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Joanna Glazer
Painting - 100 x 70 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$324
Au pays de Candy
Nadine de Lespinats
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,968
Autorretrato. Picasso.
José Luis Pagador Ponce
Painting - 81 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,606
Inspiración
José Luis Pagador Ponce
Painting - 100 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$5,478
La huella del tiempo
José Luis Pagador Ponce
Painting - 70 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,460
Field flowers and pomegranate
Tigran Avetyan
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,050
Courageous Spirit
Bakare Abubakri-sideeq Babatunde
Painting - 63.5 x 58.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 25 x 23 x 1 inch
$1,400
Gazing Through Ankara 3
Bakare Abubakri-sideeq Babatunde
Painting - 78.7 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31 x 30 x 1 inch
$1,850
Gazing Through Ankara 2
Bakare Abubakri-sideeq Babatunde
Painting - 76.2 x 68.6 x 2.5 cm Painting - 30 x 27 x 1 inch
$1,850
Gazing through Ankara 1
Bakare Abubakri-sideeq Babatunde
Painting - 81.3 x 58.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 32 x 23 x 1 inch
$1,850
Dream - The little sailor
Mateos Sargsyan
Painting - 60 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,200
Autumn in Armenia
Tigran Avetyan
Painting - 75 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 29.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,350
Beauty In Her Space
Bakare Abubakri-sideeq Babatunde
Painting - 83.8 x 81.3 x 2.5 cm Painting - 33 x 32 x 1 inch
$1,800
Beauty is what I posessed
Bakare Abubakri-sideeq Babatunde
Painting - 111.8 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 44 x 36 x 1 inch
$1,950
Beauty is what I posessed 2
Bakare Abubakri-sideeq Babatunde
Painting - 86.4 x 71.1 x 2.5 cm Painting - 34 x 28 x 1 inch
$1,500
Son courage à deux mains
JM Robert
Painting - 81 x 65 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 25.6 x 1.2 inch
$3,130
Time and Consequence The Immortal Lovers
Stan Maksun
Painting - 20.3 x 30.5 x 0.3 cm Painting - 8 x 12 x 0.1 inch
$894
Gaia du point du jour
Françoise Dugourd-Caput
Painting - 60 x 80 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 inch
$1,744
The beloved at the spring ritual
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 100 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$324
Get the fuck out of our way !
Tristan Wu
Painting - 83.5 x 123 x 0.2 cm Painting - 32.9 x 48.4 x 0.1 inch
$1,610
One leg at a time !
Tristan Wu
Painting - 81 x 121 x 0.2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 47.6 x 0.1 inch
$1,610
T'es-tu bien comporté ?
Franck-Bernard Gaulier
Painting - 87 x 66 x 2 cm Painting - 34.3 x 26 x 0.8 inch
$1,677
Boat-people au soleil couchant
Damien Berrard
Painting - 33 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 13 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
$168
Portrait 28 /Profil
Karl-Karol Chrobok
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$537
Resting in the studio
Petya Deneva
Painting - 45 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 17.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,901
Alongside The Danube River
Petya Deneva
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,789
Paint me with a tiger
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 69.9 x 59.9 x 2 cm Painting - 27.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$6,450
Les bleuets - série Les Poupées
Pierre Jarraud
Painting - 50 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,677
Coiffe de dentelle dans le soir tombant - série les poupées
Pierre Jarraud
Painting - 50 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 24 x 0.8 inch
$2,096
Lax-flowered Orchid – Anacamptis laxiflora
Lyuben Domozetski
Painting - 30 x 20 x 3.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 7.9 x 1.4 inch
$1,230
St. Pimen (hommage à Ivan Lazarov)
Lyuben Domozetski
Painting - 40 x 29.5 x 3.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.6 x 1.4 inch
$1,308
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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!