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Faded glory
Jacob Kwesi Bennett
Painting - 51.1 x 100.1 x 4.1 cm Painting - 20.1 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,033
Une vie d'homme...
Javier Navarro Avilés
Painting - 50 x 65 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0.4 inch
$862
Maternité (Hommage à Zadkine)
Grégoire Slavu
Sculpture - 23 x 20 x 20 cm Sculpture - 9.1 x 7.9 x 7.9 inch
$1,953
Sans titre
Patrick Chappert-Gaujal
Photography - 94 x 74 x 0.2 cm Photography - 37 x 29.1 x 0.1 inch
$1,953
Les uns et les autres - série Abstraction
Jacques Ayel
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,011
Essential Workers
Michael Alan
Photography - 27.9 x 35.6 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11 x 14 x 0.04 inch
$2,800
Filaments d'ivres têtes
Philippe Azema
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 inch
$1,723
Violin 4
Arman
Fine Art Drawings - 25.4 x 20.3 x 1.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10 x 8 x 0.5 inch
$1,500
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
$3,217
Petit amphithéâtre
Guillaume Couffignal
Sculpture - 37 x 23 x 20 cm Sculpture - 14.6 x 9.1 x 7.9 inch
$2,068
Hack Haring
Raphaël Federici (ParisSketchCulture)
Print - 48 x 70 x 0.01 cm Print - 18.9 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$977
Sculptural Lady
Caro Graffiti
Sculpture - 53.5 x 30.5 x 6 cm Sculpture - 21.1 x 12 x 2.4 inch
$1,723
Simplicity Monotype
Bounoure & Genevaux
Sculpture - 60 x 120 x 6 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 47.2 x 2.4 inch
$5,170
Dames en conversation
John Reitz
Painting - 36.5 x 29 x 0.3 cm Painting - 14.4 x 11.4 x 0.1 inch
$1,067
Grille Et Entree Parc Galliera D 2020 5004
Aldema Design & Art
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 70 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$1,723
Couleurs - 9 Tapisseries
Mireille Guérin
Design - 90 x 90 x 8 cm Design - 35.4 x 35.4 x 3.1 inch
$5,400
Ideally this print would be hanged higher
Laure Prouvost
Print - 60 x 45 cm Print - 23.6 x 17.7 inch
$1,379
Moi je dis qu'un bon footballeur, c'est un footballeur qui a un cerveau et des mains (de génie) à la place des pieds !...
Jack Hironimus
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 0.8 inch
$1,608
Souvenir de l'eau
Philippe Charpentier
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 0.8 inch
$2,068
Les oubliées 4 - série Paysage et Architecture
Gilbert Ovtcharenko
Painting - 50 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 24 x 0.8 inch
$775
Autour du Lac Son Kol
Valentin Pacaut
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.3 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.1 inch
$1,896
Shadowy stabile estampillé PX446
Paradox Créations
Sculpture - 50 x 70 x 80 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 27.6 x 31.5 inch
$1,379
La plus belle pour aller danser
Stojan Milanov
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,482
L'étang de trunven, pays bigouden
Richard Bouts
Painting - 81 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,298
The Conversation
Mela Ann Cooke
Sculpture - 38 x 64 x 30 cm Sculpture - 15 x 25.2 x 11.8 inch
$21,714
Korean dreams, North Korea 9
Nathalie Daoust
Photography - 50 x 75 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 inch
$1,264
Hommage à David Hockney, Piscine & Jacuzzi, 60 éléments, Hilton Head, South Carolina, USA
Pascal Therme
Photography - 80 x 120 x 0.3 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,666 $1,499
Valise-Mémoire 1
Olivier Sultan
Sculpture - 45 x 65 x 15 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 25.6 x 5.9 inch
$1,838
Nighttime Township
Christine Drummond
Painting - 61 x 61 x 5.1 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 2 inch
$3,500
Contemporary artworks for sale
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!