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Les arbres 01.03.24
Laurent Bouro
Painting - 80 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$3,001 $2,851
Watkins Glen State Park in New York City. Impasto impressionism painting.
Vik Schroeder
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,154
Kermesse
Christiane Simon-Roques
Painting - 65 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,501
Secret Love
Kajazun (Kajo) Avetisyan
Painting - 75 x 85 x 2 cm Painting - 29.5 x 33.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,770
Woman lying on a table
Susana Mata
Painting - 46 x 55 x 1 cm Painting - 18.1 x 21.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,385
Four Go Paddling in Camber Sands
Terry Watts
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,976
L'éternelle fragilité
Thomas Mainardi
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
$1,501
The Sun is Gone, but I Have a Light
Maya Abashidze
Painting - 80 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$5,310
I love my crazy world
Patrick Cornée
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,694
Le bruit du monde
Claire Bonnet-Masimbert
Painting - 80 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,847
Souriez vous êtes filmé
Mr.Oreke
Painting - 136 x 105 x 3 cm Painting - 53.5 x 41.3 x 1.2 inch
$3,001
Bien dégagé autour des oreilles
David Jehan (B.boss)
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,154
Inside the metaphysical nature of sense of falesia
Vladimir Kolosov
Painting - 137.2 x 304.8 x 5.7 cm Painting - 54 x 120 x 2.25 inch
$12,990
Les métamorphoses IX
Cécile Duchêne-Malissin
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,078
A little pink mood
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 50 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$785
October 24, country lane in Saint Vincent
Anne Baudequin
Painting - 59.9 x 89.9 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,900
N° 1245 Palais d’Hisham. * MG.
R. Cavalié
Painting - 54 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 21.3 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,731
Mirrored Dreams
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 100 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$3,348
Home is where the Heart is
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 100 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$3,348
Blue Bonnets calling me Home
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 90 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,770
Time to Breathe
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 90 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,539
Rivers and Mountains
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 90 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,886
An Intense of Passion
Gor Avetisyan
Painting - 53 x 53 x 2 cm Painting - 20.9 x 20.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,027
A Love Day in Paris
Yasna Godovanik
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,489 $865
My Angel of Love
Yasna Godovanik
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,443
Empty Paintings on The Wall
Teona Yamanidze
Painting - 144 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 56.7 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
$8,196
Reflets du matin... (Esprit voile 2024)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,886
The Night We Meet
Ewa Czarniecka
Painting - 82 x 102 x 4 cm Painting - 32.3 x 40.2 x 1.6 inch
$2,309
#10 from Witness of 2020 Series
Guy Ghazanchyan
Painting - 65 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,154
Evening regatta
Serhii Cherniakovskyi
Painting - 75 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 29.5 x 31.5 x 1 inch
$1,450
Dress code en el barrio chino
Franco Fasoli
Painting - 130 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$7,503
Conversation entre Deux Visages et Un Rayon de Soleil
Aurore Amberny
Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.15 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$508
Variations en bleu sur fond noir
David Jamin
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1 inch
$2,886
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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.
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