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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:  Green
Irrational behavior, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Irrational behavior, oil on canvas 5/6ft :: Painting :: Contemporary :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :: Si...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil

Japanese Contemporary Art - Someday, We Will Go There In A Sparkling Green Boat
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Green Bunch Rustic Flowers Painting Hand Textured Giclee on Canvas 45x45" Teal
Located in Sherman Oaks, CA
Green Bunch Rustic Flowers Painting Hand Textured Giclee on Canvas 45x45" Teal State-of-the-art HAND EMBELLISHED ∽ MUSEUM QUALITY ∽ DISPLAY READY Giclee Reproduction Each limited ed...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Varnish, Archival Ink, Acrylic, Digital, Inkjet, Giclée

Green Girls
Located in Madrid, ES
In this painting I have tried to show the freedom and serenity we all can enjoy under the sea. With no pressures from other people, or from ourselves, everything seems to be lighter ...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Acrylic

Lands End 2004 No. 9 / watercolor, beautifully framed
Located in Burlingame, CA
Glorious electric green Land's end watercolor from William Stanisich, whose provocative Land’s End series was painted over a 40-year span with a force and directness that reflects th...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Green Painting Art Hand Textured Giclee on Canvas 45x45" Good Dreams
Located in Sherman Oaks, CA
Green Painting Art Hand Textured Giclee on Canvas 45x45" Good Dreams State-of-the-art HAND EMBELLISHED ∽ MUSEUM QUALITY ∽ DISPLAY READY Giclee Reproduction Each limited edition G...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Varnish, Archival Ink, Acrylic, Digital, Inkjet, Giclée

Aqua White Flower Bright Painting Hand Embellished Giclee on Canvas 60W x 40H
Located in Sherman Oaks, CA
Aqua White Flower Bright Painting Hand Embellished Giclee on Canvas 60W x 40H Collector's Edition Embellished Art Canvas Giclee With Brushstrokes and rich ...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Varnish, Archival Ink, Acrylic, Digital, Inkjet, Giclée

Salsa Steps, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
My paintings are fueled by my love of abstraction. The practice of making them involve appropriating from many schools of art and diverse art movements from the early 1900s to the ...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Acrylic

"Wave (Emerald Green)" Contemporary Mixed Media Rice Paper Painting on Panel
Located in New York, NY
A truly immaculate work done with Korean Rice Paper to create a wave-like pattern. Artist Lee Ok-nam folds Korean rice paper and meticulously forms intrica...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Mixed Media, Rice Paper

Minimalist Color Field Painting in Dark and Lime Green (C16-2)
Located in Hudson, NY
Acrylic on 3 wood panels Each panel measures 6 x 24 x 2 inches Suggested installation is 1-2 inches between panels, which can be oriented in any direction Overall measurement for pic...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Wood Panel

Tante Tilly
Located in New Orleans, LA
[ New Orleans, LA :: b.1959, Augsburg, Germany ] In 1959, Ruth Owens was born to a young German woman and a Black serviceman from Georgia. The nomadic military lifestyle of her chi...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil

Human Hand, Acrylic in Green & Black, Young Santiniketan Artist Bilasendu Sil
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Bilasendu Sil - Untitled - 15 x 11 inches (unframed size) Acrylic on Paper ( ALL IN DOOR DELIVERED FRAMED )
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Early 2000s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

On the Threshold
Located in Palm Desert, CA
An oil and alkyd on canvas depicted in abstracted geometric shapes of glossy black, yellow green and yellow red by David Row. Signed verso, "#400, 1996, Oil/Alkyd/Canvas, an arrow up...
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1990s Contemporary Paintings

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Alkyd, Canvas, Oil

Green Apartments
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
South Miami is probably the best example of Art Deco in the country. Of course there's the great hotels along the waterfront, but behind those there are humbl...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil

Party, Dan McDermott, Original art, Figurative Painting, Oil on Linen
Located in Deddington, GB
Dan McDermott' painting 'Party' is an original oil painting on linen. This artwork is sold unframed, measuring at Size : H 50 cm x W 70 cm x D 3 cm. Dan McDermott’s dynamic painting...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

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Linen, Oil

Japanese Contemporary Art - Wake Up, But Never Awake From The Dream
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"boat in quiet sea " oil cm. 50 x 40 2016
Located in Torino, IT
Boat,sea,green Birgitte LYKKE MADSEN (Odense, Denmark, 1960) 1981-86, Educated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Odense First solo exhibition in 1983 Artist statement: “I am a painter. I am fascinated by the difference in cold and warm colors and the different atmospheres that it creates in our mind. My hereby presented oil paintings are describing people in water...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Oil

"Expedition 1", expressionist, whimsical, green, oil painting
Located in Natick, MA
The paintings, "Expedition 1" and "Expedition 2" by artist Anita Loomis were conceived as expressionistic interpretations of the hopeful aspirations of people traveling to a new part...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Splinters, Lumens
Located in New Orleans, LA
2017 Acrylic, enamel, pencil, paint pen and collage on panel 20” x 48” Jenny Day is a painter who divides her time between Santa Fe, New Mexico and Tucson, Arizona. She paints a fra...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

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Enamel

Conductor
Located in Santa Fe, NM
This composition is informed by meditation or contemplative practice, applied to studio practice. The first layer of linework is drawn freehand, improvising energy lines to create a ...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Polyester, Wax, Oil, Alkyd, Panel

NEAR WILD HEAVEN
Located in Tulsa, OK
Near Wild Heaven by artist Douglas Witmer is a grey and green contemporary minimalist abstract painting made of black gesso on canvas that measures 30 x 22 and is priced at $3,500. ...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Forward
Located in New Orleans, LA
After: “Getting Ready to Leave” by Chesley Bonestell (c. 1954) With Forward, I wanted an image with the clearest spatial hierarchy – back, middle, a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Panel, Acrylic

Linked (green and black)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Fraternal Obsidian
Located in Dallas, TX
David A. Dreyer was born in Dallas in 1958, and earned his BFA and MFA at Southern Methodist University. He was a recipient of the Moss/Chumley Award from the Meadows Museum and has ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Graphite, Linen, Oil, Panel

Simulation III
Located in New Orleans, LA
Bonnie Maygarden is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University in 2014. The destruction of Hurricane Katrina caused her to take leave of New Orlea...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

No Sugar to Melt
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Queen Anne's Lace
Located in New York, NY
Pair / Couple / Nature / Flowers / Family / Oil on canvas
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Link
Located in New Orleans, LA
Bonnie Maygarden is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University in 2014. The destruction of Hurricane Katrina caused her to take leave of New Orlea...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Green Boobs with Magenta Nipples Watercolor on Paper 22x30 Green Power
Located in New York, NY
The "ink dispersion " technique I began decades ago has evolved from abstraction into this figurative imagery. Working quickly while the paint is wet and allowing the water in water...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

Study for Landscape
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
David Hayes (1931 - 2013) Study for Landscape, 2001 Gouache on paper 22.25 x 30 in
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Early 2000s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Balance
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Sergio Valenzuela “Valenz” is a contemporary Guatemalan artist who tells stories with everyday objects, primarily expressing them with graphite and acrylic on canvas. His artworks pr...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Graphite

Die Unterhändler_in (White Flag)
By Sebastian Maas
Located in München, BY
Sebastian Maas Die Unterhändler_in (White Flag), 2022 Oil on truck tarpaulin 190 x 270 cm (74 3/4 x 110 1/4 in) Collage-like, Sebastian Maas takes concret...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil

"GEMELOS", MesoAmerican, Mexico, myth, gods, twins, Aztec, Mayan, dream, statue
Located in Toronto, Ontario
GEMELOS, an oil painting on canvas by Anna Ortiz, measures 48" high x 40" wide. Gemelos is recent work and characteristic of the artist's practice – the pal...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

"Untitled, " Acrylic and Paper Collage on Canvas
Located in Houston, TX
This work was one of Long’s earliest compositions as an artist. Even earlier in his artistic career, Long was interested in exploring the intersection of various media, branching out into new innovative spaces. This work demonstrates the technique and forms at play that have since germinated into Long’s signature style. Bert L. Long Jr., was self-taught artist, was born in 1940 in Texas, grew up the Houston’s historic Fifth Ward and received his formal education from UCLA. Following a career as a successful master chef, Long decided to devote himself entirely to art in the late 1970’s. He began to explore folk art and assemblage to create a unique body of work, attracting the attention of Jim Harithas, then Director of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, and artists John Alexander, Salvatore Scarpitta and James Surls. His life spanned an era of radical change in the American social climate, the influence of which can be seen clearly in his work. Long’s paintings and sculptures incorporate a high level of skill and sophisticated knowledge of art history, along with complex philosophical and social issues.  Long describes the philosophy behind his work as "a quest to help people diagnose their inner self," believing his art to be "the vehicle to help facilitate the process." “As artists we have the obligation to provide the world with art which communicates as truth. I believe that art has the power to heal our souls of their afflictions. I try to create art which helps to diagnose the prevalent conditions within our societies, hopefully providing an insightfulness which will help us all become brothers and sisters united in equality and compassion”                                       - Bert L. Long, Jr. The late Peter Marzio, former Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, said of Bert Long during the major retrospective of Long’s work at the museum: “Bert Long does not avert his gaze from that which is painful, but as [his artworks] testify, he also brings a spirit of joy and redemption to his art. We can all learn from this great artist.” Over Long’s 33-year career as a painter, sculptor, and photographer, he had several solo exhibitions at respected museums and was awarded many significant awards including the National Endowment for the Arts Grant in 1987 and the prestigious international Prix de Rome fellowship in 1990. Other notable awards of Long’s include the Texas Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts Artist of the Year Award in 2009, the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Emergency Assistance Grant in 1997, the Houston Art League Texas Artist of the Year in 1990, the NEA Visual Artists Fellowship Grant, 1987 and the Bemis Foundation Residency in 1998. His work can be seen in over 100 private and public collections worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Houston Museum of Fine Art, the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, the El Paso Museum of Art, and the Instituto de Bachillerato in Spain. With a recent solo exhibition at the Houston Museum of African American Culture and an exhibition overseas which is pending featuring his work, plus interest from several national museums, Bert L. Long Jr. continues to be recognized as an important African American artist throughout Texas, nationally and internationally. Bert L. Long, Jr. "Untitled" 1978 Acrylic and Paper Collage on Canvas...
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1970s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Big Collar - Green on Green
Located in New Orleans, LA
Barbara Friedman’s painting process is exploratory. She paints to discover and likes to be surprised by her work. She sometimes paints over her old paintings while retaining certain ...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil, Linen

Something Radiates
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas Signed, titled, and dated, verso This painting is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. Sarah Hinckley was born on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and has been pain...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Green Om
Located in New York, NY
JULIE HEDRICK GREEN OM, 2012 oil on canvas 78 x 78 in. 198 x 198 cm.
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21st Century and Contemporary 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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