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Urban Landscape Series Parking Lot
Zhao De-Wei
Painting - 100 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$16,997
Wonder Woman Pop & Scratch
Thierry Beaudenon
Painting - 66 x 66 x 3 cm Painting - 26 x 26 x 1.2 inch
$1,554
Moonlight surfing
Yaroslav Yasenev
Painting - 110 x 85 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 33.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,342
La femme au coucher du soleil
Eveline Weil
Painting - 46 x 38 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 15 x 0.8 inch
$951
On the swing #2
Lilit Soghomonyan
Painting - 83 x 38 x 2 cm Painting - 32.7 x 15 x 0.8 inch
$1,901 $1,635
Contemporary man
Saverio Filioli Uranio
Painting - 48 x 33 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.9 x 13 x 0 inch
$123
Banc au bord de l'eau
Alexandre Rochat
Painting - 38 x 46.5 x 2 cm Painting - 15 x 18.3 x 0.8 inch
$1,268
One Dozen Dreams (Framed)
Roberto Fonfria
Painting - 38.1 x 27.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 15 x 11 x 0.1 inch
$1,500
In Every Dream Home a Heartache (Framed)
Roberto Fonfria
Painting - 38.1 x 27.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 15 x 11 x 0.1 inch
$1,500
A Better Life or Your Money Back (Framed)
Roberto Fonfria
Painting - 38.1 x 27.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 15 x 11 x 0.1 inch
$1,500
Don't Forget to Breathe Again (Framed)
Roberto Fonfria
Painting - 38.1 x 27.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 15 x 11 x 0.1 inch
$1,500
Correct Focus (Framed)
Roberto Fonfria
Painting - 76.2 x 55.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 30 x 22 x 0.1 inch
$2,000
Dreams and Telepathy (Framed)
Roberto Fonfria
Painting - 76.2 x 55.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 30 x 22 x 0.1 inch
$2,000
1000 Miligrams (Framed)
Roberto Fonfria
Painting - 66 x 45.7 x 0.3 cm Painting - 26 x 18 x 0.1 inch
$2,000
Close Before Striking I
Roberto Fonfria
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 0.3 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.1 inch
$980
Close Before Striking II
Roberto Fonfria
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 0.3 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.1 inch
$980
Close Before Striking III
Roberto Fonfria
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 0.3 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.1 inch
$980
Close Before Striking IV
Roberto Fonfria
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 0.3 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.1 inch
$980
Close Before Striking VI
Roberto Fonfria
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 0.3 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.1 inch
$980
Close Before Striking VII
Roberto Fonfria
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 0.3 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.1 inch
$980
Close Before Striking VIII
Roberto Fonfria
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 0.3 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.1 inch
$980
Close Before Striking IX
Roberto Fonfria
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 0.3 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.1 inch
$980
Untitled, Mix media
Roberto Fonfria
Painting - 61 x 45.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 17.91 x 1 inch
$2,000
Untitled, mix media
Roberto Fonfria
Painting - 61 x 45.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 17.91 x 1 inch
$2,000
Untitled, mix media
Roberto Fonfria
Painting - 61 x 45.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 17.91 x 1 inch
$2,000
Gitans en tenues de festivité
Josep Serra I Santa Serranta
Painting - 65 x 81 x 0.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 31.9 x 0.2 inch
$2,076
Écorce, portrait I
Yoann Merienne
Painting - 200 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 78.7 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
$15,655
We are all martyrs (3) (after pina bausch) forbidden collage (12)
Julien Delagrange
Painting - 150 x 135 x 0.1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 53.1 x 0 inch
$6,978
Inspiration Klimt - Arbre de vie
Nadine de Lespinats
Painting - 89 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 35 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,498
Uncle Josh
Akinboye Akinola Peter
Painting - 95 x 85.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 37.4 x 33.8 x 1 inch
$2,500
Gran canal de Venecia
Rosa Susaeta
Painting - 70 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,006
Frutos del bosque
Milagros Elorz
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$2,013
Orí tamoyo tocando música de luz
José Ignacio Suarez Solis
Painting - 119.9 x 179.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 70.8 x 0.1 inch
$4,320
I’m Better off on My Own Any Fuckin Way - Pelaggio
Isaac Pelayo
Painting - 102 x 76 x 2 cm Painting - 40.2 x 29.9 x 0.8 inch
$10,500
Le guerrier
Robert Koumassadouno
Painting - 120 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,845
Golden clouds. Chamzinka
Simon Kozhin
Painting - 20 x 30 x 0.3 cm Painting - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$2,600
Chanel Sexy Lip Bite Mouth Lipstick 2
Tony Rubino
Painting - 30.5 x 40.6 x 5.1 cm Painting - 12 x 16 x 2 inch
$1,448
Elégante en fleurs et dentelle
Martine Grégoire
Painting - 74 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 29.1 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$727
Douceur d’une tresse
Martine Grégoire
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$783
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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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