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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Pacific Rays - Contemporary Oil Animal Painting, 2023
Located in Boston, MA
Pacific Rays
47.0 x 32.0 x 1.5, 7.0 lbs
Oil Paint
Hand signed by artist
Description:
An original oil painting by Lee Campbell. This contemporary painti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Stranger in My Pond
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original oil painting on linen by artist Veryl Goodnight. Framed.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Split Tusk (Massive Stampede Collection)
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Massive Stampede Collection
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
"Happy Horseshoe" Painting 43" x 51" inch by Alina Shimova
Located in Culver City, CA
"Happy Horseshoe" Painting 43" x 51" inch by Alina Shimova
PURE SOUL series
Shimova cares about the conservation of the fauna. She draws public attention to the problems of animal...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Perched (after Audubon)
By Shelley Reed
Located in Bozeman, MT
Reed borrows visual fragments from predominantly seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Northern European art, citing the artists of these works like a dutiful scholar. She copies and r...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
"Lion & Two White Crows, " Acrylic on Paper signed by Karen Hoepting
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Lion & Two White Crows" is an original acrylic painting on paper mounted on museum foamboard. It depicts a yellow lion and two white crows in front of a deep red background. There i...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
'In Stillness' original oil painting signed by Alayna Rose abstract birds
By Alayna Rose
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"In Stillness" is an original oil painting signed by the American artist Alayna Rose. While most of her work is purely abstract, with built-up layers of brightly colored paint, this ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Target Audience
By Casey Vogt
Located in Bozeman, MT
This is a painting and collage on a panel.
"By placing figures into fantastical landscapes, I allow the viewer a glimpse into what might be reality, or not. This practice allows me ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Resin, House Paint, Panel, Archival Paper
True Love
Located in New York, NY
True Love
2023
Acrylic on canvas
30 x 24 inches
Skasi’s work arises from the belief that we inhabit the final romantic era before humanity's inevitable expansion into space. She for...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Prometheus
Located in New York, NY
Prometheus
2023
Acrylic and oil on canvas
24 x 12 inches
Skasi’s work arises from the belief that we inhabit the final romantic era before humanity's inevitable expansion into space...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Chinese Contemporary Art by Jia Yuan-Hua - On the Cloud No.2
By Jia Yuan-Hua
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas, Framed 40 x 50 x 6 cm
Pandas are regarded as national treasures in China, and there are only about 1000 in the world, which live in China.
They are very well protected. With the progress of society and technology, uncounted historical sites were destroyed and few left. The tower we see in the artwork is based on the Xizhimen Gate. The city gate was demolished in 1969 and replaced by a viaduct. In fact, there were many many different types of old gates around Old Beijing, but 99% has vanished. They need special protection as we protect pandas. The tower use knife...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Anne Wolff, "In the Sunlight", Racing Equine Oil Painting on Canvas
By Anne Wolff
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This equine racing painting "In the Sunlight" by artist Anne Wolff is a 30x24 original oil painting on canvas. This painting is a mix of the artist's use of realism to capture detai...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Chinese Contemporary Art by Jia Yuan-Hua - Dream Builder
By Jia Yuan-Hua
Located in Paris, IDF
Taihu stone plays a very important role in traditional Chinese architecture, especially courtyard design. With the progress of the times, traditional buildings are gradually replaced by modern buildings. The only remaining historical monuments...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Zanni - Acrylic Painting, colourful, tropical, canvas
By Keng Wai Lee
Located in London, GB
Keng Wai Lee is a painter trained to a high level. Keng Wai Lee’s gorgeously rich nature impressions are a synergy of decorative tableaux and depiction in paint on canvas of his memo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Ken (Barbie)
By Mike Piggott
Located in Bozeman, MT
Piggott finds resonance and beauty in the familiar. His subjects, anchored in the stuff of the every day, are quietly captured in a moment of time. Each composition speaks to the art...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Zèbres Complices
By Norma Bessières
Located in Pasadena, CA
Zebra Breath
“Norma Bessières is an artist who, like an animal-orientated Buren, has chosen the zebra as her sole subject.
Why the Zebra? Because its ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Animal Painting 019/1736
By Les Thomas
Located in Bozeman, MT
Les Thomas' animal paintings tend to play with the relationship between culture and nature. The special encaustic wax finish that he applies, he explains, "may very well pertain to m...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Beach Lovers - Clay Wall Art Starfish Sculpture
Located in Mexico City, MX
The two artists and industrial designers, Ampi Arozarena and Elena De La Fuente describe form and color as their core of exploration. They admire the dual identity the two elements c...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Clay, Gesso, Acrylic
Broadtail Hummingbird in Cream with Red and Purple Shapes
By Greg Ragland
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original acrylic painting by artist Greg Ragland. Gallery wrapped canvas.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Tiger - Oil on Canvas by Anastasia Kurakina - 2000s
Located in Roma, IT
Tiger is an original oil painting on canvas, realized in the 2000s by the emerging artist Anastasia Kurakina.
Excellent conditions.
This beautiful artwork represents the face of a ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sheep Mountain Rainbow Deer
By John Defeo
Located in Bozeman, MT
Johnny Defeo’s work belongs to the concept of souvenir, attempting to capture the experiences he has in the natural world, where he feels free and most at home. His paintings and rug...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
French Contemporary Animal Painting by Christine Pultz - Lord of the Arctic
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic on canvas
Christine Pultz is a French animal painter born in 1953 who lives & works in Pontault-Combault, France. Through her passion for painting animals, especially feline...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Indonesian Contemporary Art by Kusbudiyanto - Boy and Friends
By Kusbudiyanto
Located in Paris, IDF
Kusbudiyanto is an Indonesian artist born in 1969 who lives & works in Jogjakarta, Indonesia.
This painting tells the happiness of children travelin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Bellerofonte e la Chimera Oil Painting on Canvas Lion Dragon Mythology In Stock
Located in Utrecht, NL
Bellerofante e la Chimera Oil Painting on Canvas Lion Dragon Mythology In Stock - Size without frame 30 x 40 cm; With frame 42,5 x 52,5 cm
Giovanni Tommasi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Osprey I (after Audubon)
By Shelley Reed
Located in Bozeman, MT
Reed borrows visual fragments from predominantly seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Northern European art, citing the artists of these works like a dutiful scholar. She copies and r...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Perfect day Nicolas Kennett Contemporary painting animal art landscape
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint on wood panel
Unique
Hand-signed on the back by the artist
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"Panther" Figurative Animal Oil painting 39" x 39" inch by Alina Shimova
Located in Culver City, CA
"Panther" Figurative Animal Oil painting 39" x 39" inch by Alina Shimova
PURE SOUL series
Shimova cares about the conservation of the fauna. She draws public attention to the probl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tiger Profil
Located in Pasadena, CA
Florence Cadène’s artwork is like natural history, a sensitive memory in the heart of animal nations, a possible communion between the eyes of humans and all dimensions of life.
Fl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Turkmen Contemporary Art by Amir Kerr - Monogamous
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
All Together
Located in Pasadena, CA
Florence Cadène’s artwork is like natural history, a sensitive memory in the heart of animal nations, a possible communion between the eyes of humans and all dimensions of life.
Flo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Haven
By John Defeo
Located in Bozeman, MT
Johnny Defeo’s work belongs to the concept of souvenir, attempting to capture the experiences he has in the natural world, where he feels free and most at home. His paintings and rug...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
White frogs Zahra Zeinali Contemporary painting Iranian woman artist art animal
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint and charcoal on canvas
Unique work
Hand-signed by the artist
THE IMAGINARY LAND OF ZAHRA ZEINALI
“Over time Zahra Zeinali develops her universe, which evolves slowly ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic
Nachtsneeuw Night Snow Oil Painting on Panel Portrait with Dog In Stock
Located in Utrecht, NL
Nachtsneeuw Night Snow Oil Painting on Panel Portrait with Dog In Stock
Candace Charlton Born in Durban, Natal, 1968 - South Africa Attended ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
The mole hour Nicolas Kennett Contemporary painting insect animal art nature
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint on wood panel
Unique work
Hand-signed on the back by the artist
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Violet Rabbit_2023, America Martin_Oil/Acrylic/Canvas_Animal Portrait_Pastel
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin
"Violet Rabbit"
Oil & Acrylic on Canvas
12 x 12 in. ; 13.75 x 13.75 in. Framed
______________
Exploring the identity of both her namesake and country, LA-based Americ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Mapping the Edges
By Jenny Day
Located in Bozeman, MT
Jenny Day (b.1981) is a painter and sculptor who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She earned an MFA in Painting from the University of Arizona, a BFA in Painting from the University of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic, Vinyl, Pen, Color Pencil
Louise - contemporary mixed media colorful hummingbird flowers framed 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, 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
Materials
Gold Leaf
TEXAS LONGHORN YEARLING - Realism / Animal / Cattle / Cow / Farm Animal
Located in New York, NY
Patricia Traub (b. 1947, Allentown, PA) is a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the York Academy of the Arts. She continued her studies in Paris at the Académi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Majestic
Located in Pasadena, CA
Florence Cadène’s artwork is like natural history, a sensitive memory in the heart of animal nations, a possible communion between the eyes of humans and all dimensions of life.
Fl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Fun", Comic Animals Modern Pop Art Painting, Cow & Bird Tree, In Stock
By Wang ZhiWu
Located in Kuala Lumpur, MY
Lei Lei 雷磊
1982 China
Lei Lei’s sculptures appeal the artist‘s strong personality. He creates a beauty of silence with a pure sculpture language. Buddha figures in caves inspired ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fiber wall hanging: 'The Masks We Wear Series, Horse'
By Gin Stone
Located in New York, NY
Environmental Advocacy
"I will inhale smoke and exhale butterflies"
This quote, gleaned from a dream, encapsulates my need to take man’s pollution of this world and transform it into...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Thread, Mixed Media
Helios II - Finch Bird in Flight with Gold Sun: Oil on Canvas
By Mike Ellis
Located in London, GB
Mike Ellis:
“My childhood in Norfolk, watching and rescuing birds and animals, collecting bones and digging up skulls, led to a continued fascination with the fragile and fleeting na...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cultured Garden or Raging WIlderness (You Can't have it Both Ways)
By Adonna Khare
Located in Bozeman, MT
Robert McCauley was born and raised in Mt. Vernon, Washington. He graduated from Western Washington University in 1969, and received his Master of Fine Arts Degree from Washington St...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Carvallo Oil Painting on Canvas Horse Armour Rome In Stock
Located in Utrecht, NL
Carvallo Oil Painting on Canvas Horse Armour Rome In Stock
Giovanni Tommasi Ferroni (1967, Rome) descended from an artistic Tuscan family. His grandfather...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pluck
Located in Bozeman, MT
"Nature is my muse. Animals are losing their habitat and they are, at the very least, confronted by or threatened by all of our discards. Though the birds in my paintings are not vic...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Insektum 119 - XXI century, Oil colourful painting, Insects, Abstraction
By Dana Buchel
Located in Warsaw, PL
Oil on canvas by Dana Buchel (born in 1970 in Poland)
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Korean Art - Fantasy Jejuisland-Island Girl Story Chun-Ja’s Journey Of Happiness
Located in Paris, IDF
Artwork framed - white & wooden frame
Shin Seung-Hun is a South-Korean artist born in 1979 who lives & works in Jeju Island, Korea. He is considered by critics as the new Korean...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Cape Town Cafe - Contemporary and mystic city scene, Oil on canvas
Located in Dallas, TX
Gian Marco Capraro presents his latest urban life paintings. These present a vibrant scene with a combination of architectural perspective, city life and a dynamic out of focus style...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Lion Cub
Located in Pasadena, CA
Florence Cadène’s artwork is like a natural history, a sensitive memory in the heart of animal nations, a possible communion between the eyes of humans and all dimensions of life.
...
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
Chinese Contemporary Art by Jia Yuan-Hua - In Landscape
By Jia Yuan-Hua
Located in Paris, IDF
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 panda...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
She Stayed A While and Then Flew On
Located in Bozeman, MT
This is an unframed original painting on wood panel with painted edges.
Artist Statement:
My interest is in creating a permanent record of the impermanence of our world. In consid...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Panel, Graphite, Oil
Surreal Painting, "Embrace Your Inner Child" 2024
Located in San Diego, CA
This is an original Oil on Canvas painting by Charlene Mosley. A certificate of authenticity will follow delivery.
Charlene Mosley’s current work discusses the importance of the ba...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fish Study, painting, Reverse painting on glass gold leaf, oil, cobalt, water
Located in Riverdale, NY
Fish Study by Hawaii artist Carol Bennett is a reverse painting on glass artwork. It is Oil, Varnish, Gold Leaf and powdered Cobalt. It is 9x12.
Carol Bennett's artwork is a meditative journey through both the water and through life. She is one of the few artists to truly capture what it's like to be in and moving and swimming through the water.
For Carol, the act of swimming underwater is similar to the process of painting. Her approach results in multi-layered surfaces that are intricate and textured and unexpected. She is constantly experimenting with her pieces: adding, subtracting, sanding. When she is not painting Swimmers, she is capturing the fish surrounding her.
She has created over 100 large public and corporate commissions internationally, and is in private collections around the world. Carol Bennett was recently currently featured in two exhibits at the Honolulu Museum of Art. Networking and Water: Carol Bennett featuring female swimmers, as well as marine nets floating or submerged in water. Bennett was also part of the group exhibit Making Waves highlighting the important role of women artists in the museum’s contemporary collection. In this show, the works by international and Hawaii-based artists all have a relationship to water. Featured artists also included: April Gornik, Agnes Martin, Judy Pfaff, Kiki Smith and Pat Steir!
Elisa Contemporary Art...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Chinese Contemporary Art by Jia Yuan-Hua - Float
By Jia Yuan-Hua
Located in Paris, IDF
Pandas are regarded as national treasures in China, and there are only about 1000 in the world, which live in China.They are very well protected. With the progress of society and tec...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Coral Reef. Elegant Watercolor Painting Ideal for Beach Homes
Located in Mexico City, MX
The two artists and industrial designers, Ampi Arozarena and Elena De La Fuente describe form and color as their core of exploration. They admire the dual identity the two elements create in their works of art. They are driven by the optical and physical sensation materials become on their unique canvasses. This artwork´s unique and neutral colors make it easy to blend perfectly well in any surrounding.
Be sure to check out the other 23 outstanding ocean animal paintings of this series done with the same technique. They are ideal for collage format placement on walls.
Mexican Contemporary Art...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Mystic Lagoon
By John Defeo
Located in Bozeman, MT
Johnny Defeo’s work belongs to the concept of souvenir, attempting to capture the experiences he has in the natural world, where he feels free and most at home. His paintings and rug...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Lost without you
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
JENNY DAY 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 U...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic, Color Pencil
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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