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![Painting, Untitled, Ulrike Michaelis](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1775454_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Ronin, Irakli (Akuna) Kavtaradze](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1249347_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Est-ce que l’art a le pouvoir de changer les sentiments ?, Audrey Faivre](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1474158_1_grid.jpg)
Est-ce que l’art a le pouvoir de changer les sentiments ?
Audrey Faivre
Painting - 38 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 15 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,052
![Painting, Portrait, Igor Tcholaria](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1319142_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Chronos Oinos, Boguslaw Jagiello](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1998657_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Boathouses, Bente Halvorsen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2176757_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, December 11, snowy path in Mézenc, Anne Baudequin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2033157_1_grid.jpg)
December 11, snowy path in Mézenc
Anne Baudequin
Painting - 50 x 72.9 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,300
![Painting, Premonition, Sergiu-Bogdan Roman](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1319502_1_grid.jpg)
Premonition
Sergiu-Bogdan Roman
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.4 inch
$4,305
![Painting, Apéritif Marseillais, Jean-Marie Laugero](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2178818_1_grid.jpg)
Apéritif Marseillais
Jean-Marie Laugero
Painting - 81 x 130 x 1 cm Painting - 31.9 x 51.2 x 0.4 inch
$2,125
![Painting, Aimer, Jean-Charles Gautier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1378407_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Indian Wind palace Jaipur, Alain Bertrand](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/135481_1_grid.jpg)
Indian Wind palace Jaipur
Alain Bertrand
Painting - 80 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$3,355
![Painting, Sans titre, Adam Nidzgorski](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1295739_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Self-Portrait, Lemoi Ning](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2140060_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Petit Prince, Pinkhas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1129830_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Palm, Katie Egerton](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1344630_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Le bel ouvrage, Cécile Coutant](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/121831_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Ode to Alice Neel, Randi Matushevitz](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1202634_1_grid.jpg)
Ode to Alice Neel
Randi Matushevitz
Painting - 50.8 x 50.8 x 5.1 cm Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 inch
$1,200
![Painting, Untitled I, Michael W. Soi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/757290_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, 111 117, Florian Eymann](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/410269_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Un Martini à Paris, 0xec6d0](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2192836_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Unexpected, Juffrouw Springtouw](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1599081_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Pretty, Christian Vey](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/973029_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Vitale, Keng Wai Lee](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2186715_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Wuraola, Abayomi Odetomi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1988544_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Un regard, Brito Esteves](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1794726_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, My stuff, Graça Tirelli](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1607232_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, About me, David Martinez](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1601547_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, A Farewell to My Problem Days II, Sophia Oshodin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2176976_1_grid.jpg)
A Farewell to My Problem Days II
Sophia Oshodin
Painting - 80 x 80 x 5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 2 inch
$3,131
![Painting, Superluminal #34, Corinne Natel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1853076_1_grid.jpg)
Superluminal #34
Corinne Natel
Painting - 100.1 x 100.1 x 3.8 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.5 inch
$2,549
![Painting, Under the bed, Rebecca Yunjeong Lee](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1737444_1_grid.jpg)
Under the bed
Rebecca Yunjeong Lee
Painting - 91 x 65 x 3 cm Painting - 35.8 x 25.6 x 1.2 inch
$2,100
![Painting, Landscape, Anahit Erkoyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1536201_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Youssef le mendiant, Marrakech, Richard Bouts](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1484865_1_grid.jpg)
Youssef le mendiant, Marrakech
Richard Bouts
Painting - 80 x 40 x 2.4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 15.7 x 0.9 inch
$1,431
![Painting, Nin Jiom Pei Pa Koa, Lantomo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1226313_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Middle white mask, Marc Prat](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1175850_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, La Transmission, Alice Laverty](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1147716_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Volleyball, Dorota Zych-Charaziak](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/586380_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Chinese girl 1, Charlotte Lecoanet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/905067_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Soyez bien sages, Florence Dussuyer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/655179_1_grid.jpg)
Soyez bien sages
Florence Dussuyer
Painting - 162 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 63.8 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
$9,952
![Painting, Victoria, Nikita](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/577611_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The wisdom of time, Lilly Sotirova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/56227_1_grid.jpg)
The wisdom of time
Lilly Sotirova
Painting - 85 x 75 x 2 cm Painting - 33.5 x 29.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,901
![Painting, Cassida, Chahrazed Fekih](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2168819_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Loneliness is not an act, Jacques Tange](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2148457_1_grid.jpg)
Loneliness is not an act
Jacques Tange
Painting - 30 x 25 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.8 x 0.4 inch
$984
![Painting, New gloves, Victor Sheleg](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1320723_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, L'étudiante, Smoka](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1006656_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Chapeau 22, Jean-François Zanette](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/870324_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Le Temps Passe, Tu te Questionnes, Clement Garnung](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/601230_1_grid.jpg)
Le Temps Passe, Tu te Questionnes
Clement Garnung
Painting - 110 x 140 x 5 cm Painting - 43.3 x 55.1 x 2 inch
$3,355
![Painting, Zelf Portret (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), Chuli Herrera](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/594933_1_grid.jpg)
Zelf Portret (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
Chuli Herrera
Painting - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$8,051
![Painting, Portrait 2, Erdna André](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1129590_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Confident, Raphaël Laventure](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1063887_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Mon habit de jardin, Peggy Cardoso](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/980226_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Des fleurs pour Salinger, Jeff Alarie](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2178820_1_grid.jpg)
Des fleurs pour Salinger
Jeff Alarie
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 5.1 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 2 inch
$1,210
![Painting, Portrait of a Sojourner, Charles Osaro](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1723011_1_grid.jpg)
Portrait of a Sojourner
Charles Osaro
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1 inch
$3,400
![Painting, Girl and Green Eyed Cat., Yelena Sidorova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1325973_1_grid.jpg)
Girl and Green Eyed Cat.
Yelena Sidorova
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$1,800
![Painting, Emotion Tissée Méditation, Ibrahim Ballo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/980577_1_grid.jpg)
Emotion Tissée Méditation
Ibrahim Ballo
Painting - 118 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 46.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,460
![Painting, The Dreamplanter, Judith Christine Riemer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1921080_1_grid.jpg)
The Dreamplanter
Judith Christine Riemer
Painting - 95 x 115 x 2 cm Painting - 37.4 x 45.3 x 0.8 inch
$3,746
![Painting, Couple à la plage, Sophie de la Happy Funky Family](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1458438_1_grid.jpg)
Couple à la plage
Sophie de la Happy Funky Family
Painting - 33 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 13 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$951
![Painting, Smile, Julie Galiay](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1266789_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Le pont II, François-Xavier de Boissoudy](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/724506_1_grid.jpg)
Le pont II
François-Xavier de Boissoudy
Painting - 100 x 125 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 49.2 x 0.8 inch
$7,269
![Painting, Hommage to Lichtenstein, Craig Alan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/572463_1_grid.jpg)
Hommage to Lichtenstein
Craig Alan
Painting - 91.5 x 91.5 x 4 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.6 inch
$18,451
![Painting, Damsel, Busari Adewale](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2010042_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Reine on Clay, Casper Faassen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/979206_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Une vie d'homme..., Javier Navarro Avilés](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/164026_1_grid.jpg)
Une vie d'homme...
Javier Navarro Avilés
Painting - 50 x 65 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0.4 inch
$839
![Painting, Untitled, Shokoofeh Mahve](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/930588_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Car Races, Lemans 57, Alex Balaguer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2179948_1_grid.jpg)
Car Races, Lemans 57
Alex Balaguer
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
$1,006
![Painting, Summer Day, Vahag Hamalbashyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2176823_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Les Couleurs du Vent, Michel Saint-Luc](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2148307_1_grid.jpg)
Les Couleurs du Vent
Michel Saint-Luc
Painting - 40 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,230
![Painting, Un jour ailleurs, Catherine Tapon](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1730229_1_grid.jpg)
Un jour ailleurs
Catherine Tapon
Painting - 150 x 50 x 3.5 cm Painting - 59.1 x 19.7 x 1.4 inch
$3,344
![Painting, Dames en conversation, John Reitz](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1535718_1_grid.jpg)
Dames en conversation
John Reitz
Painting - 36.5 x 29 x 0.3 cm Painting - 14.4 x 11.4 x 0.1 inch
$1,003
![Painting, Serene, Anna Peter Breton](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1171908_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Dream, Dave Baranes](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2180518_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Ensemble, c'est vraiment ce que je préfère, Ada Kafel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1283763_1_grid.jpg)
Ensemble, c'est vraiment ce que je préfère
Ada Kafel
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,342
![Painting, Decadencia, David Albert](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2179819_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, A Little Wine, Benjamin Olatunji](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1722462_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Flottement, Olivier de Sagazan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/514940_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Tonadillera’s revenge and la niña del knife, Antonio Asensi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2149117_1_grid.jpg)
Tonadillera’s revenge and la niña del knife
Antonio Asensi
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,013 $1,510
![Painting, L’homme tronc, Catherine Rens](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1918371_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The Space Between - Viridian V1, Sophie Derrick](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/283966_1_grid.jpg)
The Space Between - Viridian V1
Sophie Derrick
Painting - 150 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$8,561
![Painting, La Negra Tomasa, Tsanko Tsankoff](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1508751_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Ombre et lumière sur Pilat, Myriam Démarez Gérat](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1223322_1_grid.jpg)
Ombre et lumière sur Pilat
Myriam Démarez Gérat
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$805
![Painting, Dr DRE, Monsieur Mollotov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/978714_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, La nef des fous, Cédric Marachian](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/459358_1_grid.jpg)
La nef des fous
Cédric Marachian
Painting - 97 x 146 x 2 cm Painting - 38.2 x 57.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,796
![Painting, How it Starts, Emma Burrow](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2182983_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Incoming Call, Wang Dianyu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1594164_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Pantry, James Carter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1551969_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Pauline, Yann Kempen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1347318_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The Cleaning Lady, Max Baris](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/927555_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Depuis Cologny avec vue sur le Jura, Jean Viollier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/823782_1_grid.jpg)
Depuis Cologny avec vue sur le Jura
Jean Viollier
Painting - 33 x 45.5 x 2 cm Painting - 13 x 17.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,845
![Painting, Summer, Tutu Kiladze](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1520919_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, La rivière bleue (Nouvelle Calédonie), Jean-Pierre Al Courty](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1384359_1_grid.jpg)
La rivière bleue (Nouvelle Calédonie)
Jean-Pierre Al Courty
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$3,019
![Painting, Lazy Weekend, Joanna Pilarczyk](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1108221_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Bord de rivière, Michel Trapezaroff](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1927902_1_grid.jpg)
Bord de rivière
Michel Trapezaroff
Painting - 38 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 15 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
$11,138
![Painting, Statue in Window, Kevin O'Brien](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1012839_1_grid.jpg)
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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!