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.
Find a collection of Contemporary prints, photography, paintings, sculptures and other art on 1stDibs.
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Style: Contemporary
Remembrance #6 by Maho Maeda - Abstract painting, flowers, textile and wood
Located in Paris, FR
Remembrance #6 is a unique painting by contemporary artist Maho Maeda. This painting is made with acrylic, coloured pencil, ink and antique textile on cotton canvas and wood, dimensi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Textile, Cotton Canvas, Ink, Acrylic, Pencil
Remembrance #15 by Maho Maeda - Abstract painting, flowers, textile and wood
Located in Paris, FR
Remembrance #15 is a unique painting by contemporary artist Maho Maeda. This painting is made with acrylic, coloured pencil, ink and antique textile on cotton canvas and wood, dimens...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Textile, Cotton Canvas, Ink, Acrylic, Pencil
"Dripping Dots - Cannes" Multicolor Contemporary Oil Painting on Canvas Framed
By Cindy Shaoul
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 flakes with thick textured oils and glass...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Glass, Mixed Media, Oil
PAILL by Ramon Enrich - Large contemporary painting, landscape, architecture
By Ramon Enrich
Located in Paris, FR
PAILL is a unique acrylic on canvas painting by contemporary artist Ramon Enrich, dimensions including the frame are 95 × 175 cm (37.4 × 68.9 in).
The artwork is signed, sold frame...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Remembrance #18 by Maho Maeda - Abstract painting, flowers, textile and wood
Located in Paris, FR
Remembrance #18 is a unique painting by contemporary artist Maho Maeda. This painting is made with acrylic, coloured pencil, ink and antique textile on cotton canvas and wood, dimens...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Textile, Cotton Canvas, Ink, Acrylic, Pencil
Benasque 1 by Calo Carratalá - Landscape painting, snowy mountain, winter, grey
Located in Paris, FR
Benasque 1 is a unique oil on canvas painting by Spanish contemporary artist Calo Carratalá, dimensions are 156 × 214 cm (61.4 × 84.3 in).
The artwork is signed, sold unframed and c...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Jungles of the Mind
Located in Zofingen, AG
The paradox of seeking inner peace while the mind remains constantly active. The painting explores the experience of lying still, yet feeling the relentless activity of the mind, as ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Almazan 8 Old Window Still Life Acrylic Painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Almazan Realistic Still Life Acrylic Painting. FRAMED
MIQUEL was an artist focused on the art of realism. His structured works on his great mastery of drawing, are romantic and tran...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Sociis X, Original painting, Acrylic on Board, Dogs, Animals, Pets, Walking dog
By Henry Walsh
Located in Deddington, GB
Sociis X is an original painting by Henry Walsh. My work begins with snapshots of busy city life and by a process of elimination I refocus the image on elements that encapsulate a so...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Spring Green Landscape, Surrey Hills, Original painting, Landscape, Nature, Tree
Located in Deddington, GB
Original painting of the Surrey Hills by artist, Natalie Bird. The painting is done in an impressionist style of rural English fields. A cloudy blue sky hovers above fields of variou...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
KISS
Located in New Rochelle, NY
Pietrina Checcacci was born in Taranto, Italy. Currently, she lives in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Checcacci studied at the National School of Fine Arts from 1958 to 1964 and has won n...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dark Energy
Located in New Rochelle, NY
Pietrina Checcacci was born in Taranto, Italy. Currently, she lives in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Checcacci studied at the National School of Fine Arts from 1958 to 1964 and has won n...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sun Shall Rise Again
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
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Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
CANVAS 193, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
acrylic painting on the canvas inspired by african, and contemporary art directions. CANVAS 193 expresses abstract technical-like figures in gray composition incorporated with red do...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Fox
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
Portrait of a Village - Figurative Abstract Art by Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
This masterpiece is exhibited in the Zimmerman Gallery, Carmel CA.
Marc Zimmerman creates playful paintings, whether deep mysterious jungle or delightfully whimsical florals. His c...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Identity 4
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
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Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
My Tomorrow
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
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Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Shoulder to Lean On
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
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Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
optical painting
Located in London, GB
Olga studies the space of the image inspired by visual subjectivity. His research combines painting and sculpture. By cutting the surface of the painting, he transfers his works onto...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Uprooting - Cheerful Colorful Figurative Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Southern California native Courtney Simone seamlessly blends her passion for abstract art with the exploration of everyday beauty, resulting in exuberantly inspired abstract figurati...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
My Own Space - Cheerful & Colorful Figurative Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Southern California native Courtney Simone seamlessly blends her passion for abstract art with the exploration of everyday beauty, resulting in exuberantly inspired abstract figurati...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Butterfly Garden" Colorful Abstract Painting Acrylic on Stonehenge Paper
By Ash Almonte
Located in New York, NY
The Butterfly series for Ash began as a sentiment to her late Father. Butterflies began to appear in unexplainable ways after his passing, the artist later discovered that Butterflie...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper, Mixed Media
Lovely Love - Impasto Thick Paint Original Artwork
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Coulombe-Bégin's dynamic acrylic on canvas works seek to produce a metamorphic interpretation of the artist's inner identity. Her paintings make ample use of contrasting colors to cr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Velvet Heart - Impasto Thick Paint Original Artwork
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Coulombe-Bégin's dynamic acrylic on canvas works seek to produce a metamorphic interpretation of the artist's inner identity. Her paintings make ample use of contrasting colors to cr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Incredible Edible Flower Cake, Bright Still Life Food Art, Contemporary Pop Art
Located in Deddington, GB
A joyful depiction of a towering celebration cake decorated in edible wild flowers. This painting has a great deal of texture, vibrancy and character.
Kerry Louise Bennett, artist and painter, has original artworks available with Wychwood Art in our gallery and online. Working from her home studio in Sheffield, Kerry Louise Bennett (b.1972) makes colourful paintings loaded with texture and pattern. Her previous lives working in set design, upholstery and photography, and her passion for music and literature, all feed into the semi-abstract interior and still life compositions she paints. In one sense the objects painted and the relationships between them can be seen as arbitrary, necessary only to serve a sense of spatial orchestration, and the abstract sensibility of a process-led artist, however, an element of romance and storytelling always seems to emerge in her charming characterful paintings. Colour and composition, strong mark-making and the pure materiality of paint drive my creative practice, but of course everything I make reveals something of me - the introvert, the observer, the dreamer. I work over multiple layers before finding the story the painting wants to tell. In some ways I feel like the conductor of an unruly orchestra - there is a musicality to my work, and my visual vocabulary draws on the everyday to capture a kind of unconscious narrative that transforms chaos into calm, worry into joy, the mundane to the magical. Kerry says of herself: I am obsessed with colour first and foremost – it’s impact is so visceral, but mark making is also important – usually expressed through pattern and the shapes of things often scratched into the surface of the paint, with textures then built up over many layers. My visual vocabulary draws on the ordinary stuff of life - chairs, plants...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Subirachs 11 TV Couch Family original watercolor naif painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Subirachs Ferrer is, besides an extremely gifted painter and draftsman, an illustrator who denotes, in each of her pieces, a vocation that intelligently connects with the classical a...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Luis Fernandez 28 City Buildings acrylic and watercolor glued on canvas.
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Pekin. acrylic and watercolor glued on canvas. painting
Luis J. Fernández was born in Blanca (Murcia) in 1974.
The urban landscapes conceived by this artist break the laws of space a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Font Diaz 28 Black Cat original ink drawing realist painting
By Font Diaz
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
my cat original ink drawing realist painting
Manel Font Díaz (Barcelona, 1950) es un artista centrado especialmente en la pintura, primero formado en la facultad de Bellas Artes de...
Category
1980s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Ink, Rice Paper
Primavera II- 21st Century Contemporary Dutch Still-life of Flowers
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Primavera II
49 x 50 cm
Framed in a black wooden frame: 52 x 62 cm
Oil paint on wood panel
Dutch artist, painter, Adriana van Zoest, lives and works in Warmenhuizen, in the North of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Fernand Leger Portrait - Canson Paper By Beverly Bigwood
Located in Carmel, CA
About the medium, Canson's paper
Canson is a 500-year-old brand of fine art paper known for its high-quality, durable, and versatile papers for drawing, watercolor, printmaking, and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Margarett Sargent Portrait - Canson Paper By Beverly Bigwood
Located in Carmel, CA
About the medium, Canson's paper
Canson is a 500-year-old brand of fine art paper known for its high-quality, durable, and versatile papers for drawing, watercolor, printmaking, and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Marsden Hartley Portrait - Canson Paper By Beverly Bigwood
Located in Carmel, CA
About the medium, Canson's paper
Canson is a 500-year-old brand of fine art paper known for its high-quality, durable, and versatile papers for drawing, watercolor, printmaking, and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Masami Teraoka Portrait - Canson Paper By Beverly Bigwood
Located in Carmel, CA
About the medium, Canson's paper
Canson is a 500-year-old brand of fine art paper known for its high-quality, durable, and versatile papers for drawing, watercolor, printmaking, and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Paul Klee Portrait - Canson Paper By Beverly Bigwood
Located in Carmel, CA
About the medium, Canson's paper
Canson is a 500-year-old brand of fine art paper known for its high-quality, durable, and versatile papers for drawing, watercolor, printmaking, and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Henry Moore Portrait - Canson Paper By Beverly Bigwood
Located in Carmel, CA
About the medium, Canson's paper
Canson is a 500-year-old brand of fine art paper known for its high-quality, durable, and versatile papers for drawing, watercolor, printmaking, and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Aubrey Beardsley Portrait - Canson Paper By Beverly Bigwood
Located in Carmel, CA
About the medium, Canson's paper
Canson is a 500-year-old brand of fine art paper known for its high-quality, durable, and versatile papers for drawing, watercolor, printmaking, and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Edvard Munch Portrait - Canson Paper By Beverly Bigwood
Located in Carmel, CA
About the medium, Canson's paper
Canson is a 500-year-old brand of fine art paper known for its high-quality, durable, and versatile papers for drawing, watercolor, printmaking, and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Robert Mapplethorpe - Canson Paper By Beverly Bigwood
Located in Carmel, CA
About the medium, Canson's paper
Canson is a 500-year-old brand of fine art paper known for its high-quality, durable, and versatile papers for drawing, watercolor, printmaking, and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Christo Portrait - Canson Paper By Beverly Bigwood
Located in Carmel, CA
About the medium, Canson's paper
Canson is a 500-year-old brand of fine art paper known for its high-quality, durable, and versatile papers for drawing, watercolor, printmaking, and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Detail Red Onion- 21st Century Contemporary Hyperrealistic Still-life Painting
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Adriana van Zoest
Detail Red Onion
31 x 31 cm Framed 42 x 42 cm ( Frame is included in price)
Oil paint on wood panel (2024)
Various subjects
Adriana van Zoest's paintings are not e...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Classical Venue, Royal Albert Hall, London Art, Architecture Art, Cityscape Art
Located in Deddington, GB
The Royal Albert Hall was modelled on a Roman amphitheatre, it has a beautiful frieze to the arts and sciences - It is the home of the 'Proms' and the painting shows a view from Kens...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paper, Giclée
"-On Fifth Ave- My Bergdorf Goodman Heart" Contemporary Oil Painting with Frame
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
Motivated by bold color and fast brushwork, we are moved by the simplicity and thick textured oil paints in these works. Shaoul’s “My Heart Collection” is a vibrant and energetic dis...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Mixed Media
Geometric Landscape , Abstract Paint Made in Italy by Marilina Marchica
Located in Agrigento, AG
Geometric Landscape
mixed media on canvas
40x60 cm
Original Art
In Marilina Marchica's work, architecture takes on a symbolic value in relation to collapses and demolitions and i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite
Field of Flowers, Original Painting
By Ruth LaGue
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Ruth LaGue paints a pastoral landscape with a white barn partially concealed by trees. Inspired by the shapes and patterns of a field of flowers, Ruth dr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Macabre Bar Scene - School of Charles Addams - Playboy Cartoon
Located in Miami, FL
Even without the punch line, Gahan Wilson's highly stylized paintings are marvelous to behold. He is one of a few artists with a unique style instantly recognized as his own. In this...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pen
Dawn
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Purple, orange, green, sage, lilac, yellow, rust, peach, salmon
13 x 13" oil painting on canvas with frame.
Inspired by the drama of nature and light, Cynthia creates abstracted land...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Shifting Power
Located in Santa Fe, NM
marsh, water, calm, green, blue, teal, aqua, dusk, lake, trees, reflection
Inspired by the drama of nature and light, Cynthia creates abstracted landscapes with oil on canvas.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Oil
"Vert Table No. 1" by Hiroshi Sato, Original Painting, Abstract Still Life
Located in Denver, CO
Hiroshi Sato's "Vert Table No. 1," created in 2023, is a captivating acrylic on canvas painting measuring 38 x 32 inches (96.52 x 81.28 cm). This original artwork features an abstrac...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Landscape" Abstract Paint Oil on Canvas , Original Art Made in Italy
Located in Agrigento, AG
Landscape
Original Art
Oil paint on canvas
65x92 cm
certificate of authenticity included
Marilina Marchica, born in 1984, was born in Agrigento, where she lives and works. She g...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Graphite, Oil
Help, 60x50cm
Located in Yerevan, AM
Help, 60x50cm
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Naked on benches, 50x50cm
Located in Yerevan, AM
Naked on benches, 50x50cm
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2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
In a haze, 50x50cm
Located in Yerevan, AM
In a haze, 50x50cm
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2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
«Goodbye», 50x50cm
Located in Yerevan, AM
«Goodbye», oil/canvas
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Don’t look up, 60x50cm
Located in Yerevan, AM
Don’t look up, oil/canvas
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2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
At the crossroads, 50x50cm
Located in Yerevan, AM
At the crossroads, oil/canvas
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2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Timelessness" 100x100cm
Located in Yerevan, AM
"Timelessness" 100x100, oil/canvas
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
N140, 120x100cm, oil/canvas
Located in Yerevan, AM
N140, 120x100cm, oil/canvas
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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