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Napoleón y Josefina
Clara de Bobes
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1 inch
€3,500
El joven de la perla
Clara de Bobes
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1 inch
€3,500
Voyages immobiles 16
Yannick Fournié
Painting - 150 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
€8,500
La vie en parallèle
Sonia Di Maccio
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€750
Ronce les bains
Gyslaine Pachet-Micheneau
Painting - 81 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€2,680
Azul ultramar
Florentina Fischer
Painting - 120 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,310
Somewhere over the Rainbow
Katharina Hormel
Painting - 100 x 140 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
€1,900
Those happy little Moments (1)
Katharina Hormel
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,600
Off to new Adventures
Katharina Hormel
Painting - 100 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
€1,800
Love is the Greatest Feeling
Katharina Hormel
Painting - 100 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
€1,800
Let's go hiking
Katharina Hormel
Painting - 100 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
€1,200
Yellow Sun Skate
Yoann Bonneville (YBA)
Painting - 81 x 21 x 1 cm Painting - 31.9 x 8.3 x 0.4 inch
€980
King of the Beach
Alexander Levich
Painting - 100 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
€3,900
Silent Companionship
Gegham Hunanyan
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€329
Shellfish Gatherers
Alexander Levich
Painting - 70 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
€3,300
Window to the Ocean
Gegham Hunanyan
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€329
Série Toits Rectangle #9 - paysage figuratif toits urbains
Eddy Josse
Painting - 13 x 20 x 0.1 cm Painting - 5.1 x 7.9 x 0 inch
€190
Les boules de cristal
Thibault Laget-Ro
Painting - 114 x 146 x 2 cm Painting - 44.9 x 57.5 x 0.8 inch
€6,000
This is One not Two
Josue M Pierre
Painting - 74.9 x 55.1 x 2.5 cm Painting - 29.5 x 21.7 x 1 inch
€2,021
Undersea world
Evgeny Chernyakovsky
Painting - 100 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
€2,632
El Fantasma. From The Light Series
Jose Ricardo Contreras Gonzalez
Painting - 80 x 99.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.3 x 1 inch
€2,820
Girl in the Forest
Tigran Pogosyan
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€2,100
Présence d'enfance
Véronique Baleste
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.4 inch
€600
Sunset in the Village
Seyran Gasparyan
Painting - 35 x 35 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 13.8 x 0.8 inch
€451
Betrayal of the Queen
Arto Mkrtchyan
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€423
Colorfull Feelings
Lia Shvelidze
Painting - 130 x 150 x 1 cm Painting - 51.2 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
€6,500
Key to all doors.
Giulnara Khabibulina
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€5,800
Inner space 2.
Giulnara Khabibulina
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€9,500
Inner space Contemporary still life
Giulnara Khabibulina
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€14,000
Dawn Dream Desire (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,600
Enigmas of the Soul
Greatjoy Ndlovu
Painting - 160 x 220 x 4 cm Painting - 63 x 86.6 x 1.6 inch
€8,000
Along the Back Roads
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,600
At the Start (Au Départ)
Janusz Kik
Painting - 50 x 61 x 1.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 24 x 0.6 inch
€295
Sale temps - Portrait figuratif
Danielle Lamaison
Painting - 30 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
€200
Guerre - Portrait figuratif inspiré de la guerre
Danielle Lamaison
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€200
Fumer tue - Portrait figuratif
Danielle Lamaison
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
€200
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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!