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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.

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Style: Contemporary
Color:  Gold
Blue Tit - contemporary mixed media nature bird gold oil painting canvas framed
Located in London, GB
Based on the south coast of England Clive Meredith is an entirely self-taught artist and has been working professionally since 1993 specialising in detailed portrayals of wildlife from both Britain and abroad. Clive’s initial interest in wildlife and the countryside was fostered in his early years, brought up the son of a dairy farmer, and spending hours outside in the Shropshire countryside birdwatching and larking about on the river Severn and its streams in his hometown of Shrewsbury. Working in both graphite pencil and oils, observation is vital to Clive’s working practice. Each drawing or painting reveals meticulous attention to detail,achievable only by hours spent in the field observing and photographing subjects in their natural habitat. Aside from wildlife watching...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Tiger in Sunrise, Ancient Inspired painting on paper with acrylic and gold leaf
Located in Dallas, TX
This is a magnificent large scale painting on paper, showing a powerful Tiger, full of the artist's signature motifs, inspired by ancient Greece and Egypt. This artwork comes in a be...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Gold Leaf

The Gift - Still Life with Ruby Throated Hummingbird and Perfume Bottle, Gold
Located in Chicago, IL
A colorful humming bird flits around an empty perfume bottle in Felipe Alfaro's small painting entitled "The Gift #6". Swaths of gold enhance the abstr...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Mixed Media

Louise - contemporary mixed media colorful hummingbird flowers framed painting
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, I tend to reminisce through my past getting inspiration to create my artwork. This may come from remembering all my scribbles in my textbooks/school books full of monsters and machines in a apocalyptic world or just indulging in my hobbies of looking at swimming goldfish and local bird watching...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Golden Dolphin (Delphes Tale) Blue Fresco and Gold Leaf painting on wood panel
Located in Cody, WY
For this work Dumas used the ancient fresco technique and real gold leaf on wood panel. Following her critically acclaimed Whale Flukes Paintings series (2018-2019), Dumas’ continu...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Jicky
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Jicky', elaborately and exquisitely painted by Adrienne Sherman in oil on panel with a lacquer-like luster. The original painting is rich and reflective, and depicts the artist's do...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Impotent and aggressive 2010, canvas, mixed media, 140x120 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Impotent and aggressive 2010, canvas, mixed media, 140x120 cm Juris Utāns (1959-2022) was a Latvian painter. Worked in the field of critical realism...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Doggie-ballony 2010, canvas, mixed media, 140x120 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Doggie-ballony 2010, canvas, mixed media, 140x120 cm Juris Utāns (1959-2022) was a Latvian painter. Worked in the field of critical realism, socially active and political art. Jur...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Come Together
Located in Atlanta, GA
Gwen Wong's work is both painterly and allegorical, caught somewhere in the middle between the representational painter and the narrator. "I am inspired by t...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Gold Leaf

A Pair of Wrens
Located in Deddington, GB
Sally-Ann Johns’ striking work often depicts everyday birds and animals, sometimes portraits, displayed in a unique and exciting way. Set into a gold leaf lined box, they conjure images of ancient religious icons tempting the viewer to witness them in a new light. A Pair of...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Claudius Conqueror - Opulent Geometry, Birds & Botany: Mixed Media on Canvas
Located in London, GB
The collaboration between Keng Wai Lee and Marco Araldi is based on the contrast between the techniques used. Araldi uses ink pen and go...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Gold

The Unknown
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"The Unknown," (2022) by wildlife artist Alexis Kandra is an oil painting gilded with metal foil on wood panel, measuring 36" X 36". Her newest piece, the painting features an earthy landscape appointed with beautiful wildlife -- a rooster, a bull frog, a pidgeon / dove, white horses, red robin...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Gold Spots II
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Columbus, Georgia (USA) based artist Kellie Newsome specializes in dynamic and abstracted still-life artworks. Her expressive style emphasizes line stru...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media

Camellias and Bumblebee - contemporary colourful flower insect gold oil painting
Located in London, GB
Working in oils in a traditional representative style and also incorporating precious metal leaf into some of my more decorative pieces, developing my own unique approach to mixed me...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Wenceslas Clown, 1347
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Wenceslas Crown', elaborately and exquisitely painted by Adrienne Sherman in oil on panel with a lacquer-like luster. The original painting is rich and reflective, and depicts a gor...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Farewell
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting is in excellent condition and has only been shown in a gallery setting. Please note that given the characteristics of the silver and gold leafing the works will photog...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Il Consiglio del Re - contemporary interior horse Oil Painting board
Located in London, GB
Ellie Hesse was born in New York in 1972 but spent most of her childhood in the Yorkshire Dales. Travel has always been an important feature of her life since then, exploring Asia an...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Amore vince Tutto - White Horse palm tree bird, contemporary oil painting
Located in London, GB
Ellie Hesse was born in New York in 1972 but spent most of her childhood in the Yorkshire Dales. Travel has always been an important feature of her life since then, exploring Asia an...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Board, Oil

Quiet Reflections – Avocet and Chicks
Located in London, GB
Based on the south coast of England Clive Meredith is an entirely self-taught artist and has been working professionally since 1993 specialising in detailed portrayals of wildlife fr...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Inside n.9 - collaborative geometric birds floral colourful mixed media artwork
Located in London, GB
This piece consists of 9 smaller paintings, each sized 39 x 39 cm The collaboration between Keng Wai Lee and Marco Araldi is based on the contrast between the techniques used. Marco...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Horse II, Bronze Sculpture, Brown and green Patina by Indian Artist "In Stock
By Chandra Shekhar Das
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Chandra Shekhar Das - Horse - 23 x 10 x 7 inches Bronze Sculpture Das in Bengal is a talented and busy artist , who has won several awards and is a pro in making public installations and huge sculptures for the public arena. This work exhibited recently , with a mere theme of the horse not only brought about the power , beauty and strength of the horse, but also its vulnerability . The expression and look of the horse tells it like it is...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Bronze

"Flirtation, " Abstract Painting
Located in Westport, CT
This horizontal abstract painting by Ned Martin is made with oil paint and 24K gold leaf on aluminum. The artist's signature square and rectangular patterned composition serves as a ...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Metal, Gold Leaf

Saint George and Dragon, Gold Asian inspired mixed media and gold leaf on paper
Located in Dallas, TX
Saint George - "The Rider and the Dragon" is a dynamic, strong and elegant work of art featuring a Hero on horseback fighting a dragon. The artist paints on gold leaf. This is a uniq...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Up in Blue
Located in Denver, CO
It is a tall, vertical painting. The mixed media is composed of oil paint and gold leaf with smaller silver leaf birds at the bottom of the composition. The bird silhouettes look lik...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Red 2
Located in Denver, CO
This painting is striking. It's used of mixed media with rich red paint and equally rich gold leaf color brings the piece alive. This was painted on canvas. The bird silhouettes are ...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Gold Leaf

L is for Lioness III
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Elizabeth Waggett L is for Lioness III 2022 Oil on linen with 22k gold 70" x 45” This piece is unique. This piece is currently on display at Art Angels Los Angeles.
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Gold

L is for Lioness II
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Elizabeth Waggett L is for Lioness II 2022 Oil on linen with 22k gold 30" x 45” Unique
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Gold

Despair has its own calms
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Elizabeth Waggett Despair has its own calms 2021 Oil on linen with 22k gold 50 x 70” Unique
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Gold

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