 38 x 0.8 inch
$2,623
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Jérôme Mesnager & Artiste Ouvrier
Painting - 144.5 x 53 x 2 cm Painting - 56.9 x 20.9 x 0.8 inch
$2,053
Le courant d'air
Jean-Jacques Venturini
Painting - 97 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
$2,852
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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!