Contemporary 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.
Find a collection of Contemporary prints, photography, paintings, sculptures and other art on 1stDibs.
Style: Contemporary
Color: Black
Dimitri Likissas - Crying Eye #1
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Pop
Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas
I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up that image shown. You will notice that in my...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Dimitri Likissas - Crying Eye #3
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Pop
Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas
I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up that image shown. You will notice that in my...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Dimitri Likissas - Kinda Like a Big Deal
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Figurative
Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas
I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up that image shown. You will notice tha...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Dimitri Likissas - Who's Really in Charge?
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Figurative
Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas
I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up that image shown. You will notice tha...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Dimitri Likissas - Candy Modulations #6
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Abstract
Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas
I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up that image shown. You will notice that ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Dimitri Likissas - Enchant Your Senses
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Abstract
Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas
I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up that image shown. You will notice that ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Country Home
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
"Country Home" is by an up and coming Romanian painter named Stefan Mocanu. He finds the incredible in the everyday and transforms it into a pictorial joy. His use of thick paint...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Italian Contemporary Art by Andrea Vandoni - The Reading
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Andrea Vandoni is an Italian artist born in 1972 who lives and works in Novara, Italy. The artist studied and trained at the School of the Archaeologists and the Scho...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A girl with a paddle, 50x50cm
Located in Yerevan, AM
A girl with a paddle, 50x50cm
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'The Queen' 21st Century Contemporary Figurative Abstract Painting by F. Willis
Located in Carmel, CA
In 'The Queen,' Frida Willis presents a sister piece to her 'Madame,' delving once again into the realm of contemporary figurative abstraction. This capti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Contemporary Chinese Art by Liu Xiaodong - Running Clown
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Liu Xiaodong is a Chinese artist born in Inner Mongolia in 1968 who lives and works in Beijing, China. He graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Inner Mongolia...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Summer Bouquet Flowers Still Life Vase Colours Nature In Stock
By Juane Xue
Located in Utrecht, NL
Summer Bouquet Flowers Still Life Vase Colours Nature In Stock
Juane Xue (Hui Xue, Kaiffeng, China, 1962) has been drawing since her childhood.
This helped her to go to the Univers...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Eye, 100x70cm
Located in Yerevan, AM
Eye, 100x70cm
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A walk. Surrealistic, Fantasy Oil Painting on Board, Polish art
By Monika Rossa
Located in Warsaw, PL
Figurative oil on board painting by Polish artist living in the USA, Monika Rossa. Artwork depicts wide variety of fantastical creatures in a abstract landscape. Scene takes place du...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Pierrot. Surrealistic, Fantasy Oil Painting on Board, Polish art
By Monika Rossa
Located in Warsaw, PL
Figurative oil on board painting by Polish artist living in the USA, Monika Rossa. Artwork depicts wide variety of fantastical creatures on a black background. Scene takes place at n...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Stilleven met Nautilus Schelp Still Life Oil Painting on Canvas Shell In Stock
Located in Utrecht, NL
Stilleven met Nautilus Schelp Still Life Oil Painting on Canvas Shell In Stock
Born in Den Helder, The Netherlands in 1976. Victor Muller is a young arti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Contemporary Chinese Art by Liu Xiaodong - Untitled
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Liu Xiaodong is a Chinese artist born in Inner Mongolia in 1968 who lives and works in Beijing, China. He graduated from the Oil Painting ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Contemporary Art by Karine Bartoli - Arone 18h00
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Karine Bartoli was born in 1971 in Ajaccio. She enrolled at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Marseille where she graduated in 1997. Since then she has ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Italian Contemporary Art by Andrea Vandoni - Madonna Che Allatta Il Bambino
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Andrea Vandoni is an Italian artist born in 1972 who lives and works in Novara, Italy. The artist studied and trained at the School of the Archaeologists and the Schoo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Dog’ Minimalist Acrylic On Canvas Contemporary Original Painting by Devie
Located in Carmel, CA
“Devie, a true virtuoso of minimalism, unveils a masterpiece that captures the essence of elegance and emotion through the most unassuming of forms. In her latest creation, a minimal...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Bush Seeds
Located in Miami, FL
Kathleen (or Kweyetwemp in her Eastern Anmatyerre tongue) Petyarre was born c. 1940 at Atnangkere on Utopia Station, 270km north east of Alice Springs. She first encountered white ma...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Linen
Italian Contemporary Art by Andrea Vandoni - Coffee and Cigarette 7
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic on canvas
Andrea Vandoni is an Italian artist born in 1972 who lives and works in Novara, Italy. The artist studied and trained at the School of the Archaeologists and the ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Dark Forest - Expressionism, Underwater Sea Landscape, Seascape, Abstract
Located in Salzburg, AT
As a graduate of the Art Academy Utrecht (Hogeschool voor de Kunsten), Justyna has specialized in painting. Justyna’s paintings push the boundaries between abstraction and representa...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The Hug
Located in BARCELONA, ES
A lo largo de sus años de experimentación, Cesc Abad (Barcelona, 1973) ha desarrollado un interés especial por el hombre y su relación y efecto sobre la naturaleza. Después de años d...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tommy
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Tommy
Date: 2023
Medium: Oil on Wood
Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8.5"
Framed Dimensions: 17" x 15"
Signature: Signed
Edition: Unique
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Italian Contemporary Art by Andrea Vandoni - They Work
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Andrea Vandoni is an Italian artist born in 1972 who lives and works in Novara, Italy. The artist studied and trained at the School of the Archaeologists ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Oil
Untitled (Jazz Scene) - Charlie Mackesy, Original Pastel, Musician, Instruments
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
Untitled (Jazz Scene) is an original Charcoal & pastel drawing on paper by British artist Charlie Mackesy. Mackesy's clever work and style here give us a glimpse into this intimate &...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel
Israeli Contemporary Art by Dondi Schwartz - Jerusalem Hills
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Dondi Schwartz is an Israeli artist born in Canada in 1961 who lives and works in the Kibbutz Beeri, Negev, Israel. Schwartz studied art at the Avni School of Arts in...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Spontaneity, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
I love to create multi-figure compositions, with interlaced human figures, with interplay, interactions and transformations of human forms, with people dancing in a weightless and bo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Contemporary Chinese Art by Liu Xiaodong - Blue
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Liu Xiaodong is a Chinese artist born in Inner Mongolia in 1968 who lives and works in Beijing, China. He graduated from the Oil Painting ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Devourer - Paint by Kevin Abanto - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
Devourer, a masterpiece that beckons from the interstice of shadows and brilliance. An opulent chiaroscuro symphony, it ensnares the viewer with its kaleidoscope of enigmatic chiarit...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
lonely man, 120x100cm
Located in Yerevan, AM
lonely man, 120x100cm
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Saint-Cloud" Oil Painting 16" x 24" inch by Evgeniya Buravleva
Located in Culver City, CA
"Saint-Cloud" Oil Painting 16" x 24" inch by Evgeniya Buravleva
Evgeniya Buravleva was born in Kirov (Russia) in 1980.
2000 – graduated from the Rylov Art School of Vyatka.
2008 – g...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Cardboard
Untitled
Located in Miami, FL
Miguel Padura
Cuban Artist
Latin American Artist
“Untitled” 2020
Watercolor on paper
30 x 22 in
Signed by the artist at the bottom of the dress
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
Contemporary Chinese Art by Liu Xiaodong - Joyful
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Liu Xiaodong is a Chinese artist born in Inner Mongolia in 1968 who lives and works in Beijing, China. He graduated from the Oil Painting ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Contemporary Chinese Art by Liu Xiaodong - Green Shadow
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Liu Xiaodong is a Chinese artist born in Inner Mongolia in 1968 who lives and works in Beijing, China. He graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Inner Mongolia...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
''Earrings'' Dutch Contemporary Portrait Painting of a Girl with Earrings
Located in Utrecht, NL
Children play the leading role in Edith Snoek's work, and they are a recurring element in almost all of her paintings. Her captivating ''girls'' hang in ma...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Space - black blue contemporary modern abstract sculpture painting relief
Located in Doetinchem, NL
Space is a unique contemporary modern sculpture painting by Dutch artist Michiel Jansen. This wall relief is made from dozens of indivually cut strips of pure grey black slate. First...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Slate
Blue Tyger, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
In a golden jungle, a blue tiger roams, His stripes like sapphires, his gaze like ore, Wild and free, he rules the land, A wondrous sight, to see so grand. Oil and Gold Leaf o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Contemporary Chinese Art by Liu Xiaodong - Partner
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Liu Xiaodong is a Chinese artist born in Inner Mongolia in 1968 who lives and works in Beijing, China. He graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Inner Mongolia...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Contemporary Chinese Art by Liu Xiaodong - Awkward 2
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Liu Xiaodong is a Chinese artist born in Inner Mongolia in 1968 who lives and works in Beijing, China. He graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Inner Mongolia...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Contemporary Chinese Art by Liu Xiaodong - Awkward
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Liu Xiaodong is a Chinese artist born in Inner Mongolia in 1968 who lives and works in Beijing, China. He graduated from the Oil Painting ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Italian Contemporary Art by Andrea Vandoni - The Coffee 2
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Andrea Vandoni is an Italian artist born in 1972 who lives and works in Novara, Italy. The artist studied and trained at the School of the Archaeologists and the Scho...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Contemporary Chinese Art by Liu Xiaodong - Taichi
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Liu Xiaodong is a Chinese artist born in Inner Mongolia in 1968 who lives and works in Beijing, China. He graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Inner Mongolia...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Contemporary Chinese Art by Liu Xiaodong - Shelved Makeup
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Liu Xiaodong is a Chinese artist born in Inner Mongolia in 1968 who lives and works in Beijing, China. He graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Inner Mongolia...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Contemporary Chinese Art by Liu Xiaodong - Doubt
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Liu Xiaodong is a Chinese artist born in Inner Mongolia in 1968 who lives and works in Beijing, China. He graduated from the Oil Painting ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Contemporary Chinese Art by Liu Xiaodong - The Past
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Liu Xiaodong is a Chinese artist born in Inner Mongolia in 1968 who lives and works in Beijing, China. He graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Inner Mongolia...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Contemporary Chinese Art by Liu Xiaodong - Warhol
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Liu Xiaodong is a Chinese artist born in Inner Mongolia in 1968 who lives and works in Beijing, China. He graduated from the Oil Painting ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Italian Contemporary Art by Andrea Vandoni - Coffee and Cigarette 6
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic on canvas
Andrea Vandoni is an Italian artist born in 1972 who lives and works in Novara, Italy. The artist studied and trained at the School of the Archaeologists and the ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Israeli Contemporary Art by Dondi Schwartz - She
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Dondi Schwartz is an Israeli artist born in Canada in 1961 who lives and works in the Kibbutz Beeri, Negev, Israel. Schwartz studied art at the Avni School of Arts in...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Italian Contemporary Art by Andrea Vandoni - Indifferent Objects 4
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Andrea Vandoni is an Italian artist born in 1972 who lives and works in Novara, Italy. The artist studied and trained at the School of the Archaeologists and the Schoo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Contemporary Chinese Art by Liu Xiaodong - Echo Rocky
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Liu Xiaodong is a Chinese artist born in Inner Mongolia in 1968 who lives and works in Beijing, China. He graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Inner Mongolia...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Italian Contemporary Art by Andrea Vandoni - Piedmont, Italy 3
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Andrea Vandoni is an Italian artist born in 1972 who lives and works in Novara, Italy. The artist studied and trained at the School of the Archaeologists and the Scho...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Contemporary Chinese Art by Liu Xiaodong - Awkward 3
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Liu Xiaodong is a Chinese artist born in Inner Mongolia in 1968 who lives and works in Beijing, China. He graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Inner Mongolia...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
''Home'' Dutch Contemporary Portrait Painting of a Girl in Front of a House
Located in Utrecht, NL
Children play the leading role in Edith Snoek's work, and they are a recurring element in almost all of her paintings. Her captivating ''girls'' hang in ma...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Crown, 140x100cm
Located in Yerevan, AM
Crown, 140x100cm
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Toro I, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Elena Done
Located in Yardley, PA
Toros & Toreros Dignity, Pride, Masculinity and Passion After all I live in Andalucia, Spain :: Painting :: Contemporary :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authent...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Contemporary Chinese Art by Liu Xiaodong - Swordman
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Liu Xiaodong is a Chinese artist born in Inner Mongolia in 1968 who lives and works in Beijing, China. He graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Inner Mongolia...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Contemporary paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Contemporary Paintings>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 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, purple, red, orange and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Hunt Slonem, Steven Miller, Howard Tangye, and Irena Orlov. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Fabric 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 paintings, so small editions measuring 0.75 inches across are also available.
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