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Floating Memory
Miyuki Takanashi
Painting - 72.7 x 72.7 x 4 cm Painting - 28.6 x 28.6 x 1.6 inch
€1,700
Princess of the Night
Miyuki Takanashi
Painting - 72.7 x 53 x 3 cm Painting - 28.6 x 20.9 x 1.2 inch
€1,600
Times Square XII
Marion Zimmermann
Painting - 101.6 x 149.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 59 x 1 inch
€1,570
Sans titre
Marie-France de la Cochetière (Titus)
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,080
Sans titre
Marie-France de la Cochetière (Titus)
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,320
When We Were Young
Olaosun Oluwapelumi
Painting - 63.5 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 25 x 20 x 1 inch
€1,407
Civita Di Bagnoregio
Ahn Sung Kyu
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
€2,000
Mantel y frutas
José Luis Pagador Ponce
Painting - 54 x 65 x 3.5 cm Painting - 21.3 x 25.6 x 1.4 inch
€2,500
Circle of Trust 2
Iyiola Odunayo
Painting - 101.6 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 36 x 1 inch
€1,941
Spring Love
Virginia Benedicto
Painting - 120 x 60 x 4.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 23.6 x 1.8 inch
€2,090
Under the sea
Jessica Renault jrbrush
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.37 x 39.37 x 1 inch
€2,000 €1,800
Circle of Trust 1
Iyiola Odunayo
Painting - 101.6 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 36 x 1 inch
€1,941
Soir d'été
Christiane Simon-Roques
Painting - 89 x 130 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35 x 51.2 x 1 inch
€2,000
A travers le rosier
Nadine de Lespinats
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
€740
My father's car 1
Desmond Akindoju
Painting - 71.1 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 28 x 20 x 1 inch
€1,213
Magic tree II
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1 inch
€1,160
Magic tree I
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1 inch
€1,160
Woman with orange flowers
Dondi Schwartz
Painting - 50 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
€800
Le soldat
Lou Andréas Salomé Tauss
Painting - 92 x 72 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.3 x 0.8 inch
€1,060
Park Frankendael II
Dorine van der Ploeg
Painting - 36 x 48 x 1 cm Painting - 14.2 x 18.9 x 0.4 inch
€1,000
Les Cabines - scène de vie en bord de mer
Hélène Dupérier
Painting - 65 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
€1,100
Hold Me Close In This Difficult Time
Olaosun Oluwapelumi
Painting - 88.9 x 86.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35 x 34 x 1 inch
€1,941
Le fil d Avril
Françoise Dugourd-Caput
Painting - 80 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
€1,260
On the beach (diptych)
Mike Jacobs
Painting - 82 x 102 x 0.4 cm Painting - 32.3 x 40.2 x 0.2 inch
€3,200
L’arbre et la vie
Carlos Antonio Sablon Perez
Painting - 22 x 16 x 4 cm Painting - 8.7 x 6.3 x 1.6 inch
€900
The Book of Sand X
Maarten Demmink
Painting - 30 x 34 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 13.4 x 1.2 inch
€1,300
Massavo the Makokean
Lazarus Massavo
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 inch
€1,941
Because I Believed
Lazarus Massavo
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 inch
€1,941
The Zeal of my father's house 2
Lazarus Massavo
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 inch
€1,941
Alone With My Thought
Babatunde Adeogun
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 1 inch
€2,717
The courageous woman(Feminine Epidemic series) II
Ogunniyi Oluwatosin
Painting - 91.4 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 24 x 1 inch
€1,941
The Book of Sand IV
Maarten Demmink
Painting - 40 x 32 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 12.6 x 1.2 inch
€1,450
Me encuentro con mi balance perfecto
Florencia Durán
Painting - 50 x 35 cm Painting - 19.7 x 13.8 inch
€750
Alcanzando mi propuesto máximo
Florencia Durán
Painting - 35 x 50 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 inch
€750
India Taxi in Mumbai
Alain Bertrand
Painting - 75 x 25 x 2 cm Painting - 29.5 x 9.8 x 0.8 inch
€1,400
India Scooter in Jaisalmer
Alain Bertrand
Painting - 46 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,600
Colette Collerette
Joanna Wojtowicz
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,800
Parfum blanc - série silhouette de femme
Francine Cordier
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,310
Rêveries - série enfance
Francine Cordier
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,310
Elle sort du cinq et va s'acheter des cigarettes
Jame's Prunier
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2.4 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 0.9 inch
€3,750
Une histoire racontée - série silhouette de femme
Francine Cordier
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,310
Gratitudes - série silhouette de femme
Francine Cordier
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,310
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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!