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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:  Gold
WATCHING OVER YOU
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand embellished giclee on canvas with gold leaf. Hand signed and numbered. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. All reasonable offers will be c...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Frequency
Located in London, GB
'This recent body of work is informed by my continuing research into the physical and metaphorical nature of archaeological artefacts and votive objects, allied to the referencing of...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Gold Leaf

"Aiming For Your Heart" Colorful Contemporary Oil & Mixed Media Painting Canvas
Located in New York, NY
With layers of bright oils and whisking brush strokes, the paint is able to shine and shimmer in a very unique pattern. The artist uses gold drips, gold leaf, thick textured oils, mi...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Gold Block IV Taranis - contemporary abstract black and gold leaf on canvas
Located in London, GB
'This recent body of work is informed by my continuing research into the physical and metaphorical nature of archaeological artefacts and votive objects, allied to the referencing of...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Toppling Pile of Hope
Located in New Orleans, LA
JENNY DAY (b.1981) is a painter based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She earned an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Arizona, a BFA in Painting from the University of Ala...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Gold Block II - Parsival -contemporary abstract black and gold leaf on canvas
Located in London, GB
'This recent body of work is informed by my continuing research into the physical and metaphorical nature of archaeological artefacts and votive objects, allied to the referencing of the symbolic forms and materiality of alchemy. Central to this practical investigation has been the use of ‘gold’, and the qualities that the material, with its obvious chromatic and symbolic values, seems to possess. This has driven both the conceptual and pragmatic concerns within the evolution of this work. Gold is an alluring and complex symbol of many, often conflicting meanings, avarice, greed, wealth but also of purity and celebration, and has been used as the adornment of spiritual and religious iconography as a devotional act for millennia. The title refers to connections I have made with the forms themselves, often when making a painting a word will emerge which acts as a form of poetic catalyst. ‘Parsival’ or Percivale/Peredur was the knight questing for the holy grail...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Abstract Painting, Mixed Media on paper, Red, Sliver, Yellow colors "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
S. Harsha Vardhana - Untitled – 48 x 30 inches ( unframed size ) Mixed Media on Paper Inclusive of shipment in roll form. Style : S. Harsha Vardhana gave up a successful career a...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Paintings

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Gold, Silver

GC Ms 3 Babel - Abstract Oil and Gold Leaf on Canvas, black and white, collage
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
This work is a collage work utilizing found newspaper as the foundation of the painting which is then squeegeed over with black and white oil paint. A masked gold leaf circle remains...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Jal, Round Painting, Acrylic, Ink on canvas, Gold & Silver leaf, Blue "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Seema Kohli - Jal - 36 inches diameter (unframed size) Acrylic and ink on canvas with 24ct gold and silver leaf Inclusive of shipment in ready to hang form...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Silver, Gold Leaf

Up in Blue
Located in Denver, CO
It is a tall, vertical painting. The mixed media is composed of oil paint and gold leaf with smaller silver leaf birds at the bottom of the composition. The bird silhouettes look lik...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Gold Leaf

La Vie #71, Yoshida Kenji, nihonga painting, silver gold copper leaf cobalt, Japan
Located in Santa Fe, NM
La Vie #71, Yoshida Kenji, nihonga painting, silver gold copper leaf cobalt, Japan Yoshida was born in 1924 in Ikeda City (part of present-day Osaka). He studied art under the grea...
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1990s Contemporary Paintings

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Gold Leaf, Silver Leaf

Nirvana, Contemporary Oil Painting With Gild Leaf
Located in Brecon, Powys
Nirvana literally means cool or to extinguish, it is a state of mindfullness where suffering has been extinguished and one achieves ultimate freedom. In this fabulous piece we can se...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Gold Block III Votive Forms -contemporary abstract black and gold leaf on canvas
Located in London, GB
'This recent body of work is informed by my continuing research into the physical and metaphorical nature of archaeological artefacts and votive objects, allied to the referencing of...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Horizon - XXI Century, Contemporary Acrylic & Mixed media Landscape Painting
Located in Warsaw, PL
ANDRZEJ BOROWSKI (born in 1969) He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts , at the Departments of Graphics and Painting in the atelier of professor Zbysław Maciejewski. In 1994 he was a...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Gold

To the Dove of Peace I Offer This Elegance
Located in Brecon, Powys
Very occasionally a painting invites deep study; nothing exists within it without reason, each form has purpose, every shade has nuance, every line has meaning. Berlin has presented...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Marble, Copper, Gold Leaf

Red 2
Located in Denver, CO
This painting is striking. It's used of mixed media with rich red paint and equally rich gold leaf color brings the piece alive. This was painted on canvas. The bird silhouettes are ...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Something New / Modern Icon
Located in Burlingame, CA
Young woman's face, titled 'Something New / Modern Icon', oil and gold leaf on paper from artist Elena Zolotnitsky. A sublime work in blue, pink, warm rou...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

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Gold, Gold Leaf

Figura Seduta
Located in Miami, FL
Franco Mauro Franchi was born in Castiglioncello (Livorno) on 9 October 1951. He completed his artistic studies at the Lucca State Institute of Art and the Academy of Fine Arts in Fl...
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20th Century Contemporary Paintings

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Bronze

Message in a Bottle
Located in Burlingame, CA
Sublime yellow roses in a water filled vase, from Elena Zolotnitsky who is Inspired by the concepts of beauty, adolescence, and time passing, Zolotnotsky’s personal and intimate oi...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Jack Reilly, Last Survivors of the Next Millenium, 2018
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Oil, acrylic polymers, grout, gold leaf, on shaped canvas.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

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Silver, Gold Leaf

Flash III
Located in New Orleans, LA
Bonnie Maygarden is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University. The destruction of Hurricane Katrina caused her to take leave of New Orleans to fu...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Enamel, Gold Leaf

Flash I
Located in New Orleans, LA
Bonnie Maygarden is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University. The destruction of Hurricane Katrina caused her to take leave of New Orleans to fu...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Enamel, Gold Leaf

"Bold 2", abstract, mauve, neutral, gold leaf, oil painting
Located in Natick, MA
"Bold 2" is a graphic abstract composition from Anita Loomis that examines the architectural aspects of natural forms in an intuitive manner. With a limited palette of rich mauve and...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Gold Leaf

"Bold 1", abstract, mauve, neutral, gold leaf, oil painting
Located in Natick, MA
"Bold 1" is a strong abstract composition from Anita Loomis that examines the architectural aspects of natural forms in an intuitive manner. Keeping to a limited palette of rich mauv...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Bind
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original egg tempera and gold leaf on board by American female conceptual contemporary artist Rosemary Lyons. What makes an artist a failure? While strolling through the Metropolitan I was viewing the wing piece of a more extensive altar and observed words etched into the golden grounds. This had a profound resonance with me because of my fascination and utilization of words in all of my work. Next I visited the Cloisters and stood transfixed in front of Robert Campion’s “Annunciation” Of particular interest was the lovely white lily that indicates Mary’s purity. On this same sojourn I witnessed the line out the door and around the block of people waiting to get into a contemporary artist’s retrospective. Is that success? My response began with one painting of lilies...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Gold Leaf

The Woman Of Wisdom For Peaceful Solutions: Contemporary mixed media painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
This is an ephemeral piece from Berlin, in it he portrays the nebulous form of woman and allows his audience to interpret the power of woman. Almost meditational this painting is wom...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Silver, Gold Leaf

"Dripping Dots - Lights of Saint-Tropez" Colorful Abstract Oil Painting
Located in New York, NY
With layers of bright oils and whisking brush strokes, the paint is able to shine and shimmer in a very unique pattern. This painting is from Shaoul's more modern collective works wi...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Chandelier, Symbols of Luxury & Status, Acrylic, Red, Yellow, Gold "In Stock"
By Vishal Joshi
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Vishal Joshi - Chandelier - 42 x 22 inches (unframed size) Acrylic on Canvas Inclusive of shipment in a roll form. From the 15th century, more complex forms of chandeliers, based o...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Gold

Fields No. 3
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Alexander Eulert's original mixed media paintings on wood panels are abstract propositions of worlds where divergent forces coalesce into harmonious geometric interactions. He draws ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

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Gold Leaf, Metal

BURNING DESIRE
Located in Tulsa, OK
Loretta Hirsch, BURNING DESIRE, ink marker pencil, liquid ink, gold leaf, on German Card stock Paper, 11.70 X 8.30 in, $740.00 (unframed) Born in Oklahoma and educated at the Atlant...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Gold Leaf

LOVE CHAINS
Located in Tulsa, OK
Loretta Hirsch, LOVE CHAINS, ink marker pencil, liquid ink, gold leaf, on German Card stock Paper, 11.70 X 8.30 in, $740.00 (unframed) Born in Oklahoma and educated at the Atlanta C...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Gold Leaf

9 panel gold and silver leaf installation of people painting- Morning Walk
By Gretchen Minnhaar
Located in Miami, FL
This metallic silver and gold 9 piece installation can be hung in any configuration or design. The city scene of abstracted people coming and going in various situations is both int...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Gold Leaf, Silver

Fields #8 - Abstract Green Gold Geometric Original Wall Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Alex Eulert's mixed-media paintings are abstract propositions of worlds where divergent forces coalesce into harmonious aesthetic interaction. He draws his inspiration from a lifelon...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

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Metal, Gold Leaf

All Intentional Efforts Vanished (Citron and Violet Abstract Work on Paper)
Located in Hudson, NY
All Intentional Efforts Vanished (Citron and Violet Abstract Work on Paper) by Bruce Murphy enamel paint, metallic powders, and gold leaf on archival paper 12 x 9 inches in 20 x 16 i...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Enamel, Gold Leaf

Poised V
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Elizabeth Waggett Poised V, 2023 Signed by artist Oil and acrylic on canvas with 22k gold and black flock 60 x 40 inches, framed This piece is unique. ...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Gold

"Gold and Color No. 130" Contemporary Abstract Mixed Media on Canvas Painting
Located in Baltimore, MD
"Gold and Color No. 130" is a framed mixed media and gold-leaf work on canvas by Takefumi Hori, with abstract color blocking in textured white and metallic gold. Despite the piece's ...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Garden of Delight
Located in Los Angeles, CA
ELIZABETH WAGGETT Garden of Delight, 2018 Signed by artist 24 karat gold, ink, graphite on paper 22 x 22 inches, framed This piece is unique. This piece is currently on display at A...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Gold

Charging Bull
Located in Los Angeles, CA
ELIZABETH WAGGETT Charging Bull, 2017 Signed by artist 22 karat gold, charcoal, graphite, and ink on cotton 45 x 30 inches, framed This piece is unique. This piece is currently on d...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Gold

Replacing Parts With Pretty Things
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Elizabeth Waggett Replacing Parts With Pretty Things, 2019 Signed by artist 24 karat gold, rose gold, champagne gold, platinum, ink, graphite on cotton paper 26 x 26 inches, framed T...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Gold

It's A Worry For Some
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Elizabeth Waggett It's A Worry For Some, 2018 Signed and numbered by artist 24k gold, charcoal, graphite, and ink on cotton paper 45 x 45 inches, framed This piece is unique. This p...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Gold

Magnificence Comes as Standard II
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Elizabeth Waggett Magnificence Comes as Standard II, 2017 Signed by artist Charcoal, graphite, oil, 22 & 24 karat gold, and rose gold on cotton paper 40 x 28 inches, framed This piec...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Gold

I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar (22k)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
ELIZABETH WAGGETT I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar (22k), 2023 Signed by artist 22k gold, oxidised silver, acrylic, zinc, and copper alloy on canvas 70 x 50 inches This piece is unique. Thi...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Gold, Silver, Copper

The Protector
Located in Los Angeles, CA
ELIZABETH WAGGETT The Protector, 2023 Signed by artist Graphite charcoal, 22k gold, and oxidised silver leaf on cotton paper 22 x 22 inches, framed This ...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Gold, Silver

Caught Between II
Located in Los Angeles, CA
ELIZABETH WAGGETT Caught Between II, 2023 Signed by artist 22 karat gold, oxidised silver, charcoal, graphite, and ink on cotton paper 30 x 60 inches, framed This piece is unique. T...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Gold, Silver

L is for Lioness III
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Elizabeth Waggett L is for Lioness III 2022 Oil on linen with 22k gold 70" x 45” This piece is unique. This piece is currently on display at Art Angels Los Angeles.
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Gold

L is for Lioness II
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Elizabeth Waggett L is for Lioness II 2022 Oil on linen with 22k gold 30" x 45” Unique
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Gold

Despair has its own calms
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Elizabeth Waggett Despair has its own calms 2021 Oil on linen with 22k gold 50 x 70” Unique
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Gold

Stardust Moon
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Charlotte Elizabeth has been working with paint professionally for over fifteen years. Elizabeth’s training in theatre design preceded a busy career as a Theatrical Scenic Artist in London’s West End...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Gold Leaf

La Vie 64, painting by Kenji Yoshida, oil paint, gold leaf, copper leaf, silver
Located in Santa Fe, NM
La Vie 64, painting by Kenji Yoshida, oil paint, gold leaf, copper leaf, silver Nihonga
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1990s Contemporary Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Loving Kindness. Contemporary Mixed Media Buddha Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Loving Kindness : 24ct gold leaf and original pigments. The exceptionally talented Sax Berlin produces another masterpiece for Buddha collection. Sensational piece. "Buddha said…....
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Dawn - 9/398
Located in Miami, FL
Painted bronze with stone base. Limited and signed edition number 9 of 398. Carole A. Feuerman (born 1945) is an American sculptor and author working in Hyperrealism. She is one of the three major artists credited with starting the movement in the late 1970s. She is the only woman to sculpt in this style. Her career is highlighted by iconic figurative works of swimmers and dancers. She has been included in exhibitions at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery; the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia; the Venice Biennale; and Palazzo Strozzi Palace in Florence, Italy, among others. Growing up in New York, Feuerman was deterred from being an artist. She attended Hofstra University, Temple University, and graduated from the school of Visual Arts in New York City to begin her career as an illustrator. During the early 1970s she went by the artist’s name Carole Jean, illustrating for The New York Times and creating album covers for Alice Cooper and the Rolling Stones. In 1981, Feuerman was chosen by a jury at the Heckscher Museum in Long Island where she exhibited. After this she was invited to participate in the ‘Learning through the Arts Program’ at the Guggenheim Museum. Feuerman received the Charles D. Murphy Sculpture Award in 1981. In 1982 she received the Amelia Peabody Award for sculpture. In 2016, she received Best in Show Award for her sculpture ‘Mona Lisa’ by the Huan Tai Museum. The sculpture was acquired for their permanent collection. Feuerman has also been awarded the Medici Prize by the City of Florence, First Prize at the Beijing Biennale, and the Austrian Biennale, and in 2008 she received First Prize in the Olympic Fine Art exhibition in Beijing. The piece was acquired by the Olympic Museum. She has taught, lectured, and given workshops at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Solomon Guggenheim Museum. In 2011, she founded the Carole A. Feuerman Sculpture Foundation. Her artworks are owned by eighteen museums, as well as in the collections of the City of Peekskill, New York, the City of Sunnyvale California, President and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Dr. Henry Kissinger, the Mikhail Gorbachev Art Foundation, Mr. Steven A. Cohen, Alexandre Grendene Bartelle, and the Malcolm Forbes Magazine Collection...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Bronze

Clams #19 (Contemporary Realist Still Life Painting of Shells with Gold Leaf)
Located in Hudson, NY
"Clams #19" By Matthew Hopkins, 2021 Oil on panel 6x8 inches 9.5x11.5 inches framed Matthew Hopkins corrals commonplace, household objects as the subject of his charming, often miniature depictions in oil. In a recent series, Hopkins turns to the sea to gathers up clam shells, a fascinating shape produced in nature, where similar to snowflakes, no two are the same. Hopkins infuses texture, light and shadow into these uniquely painted gems, and tops off each one with a bit of 24 carat gold leaf! The painting is complimented with a traditional gold frame that can be hung or propped on a tabletop. Ideal for your entryway, or as an enviable gift for a fellow fan of traditional still life painting...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Oil

Clams #20 (Contemporary Realist Still Life in Oil of Clam Shell, Gold Leaf)
Located in Hudson, NY
"Clams #20" By Matthew Hopkins, 2021 Oil on panel 6x8 inches 9.5x11.5 inches framed Matthew Hopkins corrals commonplace, household objects as the subject of his charming, often min...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Oil

Maze of Blush Gold Worlds with Secret Passages
Located in New Orleans, LA
Blueprints in their essence represent a promise, a not fully actualized reality; they are future-gazing documents of urban progress. Tegeder’s work mines tenderly these two “worlds”,...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

In Gold We Trust
Located in Miami, FL
About Joseph: Joseph is a conceptual artist born in Paris in 1961. In his latest series of creations, the work assigns to the viewer a place, a function and a power, acting as an ab...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Steel

Bunnies on gold
Located in Miami Beach, FL
oil on canvas
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Oil

"A Conscious Fog" Pink and Light Blue Toned with Gold Leaf
Located in Houston, TX
White field painting with blue, pink, and purple cloud-like forms and gold accents. Signed and titled by artist on the back.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

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Gold Leaf

All The World Is But A Stage
Located in Brecon, Powys
Seemingly trapped in an artificial world makes Harlequin appear insightful and enlightened to his audience. However all around him surges the energy that makes this depth illusory, H...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Gold Leaf

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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