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Petit chemin en Bourgogne
Michel Trapezaroff
Painting - 33 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 13 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$8,810
Au mont Boisy en automne
Michel Trapezaroff
Painting - 33 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 13 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$8,810
View from the outside. Eyes
Ljubow Jung
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,167
Kaleidoscope Of Graceful Carnage
Danny O'Connor
Painting - 152 x 152 x 4 cm Painting - 59.8 x 59.8 x 1.6 inch
$8,117
#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
$1,118 $1,006
Une terrasse Plaça Catalunya
Josep Teixido
Painting - 54 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 21.3 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,236
Mes plus belles vacances
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$2,661
Village en bord de mer
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 89 x 116 x 2 cm Painting - 35 x 45.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,795
Doux soleil d'automne
Brigitte Di Scala
Painting - 70 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,012
Evolución II
Felisa Esteban - Maifx
Painting - 114 x 146 x 1 cm Painting - 44.9 x 57.5 x 0.4 inch
$3,019
Temptation
Marion Katharina Haas
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.4 inch
$5,735
Nuances de gris
Valérie Zimmermann (Anna Mya Zimmer)
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,739
1966 Paris blanc Scène urbaine 2 White Paris Urban Scene 2
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 37.5 x 52.5 cm Painting - 14.8 x 20.7 inch
$2,180
1966 Paris Blanc Scène urbaine 1 Le Métro White Paris Urban scene 1 Subway
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 37 x 54 x 0.5 cm Painting - 14.6 x 21.3 x 0.2 inch
$1,733
1966 Paris Blanc Les ouvriers Le chantier White Paris Workers walking on worksite in the fog
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 34.75 x 52.5 cm Painting - 13.7 x 20.7 inch
$1,621
1966 Paris blanc En route vers le chantier White Paris Workers in the fog on the road of the worksite
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 37.5 x 52.5 cm Painting - 14.8 x 20.7 inch
$1,621
1966 White Paris Blanc Le poinçonneur du métro Subway ticket controller
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 37.5 x 52.5 cm Painting - 14.8 x 20.7 inch
$2,180
1966 White Paris Blanc Ouvriers en route vers le chantier On the way to the construction site
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 37.5 x 52.5 cm Painting - 14.8 x 20.7 inch
$2,180
1966 White Paris Blanc Bouquinistes Booksellers on Seine banks
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 37 x 53.5 cm Painting - 14.6 x 21.1 inch
$2,180
1966 White PARIS Blanc Au bistro Le café crème - Café crème at the bistro
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 37 x 52.5 cm Painting - 14.6 x 20.7 inch
$2,180
1966 White Paris Blanc Balayeurs au petit matin Early morning Street cleaners
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 37.5 x 53.5 cm Painting - 14.8 x 21.1 inch
$2,180
1966 White Paris Blanc Autour du zinc A bistro Around the bar
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 37.5 x 52 cm Painting - 14.8 x 20.5 inch
$1,621
1966 Paris Orange Maître d'hôtel au restaurant Maître d'Hotel
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 37.5 x 52.5 cm Painting - 14.8 x 20.7 inch
$1,621
1966 White Paris Blanc Danse au cabaret Cabaret dancing
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 37.5 x 40 cm Painting - 14.8 x 15.7 inch
$2,180
1969 Paris Blanc 5 Parisiens sur fond pourpre 5 Parisians on deep red
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 37.5 x 52.5 cm Painting - 14.8 x 20.7 inch
$2,180
1969 Paris Orange Parisiens dans la foule Parisians crowd
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 37.5 x 52.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 14.8 x 20.7 x 0.2 inch
$2,180
1969 Paris Orange Enfant et parents Street scene
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 37.5 x 52.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 14.8 x 20.7 x 0.2 inch
$2,007
1969 Paris Orange 5 Parisiens Bystanders
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 37.5 x 52.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 14.8 x 20.7 x 0.2 inch
$2,180
White Paris Blanc, Parisiens Le Bonjour 1969 Parisians Good Morning
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 26 x 37.5 cm Painting - 10.2 x 14.8 inch
$2,180
White Paris Blanc La rencontre 1969 The meeting
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 26 x 37.5 cm Painting - 10.2 x 14.8 inch
$2,180
White Paris Blanc 1969 Passants sur fond pourpre et orangée Passers-by
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 26 x 37.5 cm Painting - 10.2 x 14.8 inch
$2,180
White Parisi Blanc 1969 Six passants 6 passers-by
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 26 x 37.5 cm Painting - 10.2 x 14.8 inch
$2,180
White Paris Blanc 1969 Quatre Parisiens en conversation Four Parisians in Conversation
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 26 x 37.5 cm Painting - 10.2 x 14.8 inch
$2,180
White Paris Blanc 1966 Joueurs de dés au Bistro Dice players bistro
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 37.5 x 52.5 cm Painting - 14.8 x 20.7 inch
$2,180
Soleil entrant
Marie France Garrigues
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,957
Le hangar à bateaux
Charles Malle
Painting - 36.4 x 45.8 x 0.2 cm Painting - 14.3 x 18 x 0.1 inch
$1,398
Lavandes sous le mont ventoux (2)
ZiB
Painting - 20 x 20 x 0.3 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.1 inch
$257
Femme à la cigarette
Sylvie Julkowski-Egard
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,118
Nouveau départ 2
Marie France Garrigues
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,957
Mosaic of the sunset
Vitaliy Pryzant
Painting - 59.9 x 89.9 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,550
Douceur féminine
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,683
Les métamorphoses IX
Cécile Duchêne-Malissin
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,012
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Jérôme Mesnager & Artiste Ouvrier
Painting - 144.5 x 53 x 2 cm Painting - 56.9 x 20.9 x 0.8 inch
$2,012
Night in Paris Nuit 1966 Danser le Kazatchok Dancing II
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 26 x 31 cm Painting - 10.2 x 12.2 inch
$2,180
1298 Seduction Series
Roger König
Painting - 110 x 110 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 43.3 x 0.8 inch
$13,528
Coast Monterey
Serhii Cherniakovskyi
Painting - 70 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,342
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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!