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Lumières de la Somme
Philippe Maillebuau
Painting - 46 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
$569
Les quatre saisons
Philippe Maillebuau
Painting - 60 x 72 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 28.3 x 0.8 inch
$988 $890
Dim's / Respect & Queen Club 1996
JP Malot
Painting - 50 x 65 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,692
Elle et son prince charmant
Anne-Marie Vesco
Painting - 27 x 22 x 4.05 cm Painting - 10.6 x 8.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,692
La clé des songes
Anne-Marie Vesco
Painting - 34 x 26 x 3 cm Painting - 13.4 x 10.2 x 1.2 inch
$1,692
The Lullaby Of The New Moon
Delyafruz Bagirova
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,918
The Park from January to Spring
Gabrielle Rul
Painting - 31 x 23 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.2 x 9.1 x 0 inch
$903
Regatta in Venice
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 100 x 130 x 0.3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 51.2 x 0.1 inch
$2,257
La bibliothèque bleue
Jean-Vincent Escalant
Painting - 90 x 90 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 inch
$1,354
Unfathomable Depth 1
Olivier Massebeuf
Painting - 116 x 81 x 3 cm Painting - 45.7 x 31.9 x 1.2 inch
$1,354
Midnight Ride In Prague
Delyafruz Bagirova
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,410
Les Deux Chaises longues
Francine Van Hove
Painting - 60 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
$17,827
Hopeful of the dream city
Joshua Salami
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1 inch
$1,950
Harmony to Better Life
Kusbudiyanto
Painting - 150 x 133 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 52.4 x 1.6 inch
$10,155
In her favorite color 1
Joshua Salami
Painting - 50.8 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 20 x 20 x 1 inch
$1,200
Declined expectation
Joshua Salami
Painting - 50.8 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 20 x 20 x 1 inch
$1,200
Self Love (Town Girl)
Oluwafemi Akanmu
Painting - 81.3 x 66 x 2.5 cm Painting - 32 x 26 x 1 inch
$1,800
Performance (American Vaudeville)
Vladimir Kolosov
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1 inch
$2,305
The First Lady
Oladire Araireoluwa
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1 inch
$1,700
Miss Independent
Akinboye Akinola Peter
Painting - 91.4 x 86.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 34 x 1 inch
$1,760
Sisi Londoner
Akinboye Akinola Peter
Painting - 81.3 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 32 x 24 x 1 inch
$1,520
Bubble blowers
Vladimir Kolosov
Painting - 91.4 x 76.2 x 3.2 cm Painting - 36 x 30 x 1.25 inch
$2,160
La Pirogue - série bord de mer
Philippe Maillebuau
Painting - 50 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 24 x 0.8 inch
$745
La Plage - série bord de mer
Philippe Maillebuau
Painting - 46 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 24 x 0.8 inch
$632
Woman From Sciacca
Roberto De Francisci
Painting - 40 x 45 x 0.1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 17.7 x 0 inch
$1,128
Edie Sedgwick
Manuel Santelices
Painting - 25.4 x 25.4 x 0.3 cm Painting - 10 x 10 x 0.1 inch
$2,000
Ivana and Nan in the front row
Manuel Santelices
Painting - 27.9 x 35.6 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11 x 14 x 0.1 inch
$1,000
Marc Jacobs fall 2020
Manuel Santelices
Painting - 30.5 x 22.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 12 x 9 x 0.1 inch
$700
Alessandro Michelle yellow
Manuel Santelices
Painting - 30.5 x 22.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 12 x 9 x 0.1 inch
$700
Alexander McQueen / We love Kate
Manuel Santelices
Painting - 20.3 x 25.4 x 0.3 cm Painting - 8 x 10 x 0.1 inch
$800
Joan Crawford as Bjork and Katharine Hepburn as Cher
Manuel Santelices
Painting - 30.5 x 22.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 12 x 9 x 0.1 inch
$600
Audrey Hepburn Breakfast at Tiffany's
Manuel Santelices
Painting - 45.7 x 61 x 0.3 cm Painting - 18 x 24 x 0.1 inch
$1,500
Amal, George Clooney and Julia Roberts
Manuel Santelices
Painting - 22.9 x 30.5 x 0.3 cm Painting - 9 x 12 x 0.1 inch
$600
Orince Eagle (After a Photograph by Elizabeth Peyton)
Manuel Santelices
Painting - 30.5 x 22.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 12 x 9 x 0.1 inch
$600
Marc Jacobs blue, Portrait
Manuel Santelices
Painting - 40.6 x 30.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 16 x 12 x 1 inch
$800
De profil, homme à la cigarette
Zafi
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$5,077
Staring out at the Open Sea
Anika Manuel
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.4 inch
$928
Under the Moon and Stars
Anika Manuel
Painting - 40 x 40 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.6 inch
$781
The Impossible Dream
Anika Manuel
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,094
Pierpaolo Piccioli for Moncler
Manuel Santelices
Painting - 38.1 x 27.9 cm Painting - 15 x 11 inch
$700
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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!