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: White
Molly: Oakland to Los Angeles, CA (Positive)
By Nikki Rosato
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: silver gouache on paper
The artist says of the inspiration in her latest work . . .
Moving to Washington, DC in 2016 changed me. The unraveling of this country's leadershi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Molly: Oakland to Los Angeles, CA (Negative)
By Nikki Rosato
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: silver gouache on paper
The artist says of the inspiration in her latest work . . .
Moving to Washington, DC in 2016 changed me. The unraveling of this country's leadershi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Deeper Still (Skid Steer)
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: acrylic, paint pen, ink, pencil, enamel, and collage on canvas
Jenny Day is a painter who divides her time between Santa Fe, New Mexico and Tucson, Arizona. She paints a fra...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
The Last Six, Under Six, Murdered by a Gun in the Sixth
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
installation
acrylic on copper, mounted in wall
"Late last year, a local news station was reporting on the shooting death of a 7-month old child. As part of their reporting, the a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Study for Jo III, modern fabric painting with nudes, by Anne Valérie Dupond
Located in Dallas, TX
ANNE-VALÉRIE DUPOND
(b. 1976, France)
Anne-Valérie Dupond, born in 1976, studied at Marc Bloch University in Strasbourg, and obtained her Master’s degree in Fine Arts in 2000. Sinc...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Trimming, Charcoal
Courtyard, Palazzo Grimani, Venice
Located in Boston, MA
Lee Essex Doyle, American (b.1968), Courtyard, Palazzo Grimani, Venice, circa 2014.
Inspired by the artist’s recent travels to Venice and Havana, her luminous paintings...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
If I paint us (in gold) V
By Nikki Rosato
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: gold gouache on paper
The artist says of the inspiration in her latest work . . .
Moving to Washington, DC in 2016 changed me. The unraveling of this country's leadership ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gouache
I nostri esperti sono giunti ad una conclusione determinante - 1970s - Enamel
Located in Roma, IT
I nostri esperti sono giunti ad una conclusione determinante is an amusing and ironic enamel and China ink on cardboard realized in 1970 by Pablo Echaurren.
Signed and dated in blac...
Category
1970s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Mod Squad 8
Located in New Orleans, LA
Non-objective artist Aimée Farnet Siegel works with color and line through the medium of hand-painted and manipulated paper. Her works inhabit space outside the two-dimensional plan...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Glass, Paint, Paper
Grey plays fairly
Located in New Orleans, LA
Materials: acrylic painted and found paper
Non-objective artist Aimée Farnet Siegel works with color and line through the medium of hand-painted and manipulated paper. Her works in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paper, Found Objects, Acrylic
Study for Jo I, sensual fabric painting with nudes, by Anne Valérie Dupond
Located in Dallas, TX
ANNE-VALÉRIE DUPOND
(b. 1976, France)
Anne-Valérie Dupond, born in 1976, studied at Marc Bloch University in Strasbourg, and obtained her Master’s degree in Fine Arts in 2000. Sinc...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Trimming, Charcoal
Interlude
By Kelly Kozma
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Interlude" is an original 20in x 20in painting by Kelly Kozma with mixed media elements.
Please note: The last three photos show images of the full "Tiny Particles Connecting the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Latex, Mixed Media
Rain Study
Located in Buffalo, NY
The Consequence of Small Decisions
Solo Exhibit by Cassandra Ott
This dynamic mixed media work was created as part of the artist's series "The Consequence of Small Decisions".
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Paper
Nightfall
Located in Mill Valley, CA
Craighead's paintings operate somewhere between abstraction and the cognitive world, between the unknown and the known. The works often begin with a general idea. He might be reflect...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Study for Jo II, sensual fabric painting of women, by Anne Valérie Dupond
Located in Dallas, TX
ANNE-VALÉRIE DUPOND
(b. 1976, France)
Anne-Valérie Dupond, born in 1976, studied at Marc Bloch University in Strasbourg, and obtained her Master’s degree in Fine Arts in 2000. Sinc...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Trimming, Charcoal
White Orchid #101
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Kaoru Mansour. "White Orchid #101" is a collage, acrylic and 22K gold leaf on canvas painting depicting an elegant orchid flower bending gracefully over the top of the ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Harley 45!
By James Oliver
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Harley 45!" is an original painting on canvas by James Oliver measuring 60in x 60in.
James Oliver is a painter whose precise visual language pushes the tradition of twentieth centu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Looking for new experiences - mw4mw - 2925 (San Francisco)
Located in New Orleans, LA
paint chip sample mosaic on panel and vintage swing frame
Born in 1971 in Cincinnati, Ohio, Carlton Scott Sturgill received his Masters of Arts (Fine Art) from London’s Chelsea Coll...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
My Wild Garden #120
Located in Mill Valley, CA
New Orleans artist Allison Stewart has gained national recognition for her paintings expressing the complex and disturbing dialogue between man and nature. Trained as a biologist, St...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Fan Cutout : Black and White Series
By Aron Hill
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Minimalist work on paper painted using black gesso, unframed.
One of eight in his series of Black and White Drawings. These pieces are striking when installed in a group.
Hill's p...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Archival Paper
Xavi Carbonell, Untitled, Mixed media on paper, 2014
Located in New York, NY
Spanish artist Xavi Carbonell born 1971, actively paints like a child as an adult, and leaves all of his pieces "untitled" so that each viewer can create their own story. The result...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
"A Home for All with Yellow Roof" Contemporary Abstract Acrylic on Canvas
By Aron Hill
Located in Baltimore, MD
"A Home for All with Yellow Roof" is a framed acrylic painting on canvas by Aron Hill, depicting abstract shapes in yellow, red, and blue on raw canvas. The carefully composed forms ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Acrylic
The white horse Moreno Pincas Contemporary art painting animal figurative art
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint on canvas
Hand-signed by the artist
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
White Farm
Located in Gloucester, MA
Zygmund Jankowski (1925–2009) painted traditional subjects with exuberant irreverence for traditional rules of color, composition, and perspective. He disparaged imitation and deligh...
Category
1980s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Occupy 3" Contemporary Colorful Light Green Abstract Foliage Landscape Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary abstract painting by local Houston artist Max Kremer. Currently featured in the show "5 Artists 5 Rooms" at Reeves Art + Design in Houston, TX....
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Occupy 6" Contemporary Colorful Light Green Abstract Foliage Landscape Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary abstract painting by local Houston artist Max Kremer. Currently featured in the show "5 Artists 5 Rooms" at Reeves Art + Design in Houston, TX....
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Occupy 7" Contemporary Colorful Light Green Abstract Foliage Landscape Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary abstract painting by local Houston artist Max Kremer. Currently featured in the show "5 Artists 5 Rooms" at Reeves Art + Design in Houston, TX.
Artist Biography: Max Kremer (b. 1999, Houston, TX) is currently working in Austin, Texas. Kremer obtained his BFA from the University of Texas...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Tolani
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My painting is an inquiry. I make images as a way of responding to experiences that are important to me. Experiences that help me to understand why I’m in this world often happens when I am outside in large open spaces.
Painted images act as a tool. I respond to the spaces my art suggests. That response is usually non-verbal. I am interested in the experience of non-duality that “getting lost” in big spaces can sometimes produce for me. The paintings have gone through a range of artistic treatments with the recent years seeing a focus on space, light, textures, atmosphere and distance.
My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove non-essential visual elements. When a work is successful, it must have a sense of poetry.
There is nothing “new...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Panel
Astrid State 2
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This dimensional wall sculpture is made of laser cut aluminum and enamel paint. The back panel is painted to look like a page torn out of an artist's sketch book...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Metal, Enamel
Trial Run of "Burning House"
Located in New York, NY
Spray paint on paper
Contact gallery for price
This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.
Category
1980s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paper, Spray Paint
White Ascension
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: slonem, Hunt
Title: White Ascension
Series: Butterflies
Date: 2017
Medium: Oil on canvas
Unframed Dimensions: 72" x 84"
Signature: Signe...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Flat Layers White
Located in Rye, NY
Artist Statement:
With these paintings I wanted to replace the brush with a car tire and represent a three-dimensional object, with all its planes, light and shadows but on one level...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Orchard Series, Scala
Located in Mill Valley, CA
Craighead's paintings operate somewhere between abstraction and the cognitive world, between the unknown and the known. The works often begin with a general idea. He might be reflect...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Casein, 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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