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
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Tandra (CSR0981)
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Hunt Slonem was born in Kittery, Maine in 1951. His fascination with exotica imprinted during his childhood in Hawaii and experience as a foreign exchange student in Managua, Nicarag...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
Textile wall hanging: 'Night Music Never Sounded Like This'
Located in New York, NY
Juliet Martin sculpts fiber memoirs. She combines weaving, writing, and illustration to tell her stories. She uses humor as a sling for heavy subjects. Making a joke to convey a seri...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Paint, Inkjet
"Lamb", Oil on Canvas
Located in Detroit, MI
This "Lamb" painting vibrantly pops with hyper-realistic color. It depicts a highly detailed lamb standing in against a blue background. Could it be an empty room? Could it be the sky? "Lamb" has a sweet look with its slight smile and holding a cute pink flower. Its awash in a cartoonish blue with clouds and cloudy farm animals. This pairs with the cow 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
"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
"Dog", Oil on Canvas
Located in Detroit, MI
This "Dog" painting vibrantly pops with hyperrealistic color. It depicts a highly detailed dog standing in a bare room, its floor and wall awash in the same catoonish purple wallpaper...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fusion, acrylic and mixed media painting, yellow, green, gold, birds
By Ben Darby
Located in San Diego, CA
Fusion, acrylic, mixed media, on canvas and wood panel painting by artists Ben Darby. Fusion has a bright burst of gold color flowers and birds perched throughout.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
Resting Fattie
Located in Kansas City, MO
Joseph Broghammer
Resting Fattie
Oil on Canvas
Year: 2021
Size: 40 x 30 in
Signed by hand
COA provided
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Each of the birds in this series rep...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1030
Located in Kansas City, MO
Joseph Broghammer
1030
Oil on Canvas
Year: 2021
Size: 40 x 30 in
Signed by hand
COA provided
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Each of the birds in this series represents an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Opera Skin - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Pigment Print on Aluminium
By Corvengi
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
“Everything that surrounds me affects me. Memories, politics, nature, people, a dry leaf on the ground, music and books.”
Corvengi’s works explore his version of a lost paradise, an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Pigment
Reality's Allegory - 21st Cent, Contemporary, Figurative Painting, Oil on canvas
By Corvengi
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
“Everything that surrounds me affects me. Memories, politics, nature, people, a dry leaf on the ground, music and books.”
Corvengi’s works explore his version of a lost paradise, an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Gucci by Damian Gonzales, 3D Japanese washi tape fiber art painting, cat & toy
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Gucci," 2021. Washi Tape on Wood panel. A portrait of the artist's cat with cat toy. This piece is made entirely of layered Japanese fiber tape on wood, giv...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Tape, Wood
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
Bat in Cave
Located in New York, NY
Bat in Cave
2014
Signed, titled, and dated in ink, verso
Oil on board
8 x 10 inches
Contact gallery for price.
This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
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
Small Fires
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 Univer...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Ink, Canvas, Color Pencil
Jouney No. 5 Yellow Rhino, watercolor & charcoal of flying rhinoceros and birds
Located in Dallas, TX
"Jouney No. 5 Yellow Rhino" by Oliver Flores is a whimsical watercolor and charcoal drawing of a flying rhinoceros and flock of birds.
This artwork comes in a white floater frame, r...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Tigers - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Painting, Oil, Canvas, Animals
By Corvengi
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
“Everything that surrounds me affects me. Memories, politics, nature, people, a dry leaf on the ground, music and books.”
Corvengi’s works explore his version of a lost paradise, an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Contemporary Abstract Horse with Rider Painting 'The Rails' Colourful & Vibrant
By Geoffrey Key
Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
'The Rails' by Geoffrey Key is a striking contemporary painting , making wonderful use of shadow and strong lines to make an uncompromisingly commanding piece. The Horse and rider is...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Peacock Descending A Staircase
By Lisa Ng
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Acrylic on canvas.
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Pulling Bracken - contemporary acrylic painting nature forest birds mushroom
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, Canvas
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
The Lion's Walk - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Corvengi
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Oil on canvas
“Everything that surrounds me affects me. Memories, politics, nature, people, a dry leaf on the ground, music and books.”
Corvengi’s works explore his version of a lo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tim - the Gentle Giant, Elephant, Mixed Media, black and white photography
Located in Munich, DE
Unique Piece / One of a Kind
Joachim is one of the multifaceted artists among Fine Art Photographers and started this style of work already more than 30 years ago. All these pieces ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media, Archival Pigment
"Tortoise and Hare" Contemporary Surrealist Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Surrealist painting of Hare seated on top of a Tortoise in a tall grass landscape.
The Hare is depicted holding a stick with a beetle hanging from it on a string.
The work is signed,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Suspicious Times / Pre-Collapse
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: acrylic, colored pencil, paint pen, Flashe, spray paint on canvas
JENNY DAY is a painter who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She earned an MFA in Painting and Drawing from th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Canvas, Acrylic, Color Pencil
Jouney No. 6 Yellow Rhino, watercolor & charcoal of flying rhinoceros and birds
Located in Dallas, TX
"Jouney No. 6 Yellow Rhino" by OLiver Flores is a whimsical watercolor and charcoal drawing of a flying rhinoceros and flock of birds.
This artwork comes with a white floater frame,...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor, Archival Paper
El León Despierto - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Painting, Oil, Canvas
By Corvengi
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Oil on canvas
“Everything that surrounds me affects me. Memories, politics, nature, people, a dry leaf on the ground, music and books.”
Corvengi’s works explore his version of a l...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Skull", Africa, Elephant, Painting, Photography, Mixed Media, animal
Located in Munich, DE
Unique Piece / One of a Kind
An upper jaw of an Elephant skull. Museum Archival Print on Hahnemühle Laid paper, Photography painted with Drawing Ink, G...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media, Archival Pigment
"Bones", Kenya, Elephant, Painting, Photography, Mixed Media
Located in Munich, DE
Unique Piece / One of a Kind
2 Elephant thighbones. Museum Archival Print on Hahnemühle Laid paper, Photography painted with Drawing Ink, Pigments. Handwritten Songtext by "The hand...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Archival Pigment, Ink, Mixed Media
Ascension, butterflies on blue & silver
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Hunt Slonem, oil on canvas, signed verso in black paint
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Cat-a-Mailman", watercolor, collage, whimsical, landscape, green, blue, clouds
Located in Natick, MA
Alexandra Rozenman’s “Cat-a- Mailman” is a 14 x 17 inch watercolor-collage on paper. In a familiar and comfortable landscape with a soft green field and a dramatic dark blue sky with...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Found Objects, Ink, Paper, Watercolor
Aquarium (Fishs) - naive art, made in red, green, blue, yellow colors
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Aquarium (Fishs) - naive art, primitivism, folk art made in red, green, blue, yellow colors.
Elena Narkevich deliberately chooses naive art, like the famous artists Henri Rousseau an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Walking the Dog on a Sunday Morning in Pueblo, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
This painting was inspired by Warren Keating's view from the riverwalk in Pueblo, Colorado. Using video that he captured with his iPad as reference, he painte...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Underwater Firefighter - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Oil Painting
By Corvengi
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Oil on canvas
“Everything that surrounds me affects me. Memories, politics, nature, people, a dry leaf on the ground, music and books.”
Corvengi’s works explore his version of a los...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Albergue Garden - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Painting, Oil on canvas
By Corvengi
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Oil on canvas
“Everything that surrounds me affects me. Memories, politics, nature, people, a dry leaf on the ground, music and books.”
Corvengi’s works explore his version of a lo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
First Love's Like an Aquarium - 21st Cent, Contemporary, Figurative Oil Painting
By Corvengi
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Oil on canvas
“Everything that surrounds me affects me. Memories, politics, nature, people, a dry leaf on the ground, music and books.”
Corvengi’s works explore his version of a lo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mystery Date, Oil on wood panel, abstract figurative painting, red and black
Located in Dallas, TX
MICHELE MIKESELL
b. 1973, Alabama, USA
In 2002, Michele Mikesell earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts with a minor in graphic design from Texas Women's University in Denton, TX. Mikesel...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Iliad
By Mary Vernon
Located in Dallas, TX
"In the world of still life and landscape, conceptual events meet one another – the structural meets the narrative, the small stands in the space of the large, and color has a chance...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Ink, Oil, Panel
Pollinate Me
Located in New York, NY
Couple / Pair / Love / Pink / Flowers /
“Pollinate Me” is a representational nature painting by Allison Green, depicting a pair of overgrown lotus flowers encircled by bees. Green...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled (Lamb)
By Deborah Grant
Located in New York, NY
Deborah Grant
Untitled, 2002-03
Painting on cardboard,
irregular dimensions,
20 x 24 inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
The Caller
By Will Barnet
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Will Barnet, American (1911 - 2012)
Title: The Caller
Year: 1974 - 1976
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated l.r.
Size: 91.5 x 31.5 in. (232....
Category
1970s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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