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
Move Out Of Sight - 21st Century, Contemporary Painting, Graffiti, Mixed Media
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
"The paintings are built up in layer upon layer of paint which give the pieces great depth of field. They are created with an arsenal of tools that doesn't settle with convention. As...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Mixed Media
"Divine Garden Series #268", Mark Whitmarsh, Contemporary White Flowers, 48x36
Located in Dallas, TX
“As I build layers of color, a personal iconography evolves on the painted surface. I’m
interested in a surface that has a rich patina with a modern ancestry. By adding and
subtracti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Diagonal I - 21st Century, Contemporary, Architecture, Watercolor on Paper
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Watercolor on paper
Atmosphere -masses of evaporating water in the air- describes Ekaterina Smirnova's paintings best. Working in watercolour, Smirnova has a unique approach to this ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Lily
By Idoline Duke
Located in Fairfield, CT
Ink on paper.
Frame is an additional $150.
Pair with Crocus is $2,800.
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink
Coincidències - 21st Century, Contemporary, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Tomàs Sunyol
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
"Tomàs Martínez Sunyol was born in Dieulefit (France) in 1964 and was surrounded by art from a young age. Both his father, Joaquim Martínez Lerma, and uncle, Álvaro Sunyol, were pain...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
GHOST SIGN ON A WALL - Photorealism / Contemporary Cityscape / Bombay Sapphire
Located in New York, NY
Original oil painting by Richard Combes featuring a Bombay Sapphire sign.
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
SPRING THAW - Pink & Green / Mossy rock / Pacific Northwest Forest
Located in New York, NY
Original painting by Alexandra Pacula.
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
23042 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Painting, Mixed Media
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
"Martí Bofarull’s work fits in with renovation of the urban landscape that has characterized Catalan painting of the last twenty years. Among our artists who have remained loyal to f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
45042 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Painting
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Among the Catalan artists who have remained loyal to figurative techniques, several have successfully fixed their gaze on the architecture, streets and commercial trappings of the mo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Our story was a ghostly one
Located in New York, NY
Signed on verso
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Caïn and Abel II
Located in Paris, IDF
Bruno DESPLANQUES
(Born in 1966, France)
Caïn and Abel II
Painting on wood
120 cm x 90 cm
2021
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paint
TRIMMED TREES - Contemporary Landscape / Realism / Nature Scene
Located in New York, NY
Original Landscape painting by New Jersey artist Anita Mazzucca.
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
World Trade Center Reflecting Pools and Harbor #4
By Diana Horowitz
Located in New York, NY
Diana Horowitz painted World Trade Center Reflecting Pools and Harbor #1 during her tenure as a guest artist on the 48th floor of the re-built 7 World Trade Center. When 7 World Trad...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Crying Clown
Located in New York, NY
Portrait
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pears in a Row
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated (at lower right): J. STONE ROBERTS./ 2004.
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Notre-Dame de Paris - 24k Gold Leaf and Sumi Ink, Paris Realism Painting, Zen
Located in Tokyo, JP
A traditional Japanese painting made with 24k gold leaf, crushed seashells and Sumi ink on Japanese paper mounted on a wood panel. Because these substances consist of unique chemical and physical properties, every artwork has its own story to tell and embodies a sense of connection to the earth. With the art of Zen. Presents the sceneries seen through the artist's eyes in an art form.
In mint condition, Certificate of Authenticity included and calligraphy seal in front, hand-signed at the back. Sold unframed and ready to hang (eye bolt and string mounted at the back).
Artist: Maria Mitsumori...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
"Jasmine and Clove" oil painting woman female portrait black dress
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Rachel Bess
Jasmine and Clove, 2017
oil on Dibond
10” x 8” unframed
13.5" x 11.75" framed
Rachel Bess is known for her precise and theatrical oil painti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Contemporary Oil of Art Deco Home Decor w/ Blue Masculine Statue in Drawing Room
Located in Fort Worth, TX
Blue Statue, 2020
"For Blackburn, the Western’s heroic drama, good-versus-evil narrative, and assertive landscape are challenges to face in her work. These aspects of film can overwhelm a painting, thus distancing the viewer from the art. She wants the art to be dominant; “Painting wins,” she declares. She finds this happens when a painting possesses what she terms “classical balance.” By this the artist means that everything is where it needs to be compositionally—nothing can be changed—and “the whole can be seen at once.”
Linda Blackburn...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Canvas
"A World in a Flower" figurative oil painting girl nature dreamy meditation zen
Located in Kowloon, Hong Kong
"A World in a Flower" is a Buddhist saying, similar meaning like what William Blake's poem says, to see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower. Hold infinity in th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
In Every Way Possible 2
By Udo Noger
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Udo Nöger aims to bring out the luminescence of paint in his practice. The artist is known for monochromatic gray works that give the impression of emitting light. Nöger achieves thi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Downtown Blue - 21st Century, Contemporary, Landscape, Watercolor on Paper
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Atmosphere -masses of evaporating water in the air- describes Ekaterina Smirnova's paintings best. Working in watercolour, Smirnova has a unique approach to this traditional medium. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Special Place - 21st Century, Contemporary, Landscape, Watercolor on Paper
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Watercolor on paper
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
MORNING BREEZE, Oil on Canvas
Located in Montreux, CH
Karen Shahverdyan „Morning Breeze,“ 70 X 90cm, oil on canvas,
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Full Palette
By Jim Molloy
Located in New York, NY
Oil painting on wood panel. Building blocks. A glimpse into a child's world, one we all have experienced. Tone is engaging, fun with universal appeal.
About the artist:
Mollo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Superstar
Located in New York, NY
Innocence of childhood. Portrait.
About the Artist:
My art is a visual recording of the powerful imagines that occur regularly in life, distilling them down and preserving the ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Keith Snow Storm
Located in New York, NY
Mixed Media on wood featuring the infamous Keith Richards. Photographed by Joester.
About the Artist:
Steve Joester is a British-born Rock & Roll photographer and mixed media a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Mixed Media, Photographic Film
Discipline-Reading Boy
Located in Palm Desert, CA
An ink and watercolor on handmade paper painting by contemporary Chinese artist Jianyong Zeng. "Discipline-Reading Boy" depicts a boy, a necklace of thorns around his neck, reading a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Handmade Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Untitled 567 - 21st Cent, Contemporary, Figurative, Oil Painting, Portrait, Pop
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Diptych
Françoise Nielly has explored the different facets of image all her life, through painting, photography, roughs, illustrations and virtual computer generated animated graphi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Walmer
By Keith Holmes
Located in London, GB
Keith Holmes
Contemporary
Walmer
Oil on board, signed
Image size: 15 ¼ x 9 ¾ inches
Framed
Born in Richmond, North Yorkshire, Keith studied fine art at West Surrey College of Art and Design before qualifying as a paper conservator at Camberwell School of Art and Crafts. In 1977 he was visiting professor on the conservation programme run by New York State University, where he taught conservation studies at postgraduate level.
He is a fellow of the International Institute of Conservation and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He divides his time between work as a practising artist, a freelance conservator and the renovation of a disused chapel/boathouse where he lives with two Bengal cats...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Autumn Lake - 21st Century, Contemporary, Landscape, Watercolor on Paper
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Watercolor on paper
Atmosphere -masses of evaporating water in the air- describes Ekaterina Smirnova's paintings best. Working in watercolour, Smirnova has a unique approach to this ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Broken Oak, Fort Worth, Texas
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right: J Malzahn
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Art Stroll
By Jim Richard
Located in Houston, TX
Jim Richard
Art Stroll, 2017
Flashe on canvas
48 1/4 x 46 3/4 in (122.6 x 118.7 cm)
This work is on view as part of the exhibition "I Know a Place", through July 7, 2018
For his f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Reckless
By Jim Molloy
Located in New York, NY
Oil painting of car on a curve. Sunglasses hang from the steering wheel. Tone is engaging, fun with universal appeal.
About the artist:
Molloy...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Untitled 513 - 21st Cent, Contemporary, Figurative, Oil Painting, Portrait, Pop
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Françoise Nielly has explored the different facets of image all her life, through painting, photography, roughs, illustrations and virtual computer generated animated graphics. It is...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Arcoíris Rojo - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Painting, Japanese Art
By Mari Ito
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Mari Ito was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1980. She majored in Nihonga, Japanese-style painting made with traditional practices, techniques and materials. She moved to Barcelona (Spain) i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paper, Sumi Ink, Mixed Media, Wood Panel, Pigment
Nandi #3
Located in Singapore, SG
Nandi means bull and bull denotes religion. This religion is the vahana of Lord Mahadev, so, in conventional language it is said to be the bull of religion. In these paintings the a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Watercolor
BEACH HOUSE - Hyperrealism / Portrait of crab with conch shell on the beach
By Will Wilson
Located in New York, NY
Will Wilson is an American artist known for portrait paintings, illustrations and Trompe L'Oeil works. His works have been acquired by museums, well-known corporate collections, and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Arcane - Mineral and Ink, Landscape painting of Ganges River, Textured, Small
Located in Tokyo, JP
An original mineral painting, made with crushed minerals (natural and synthetic), crushed seashells and Sumi ink on Japanese paper, mounted on a wood panel. Natural colors include se...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Stone
CENTER POINT - Photorealism / Exposed Red Brick Wall / Contrast
Located in New York, NY
A British-born, American based painter, Richard Combes focuses his subjects on the forgotten corners of New York City, subway stations, the cobblestone streets with puddles in Tribec...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Dance" Figurative Painting, Woodcut, Fabric and Ink
Located in New York, NY
Katya Zvereva was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia in 1990. She received her Master’s Degree in Architecture from the V. Surikov Moscow State Academy Art Institute in 2013, and in 20...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Ink, Paint
Pro Skater
By Joe Currie
Located in New York, NY
Figurative acrylic on canvas. Portrait of female skateboarder. Has abstract quality. Almost dreamlike. Vibrant colors.
About the Artist:
"Growing up in England during the 80s, the influence and love of American sub cultures through TV, and being surrounded by large non-spaces of US air bases around East Anglia, gave me a slightly odd and romantic view of America.
I finished the Masters Degree bronze-casting course at the Royal College of Art in 1999 and have pursued my passion for Art ever since. I have built up a body of work that follows the theme of a journey into abstraction, inspired by Robert Smithson, Donald Judd, Fiona Banner, Cornelia Parker...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Radiograbadora
Located in Cuernavaca, Morelos
Acrylic on Canvas
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Figurative Landscape painting -Este Castle
Located in Beijing, CN
Feng Shi, born in Shanghai in 1990, professional painter. In 2009, he studied in the painting department of the school of fine arts of Shanghai Normal University. After graduating from the University in 2013, in September of the same year, he entered the studio of Giovanni Chiapello in the painting department of l'accademia Di Belle arti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Stormy Weather Blues
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Cleveland, OH
Multiple Black Outline Bunnies, Blue
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Chwana
Located in Boca Raton, FL
A leading abstract painter in his lifetime, Dan Christensen drew from a range of Modernist sources to produce colorful, luminous compositions that featured giant dots, whirling loops...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Contemporary Art "The Color Maker"Large Abstract Expressionist Acrilic on Canvas
Located in Coimbra, PT
JParames is considered one of the most talented and promising Portuguese artists of his generation. Born in Lisbon in 1978, he studied at the National Society of Fine Arts in Lisbon....
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
I Saw the World's Worst Bicyclist on Nantucket
Located in Greenwich, CT
American, b. 1970
"Pitliuk has created a style that will endear him to those who venture into the collection of modern art; it challenges the intellect and tickles the funny bone at the same time."
--Sharon Lorenzo - Art Historian
"Artist Stephen Pitliuk introduces something bold to the island... [his] Pop Art stands out on an island inundated with landscape paintings."
"Pitliuk, an island resident for [seven] years, comes to us from Miami, Florida. His work hangs in many private and corporate collections throughout the country... [The] vibrant colors and the rhythm of his native South Florida are definitely reflected in his work. His latest pieces, which burst through the prosaic treadmill of the New England art...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
"G" Acrylic on Paper Piece by Ralph Anderson
Located in London, GB
Ralph Anderson
G
Acrylic on paper
H 30cm x W 42cm
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper, Acrylic
#21-04, Vivid Colors - Abstract Floral Painting
Located in New York, NY
Annette Davidek creates paintings that look like gorgeous biomes full of naturalistic forms, enticing viewers to enter a domain that is as familiar as it is strange. Variously sugges...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Birch, Oil, Panel
Audrey
By Chris Tomlin
Located in New York, NY
Acrylic on Wood Panel. Portrait or Audrey Hepburn is 24x24. Vibrant colors.
About the Artist:
"Tomlin is young, upcoming artist based out of NY. His interests in portraits, i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Acrylic
Untitled _ ''White Inferno'' series.
Located in T'bilisi, GE
The "White Inferno" series features crafted mixed media artworks, blending diverse mediums to create intense visual compositions. Incorporating collage p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paint, Charcoal, Ink, Mixed Media, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Archival P...
3-9-22 (Duptych) - 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
“I paint the human figure and explore further till I reach the Beauty of Being, the Soul.. the part of Human Being where everything is in total Serenity, Goodness and Harmony, where ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Connectivity No. 18
Located in Palm Desert, CA
An abstract acrylic on canvas painting by Luc Bernard. This abstract painting is executed in a soft rose background with lines of green, red and blue abstract shapes in the foregroun...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Sumi Ink, Oil
Stones XVIII - 21st Century, Contemporary, Abstract Painting, Mixed Media
By Jon Errazu
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
"My work is characterized by forms and lines. The relationship between background and figure is repeated persistently in each of my works. The figure, simple and almost always quadri...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Untitled (Psychedelic Purple)
By Linda Jacque
Located in New York, NY
Linda Jacque
Untitled (Psychedelic Purple), 2011
Acrylic on skateboard
$1,600.00
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Afternoon Silence
Located in Greenwich, CT
Vemont landscape painting of a quiet lake in the afternoon. A scattering of houses can be seen heading back to the green mountains
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Kaaterskill Clove from Inspiration Point
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right: J Malzahn
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
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