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
The Visitor
Located in Bozeman, MT
For the last 10 years Travis Walker has made landscape paintings about Jackson Hole, a place that never ceases to inspire him to pick up his brushes. He works on location, capturing ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Omenoni - 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
$2,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Indonesian Contemporary Art by Kusbudiyanto - Trip to the Zoo
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 traveling to the zoo. Happiness can be se...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
$2,400 Sale Price
20% Off
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
Red Rhino - contemporary oil on canvas, animal painting colorful and playful
Located in Dallas, TX
This is a beautiful and colorful Red Rhino oil painting on a thick (2.5 inch) canvas.
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
$1,440 Sale Price
20% Off
Virtus - 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
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
Acrylic, Canvas
$2,160 Sale Price
20% Off
The leader
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
Portrait of a lion
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Indonesian Contemporary Art by Kusbudiyanto - Paradise Islands
By Kusbudiyanto
Located in Paris, IDF
Kusbudiyanto is an Indonesian artist born in 1969 who lives & works in Jogjakarta, Indonesia.
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
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
Preening Crane
By Ewoud de Groot
Located in Bozeman, MT
Ewoud de Groot lives and works in Egmond aan Zee, a coastal village in the north of the Netherlands. Born in 1969 in Alkmarr, he attended the Minerva Academy of Art, and received a degree in illustration and painting. After illustrating nature books...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Georgian Contemporary Art by Teona Yamanidze - Natural Predators in Captivity
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Refugees" contemporary surrealist painting moose, wolverine, beaver on sailboat
Located in New York, NY
40"x60" large scale watercolor on paper, featuring a moose, beaver, wolverine, cardinal and raven on a distressed sailboat, whose sail is mended with colorful blue checkered and red polka dot quilted fabric. A telescope stands...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Missouri No. 3
Located in Columbia, MO
Joel D. Sager (b. 1980) is a contemporary American painter of landscapes, still-life and portraiture. Often drawing on such standard subject matter with economy and singularity— a so...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Fixed Belief
Located in Columbia, MO
Metra Mitchell holds a BFA in Painting and minor in Art History from Western Kentucky University and an MFA in Painting from Fontbonne University. She has taught studio and art histo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
On Wind and Stone - Contemporary Sea Birds & Coastal Landscape
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 l...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
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
Acrylic, Canvas
CAPTIVE FEMALE AMUR LEOPARD - Realism / Endangered Animal / Conservation
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting by Patricia Traub.
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 continu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Chinese Contemporary Art by Jia Yuan-Hua - Cheerful Morning
By Jia Yuan-Hua
Located in Paris, IDF
Artwork framed: 52 x 47,5 x 5 cm
This artwork shows a part of the Garden of the Forbidden City in Beijing. The birds are flying, playing and singing in the morning. The bridge use knife...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$2,320 Sale Price
20% Off
Pink and Blue Ostrich on Off White
Located in Napa, CA
Josh Brown has had a lifetime interest in creating art, most notably through his depiction of animals. He swiftly captures the mood of his subjects and brings the personality of each...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Elephant in the Room II - hot pink elephant, smoke on paper, contemporary frame
By Rob Tarbell
Located in Dallas, TX
Elephant in the Room II - smoke on paper, framed on a contemporary box frame - all archival materials.
Artwork size: 32x32 inches
Frame size: 36x3...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
$1,760 Sale Price
20% Off
A Riders Shadow
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
Chinese Contemporary Art by Jia Yuan-Hua - Seascape
By Jia Yuan-Hua
Located in Paris, IDF
Artwork framed: 75 x 65 x 5,5 cm
The panda is regarded as the national treasure of China. There are only about 1,000 in the world. All live in China. They are very well protected. W...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$4,160 Sale Price
20% Off
By the Wild Air - Contemporary semi abstract 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 l...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Nocturne 7
Located in Bozeman, MT
Formalism collides with a punk rock, folk art sensibility in his pop culture mash-ups that explore the liminal space between the natural and built environment. The animal kingdom acts as our proxy. His paintings are noticeably devoid of the human figure, replaced by a colorful bestiary cavorting in landscapes that echo speculative fiction...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Chase
Located in Bozeman, MT
Formalism collides with a punk rock, folk art sensibility in his pop culture mash-ups that explore the liminal space between the natural and built environment. The animal kingdom act...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Journey to the Center of Myself
By Luis Sanchez
Located in West Hollywood, CA
This 39.5" x 38.5" x 3" painting on canvas wrapped on wood panel is amazing in its detail and surrealistic nature. The beautiful figure with three arms in a unique position is juxtap...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Wood Panel
All Your Answers Questioned
Located in Bozeman, MT
My interest is in creating a permanent record of the impermanence of our world. In considering the exquisiteness of a moment shared, of a new connection, a new thought, an old memory...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Panel, Graphite
Indonesian Contemporary Art by Kusbudiyanto - Mother of Life
By Kusbudiyanto
Located in Paris, IDF
Kusbudiyanto is an Indonesian artist born in 1969 who lives & works in Jogjakarta, Indonesia.
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
$1,600 Sale Price
20% Off
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
$1,800 Sale Price
62% Off
Pretty Paint
Located in Bozeman, MT
This is an oil painting single paint pony standing with its head lowered. It's body is positioned at a three-quarter view. The white and tan horse stand...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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
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
Four Fiber Wall Hangings: 'The Masks We Wear Series, Tiger, Teddy, Owl, 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
Jar of moonlight
By Todd Horton
Located in Bozeman, MT
Todd Horton lives and paints full time on Samish Island, Washington. His work involves landscape and wildlife with elements of chance that play between realism and abstraction.
His ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The wind of change Timothy Archer 21st Century Contemporary painting bird blue
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint on canvas
Signed lower right by the artist
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Precarious Mimicry
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
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
Acrylic, Canvas
$2,400 Sale Price
31% Off
Animal Painting 019/1638
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
Darien - Acrylic Painting, Bird, Wildlife, colourful, tropical, canvas
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
Canvas, Acrylic
To Go Outwards, Go Inwards
By Luis Sanchez
Located in West Hollywood, CA
This 60" x 60" x 3" painting on canvas wrapped on wood panel is amazing in its detail and surrealistic nature. The beautiful figure with three arms in a unique position is juxtaposed...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Free (After the Black Stallion)
Located in Bozeman, MT
For the last 10 years Travis Walker has made landscape paintings about Jackson Hole, a place that never ceases to inspire him to pick up his brushes. He works on location, capturing the essence of the seemingly mundane scenes around town: an old salon, a decaying house with a fence made of skis, a vintage...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The return of the psychopomp spirits Timothy Archer 21st Century painting nature
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint on canvas
Signed lower left
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Stag III (After Landseer)
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
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
Chinese Contemporary Art by Jia Yuan-Hua - Sightseeing No.4
By Jia Yuan-Hua
Located in Paris, IDF
Paris Eiffel Tower is well known in the world. Therefore, tens of millions of tourists from all over the world come to visit it every year. As a carrier of history and culture, many ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$2,640 Sale Price
42% Off
White Rustic Farmhouse Horse Oil Painting on Canvas 50Hx72W Horse Portrait Art
By Irena Orlov
Located in Sherman Oaks, CA
White Rustic Farmhouse Horse Oil 50H x 72W"
Unstretched (Rolled) Canvas.
Stretching is free upon Request.
Artist Irena Orlov. Signed
Certificate for authenticity.
Irena Orlov is...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
$12,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Diptych of Summer Sparrow and Flycatcher Canary, original paintings, Spring
Located in Deddington, GB
Summer Sparrow - This vibrant summer piece was inspired by the colours of the floral borders at Hampton Court Palace. A Sparrow sits for a moment - amid a riot of greens, pinks and y...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Fly Free", Colorful Contemporary Butterfly Mixed Media Painting on Canvas
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This abstract figurative painting, "Fly Free" by artist Gabrielle Benot is a 36x36 original mixed media painting on canvas. Depicted is a colorful abstract portrait of a butterfly w...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
$6,360 Sale Price
20% Off
La Signora - 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
The green dream Zahra Zeinali Contemporary painting Iranian artist art animal
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint 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 according to ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Korean Art - Fantasy Jejuisland, Island Girl Story Chun-Ja Healing Garden
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
Acrylic, Canvas
Turkmen Contemporary Art by Amir Kerr - Inevitable Triangle
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
Oil, Canvas
$5,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Brian Leo 'Crisco Saves'
By Brian Leo
Located in New York, NY
Brian Leo
Cookie
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 Rutgers’ Ma...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Acrylic Figurative Painting: "Empires Crumble”
By Stephen Hall
Located in New York, NY
Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, Stephen Hall moved to New York in 1978 and began exhibiting his work in the East Village in the early 80’s. Since then his work has been featured in exhib...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
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
Acrylic, Canvas
Turkmen Contemporary Art by Amir Kerr - Wrong Teleport
By Amir Kerr
Located in Paris, IDF
With the seemingly pleasant surroundings, do not allow yourself to be “fed” with the pretense of human-like personalities. Be there where there is more sincerity and less compromises...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$1,600 Sale Price
20% Off
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
Innamorati - 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
Meaning & Nothingness #3
By Casey Vogt
Located in Bozeman, MT
This is a painting and collage on a circular panel.
"By placing figures into fantastical landscapes, I allow the viewer a glimpse into what might be reality, or not. This practice a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
House Paint, Panel, Archival Paper
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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