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Strength in Diversity
Damola Ayegbayo
Painting - 106.7 x 213.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 42 x 84 x 2 inch
$5,950
Rouge est la couleur du mystère 20
Jean-Charles Taillandier
Painting - 50 x 34.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 13.6 inch
$492
Rostros sin rostro 3-18
José Manuel Chamorro Chamorro
Painting - 65 x 46 cm Painting - 25.6 x 18.1 inch
$816
Rostros sin rostro 11-5
José Manuel Chamorro Chamorro
Painting - 73 x 60 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 inch
$1,090
1966 Paris Blanc Ouvrier sur le chantier White Paris Workers on foggy worksite
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 37.5 x 52.5 cm Painting - 14.8 x 20.7 inch
$2,181
White Paris Blanc 1969 Cinq passants Five passers-by
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 26 x 37.5 cm Painting - 10.2 x 14.8 inch
$2,181
Femme aux paniers
Moïse-Lisette Grulet
Painting - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$727
Belles de nuit
David Jehan (B.boss)
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$783
Night Amalfi Coast
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,800
Evening Cinque Terre
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 80 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,907
A & M Cafe - Arts et Métiers, Paris 3ème
Linda Moufadil
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,789
Tea Time - Museum Ludwig Cologne
Linda Moufadil
Painting - 31 x 61 x 1.5 cm Painting - 12.2 x 24 x 0.6 inch
$1,789
Untitled
Siranush Vardanyan
Painting - 110 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,566 $1,331
How I failed to see you
Sava Harris
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,772
L'abbaye de Sénanque 1
Laurence Gasior
Painting - 38 x 33 x 2 cm Painting - 15 x 13 x 0.8 inch
$1,029
The shawl, floral neon painting
Olha Vlasova
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,286
Carpet on the wall, Neon ornamental painting
Olha Vlasova
Painting - 85 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 33.5 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,118
Let's Live in this Moment
Lee Yu Min
Painting - 50 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$895
Pétales sous verre
Serge Kalinowski
Painting - 50 x 40 x 5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 2 inch
$1,189
Têtes couronnées - Mona sortant du salon de coiffure
Gatien Mabounga
Painting - 120 x 80 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 inch
$2,125
Ce soir je serai la plus belle pour aller danser
Gatien Mabounga
Painting - 140 x 100 cm Painting - 55.1 x 39.4 inch
$2,236
Water lilies
Evgeny Chernyakovsky
Painting - 59.9 x 69.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 27.5 x 1 inch
$1,600
On the sea shore
Evgeny Chernyakovsky
Painting - 89.9 x 69.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 27.5 x 1 inch
$1,800
Autumn forest
Evgeny Chernyakovsky
Painting - 69.9 x 79.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 27.5 x 31.4 x 1 inch
$2,005
Flowering tree
Evgeny Chernyakovsky
Painting - 49.8 x 59.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 19.6 x 23.6 x 1 inch
$1,600
Sunflowers
Evgeny Chernyakovsky
Painting - 59.9 x 69.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 27.5 x 1 inch
$1,800
Peaches, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Evgeny Chernyakovsky
Painting - 69.9 x 59.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 27.5 x 23.6 x 1 inch
$1,950
Magnolia branch
Evgeny Chernyakovsky
Painting - 49.8 x 69.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 19.6 x 27.5 x 1 inch
$1,300
Flower bush
Evgeny Chernyakovsky
Painting - 79.8 x 64.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.4 x 25.5 x 1 inch
$1,700
Baker
Marco Araldi & Keng Wai Lee
Painting - 51 x 51 x 4 cm Painting - 20.1 x 20.1 x 1.6 inch
$1,119
Armure sur Fond Rose
André Laurenti
Painting - 92 x 73 x 3 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 1.2 inch
$3,802
Something Fashionable
Jill English
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$1,660
Grenade, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Evgeny Chernyakovsky
Painting - 69.9 x 69.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 27.5 x 27.5 x 1 inch
$2,000
Birch, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Evgeny Chernyakovsky
Painting - 45 x 69.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 17.7 x 27.5 x 1 inch
$1,600
Fascination
Françoise Dugourd-Caput
Painting - 60 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,443
Viens avec moi
Françoise Dugourd-Caput
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,074
Do you need a doctor ?
Nolwenn Samson
Painting - 65 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$3,131
Mujer con vestido azul
Eva Prieto
Painting - 81 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$2,013
1966 Paris Foule Crowd La cape noire The black cape
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 30 x 39.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.6 x 0.2 inch
$1,398
1975 Mexico Turists
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 44 x 58 x 0.5 cm Painting - 17.3 x 22.8 x 0.2 inch
$1,286
1968 Promenade Walking
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 32.5 x 50 x 0.5 cm Painting - 12.8 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
$2,181
1966 Monte Carlo Rallye Les élégantes
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 32.5 x 50 x 0.5 cm Painting - 12.8 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
$1,957
1969 Paris La Religieuse The Nun
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 35 x 28 x 0.5 cm Painting - 13.8 x 11 x 0.2 inch
$1,733
1971 Paris Nuit Quais de Seine Paris Night On Seine banks
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 32.5 x 50 x 0.5 cm Painting - 12.8 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
$2,181
1972 Paris ma Brune Bar du Ritz
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 49.5 x 56.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 19.5 x 22.2 x 0.2 inch
$2,181
1974 Paris Ma Brune RITZ Lovers
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 50 x 64 x 0.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.2 x 0.2 inch
$2,181
Paris ma brune Jardin du Luxembourg Garden
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 45 x 60 x 0.5 cm Painting - 17.7 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
$2,181
Paris ma Brune Rendez-vous La Vespasienne
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 45 x 60 cm Painting - 17.7 x 23.6 inch
$2,181
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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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