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![Painting, Surprised, La Ba Quan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1074936_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Kiss Haring, B.AX](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1035606_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, GUERRE de Yougoslavie, prisonnier du camp de concentration YOUGOSLAVIA WAR, concentration camp prisonner, Joze Ciuha](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/975555_1_grid.jpg)
GUERRE de Yougoslavie, prisonnier du camp de concentration YOUGOSLAVIA WAR, concentration camp prisonner
Joze Ciuha
Painting - 90 x 50 x 0.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
$3,457
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![Painting, Old School, Didier Gomez](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/914115_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Chairman Mao’s Long Journey, Wien (Autriche), Erró](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/879267_1_grid.jpg)
Chairman Mao’s Long Journey, Wien (Autriche)
Erró
Painting - 83 x 102 x 2 cm Painting - 32.7 x 40.2 x 0.8 inch
$8,657
![Painting, Chairman Mao’s Long Journey, Amsterdam, Erró](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/877635_1_grid.jpg)
Chairman Mao’s Long Journey, Amsterdam
Erró
Painting - 102 x 85 x 2 cm Painting - 40.2 x 33.5 x 0.8 inch
$8,657
![Painting, Barok, Antony Squizzato](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/787281_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Summer Wind, Maria Esmar](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/709140_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Ma Fleur, Anika Manuel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/602865_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Staring out at the Open Sea, Anika Manuel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/602856_1_grid.jpg)
Staring out at the Open Sea
Anika Manuel
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.4 inch
$940
![Painting, A Daydream 2, Anika Manuel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/602853_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Under the Moon and Stars, Anika Manuel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/602847_1_grid.jpg)
Under the Moon and Stars
Anika Manuel
Painting - 40 x 40 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.6 inch
$791
![Painting, The Impossible Dream, Anika Manuel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/602772_1_grid.jpg)
The Impossible Dream
Anika Manuel
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,109
![Painting, Double thought V-001, Tehos](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/505193_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, 3 figures, Alain Rothstein](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/472084_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Donetsk Steppe, Helen Mount](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2205538_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sea of Azov, Helen Mount](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2205526_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Chornohora, Helen Mount](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2205244_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Bakota, Helen Mount](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2205216_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Wheat Field, Helen Mount](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2204768_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Oleshky Sands, Helen Mount](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2204510_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Savanna, Jessica Renault jrbrush](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2204421_1_grid.jpg)
Savanna
Jessica Renault jrbrush
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.37 x 39.37 x 1 inch
$2,309
![Painting, Syvash, Helen Mount](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2204273_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Tango Dandy, Jean-Michel Cordier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2201762_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Nature harmony, Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2197741_1_grid.jpg)
Nature harmony
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 80 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,800
![Painting, Round courtyard, Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2197119_1_grid.jpg)
Round courtyard
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 40 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,200
![Painting, Deus é Um Sentimento, Ritchelly Oliveira](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2195279_1_grid.jpg)
Deus é Um Sentimento
Ritchelly Oliveira
Painting - 150 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$17,315
![Painting, At the river, Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2194092_1_grid.jpg)
At the river
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,200
![Painting, When We Were Young, Olaosun Oluwapelumi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2189714_1_grid.jpg)
When We Were Young
Olaosun Oluwapelumi
Painting - 63.5 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 25 x 20 x 1 inch
$1,450
![Painting, Spring walk, Arevik Gasparyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2189480_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Insomnia, Ritchelly Oliveira](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2187054_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Under the sea, Jessica Renault jrbrush](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2181715_1_grid.jpg)
Under the sea
Jessica Renault jrbrush
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.37 x 39.37 x 1 inch
$2,309
![Painting, Whisper, Helen Mount](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2180631_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Mountain Pasture, Helen Mount](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2180625_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Wisdom, Zakhar Shevchuk](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2142411_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Solitude, Zakhar Shevchuk](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2139225_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, This side of heaven, Arevik Gasparyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2139192_1_grid.jpg)
This side of heaven
Arevik Gasparyan
Painting - 79 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 31.1 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,100
![Painting, Wandering Wheels (Ajala 2), Tolulope Adigbo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2138551_1_grid.jpg)
Wandering Wheels (Ajala 2)
Tolulope Adigbo
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1 inch
$1,950
![Painting, Imagined destinations, Palimpsest ( Palimpseste ), Taisia Korotkova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2135653_1_grid.jpg)
Imagined destinations, Palimpsest ( Palimpseste )
Taisia Korotkova
Painting - 56 x 76 x 0.2 cm Painting - 22 x 29.9 x 0.1 inch
$1,731
![Painting, Creative Gaze, Zakhar Shevchuk](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2135613_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Untitled V, Wisdom Uche](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2107260_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Red rose, Wisdom Uche](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2107254_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Portrait of a Young Man, Zakhar Shevchuk](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2097027_1_grid.jpg)
Portrait of a Young Man
Zakhar Shevchuk
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,309
![Painting, Me Time, Olaosun Oluwapelumi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2064525_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The strenght is to be found in serenity, Gary Westall](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2058810_1_grid.jpg)
The strenght is to be found in serenity
Gary Westall
Painting - 50 x 59.9 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,708
![Painting, The Morning Roar, Gary Westall](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2058801_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Kingfisher, Gary Westall](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2058795_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Park Frankendael II, Dorine van der Ploeg](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2007513_1_grid.jpg)
Park Frankendael II
Dorine van der Ploeg
Painting - 36 x 48 x 1 cm Painting - 14.2 x 18.9 x 0.4 inch
$1,154
![Painting, Portrait of the Artist, Zakhar Shevchuk](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1996554_1_grid.jpg)
Portrait of the Artist
Zakhar Shevchuk
Painting - 80 x 60 x 0.3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
$2,309
![Painting, All by myself, Olaosun Oluwapelumi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1961454_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Red card, Ogunniyi Oluwatosin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1937052_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Mess, Mihran Manukyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1925697_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Hold Me Close In This Difficult Time, Olaosun Oluwapelumi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1924854_1_grid.jpg)
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
$2,000
![Painting, Back home, Mihran Manukyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1919313_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Walking with dog, Mihran Manukyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1912542_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Because I Believed, Lazarus Massavo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1750683_1_grid.jpg)
Because I Believed
Lazarus Massavo
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 inch
$2,000
![Painting, The Zeal of my father's house 2, Lazarus Massavo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1750143_1_grid.jpg)
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
$2,000
![Painting, Beauty Within, Olaosun Oluwapelumi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1738437_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Untitled 2, Wisdom Uche](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1736727_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Lydia, Wisdom Uche](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1736721_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Untitled 1, Wisdom Uche](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1736709_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Esosa 2, Wisdom Uche](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1736685_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Unitled 3, Wisdom Uche](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1736631_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Tife, Wisdom Uche](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1736217_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Untitled 3, Wisdom Uche](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1736205_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Jean-Michel Basquait, Wisdom Uche](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1736193_1_grid.jpg)
Jean-Michel Basquait
Wisdom Uche
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1 inch
$1,600
![Painting, Untitled, Wisdom Uche](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1736175_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Change of Ownership, Wisdom Uche](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1736169_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Les amis intimes, Maria Mikileva](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1731876_1_grid.jpg)
Les amis intimes
Maria Mikileva
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.4 inch
$2,193
![Painting, Bart Signal, Onemizer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1726485_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Snow melts, Alexander Shandor](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1672959_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The courageous woman(Feminine Epidemic series) II, Ogunniyi Oluwatosin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1649172_1_grid.jpg)
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
$2,000
![Painting, Enthusiasm, Lazarus Massavo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1647750_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, La Moisson, Patricia Dubois](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1641162_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Morning, Zakhar Shevchuk](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1611960_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Good Day, Zakhar Shevchuk](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1611930_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Brume de Naïade et Hamadryade, Emilie Serris](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1479705_1_grid.jpg)
Brume de Naïade et Hamadryade
Emilie Serris
Painting - 82 x 20 x 1.5 cm Painting - 32.3 x 7.9 x 0.6 inch
$681
![Painting, Poétiques du paysage 70, Carole Bressan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1470681_1_grid.jpg)
Poétiques du paysage 70
Carole Bressan
Painting - 81 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,117
![Painting, Donald X Picasso, Brunograffer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1316277_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!