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Lectrice aux anémones
Thérèse Boucraut
Painting - 99 x 99 x 3 cm Painting - 39 x 39 x 1.2 inch
$4,652
Mas de Provence
Michel Terrapon
Painting - 33 x 45.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 13 x 17.9 x 0.2 inch
$2,336
Blue Silence
Christine Connelly
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$4,361
Il paradiso può attendere
Angela Latorre
Painting - 37 x 37 x 1 cm Painting - 14.6 x 14.6 x 0.4 inch
$291
La rencontre
Franck-Bernard Gaulier
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,977
When Hell Freezes Over
Hunter Potter
Painting - 152.4 x 177.8 x 2.54 cm Painting - 60 x 70 x 1 inch
$24,998
In Frame Series: Relax At Home
Suanjaya Kencut
Painting - 104.14 x 88.9 x 2.54 cm Painting - 41 x 35 x 1 inch
$30,000
L'Homme post-moderne
Antonio Camaró
Painting - 130 x 91 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 35.8 x 1.2 inch
$83,737
Sea sunset swell n*8 - Italian painting
Bruno Di Giulio
Painting - 40 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$378
Les bleus à l'âme 3
Ghislaine Ferreira
Painting - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,105
Under the bed
Rebecca Yunjeong Lee
Painting - 91 x 65 x 3 cm Painting - 35.8 x 25.6 x 1.2 inch
$2,100
La danza extatica
Rocio Mazuecos
Painting - 130 x 290 x 3.5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 114.2 x 1.4 inch
$18,608
Le jardin d'Eden
Anne-Marie Torrisi
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$6,397
Origin Stories - Warpath
Matt Lambert
Painting - 22.7 x 15.1 x 3 cm Painting - 8.9 x 5.9 x 1.2 inch
$326
Valley Dream
Amelie Monira Egenolf
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,041
Reflections Of A Teenage Girl
Joyce Fournier
Painting - 30.5 x 22.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 12 x 9 x 1 inch
$1,080 $756
Boats under the moon n°2 - Southern Italy painting
Vittorio Colucci
Painting - 40 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$494
Cornflowers and Phloxes
Yuriy Demiyanov
Painting - 40 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,512
What we get in return
Adewuyi Theophilus
Painting - 91.4 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 24 x 1 inch
$2,000
Cenizas y diamantes XXII
Cecilia Méndez Casariego
Painting - 45 x 33 x 0.3 cm Painting - 17.7 x 13 x 0.1 inch
$600 $540
La belle en chair - série portrait d'huitre
Alexandra Baudin
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,071
Tree of meat (Baum aus Fleisch)
Paul Verstraten
Painting - 110 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$2,268
Les poissons pois
Laurence Leccia
Painting - 60 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,047
La nuit étoilée (the starry Night)
AKET
Painting - 100 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$9,304
Autoportrait à la combi
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$989
Petit-déjeuner aux clémentines
Francine Van Hove
Painting - 73 x 116 cm Painting - 28.7 x 45.7 inch
$23,609
Cats and Mountains
Maya Abashidze
Painting - 60 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$2,675
Un Soir de Printemps
Georges R. Quinio
Painting - 46 x 55 x 4 cm Painting - 18.1 x 21.7 x 1.6 inch
$2,326
L'aventurière
Christiane Simon-Roques
Painting - 100 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,628
Calle de invernaderos II
Ana Garcia
Painting - 35 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,035
Now you see me
Eniafe Gbenga
Painting - 91.4 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 24 x 1 inch
$2,000 $1,800
The Dialogue - Act 2
Amogh Katyayan
Painting - 94 x 170.2 x 0.3 cm Painting - 37 x 67 x 0.1 inch
$1,700
Couple à la plage
Sophie de la Happy Funky Family
Painting - 33 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 13 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$989
Manu Dibango au saxophone, série Jazz et Musique
Jean-Louis Manuel
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,628
Locked in my heart
Jumoke Oyetunde
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 inch
$1,700
Regard d'argent - série portrait de femme
Namy
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,006
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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!