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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:  Green
Suffocated Life #2
Located in Singapore, SG
"The constant use of plastic is tampering with the environment. Today our magnificent surroundings are covered by plastic all around. These human made plastics find their way to the ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Paper, Tempera

Colorful green contemporary Dog/Foxhound acrylic painting with text on paper
Located in Charleston, US
“There is that Far-off Tall Dog Singing to a Hole in Bank” (Frill Dog series). A colorful contemporary dog painting of Foxhounds dogs singing to a fox in a hole with accompanying text from a book is an inspirational departure from the traditional illustrations found in British Rudyard Kipling's "Thy Servant a Dog", 1930. The book was the first ever narrated by a dog. Nancy van Meter...
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1990s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Mixed Media, Graphite

Fruit Seller, Figurative, Acrylic on Canvas by Contemporary Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Feroz Khan - Fruit Seller Acrylic on Canvas, 24 x 36 inches About Artist : Mohammad Feroz Khan was born in 1978 and brought up in Delhi. He have not under...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

Dog Years - Brightly Colored Self Portrait of Artist as a Lime Green Colored Dog
Located in Chicago, IL
Raya, like every productive artist, is a collection of actions, utopias and talents. He is an acrylic painter and a muralist; an installation artist and a practitioner of the theory of the fragment as a synthesis of the whole; he is Chicano but his work has no passport; he is an obsessive self-portraitist (I, as the multiplicity locked within the I) and his an advocate of his community (in the fullest sense of the world); his is from Chicago and - being a nation onto himself - is a native of his art education; his yearns for the Tijuana of tomorrow while being a full-fledged inhabitant of the Tijuana of half a century back; he admires high-tech while being a fan of Frida Kahlo. --Carlos Monsivais Marcos Raya Dog Years acrylic on canvas 17h x 17w in 43.18h x 43.18w cm MSR055 Marcos Raya brings together old and new works in a variety of media that mostly explores the sociological impact of technological change. His paintings, collages and installations present an idiosyncratic hybrid of Mexican folklore...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

Dream Weavers (Gold), Oil on oval wood panel
Located in New York, NY
“String Theory (Dusk)” by Allison Green depicts a spherical, leafy birdcage containing two birds against a pale pink background. The painting is part of Green’s “String Theory” serie...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Black Duck - figurative animal painting
Located in New York, NY
A farm stands before you on the horizon. A windmill majestically slices the blue sky. A bird, painted in taut brushstrokes, struts on a branch. These are tranquil images; horizon far...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Big Turquoise Bug - Gyotaku Lobster Painting in Blue on Marbled Mulberry Paper
Located in Chicago, IL
Locals know them as "bugs". A small bug is a one pound lobster. Artist Jeff Conroy was able to print this "bug" - a behemoth weighing in at almost 8 pounds aptly named "Big Bug". ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Acrylic, Paper

Koi Pond Conclave - Japanese Style Gyotaku Painting on Archival Kraft Paper
Located in Chicago, IL
In Japan they are known as Nishikigoi, or living jewels. These brilliantly colored varieties of the Amur carp have been selectively bred by family owned fisheries for generations. When I began this series of Gyotaku (Japanese fish printing) I studied the many varieties of Koi, each with their own unique colors and patterns. My particular favorites are the Tanchos which can be identified by the distinct red spot on their heads. To create these pieces I print common carp I catch myself with sumi ink using traditional techniques used by Japanese fisherman...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Sumi Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Koi Pond Caucus - Japanese Style Gyotaku Painting on Archival Kraft Paper
Located in Chicago, IL
In Japan they are known as Nishikigoi, or living jewels. These brilliantly colored varieties of the Amur carp have been selectively bred by family owned fisheries for generations. When I began this series of Gyotaku (Japanese fish printing) I studied the many varieties of Koi, each with their own unique colors and patterns. My particular favorites are the Tanchos which can be identified by the distinct red spot on their heads. To create these pieces I print common carp I catch myself with sumi ink using traditional techniques used by Japanese fisherman...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Archival Paper, Sumi Ink, Watercolor

Zu Sheng Yu, "Amazing Graze", Cow Field Landscape Oil Painting on Canvas, 36x36
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This painting, "Amazing Graze" is a 36x36 oil painting on canvas by artist Zu Sheng Yu. Depicted is a brown cow in the foreground gazing at the viewer. In the distance are two more...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Icy Blast
Located in Denver, CO
Electric Coffin is a Seattle-based artist collaboration between Duffy De Armas and Stefan Hofmann. Electric Coffin is coded within art history and ideologies...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Glass, Acrylic Polymer, Ink

Sheep in a VW Split Screen Camper Van enjoying a round of golf in Ireland
Located in Preston, GB
Sheep in a VW Split Screen Camper Van enjoying a round of golf in Ireland by Contemporary Artist Art measures 12 x 10 inches Frame measures 15 x 13 inc...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Oil, Board

Chinese Contemporary Art by Jia Yuan-Hua - Dragon Boat
Located in Paris, IDF
Sold framed: 76 x 65 x 5,5 cm. This artwork is really really exquisite because of 52 pandas. Sold framed: 75 x 65 x 5.5 cm. Under the influence of the social and educational system, the children today focus only on the test scores, and obsessed with electronic products, do not like sports, lazy like pandas, sometimes even eat and do not want to move. The background is Chinese landscape. I hope children can enjoy the great rivers and mountains and feel the profound traditional culture and art while exercising. This painting use knife...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Chinese Contemporary Art by Jia Yuan-Hua - Enjoy Spring
Located in Paris, IDF
Triptych - 50 x 50 x 3 cm (3) The Great Wall of China is well known in the world and ranks among the world's cultural heritage. Therefore, ten...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Japanese Contemporary Art by Teppei Ikehila - Find a Tree Hotel 2
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas Teppei Ikehila is a Japanese artist born in 1978 who lives & works in Tokyo, Japan. He is graduated from Shimane University in 2001. Since 2000, he has held many priva...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Wide Ruins Morning, painting by Melanie Yazzie, blue, horse, Navajo, red, green
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Wide Ruins Morning, painting by Melanie Yazzie, blue, horse, Navajo, red, green
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Acrylic, Wood Panel

Japanese Contemporary Art by Teppei Ikehila - Find a Tree Hotel 1
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas Teppei Ikehila is a Japanese artist born in 1978 who lives & works in Tokyo, Japan. He is graduated from Shimane University in 2001. Since 2000, he has held many priva...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Fishes. Underwater world. Blue, green colors. 2018. Oil on canvas, 80x90 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Painting with fishes, underwater world Nugzar Avtandilovich Kahiani was born in Poti, Georgia in 1952. He studied at the Art College named after Nikoladze. Then he went to serve in the Soviet Army from1970 to 1972. After completing his military service he entered the Stieglitz St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Industry at the faculty of artistic metal, from which he graduated in 1986. During his studies, he has been actively engaged in painting. His favorite artists are Gauguin, El Greco, Botticelli, Turner and Picasso. Works of artistic stone He worked also with stone, cornelian and onyx. But his soul gravitated to bright and blustery color, and so he has became engaged in painting. At first his paintings were quiet, with muted tonal gamma. The color image was built on the play of hues and halftones. Such a careful elaboration of color educates the taste, sharpness and delicacy of vision. Gradually, the painter became more experienced, and his paintings acquired assurance and power of maturity, blooming in colorful brilliancy. Nugzar's color preferences The color of Nugzar’s paintings is deep and multi-layered. It is woven of infinite number of hues and filled with light. At first sight it may be difficult to recognize the shapes in the play of flickering color dabs. The figures appear gradually, they draw the first breath just before our eyes, crystallizing from the color heap. The painter is attracted by major tonality and motives that years ago could be called “the gallant feasts” - repasts, assiduities, music parties, and airings. After somewhat daemonic, infernal imagery of early paintings, it has appeared the theme of “Le joie de vivre,” the joy of life. Source of inspiration Born in the ancient Kolkhida, he keeps the blissful pagan feel of entirety and completeness of being. It is embodied almost literally in his favorite personage auroral gorgeous-bodied beauty of a girl. He grants these forms even to Olympian inhabitants - Aphrodite, Athene, Arthemide, let alone the Bacchants. I remember unwittingly that Niko Pirosmani similarly painted on his impoverished buckrams the luxurious prince repasts and languid, elephantine beauties. Working style But his style is not bounded by grotesque parody, as well as the irony is not the only aspect of his world outlook. In his landscapes we can catch the ecstatic admiration with Nature. In contradistinction to his favorite impressionists, he never paints from nature and never bears in mind the particular place. It is just a blooming Earth, studied very closely, so that the trees are cut by the edges of the painting, and at the same time it is a bird’s eye view revealing infinite, boundless spaces. Nougzar says that the landscape for him is first of all a color ensemble. He can just leaf through the illustrated journal, nourishing his eye with color in various combinations, and so get the impulse to create a ‘physical’ landscape image. Probably, his landscapes are no less fantastical than his figure compositions, but such is his talent, his mission - to make the world more beautiful and gentle than it is in reality. Exhibitions Nugzar Kakhiani is a matured and recognized master, as follows from the long list of his exhibitions and countries where his works reside. 1987 - Exhibition of Georgian Artists in the Museum of Ethnography, Saint-Petersburg, Russia 1989 - Exhibition of Artists of Leningrad-Lenexpo, Russia 1990 - Exhibition of Van Gogh's memory, "Palette" , Russia 1991 - Exhibition Gallery Palette 1991 - Festival of Leningrad galleries in Manege, Saint-Petersburg, Russia 1992 - Exhibition at Gallery Pinatin, Berlin. 1993 - Exhibition of Piraeus, Athens, Greece. 1993 - Exhibition Gallery 47...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Devi, Elephants, Acrylic on Canvas, Blue, Green by Contemporary Artist"In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Debabrata Basu - Untitled - 48 x 36 inches (unframed size) Acrylic on Canvas Inclusive of shipment in ready to hang form. Style : Debabrata derives his style and theme by introspect...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Viswaroopam 1, Hindu Mythical, Acrylic on Canvas, Blue, Green, Pink "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Birendra Pani - Viswaroopam - 1 - 30 x 42 inches (unframed size) Acrylic on Canvas ** Will be delivered in rolled form Should you want the work in ready to hand condition please c...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

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