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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:  Purple
“99”
Located in Austin, TX
Acrylic abstract painting
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

"Dripping Dots - Madison" Colorful Abstract Oil Painting Canvas with Gold Leaf
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 leaf with thick textured oils and glass t...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Home Plate 11
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Home Plate 11" is an original artwork made from oil paint and acrylic on panel by Lauren Rinaldi. This piece is freestanding and measures...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Oil, Wood Panel

Florence II
Located in Miami, FL
n/a
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Russian Contemporary Art by Lena Ochkalova - Sakura
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil, acrylic & ink on aluminium Framed 153 x 102.5 x 5 cm
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Ink, Oil, Acrylic

Spiderman - Painting by Salvatore Petrucino - 2019
Located in Roma, IT
Spiderman is an original acrylic painting realized by the Italian artist Salvatore Petrucino in 2019. Hand-signed on the lower right. Technique, dimensions, and date are written o...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Acrylic

HUMANBIRD
Located in New Orleans, LA
STARSKY BRINE’s paintings and drawings captivate audiences with their distinctive style and a recurring theme, the search for the nature of humanity. In his bold works, the artist fo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Crayon, Spray Paint, Acrylic

Splash
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Beach days are magical, and this little girl running and splashing in the surf was relishing her new-found freedom and expressing all the joy to be found on a summer day at the ocean...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

"People on the Move 2" turquoise, oil painting on canvas, 2019
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"People on the Move 2" by RU8ICON1 is a monochromatic oil painting on canvas, from 2019. It depicts Spanish street sweepers in motion. The pallet is turquoise and white and is part...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Navi, Chilling in Summer Shades
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
This painting is a quick reminder that people should not be afraid to use their voices. Your thoughts, opinions, and ideas are just as important as anybody else's. When you speak, sp...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Pen

Resilience
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
The underlying body of work is an exploration of texturizing distortion as a language of expression. The works explore an awaking of an Afrocentric consciousness connected to gender,...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Self Possesed
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Painting Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Signed on the front side and accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic

"Nightside Reflections" Contemporary Geometric Hard-Edge Abstract Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary abstract painting by local Houston artist Emmanuel Araujo. Currently featured in the show "5 Artists 5 Rooms" at Reeves Art + Design in Houston, TX. Artist Biography: ...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"Pink Tree in Dieulefit", landscape, reds, blues, yellows, acrylic painting
Located in Natick, MA
Nan Hass Feldman’s “The Pink Tree in Dieulefit”, is a Fauve Expressionist painting which means a loose, painterly, recognizable subject created with emotiona...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Paintings

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Acrylic

"Untitled (After Kleberg)" Contemporary Abstract Rainbow Staircase Landscape
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary abstract painting by local Houston artist Chris Cascio. Currently featured in the show "5 Artists 5 Rooms" at Reeves Art + Design in Houston, TX. Artist Biography: Chr...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Zemlya - contemporary colorful pink flower decorative acrylic painting
Located in London, GB
Keng Wai Lee’s gorgeously rich animal impressions are a synergy of decorative tableaux and depiction in paint on canvas of his memories and imagination. “Using acrylic as a medium, ...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

ET story No.8 - Contemporary art, Geometric, Abstract
Located in Coquitlam, BC
Artist: Da Hong Born in 1984 Henan China, and currently living in Beijing He graduated from Jingdezhen Ceramic University in 2007 The artist enjoyed piling up the blocks on the c...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Honeymoon Bay, " Contemporary Art Mirror
Located in Westport, CT
This contemporary piece is made with dichroic film on mirror and is framed in a modern white frame. The application of the film creates a changing colorful aesthetic so that the view...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Mirror, Film, Mixed Media

Flower Hangover
Located in Westport, CT
Ayse Wilson is a Turkish-American artist who lives and lives and works in Connecticut. Her work draws from memory and emotion to remind viewers of youth, innocence and the timeless space we occupy when we are young. Wilson graduated from Wellesley College...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

"Incoming Weather 1949" Mixed Media Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Bryanna Marie's "Incoming Weather 1949" is an original, handmade oil painting on a copper coin that depicts a white house with storm clouds swelling in the background. About the Ar...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Copper

Message in the Morning
Located in Wien, 9
In his painting, Robert Hammerstiel is in constant search of the balance and harmony of form. In his drastic reduction to the physical essentials and the colourful placarding, he cre...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

WHITE CHAIR
Located in München, BY
Raphael Adjetey Adjei Mayne WHITE CHAIR, 2022 Acrylic, t-shirt and African wax print sewn on canvas 205 x 200 cm 80 3/4 x 78 3/4 in Exhibition: RAPHAEL AD...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Fabric, Mixed Media, Acrylic

French Contemporary Art by Brigitte Mathé - Abstract 15
Located in Paris, IDF
Artwork in acrylic on linen sold with a white frame
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Linen, Acrylic

Hermosa Single Palm - Red Dusk
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pete Kasprzak’s passion for city life is expressed in his dynamic urban artworks. Kasprzak’s artworks express energy and life with animated brush strokes. He adds dynamic movement an...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Gesso, Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

BANGALY
Located in München, BY
Raphael Adjetey Adjei Mayne BANGALY, 2021 Acrylic, African wax print sewn on canvas 200 x 203 cm 78 3/4 x 79 7/8 in Exhibition: RAPHAEL A...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Fabric, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Arctic Tundra (2019), oil painting, ecosystem, animals, pastels, polar fauna
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Arctic Tundra (2019), oil painting, ecosystem, animals, pastels, polar fauna "Arctic Tundra" by Alexis Kandra. Figurative oil painting with holographic foil on wood panel. Arctic tundra ecosystem, animals of Tundra biome, Arctic Circle, North Pole, South Pole, Alaska, Canada, Russia, Greenland, Iceland, Scandinavia, Antarctica, fauna. Arctic hare, polar bear, caribou, Arctic fox, Arctic tern...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Foil

The Heir - Painting by Salvatore Petrucino - 2020
Located in Roma, IT
The Heir is an original acrylic painting realized by the Italian artist Salvatore Petrucino in 2020. Hand-signed on the lower right. Technique, dimensions, and date are written on ...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

The Autumn arrives, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
The Autumn Arrives - Contrasts of colour, contrast of temperatures, contrasts of feelings ... That's Autumn. We love it for the colors and for the odors but we hate it because it's t...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Darkness III, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
I enjoy night walks on the beach and the luminosity that a full moon brings with it. This piece is a captured moment from memory. The ocean is just as alive at night as it is durin...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil

Caught in the Act, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Caught in the Act is a very large oil painting of an idyllic alpine scene exploding out of a deep blue canvas. It is 48x48x1.5 inches. A white owl can be se...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil

Untitled-173, Acrylic on Canvas by Contemporary Indian Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Sandesh Khule - Untitled-173 - 24 x 48 inches (unframed size) Acrylic on Canvas , 2022 ABOUT ARTIST : Painting has a spiritual dimension in its purest ...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Untitled
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
This is a delightful piece of art. It expresses the hope of the common man amidst the everyday experiences that beset him. He is challenged to look beyond the current hardship and vi...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Barco Violeta II. Mix media painting on Canvas
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Barco Violeta II, by Sergio Bazan Mix media on Canvas Image Size: 50 H x 50 W cm Unframed Signed by artist _______ Sergio Bazan was born in Buenos Aires in 1962. He was artistical...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media

Winter Afternoon Sun by Gordon Hunt, Contemporary painting, Original art
Located in Deddington, GB
Winter Afternoon Sun by Gordon Hunt Original and hand signed by the artist Oil on canvas Sold unframed Image size: H:60cm x W:60cm Complete size of unframed work: H:60cm x W:60cm ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Field Painting September 18 2020, Lilac Flowers, Yellow Green Grass, Trees
Located in Kent, CT
A peaceful outdoor scene of a delicately painted field beneath a tree with olive green leaves, beautifully capturing the idyllic feel of a field of wildflowers and tall grass in Sept...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Japanese Motif, 2018., oil on canvas, 85x90 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Japanese Motif, 2018., 85x90 cm Abstract composition. Nugzar Avtandilovich Kahiani was born in Poti, Georgia in 1952. He studied at the Art College named after Nikoladze. Then he went to serve in the Soviet Army from1970 to 1972. After completing his military service he entered the Stieglitz St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Industry at the faculty of artistic metal, from which he graduated in 1986. During his studies, he has been actively engaged in painting. His favorite artists are Gauguin, El Greco, Botticelli, Turner and Picasso. Works of artistic stone He worked also with stone, cornelian and onyx. But his soul gravitated to bright and blustery color, and so he has became engaged in painting. At first his paintings were quiet, with muted tonal gamma. The color image was built on the play of hues and halftones. Such a careful elaboration of color educates the taste, sharpness and delicacy of vision. Gradually, the painter became more experienced, and his paintings acquired assurance and power of maturity, blooming in colorful brilliancy. Nugzar's color preferences The color of Nugzar’s paintings is deep and multi-layered. It is woven of infinite number of hues and filled with light. At first sight it may be difficult to recognize the shapes in the play of flickering color dabs. The figures appear gradually, they draw the first breath just before our eyes, crystallizing from the color heap. The painter is attracted by major tonality and motives that years ago could be called “the gallant feasts” - repasts, assiduities, music parties, and airings. After somewhat daemonic, infernal imagery of early paintings, it has appeared the theme of “Le joie de vivre,” the joy of life. Source of inspiration Born in the ancient Kolkhida, he keeps the blissful pagan feel of entirety and completeness of being. It is embodied almost literally in his favorite personage auroral gorgeous-bodied beauty of a girl. He grants these forms even to Olympian inhabitants - Aphrodite, Athene, Arthemide, let alone the Bacchants. I remember unwittingly that Niko Pirosmani similarly painted on his impoverished buckrams the luxurious prince repasts and languid, elephantine beauties. Working style But his style is not bounded by grotesque parody, as well as the irony is not the only aspect of his world outlook. In his landscapes we can catch the ecstatic admiration with Nature. In contradistinction to his favorite impressionists, he never paints from nature and never bears in mind the particular place. It is just a blooming Earth, studied very closely, so that the trees are cut by the edges of the painting, and at the same time it is a bird’s eye view revealing infinite, boundless spaces. Nougzar says that the landscape for him is first of all a color ensemble. He can just leaf through the illustrated journal, nourishing his eye with color in various combinations, and so get the impulse to create a ‘physical’ landscape image. Probably, his landscapes are no less fantastical than his figure compositions, but such is his talent, his mission - to make the world more beautiful and gentle than it is in reality. Exhibitions Nugzar Kakhiani...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Flora Full Circle (Gold & Indigo Blue Cyanotype of Botanical Mandala, Framed)
Located in Hudson, NY
Figurative Still Life painting of pale blue and gold flowers on an indigo cyanotype background "Cyanotype Painting (Gold Flora Full Circle), made by Hudson Valley artist, Julia Whitney Barnes in 2021 Watercolor, Gouache and Cyanotype on Cotton Arches Paper 30 x 23 inches unframed, 33 x 26 inches in a custom frame Handmade maple frame with splined joined corners, finished in a gold lacquer on the face and natural waxed maple sides. Artwork is floated on archival museum board and glazed with UV filtering and anti-reflective Museum Glass. Excellent condition and ready to hang as is. Comes with two hanging options (wire and French cleat) This still life painting was made by Hudson Valley painter, Julia Whitney Barnes, in 2022. The painting is made using a camera-less cyanotype photography...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper

Defiance II
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Painting Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, this is not a print or other type of copy. Signed on the front side and accompanied by a Certificate of Auth...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Sunrise Tunnel (2022), oil on canvas, earth tones, greenhouse, farm landscape
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Sunrise Tunnel (2022), oil painting on canvas, earth tones and pastels, outdoor greenhouse, farm landscape, silos and green hills in background, skyscape, sunrise colors "Sunrise Tunnel" by Delilah Ray...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

LINEAR MOVEMENT I - Night in NYC / Cityscape / Neon lights / Unique Perspective
Located in New York, NY
Original oil painting by Alexandra Pacula
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Story Teller With Cat and Mouse, painting by Melanie Yazzie, Navajo, Denver
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Story Teller With Cat and Mouse, painting by Melanie Yazzie, Navajo, Denver Yazzie was asked by the Denver Art Museum to select several items from its collection that were immediatel...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Wood Panel, Acrylic

Untitled - Painting by Mauro Bellucci - 2020
Located in Roma, IT
This beautiful painting Untitled - from the Series Industrial Pollution was realized by the Italian artist Mauro Bellucci in 2020. Water enamel paint and resin on canvas from the se...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Enamel

Memory Season
Located in Westport, CT
This nature based work is by Cara Enteles. Her work is motivated by a fascination with nature and a concern for the environment. She splits her time between NYC and rural northeast P...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Plexiglass, Screen, Oil

"Body Painting Alalgura" Aboriginal Acrylic Painting on Linen by Maisie Bundey
Located in London, GB
Maisie Bundey has been painting since 1989 and has always strived to have a different style to her sisters who paint the same country and story. Her painting is always linked to her ...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Linen, Acrylic

"Big Yellow Duck", contemporary, duck, dots, yellow, acrylic, oil, painting
Located in Natick, MA
Anne Sargent Walker’s “Big Yellow Duck”, a 40 x 40 inch oil and acrylic painting on wood panel, is one of a series of toy duck paintings completed after Hurri...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Agora
Located in Spetses, GR
Zachariadis' 'Agora' is comprised of two conjoined 100x120 panels that combine to create a phenomenal wide angle complexion of a classic European marketplace...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Night Stalker - Contemporary Figurative Animals Oil Painting, Magical Realism
Located in Salzburg, AT
Aleksandra Bujnowska born 1979 in Warsaw. Works in painting and photography. Between 2001and 2006 she studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in the studio of Professors Jaroslaw ...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Sylvester
Located in New York, NY
Sylvester 2022 Signed Binder and glitter on acrylic 30 x 30 inches (73.2 x 76.2 cm) Sylvester was an American disco icon, known for his flamboyant and androgynous persona. Sylvester was a member of the Cockettes...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Adhesive, Plastic, Glitter

Electric Jet
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Oil, acrylic, ink and sand on wood panel Purple, blue, aqua, black, teal, indigo, violet, lavender, gray Geometric abstraction
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Ink, Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel

LINEAR MOVEMENT II - Neon Lights / Contemporary Cityscape / New York
Located in New York, NY
Original oil painting by Alexandra Pacula
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

A council - Figurative Painting on Paper, Minimalist, Polish art
Located in Warsaw, PL
WALERIA MATELSKA (born 1994 in Belarus) In 2012-2015 she studied at the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, where in the years 2015-2018 she her diploma from t...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

Theres no Point Carrying an Umbrella if your Shoes are Leaking by Lélia Pissarro
Located in London, GB
There's no Point Carrying an Umbrella if your Shoes are Leaking by Lélia Pissarro (b. 1963) Oil and gold on canvas 53.5 x 59.5 cm (21 ⅛ x 23 ⅜ inches) Signed lower left, Lélia Pissar...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Sewers / Égouts
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Building on a series of exhibitions titled Panorama of the Anthropocene which examined the ecological impact of human activity through an array of paintings, digital prints and video...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Enamel

Violet Flow, abstract painting, violet and purple
Located in New York, NY
Lisa Fellerson’s paintings provoke an interplay and tension between line, shape, and color. With no preconceived idea in mind, she begins by dripping, scrapping, and gouging acrylic ...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

Field Painting August 3 2020, Green Tree, Violet Blue, Lavender, White Flowers
Located in Kent, CT
A peaceful outdoor scene with a tree with dark green leaves above a delicately painted, green grassy field with white, pale periwinkle blue and lilac colored wildflowers, beautifully...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Oil, Panel

The Chestnut And The Moon - Contemporary Figurative Nature Oil Painting, Trees
Located in Salzburg, AT
Born 1979 in Warsaw. Works in painting and photography. Between 2001and 2006 she studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in the studio of Professors Jaroslaw Modzelewski and Grzeg...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Georgian Contemporary Art by Tutu Kiladze - Focuses
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Violet Combo, abstract painting, violet and purple
Located in New York, NY
Lisa Fellerson’s paintings provoke an interplay and tension between line, shape, and color. With no preconceived idea in mind, she begins by dripping, scrapping, and gouging acrylic ...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

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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