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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.

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Style: Contemporary
Color:  Brown
Pink Sky Neutra House, Original painting, Architect, Contemporary, Hockney style
Located in Deddington, GB
This is a painting from my series of architecural paintings. In this particular painting I have played with colour by adding a striking cinematic pink sky which contrasts against a t...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Spun the thread in grey
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Acrylic
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

'Reclining Nude - Resting Nude Large Contemporary Abstract Oil On Wood
Located in Carmel, CA
'Reclining Nude' is a captivating 28" x 65" oil on wood creation by artist Kristy Chettle, embodying the abstract figurative realm with a masterful interplay of color and form. Throu...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Wood, Oil

Players
Located in Bayonne, NJ
This is an oil on Belgian linen painting by a Ukrainian-American artist, Valeriy Skrypka. Numbered by the artist 1156. A label from Joan Perkes Fine Art gallery on the back. Skrypka ...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil

Dogon by Christophe Dupety - Female Nude Painting, Contemporary
Located in Paris, FR
Dogon (2018) by French contemporary artist Christophe Dupety. Oil on canvas, 55 x 46 cm. In his Human Figures series, Christophe Dupety shows us some bodies which aspect reminds more...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Fayoum Studio 1" Oil Painting 35" x 39" inch by Mohamed Abla
Located in Culver City, CA
"Fayoum Studio 1" Oil Painting 24" x 32" inch by Mohamed Abla Mohamed Abla was born in Mansoura (North of Egypt) in 1953. There he spent his childhood and finished school. In 1973 h...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Modern Indian Art Madras, Painting on canvas, Couple, Abstraction, India
Located in Norfolk, GB
Part of the history of Modern Art in India, this striking painting 'Couple' is by noted seminal artist R B Bhaskaran. The artist’s work plays with the ge...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Canvas

Constant Craving - vibrant, impasto, abstract expressionist, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
American artist Adam Cohen’s abstract work is colourful and simply luscious. The New York based artist creates work alive with the grand gestural influences of the abstract expressi...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Melancholia - Based on Albrecht Dürer, Modern Interpretation, Oil on Panel
Located in Chicago, IL
This painting, inspired by Albrecht Durer's "Melancholia 1," was done during the COVID Pandemic and the last year of the Trump presidency. Hopes for the ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

La-La Tempesta - Modern Interpretation of Giorgione's Renaissance Painting
Located in Chicago, IL
Lamenting the lack of clear queer imagery in Renaissance painting I decided to paint a Gay version of "La Tempesta" by Giorgione. The small creature in the for...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Panel, Oil

Do Dolls Have Emotions? (#2) by Zoran Šimunović - Large framed painting, pink
Located in Paris, FR
Oil on canvas painting by Croatian artist Zoran Šimunović from the series DO DOLLS HAVE EMOTIONS? The artwork is sold framed. Dimensions of the framed ...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Nero - Modern Portrait of Roman Emperor, Framed, Oil on Panel
Located in Chicago, IL
The fifth emperor of Rome, Nero was the last in the Julio-Claudian dynasty line of emperors following his suicide. Nero was popular with the lower-class Roman citizens during his tim...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Panel, Oil

Seasonal Subconscious - bold, impasto, abstract expressionist, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Bold striations cut through an impasto of gold, white and sapphire in this intimately sized acrylic by New York -based painter Adam Cohen. Cohen intersects the language of Abstract E...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Peonies in White Light - Oil Painting with 12K White Gold Leaf, Blond Female
Located in Chicago, IL
The blond figure, along with the floating peonies, combine to explore the dynamic between the eternal and the temporal, as well as our own relationship with nature. The gold leaf adds a three-dimensional softness as well as a glow upon which the female figure floats. Her skin is seductively painted; her teal dress falls off her shoulder; white peonies float by; the scene is set for a dreamy visual feast. The painting is framed in a gilt frame. Michael Van Zeyl Peonies in White Light oil and 12K gold leaf on linen wrapped panel 24h x 36w in 60.96h x 91.44w cm EDUCATION 1987-1990 American Academy of Art, Chicago, IL 1999-2000 American Academy of Art, Chicago, IL - Life Drawing & Oil Painting Palette & Chisel Academy, Chicago, IL - Painting & Life Drawing Art Students League, New York, NY - Painting EXHIBITIONS 2017 “Anne Harris...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Gold Leaf

Lets Sing Together : Enchanting Chorus
Located in PARIS, FR
2010, Unique Artwork Oil on Canvas 49 1/5 × 50 4/5 in - 125 × 130 cm The artwork and signed by the Artist on verso of the canvas & stamped with the logo of the Studio of the Artist o...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil

Watch me! -21st Century Oil Painting of a Nude Boy watching you in his Mirror
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
This painting is made by Dutch artist/painter David van der Linden. Painted with oilpaint on canvas. David van der Linden studied at the Academ...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Indian Afternoon, Warm Abstract Painting, Vibrant Indian Architecture
Located in Deddington, GB
Discover more original artwork by Janet Keith with Wychwood Art online and in our gallery. The colours used in the painting – particularly the rich, glowing orange and hints of green...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Board

Grandview Farm Barn, Stowe, Vermont, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Grandview Farm's barn is over 100 years old, and one of Stowe's best known landmarks. This rendering captures the late summer colors of the rolling hills, the ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil

Sunday Best
Located in Bonn, NW
Original painting. Acrylic and paper on high quality canvas stretcher. Finished off with a soft glossy varnish. 70 x 90 cm 27.5 x 35.4". The sides are painted and it’s ready to hang...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Parchment Paper, Acrylic

Adele Riley, Finding Tranquility, Contemporary Art, Affordable Original Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Finding Tranquility [2021] Original Landscape Acrylic and acrylic inks Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:61 cm x W:61 cm x D:4cm Frame Size: H:65 cm x W:65 cm x D:5cm Sold Framed Ple...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Mwnt - Contemporary Rural Landscape: Framed Acrylic Painting
Located in London, GB
Much of Sian's inspiration comes directly from the places where she loves to spend time; outdoors enjoying the coastline and mountains of Wales and South East England. The paintings ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Board

Woman with Red Headdress - Bright Colour Portrait, Women, Texture, Face
Located in London, GB
Nicolle was born in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia as it was then) and grew up in Africa and then travelled the world for some years before settling in the Uk. “My love of colour stems from my ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Chalk, Acrylic

Woman with Pale Blue Shawl - Bright Colour Portrait, Women, Texture, Face
Located in London, GB
Nicolle was born in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia as it was then) and grew up in Africa and then travelled the world for some years before settling in the Uk. “My love of colour stems from my ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Chalk, Acrylic

Woman with Pink Headdress - Bright Colour Portrait, Women, Texture, Face
Located in London, GB
Nicolle was born in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia as it was then) and grew up in Africa and then travelled the world for some years before settling in the Uk. “My love of colour stems from my ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Chalk, Acrylic

Rosas
Located in New Rochelle, NY
Olga Cairols is a Spanish artist with more than 35 years of career. Olga studied Art History and Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona. She has a bachelors degree in Design, Art ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

"PB&J stacked sandwiches" Original Oil Painting 18 in x 18 in
Located in Boca Raton, FL
“PB&J Stack” 2018 Oil on 2” deep Panel 18 in x 18 in In the genre of Contemporary realism, this original oil painting of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches conjures memories of chi...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil

Clavier, Olive Trees - Jos Leurs, 21st Century Contemporary by Dutch Artist
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Jos Leurs Clavier, Olive Trees 40 x 50 cm with frame ( included in price) 45 x 55 cm acrylic on canvas Jos Leurs is a Dutch Impressionistic Plein Air Painte...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil

Golden Fields, Original Painting, Hills, Landscape, Fields, Orange, Rural Nature
Located in Deddington, GB
Yellow Fields no.3 is an original oil painting by artist Alexa Roscoe. In this bold and vibrant painting. Alexa has captured a depth of view of the fields framed by the strong dark l...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Henry's Lake
Located in Mill Valley, CA
Kristen Garneau lives here in Northern California and has spent a lifetime with the inspiration that comes from ever-changing beautiful landscape – forest, mountain and ocean. Her co...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Monster Shell
Located in New Rochelle, NY
Daniel Tavares considers his oil paintings part drawing and part painting. His artwork is a visual synthesis of his life experiences reflecting the influence of comic books - which ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

David the King of Psalms
Located in New Rochelle, NY
Daniel Tavares considers his oil paintings part drawing and part painting. His artwork is a visual synthesis of his life experiences reflecting the influence of comic books - which ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Gondolier, Venice - contemporary landscape colourful mixed media painting
Located in London, GB
Entirely self-taught, Ellie is mainly known for her vibrantly coloured townscapes, though in recent years, she has gone on to develop her art to include more figurative work, focusin...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Objects nº1
Located in New Rochelle, NY
Daniel Tavares considers his oil paintings part drawing and part painting. His artwork is a visual synthesis of his life experiences reflecting the influence of comic books - which ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Marvelous Fishery
Located in New Rochelle, NY
Daniel Tavares considers his oil paintings part drawing and part painting. His artwork is a visual synthesis of his life experiences reflecting the influence of comic books - which ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Two male Nudes. Painting.Pastel, carbon pencil, ink on archival paper mounted
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Two Nudes, 2016 by Celso Castro-Daza One of a kind Pastel, carbon pencil, ink on archival paper mounted on board Image size: 40.5 H in. x 55.5 in. W Mounted on acid-free board: 41 H x 56 in. W Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, others are sketches of moments he documents. ____________ Undefined by medium, Celso Castro’s works each carry the presence of the artist’s hand through the transparency of their process. Castro’s oeuvre is strongly divided between his photomontage assemblies and watercolor paintings: the prior is marked by the labor-intensive deconstruction of portrait photographs and the latter, by the seemingly frenzied recreation of a past encounter rendered in the drips and scribbles of paint and ink. Both discriminating in what they reveal of the subject, his photomontage and watercolor portraits exude raw sexuality through the combination of Castro’s mark-making and gaze. Celso Castro’s work is a bare-bulb erotic photo foray into the underbelly of Colombia’s drug world. Castro’s labor-intensive, photo-collage works of drug kingpins, smugglers, hitmen, countrymen, street vendors, soldiers, paramilitaries, kidnappers, and pimps pose showing with pride their erect penises...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Carbon Pencil, Oil Pastel

Tate Britain, Original Oil Painting
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
Work : Original Oil Painting, Unique Work, Handmade Artwork, . Ready to Hang. Medium : Oil on Coated Wood Panel. Artist : Raphaël Renaud Subject : Tate Britain (Title). The artist a...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Impending Summer Storm, Original paintings, Floral, Spring, Abstract
Located in Deddington, GB
Mary Chaplin, Impending summer storm, diptych (2x100x81cm) acrylic on linen canvas. Poppy fields are a real source of inspiration for me. Rather than just painting a wild flower fiel...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Pantheon
Located in Milano, MI
Urbex is the English acronym for urban exploration and is an activity that consists of searching for and locating abandoned infrastructure with the goal of visiting, photographing and conveying its contents, with particular involvement of methodologies from geography, anthropology, sociology to cultural studies. Her works have been in the past approached to the works of Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945) and Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1770), but in Gullotta's paintings the absence of color makes the spaces particularly ethereal, allowing them to be ideally lifted to new places and to new life. An artist of international caliber who has decided to entrust her return to her homeland to Almach Art Gallery in Milan, while maintaining connections with important galleries, such as Marlborough Fine Art in London and Galerie Koch in Hanover. The artwork represents the famous Velasca Tower in Milan. This artwork was exhibited during the Daniela Gullotta...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Sandstone

White Lilac -contemporary still-life colourful table oil painting
Located in London, GB
Of Polish descent and now living in London, Ania Pieniazek creates bold, bright art full of everyday joy and pleasure. Influenced by Gustav Klimt, Paul Gauguin and Zbyslaw Marek Mac...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Ia Gigoshvili, "The Traveller", silkscreen, 58x76
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Silkscreen is another name for the screenprinting technique, a printmaking process in which an ink-blocking stencil is applied to a screen, allowing ink that is wiped across the scre...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Spring Wheat, Hampshire, Original painting, Blue, Modern, Skyscape, Abstract art
Located in Deddington, GB
I spend many hours a week walking my young working cocker Scout, and I always carry a sketchbook with me. Hampshire is full of wheat fields and in the Spring the young grasses are an...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood

Retrieve I, Original Painting, Landscape, People, Dog, walk
Located in Deddington, GB
Retrieve I is an original painting by Henry Walsh. This work is acrylic painted onto a printed base on board, and framed in a white box frame. 10 x 10cm (19.5 x 19.5 cm framed). “...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Wood, Acrylic, Board

Torre Velasca
Located in Milano, MI
Urbex is the English acronym for urban exploration and is an activity that consists of searching for and locating abandoned infrastructure with the goal of visiting, photographing and conveying its contents, with particular involvement of methodologies from geography, anthropology, sociology to cultural studies. Her works have been in the past approached to the works of Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945) and Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1770), but in Gullotta's paintings the absence of color makes the spaces particularly ethereal, allowing them to be ideally lifted to new places and to new life. An artist of international caliber who has decided to entrust her return to her homeland to Almach Art Gallery in Milan, while maintaining connections with important galleries, such as Marlborough Fine Art in London and Galerie Koch in Hanover. The artwork represents the famous Velasca Tower in Milan. This artwork was exhibited during the Daniela Gullotta...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Sandstone

El Bano de Venus
Located in Cliffside Park, NJ
Manuel Soto-Muñoz (1913-2000), Puerto Rican born American painter. Recipient award of merit Florida Southern College, 1958; prize Art Students League New York, 1950; 1st prize Salón ...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil

Pink Flamingo - landscape 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 Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Untitled
Located in Firenze, FI
Untitled Mixed media on canvas Size 100x100 cm Andrea Stella Florence 1950 - 2019 A gifted genius born in Florence of Greek heritage, resided alternately in two cities that are t...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

A new hat
Located in Bayonne, NJ
This is an oil on Belgian linen painting by Volodymyr Radko with allegorical take on a Renaissance portrait. It comes framed and in excellent condition.
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Early 2000s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil

Moment in March, Original Figurative Portrait Painting, Affordable, Spring
Located in Deddington, GB
Acrylic painting on wood panel Inspired by the new feeling of Spring Additional information: Acrylic paint on Board 50 H x 40 W x 1 D cm (19.69 x 15.75 x 0.39 in) Sold unframed Ima...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Wood, Acrylic

Meeting I
Located in Bayonne, NJ
This is a very stylistic figurative painting by Mykola Zhuravel, oil on canvas in an artist's handmade frame. The painting is in excellent condition. It was gifted by an artist to pr...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil

Rendez-Vous, Original painting, Landscape, Summer, Floral
Located in Deddington, GB
This painting is based on a beautiful spot in Nymans Gardens of the National Trust. Mariusz was an artist of residence for the NT South East region for the number of years. Nymans wa...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

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Acrylic

Judaic Desert
Located in Bayonne, NJ
A beautiful oil on canvas landscape by Matviy Vaisberg, a Ukrainian artist based in Kyiv, from his series "Judaic Desert" which he started when he stayed in Israel in 2001 and contin...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil

WARM SQUARE QUILT - Framed, Textured, Sculptural, Molded Acrylic Painting
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
In this piece, Natalie Harrison draws on the historically domestic crafts of molding and quilting to create a new work of collage. Shaping pink, orang...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

INTO THE WILD - Impasto Painting - A.I. Woman in Wooden Frame
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Disappearing back into the shadows, she leans into the nature of a new existence, wild and free but still so alone.. In INTO THE WILD, Matthew Dutton creates a new work out of conte...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Plaster, Wood, Ink, Watercolor

Familiar II, Original Painting, Landscape, People
Located in Deddington, GB
Familiar II by Henry Walsh is an original acrylic painting on a wooden board that features a man and dog at leisure on a wintry walk. Henry Walsh’s work begin with snapshots of busy ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Wood, Acrylic, Board

Crowd in Vivid Colour 6, Original painting, Figurative, People, Audience, Fun
Located in Deddington, GB
This is a painting from Karen Lynn’s ‘Crowd’ series of works. In this particular painting she gave the audience a 60’s retro look and chose very bright colours like reds pinks and o...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Golden Angel
Located in Bayonne, NJ
This is an oil on linen painting depicting a nude female figure with wings. Executed in a contemporary, allegorical manner, the painting reminds us of Renaissance portraits. It is in...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil

Phaeton
Located in Bayonne, NJ
Remarkable composition masterfully executed in oil on linen by Vachagan Narazyan. It is framed and in excellent condition. Although small in size, this painting is very joyful, fille...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Cuba" Pink Tonal Gestural Abstract Painting
Located in Houston, TX
PInk and yellow tonal gestural abstract painting done in an expressionist style. The artist, Brendan McKeon works and lives in Portland, Oregon, signed, titled, and dated the work on...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

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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