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Large Pears 51, Large Pears Series
Alexander Lufer
Painting - 100 x 160 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 63 x 0.8 inch
€4,300
Large Pears 47, Large Pears Series
Alexander Lufer
Painting - 100 x 160 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 63 x 0.8 inch
€4,300
Large Pears 43, Large Pears Series
Alexander Lufer
Painting - 100 x 160 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 63 x 0.8 inch
€4,300
Les deux amies II
Thérèse Boucraut
Painting - 130 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
€5,000
Paradise Alive
Amelie Monira Egenolf
Painting - 80 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€2,250
Still Life in White
Yuriy Demiyanov
Painting - 60 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
€3,800
Scènes de vie
Claire Bonnet-Masimbert
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
€1,600
Ololufe Mi (Love of My Life)
Oladire Araireoluwa
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1 inch
€2,312
False Confession
Sergiu-Bogdan Roman
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1 inch
€3,850
La Plage - série bord de mer
Carla PM
Painting - 31 x 23 x 2 cm Painting - 12.2 x 9.1 x 0.8 inch
€390
Think of a place we could go
Jana & JS
Painting - 50 x 50 x 5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 2 inch
€2,450
Japonaiseries (3)
Charlotte Abecassis
Painting - 56 x 42 x 2 cm Painting - 22 x 16.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,300
Du côté de Paimpol (Série)
Charlotte Abecassis
Painting - 50 x 65 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.6 inch
€1,700
Archéologie des mémoires d'un faune
Timothy Archer
Painting - 100 x 70 x 0.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.2 inch
€4,100
Like a sweet memory #1
Barbara Piller
Painting - 75.5 x 65.5 x 4 cm Painting - 29.7 x 25.8 x 1.6 inch
€800
French angel and corals
Patrick Chevailler
Painting - 53 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 20.9 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
€1,000
Metaphysical materialization of smooth thoughts about the inevitable
Vladimir Kolosov
Painting - 61 x 50.8 x 0.6 cm Painting - 24 x 20 x 0.25 inch
€1,363
Two personages and Strange Attractor
Vladimir Kolosov
Painting - 61 x 50.8 x 0.6 cm Painting - 24 x 20 x 0.25 inch
€1,128 €902
To be continued ... thoughts exchange
Vladimir Kolosov
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 0 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.01 inch
€1,034
L'un contre l'autre
Christian Raffin
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€2,300
Diner en famille à Aix
Raluca Vulcan
Painting - 81 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€2,800
Famille Marseille
Karine Bartoli
Painting - 100 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
€1,700
Full moon on the lake
Serhii Cherniakovskyi
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€658
Insatiable Cravings
Afolayan Emmanuel
Painting - 91.4 x 127 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 50 x 1 inch
€2,491
Phantom of the Brotherhood
Eniafe Gbenga
Painting - 152.4 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 60 x 36 x 1 inch
€4,700
In Her Prime
Okeowo Oluwaferanmi
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1 inch
€2,350
Kaleidoscope Of Graceful Carnage
Danny O'Connor
Painting - 152 x 152 x 4 cm Painting - 59.8 x 59.8 x 1.6 inch
€7,260
Lumière du soir II
Agnès Tiollier
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€2,900
From the Streets of South East London
Ray Richardson
Painting - 112 x 112 x 2 cm Painting - 44.1 x 44.1 x 0.8 inch
€10,500
Antidote from the Gods
Ademola Ajayi
Painting - 91.4 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 30 x 1 inch
€2,209
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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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