Contemporary Animal Paintings
CONTEMPORARY STYLE
Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.
Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.
The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.
Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.
Find a collection of Contemporary prints, photography, paintings, sculptures and other art on 1stDibs.
Style: Contemporary
Color: Blue
Charlie Baird, Migration, Contemporary Art, Affordable art, Bird Flock Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Charlie Baird
Migration
Original Painting
Canvas Size: H 81cm x W 122cm
Sold Unframed
(Please note that in situ images are purely an indication of how a piece may look).
Migration...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Live Freely
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Acrylic and mixed media
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic
Artemis
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Acrylic on canvas
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled, Acrylic on Canvas, Blue, White by Contemporary Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Feroz Khan - Untitled
Acrylic on Canvas, 49 x 38 inches
About Artist :
Mohammad Feroz Khan was born in 1978 and brought up in Delhi. He have not undergone...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Midlife Madonna, Female in Teal and Red Silk Holding a Persian Cat, Oil Painting
Located in Chicago, IL
Painted in the style reminiscent of the Old Master, Freymuth-Frazier brings the subject matter into the present. Here we see a woman - a self portrait - dressed in a sumptuous silk robe and gown, clutching a Persian cat yet with curlers in her hair. Painted during the early days of the pandemic, Rose takes her subjects from her surroundings, not necessarily her own experiences, but rather part of a larger experience of being a woman in today's society.
Rose Freymuth-Frazier
Midlife Madonna
oil on linen
56h x 34w in
142.24h x 86.36w cm
RFF047
Rose Freymuth-Frazier Employing the techniques of the past in the service of contemporary exploration, I seek to add a fresh voice to the sometimes venerable, sometimes dusty and archaic tradition of large-scale figurative painting, while subtly addressing the mythology, objectification and subjugation of women. My subjects are at first glance close to home-new mothers, friends, lovers, artists, dancers-but are then quickly placed at a distance via edgy modification, rigorous technique, minimal contexts and composition, and idiosyncratic use of color. I am also interested in social presentation, artifice, and simulation as they relate to my subjects. I hope to peel away a gossamer thin layer of reality, not just to document the real but also to reveal what might be. BIOGRAPHY Given my restless history, it is curious that I became a figurative painter in New York City. My maternal Grandparents fled Hitler's Germany in the late 1930's. After being refused entry to the United States, they were welcomed into the Dominican Republic, where they happily resided in a small orderly bungalow of their own design and made their living as studio photographer and cheese maker...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Journey To The End of The Dream - Oil Painting Red White Blue Green Purple
Located in Sofia, BG
"Journey to the end of the dream" is a painting by the French artist Maestro Danielle Le Bricquir.
Through her art, she has a very sharp and unique style of bright and colorful expr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Sam" Mixed Media Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Kaitlin Ziesmer's (US based) "Sam" is an original, handmade AcrylaGouache painting that depicts a pink and green woodpecker wearing a black frilly coll...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Fenced
Located in Denver, CO
Allison McIntyre (b. 1999 West Virginia) pulls from animal imagery and digital aesthetics to respond to contemporary human-animal relations, wrestling...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Acrylic
"Tuned In" Oil painting, Dog motif
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Tuned In" is an original oil on canvas painting by American painter Katherine Fraser. This piece ships in the pictured wood frame and measures 15”h x 21”w. This painting is from F...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Innocent-9, Acrylic on Canvas, Blue, White by Contemporary Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Manish Upadhyay - Innocent-8
Acrylic on Canvas, 36 x 48 inches
Upadhyay titles most of his paintings as “Innocent”. He is preoccupied in most of his w...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Elephant Guide
By Robin Walker
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Acrylic on canvas.
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Celebration day - oil Painting Colors Red White Blue Yellow Purple Green
Located in Sofia, BG
"Celebration day" is a painting by the French artist Maestro Danielle Le Bricquir.
Through her art, she has a very sharp and unique style of bright and colorful expression.
About t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Departure To A Quiet Country - White Blue Brown Green
Located in Sofia, BG
"Departure to a quiet country" is a painting by the French artist Maestro Danielle Le Bricquir.
Through her art, she has a very sharp and unique style of bright and colorful express...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Olive backed sunbird No.1 - Oil painting by English Artist Jamel Akib
By Jamel Akib
Located in Battle, East Sussex
Jamel Akib
Born in Leigh-on-sea, Essex in 1965 to English and Malaysian parents, Jamel moved to North Borneo at the age of five. At thirteen he returned to England to pursue his edu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Orla the Cow" Acrylic Painting on Canvas
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Melinda has studied life and its movements, developing a remarkably keen artistic technique with her flowing expressionistic style. Growing up in the Midwest she was enamored with n...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"In Our Nature", Dog in Landscape with Tennis Balls Oil Painting
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"In Our Nature" is an original oil on canvas painting by American painter Katherine Fraser measuring 23.5”h x 28.5”w. This piece is from Katherine's newest series, which just recent...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Tortoise, Animal, Acrylic on Canvas, Blue, Green, Contemporary Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Debabrata Basu - Untitled - 46 x 46 inches (unframed size)
Acrylic on Canvas
Inclusive of shipment in ready to hang form.
Style : Debabrata derives his style and theme by introspect...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
A Promise to Tread More Lightly - contemporary birds nature acrylic painting
Located in London, GB
Christopher Rainham has always been inspired by the natural world and more specifically an experience of the natural world.
He is inspired by the way flora and fauna are woven into ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Chickadee II - soft, blue, lilac, bird, acrylic and clay pigment on canvas
By Peter Hoffer
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Perched on a branch, a lone chickadee is enveloped in a cloud of dusty yellow and mauve in this atmospheric painting by Peter Hoffer.
Peter Hoffer (b. 1965, Brantford, ON) holds an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Clay, Canvas, Acrylic, Pigment
Earth (Laying It All Out), acrylic on panel, figurative, bird, trompe l'oeil
By Gigi Chen
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Earth (Laying It All Out)" by Gigi Chen is an original acrylic painting on a cradled wood panel measuring 36" H x 36" W x 1.75" D. This piece captures a male bowerbird in his nest ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel, Wood Panel
"Panda in the Clouds" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Robin Hextrum's (US based) "Panda in the Clouds" is an oil painting that depicts a lone panda bear walking amid brightly colored and abstracted vegetation and clouds.
Artist Bio:
R...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Different Directions by Melanie Yazzie, monotype, fish, bird, blue, red, gold
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Different Directions by Melanie Yazzie, monotype, fish, bird, blue,red,gold
unframed, unique monotype
As a printmaker, painter, and sculptor, my work draws upon my rich Diné (Navajo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Monotype
Brian Leo 'Grizzly School'
By Brian Leo
Located in New York, NY
Brian Leo
Grizzly School
2018
Acrylic on stretched canvas
10 x 10 inches
Brian Leo was born in New Jersey in 1976, and is currently living in New York City. He is a graduate of Rut...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Mieus - XX Century, Contemporary Acrylic Painting, Cat, Animal, Grotesque
Located in Warsaw, PL
Andrzej Kreutz-Majewski is a Polish artist born in 1936 and died in 2011. Known all around the world as a stage designer, he is also a renowned painter. After studying at the Academy...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
Yako, 2018, blue, cat, mask, glitter, acrylic, ink and glitter on panel
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Yako" (2018) by Rebecca N. Johnson
Cat mask, figurative abstraction, folk art inspired, teal, blue, pink
Acrylic, acrylic ink and glitter on wood panel with custom wood frame
Hand ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Glitter, Ink, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Leibniz Universe 13U - Contemporary and colorful underwater scene, Oil on canvas
Located in Dallas, TX
Gian Marco Capraro is fascinated by altered universes, dream states and idyllic states of being. Leibniz was a philosopher who wrote and deeply explored the “best of all possible wor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Hummingbird Augury: Cobalt Blue Pastel Drawing on Handmade Paper w/ Gold Stars
Located in Hudson, NY
Hummingbird Augury (Circular Cobalt Blue Pastel Drawing of Golden Hummingbird and Stars on Indian Handmade Cotton Paper by Kahn & Selesnick)
11 inch diameter unframed
pastel, conte c...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Graphite, Handmade Paper, Crayon
In the Storm
By Matt Flint
Located in Denver, CO
Matt Flint is a painter from the mountain town of Lander, Wyoming. He grew up surrounded by woods, animals, and family. As a boy, He spent endless days creating art and exploring the...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Resin, Oil, Panel
Leibniz Universe 10U - Contemporary and colorful underwater scene, Oil on canvas
Located in Dallas, TX
Gian Marco Capraro is fascinated by altered universes, dream states and idyllic states of being. Leibniz was a philosopher who wrote and deeply explored the “best of all possible wor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Vulture with Moose and Magnolia
By Emily Roz
Located in New York, NY
This painting depicts a blue sky with vultures circling around carrion, magnolia leaves and flowers add a visual juxtaposition to the subjects in this composition.
Emily Roz receive...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Gouache
Departure
Located in New York, NY
Like the 2015 String Theory series, the Dream Weavers takes its cue from the African Weaver Birds and their spectacular nest making skills. The Weaver Bird...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Turkmen Contemporary Art by Amir Kerr - Gone Mushrooming
By Amir Kerr
Located in Paris, IDF
Signed on reverse
Born in Turkmenistan, in the sunny city of Ashkhabad. From his youth was into artistic activities, currently the earlier works are kept in the family archives. In ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Adorator - Contemporary, Yellow, Blue, Animal, Minotaur, Bull, Myth, Figurative
Located in Berlin, DE
Adorator, 2004
Acrylic on canvas
78.74 H x 35.43 W in.
200 H × 90 W cm
Signed
The painting "Adorator" is part of a larger series of works entitled " Minotaur" and inspired by the m...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
“Green Peacock” Contemporary Green & Pink Abstract Lace Painting
By Mark Flood
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary green and pink acrylic painting in a unique lace textured peacock by Houston artist Mark Flood. Originally a background element in Flood's pieces, lace eventually evolve...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Bison on White
Located in Greenwich, CT
Born 1954, Hartberg, Austria,
Resides Palm Beach, Florida and Vienna, Austria
Helmut Koller is mainly known for his colorful, bold and festive paintings of animals which are collec...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Unique Small Cobalt Blue Snoopies Dog Heads
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a unique painting on paper using acrylic cobalt blue paint on watercolor paper ,5 x 7 inches.
I have been drawing snoopy as an art subject since 1989.
The cloned dog resembli...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
"Equus No. 10" Abstract Horse Portrait Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Baltimore, MD
"Equus No. 10" is an oil on canvas painting by Joseph Adolphe, depicting an abstracted horse against a background of blues and teals. The painterly brushstrokes and dramatic lighting...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Paint
Blue Tanzanite Diamond Dust
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Hunt Slonem, oil on canvas, diamond dust
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Blue Ascension
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Hunt Slonem, oil on canvas
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Totem Swing
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Totem Swing
Series: Butterflies
Date: 2022
Medium: Oil on canvas
Unframed Dimensions: 30" x 40"
Framed Dimensions: 32" x 42"
Signature: Signed
Edi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Cow", Oil on Canvas
Located in Detroit, MI
This "Cow" painting vibrantly pops with hyper-realistic color. It depicts a highly detailed cow standing in against a blue background. Could it be an empty room? Could it be the sky? There is a very playful atmosphere as the cow is holding a dandelion gone to seed and the wonder is whether it will make a wish and blow. Its awash in a cartoonish blue with clouds and cloudy farm animals. This pairs with the lamb painting but is sold separately.
Renata Palubinskas was born in 1968 in Kaunas, Lithuania, at the time still in the Soviet Union as the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic. She received her diploma in Fine Art and Restoration from St. Zukas Technium of Applied Arts in 1989. After working at the M.K. Ciurlionis State Museum of Art, she emigrated to the United States in the 1990s, basing herself in Detroit.
Renata's work rethinks historic iconography while intentionally addressing the modern world through a new perspective. The characters in her paintings are often caught between the struggle of good and evil. That struggle represents the choice of trying to obtain immediate gratification or realization of the self, and the haunting life experiences with latent possibilities for death.
Renata uses schematic compositions with purposefully positioned figures and other visual elements. To attract attention to the most significant figures, she often ornate their garments with intricate patterns. They are typically placed in either a serene landscape or an interior setting with a threatening presence around them.
Her work has been exhibited in Collected Detroit...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon
House of Devayne - contemporary animal hummingbird acrylic painting
By Keng Wai Lee
Located in London, GB
Keng Wai Lee’s gorgeously rich animal impressions are a synergy of decorative tableaux and depiction in paint on canvas of his memories and imagination.
“Using acrylic as a medium, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Chaos and its devolution
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: acrylic, colored pencil, paint pen, Flashe, ink on canvas
JENNY DAY is a painter who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She earned an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Arizona, a BFA in Painting from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a BA in Environmental Studies from the University of California Santa Cruz. Her exhibition record most recently includes the Phoenix Art Museum, Blue Star Art Museum, in San Antonio, TX, Arte Laguna in Venice, Italy, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art in Korea, and Elmhurst Museum in Chicago, IL. Day's work has been supported by an Elizabeth Greenshields Grant in 2018, Contemporary Forum Artist Grant from the Phoenix Art Museum in 2017, a Barron Purchase Award in 2016 and through participation at the Ucross Foundation, the Jentel Foundation, Playa Foundation For The Arts, Kimmel Harding Nelson Art Center, and the Armory Art Center. Jenny Day represented at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery.
The artist says of her work...
I walked in the Mohave desert. Listened to the bees as they hummed and sucked from yellow creosote flowers. I watched the desert blur by as I drove eighty-miles per hour on I-40. I couldn’t hear the bees. The Mohave backdropped a science-fiction film I watched from my couch...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Ink, Canvas, Acrylic, Color Pencil
Peacock Descending A Staircase
By Lisa Ng
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Acrylic on canvas.
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
All the Other Birds in the Maple - acrylic painting nature forest leaves birds
Located in London, GB
Christopher Rainham has always been inspired by the natural world and more specifically an experience of the natural world.
He is inspired by the way flora and fauna are woven into ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Contemporary animal paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Contemporary animal paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add animal paintings created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, purple, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Hunt Slonem, Jeff Conroy, Arozarena De La Fuente, and John Defeo. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Oil Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Contemporary animal paintings, so small editions measuring 1 inches across are also available. Prices for animal paintings made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $98 and tops out at $437,000, while the average work sells for $3,497.
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