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Rare Bored Ape Street Art 2
Freda People Art
Painting - 105 x 105 x 0.3 cm Painting - 41.3 x 41.3 x 0.1 inch
€990
Rare Bored Ape Street Art 1
Freda People Art
Painting - 105 x 105 x 0.3 cm Painting - 41.3 x 41.3 x 0.1 inch
€990
Dans la grotte
Rodolpho Tamanini Netto
Painting - 40 x 40 x 4 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.6 inch
€1,200
Visage Irina Gros Plan
Philippe Pasqua
Painting - 210 x 160 x 10 cm Painting - 82.7 x 63 x 3.9 inch
€60,500
She never stumbles, she's got no place to fall
Filippa Bjerling
Painting - 99 x 67 x 0.3 cm Painting - 39 x 26.4 x 0.1 inch
€2,000
In Dark Blue Forest
Vladimir Volosov
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 1 inch
€1,164
A contemplating Soldier
Dzovig Arnelian
Painting - 292 x 98 x 1 cm Painting - 115 x 38.6 x 0.4 inch
€990
A strong man – Uncle III
Dzovig Arnelian
Painting - 280 x 85 x 1 cm Painting - 110.2 x 33.5 x 0.4 inch
€990
A strong man - Dad
Dzovig Arnelian
Painting - 280 x 95 x 1 cm Painting - 110.2 x 37.4 x 0.4 inch
€990
A strong man - Grandpa
Dzovig Arnelian
Painting - 285 x 120 x 1 cm Painting - 112.2 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
€1,164
Floral Diptych original oil paintings, Fuchsia Diptych
Kathleen Ney
Painting - 35.6 x 55.9 x 1.3 cm Painting - 14 x 22 x 0.5 inch
€1,407
Poétiques du paysage 70
Carole Bressan
Painting - 81 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€2,700
Paysage automnal
Eugène Louis Martin
Painting - 34 x 52 x 0.3 cm Painting - 13.4 x 20.5 x 0.1 inch
€1,031
Ballet Pose lll
Robert van Bolderick
Painting - 76 x 56 x 0.4 cm Painting - 29.9 x 22 x 0.2 inch
€850
1966 Paris Blanc Danseurs en boîte Night Club dancers
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 37 x 54 x 0.5 cm Painting - 14.6 x 21.3 x 0.2 inch
€2,950
1966 White Paris Blanc Au restaurant At the restaurant
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 37.5 x 52.5 cm Painting - 14.8 x 20.7 inch
€2,950
1966 White Paris Blanc Tour Eiffel Deux clochards dans l'espoir, le jour se lève Eiffel Towers Two bums sleeping with hope in the heart at dawn
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 37.25 x 54 cm Painting - 14.7 x 21.3 inch
€3,950 €1,975
Paris Orange 1966 Danser en boite Night club dancing
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 37.5 x 52.5 cm Painting - 14.8 x 20.7 inch
€2,950
Paris Orange 1968 Danser le rock en Night-club Rock and roll
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 33 x 54 cm Painting - 13 x 21.3 inch
€2,950
Chairman Mao’s Long Journey, The Worker
Erró
Painting - 103 x 84 x 2 cm Painting - 40.6 x 33.1 x 0.8 inch
€7,500
Bord de Seine animé, Paris
Armand Marie Guérin
Painting - 53.5 x 73 x 0.5 cm Painting - 21.1 x 28.7 x 0.2 inch
€902
Le goût du lait #1
Thomas Loyatho
Painting - 152 x 118 x 6 cm Painting - 59.8 x 46.5 x 2.4 inch
€2,800
La mécanique du cœur N 1
Hélène Zanet
Painting - 73 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,850
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
€2,800
Inquisitive Interlude
Radu Rodideal
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,900
Memento Mori aka ad Verbum v.11.13
LosOtros Mj Tom
Painting - 100 x 167.98 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 66.1 x 0.4 inch
€2,000
Memento Mori aka ad Verbum v.5.21
LosOtros Mj Tom
Painting - 100 x 168 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 66.1 x 0.4 inch
€2,000
S… like Solveig or a New Grate v.7.13
LosOtros Mj Tom
Painting - 100 x 175 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 68.9 x 0.4 inch
€2,000
Ecce Homo (1) (after pina bausch) forbidden collage (9)
Julien Delagrange
Painting - 90 x 60 x 0.1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€3,360
The proposal (5) (after pina bausch) forbidden collage (10)
Julien Delagrange
Painting - 90 x 60 x 0.1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€3,360
La hija vestida de novia
Jordi Turbau
Painting - 73 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
€1,400
La niña de la ventana
Maritza Bernal
Painting - 61 x 76 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 29.9 x 0.8 inch
€1,800
Veules les roses Bretagne
Laurence Gasior
Painting - 46 x 38 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 15 x 0.8 inch
€1,050
Pensamientos
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 120 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
€1,400
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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!