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Contemporary Art

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:  Blue
Noverre - Horse Landscape I, Blue Sky and Clouds, Panoramic Print, Australia
Located in London, GB
Noverre - Horse Landscape I, 2003 C-type Hand Print, Mounted on Aluminium, Custom framed, Museum low glare, UV protective art glass 36.5 x 94 cm / 14....
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Early 2000s Contemporary Art

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Glass, Wood, Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Wax, Panel, Archival Paper...

A little star. Papercut & gouache artwork, Fairy tale, Figurative, Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
Fairy tale like artwork on paper depicting a little angel by Polish artist Marianna Oklejak. The cheerful cherub is holding a little bright shining star. Artwork is made out of paper...
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Paper, Gouache

French Contemporary Art by Liubov Juravliova - Reine de Neige
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic & mixed media on canvas Liubov Juravliova is a French painter born in Chisinau, Moldova in 1963 who lives and works in Argenteuil, near Paris, France She has been listed at...
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Mare 389 - Seascape photograph
Located in New York City, NY
ALESSANDRO PUCCINELLI MARE series Seascape - From the Mare series - Mounted and Framed Aviailable sizes: 27 x 40 inches Edition of 10 40 x 60 inches Edition of 5 47 x 71 inches Ed...
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Archival Pigment

Facetime - tall, colourful, abstracted figures, aluminum outdoor sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Colourful. Engaging. Minimalist. Theatrical. That describes the work of Robert Clarke-Ellis. The Toronto sculptor creates accessible pieces that although playful in form often speak ...
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Metal

Silk Road 409, Cobalt Blue, Purple, Teal Square Color Field Encaustic Painting
Located in Kent, CT
A deep, bright cobalt blue encaustic (pigmented beeswax) painting with light purple and vibrant teal accents on birch panel. Signed, dated and titled on verso. Joanne Mattera’s paintings can be described as lush minimalism, the work is chromatically rich and compositionally reductive. Each painting in the ongoing Silk Road series is a small color field achieved by layers of translucent wax paint applied at right angles. The series, began in 2005, was inspired by the iridescent hues of slubbed silk, hence the title, but very quickly evolved into a more expansive exploration of color. In plying the richness of the encaustic paint against the austerity of a very subtle grid the artist sets in motion a dynamic in which color and texture jostle for primacy. A decade and almost 300 paintings later, the artist is still enthralled with this exploration. Mattera is the foremost expert in the field of encaustic painting and is the founder and former director of the International Encaustic Conference. Her artwork is in the collections of The New Britain Museum of Contemporary Art, US Embassies (Slovenia and Poland), US State Department, Bank of America, and Norwegian Cruise Lines, to name a few as well as numerous private collections. Mattera writes a contemporary art blog, she is a frequent guest speaker and curator and is a member of American Abstract Artists (NYC). The artist lives and works in MA and in NYC. Encaustic painting, also known as hot wax painting, involves using heated beeswax to which colored pigments are added. The word comes originally from the Greek word “enkaustikis” meaning to “burn in” and the process dates back to the 5th century. The liquid or paste is applied to a surface —usually prepared wood. Metal tools...
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Encaustic, Panel

French Contemporary Art by Liubov Juravliova - Gouttes
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed media on silk Liubov Juravliova is a French painter born in Chisinau, Moldova in 1963 who lives and works in Argenteuil, near Paris, France She has been listed at Drouot since...
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Fabric, Silk, Mixed Media

Ocean Light, Original Figurative Painting, Atmospheric art, Underwater Painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Ocean Light is an original figurative painting by artist Bill Bate. It features two figures underwater in this atmospheric composition and colour palette. Bill Bate was interested in...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

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Canvas, Oil

Lakeshore - white, blue, beach, abstract, manipulated, photograph on dibond
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A moody sky looms large over turquoise waters and a bright white shore. Mark Bartkiw’s mesmerizing ethereal photographs play with our perception of reality by slightly distorting ima...
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Plexiglass, C Print

French Contemporary Art by Liubov Juravliova - Les Yeux Bleus
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed media on silent on fabric Liubov Juravliova is a French painter born in Chisinau, Moldova in 1963 who lives and works in Argenteuil, near Paris, France She has been listed at ...
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Fabric, Silk, Mixed Media

At the beach
Located in New York, NY
Selected art photography exhibitions 1993 – "Limbos - a place for photography", Tel Aviv, Israel Curator - Judith Guweta 1994 - "Monada", cobalt - Jerusalem. ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

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C Print, Plexiglass

Golf Player - Lithograph by Victor Spahn - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Golf Player is an artwork realized by Victor Spahn in the second half of the 20th century. Colored lithograph on paper. Hand-signed in pencil on the low...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Art

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Lithograph

Aqua Infinita (2/3)
Located in Nashville, TN
Reduction Method Screen Printing, or “old-school,” means using methods from the early 1900s, before photographic stencils were invented, when every part of the process was done by ha...
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Screen

Aqua Infinita (3/3)
Located in Nashville, TN
Reduction Method Screen Printing, or “old-school,” means using methods from the early 1900s, before photographic stencils were invented, when every part of the process was done by ha...
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Screen

Red Dogwood 2
Located in Calabasas, CA
Artist: Alex Katz Title: Red Dogwood 2 Year: 2021 Medium: Archival pigment ink on Innova Etching Cotton Rag 315 gsm fine art paper Edition: 100; signed and numbered in pencil Sheet...
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2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

THE FRESCO - original large oil canvas painting by Paula Craioveanu
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"The Fresco" Oil on canvas Large original, one-of-a-kind, painting - 33.5x63in / 85x160cm Nude in a Italian Baroque interior, with blue marine painted fresco. Picture from the sol...
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Canvas, Oil

Pacific Beach Horizon, Nautical Triptych Cyanotype, White and Blue Seascape, Zen
Located in Barcelona, ES
This series of cyanotype triptychs showcases the beauty of nature scenes, including stunning beaches and oceans, as well as the intricate textures of water, forests, and skies. These...
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Photographic Film, Emulsion, Watercolor, Photographic Paper, C Print, Co...

Calming, Meditative Seascape in Oregon, Horizontal, Color Photography
Located in US
"Surge" In this award-winning, best-selling image, the ethereal light colors of the Pacific Northwest create an extravagant seascape. Inspired by this once-in-a-lifetime sunrise, t...
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Archival Pigment

Japanese Contemporary Art by Hiromi Sengoku - A Man Brushing up the Sky
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas Hiromi Sengoku is a Japanese artist born in 1982 who lives & works in Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from Musashino Art University (MAU) in Tokyo in 2004 and from the Eco...
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Canvas, Oil

"Drift 21" Photography 20" x 30" Edition of 10 by Rowan Daly
Located in Culver City, CA
"Drift 21" Photography 20" x 30" Edition of 10 by Rowan Daly Digital print on Ultra Smooth Fine Art Paper Unframed - ships rolled in a tube DRIFT Behind the scenes of the nation, our lone navigator reflects on the grandeur of a land both ethereal and familiar. Not unlike the archetypal tumbleweed, the wayfaring drifter goes where the wind takes him. Through the highways and secret byways of a mythic American landscape, this iconic series encourages us to ask ourselves just who we are, and who we aim to be. Rowan Daly Rowan Daly is a Los Angeles based photographer with a BA in Political Science from the University of North Florida. His work ranges from album covers to videography, editorial and photography. He has photographed for Tyga, Nick Jonas...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

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Digital, Archival Pigment

Desequilibre - large, expressive, male, figurative, aluminum outdoor sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Engaging and playful, Quebec sculptor Paul Duval’s artwork often contemplates the idea of balance and imbalance. ‘Desequilibre’ in French actually means ‘unbalance.’ Here a figure st...
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Metal

"Tell Me Everyday" Contemporary Blues Mixed Media on Canvas Framed Painting
Located in Baltimore, MD
"Tell Me Everyday" is a framed mixed media work on canvas by Amber Goldhammer, with graffiti-style text in layers of blue, white, and black. With the words "I Love You" repeated thro...
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Canvas, Paint, Mixed Media

"Candy Stash" Original Oil Painting 18"x24"
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Candy Stash" 18"x24" Original Oil Painting by Contemporary realist Megan Eisenberg. Made with high quality Gamblin oil paints on a 1” deep hardwood panel and framed in a birchwood ...
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Oil

Naked on benches, 50x50cm
Located in Yerevan, AM
Naked on benches, 50x50cm
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Canvas, Oil

Keynance cove, Maggie LaPorte Banks, Original painting, Contemporary art
Located in Deddington, GB
Keynance cove by Maggie LaPorte Banks Hand signed by the Artist Original Abstract Painting Acrylic, Collage and Mixed Media on Canvas Canvas Size: H 50cm x W 40cm x D 2cm Sold Unfram...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

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Canvas, Acrylic

Peonies
Located in Calabasas, CA
Artist: Alex Katz Title: Peonies Year: 2021 Medium: Archival pigment ink on Innova Etching Cotton Rag 315 gsm fine art paper Edition: 100; signed and numbered in pencil Sheet: 47 ×...
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Archival Pigment

Japanese Contemporary Art by Hiromi Sengoku - A Cat Bringing Night
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic, gouache, japanese mineral pigment on panelled linen Hiromi Sengoku is a Japanese artist born in 1982 who lives & works in Tokyo, Japan. She gr...
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Linen, Acrylic, Gouache

N182 , 50x50cm
Located in Yerevan, AM
N182 , 50x50cm
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Canvas, Oil

Japanese Art - Ring-A-Ring O’ Roses, The Circle Goes Around
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil & acrylic on canvas Hiromi Sengoku is a Japanese artist born in 1982 who lives & works in Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from Musashino Art University (MAU) in Tokyo in 2004 and fr...
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

French Contemporary Art by Marie-Anne Decamp - Fun Stuff
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic on canvas Marie Anne Decamp is a French artist born in 1973 who lives and works in Chambly in Oise in Picardy, near Paris. She belongs to the expressionist movement. She is ...
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Canvas, Acrylic

A mother. Figurative Painting on Paper, Young art, Vibrant, European art
Located in Warsaw, PL
Figurative acrylic on paper painting by young professional European artist Waleria Matelska. Artwork is minimalistic and composed with synthetic shapes. Painting is vibrant- main col...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

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Paper, Acrylic

....May I come in, From the Habitat 'Dating' series, Deborah Azzopardi, 2008
Located in London, GB
From the Habitat 'Dating' series. Acrylic on Board
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Early 2000s Contemporary Art

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Acrylic, Board

Lila
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt Title: Lila Series: Bunnies Date: 2023 Medium: Oil on wood Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8" Framed Dimensions: 14" x 12" Signature: Signed Edition: Unique
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Oil

Summer Breeze II- 21st Century Contemporary Portrait Painting of a Girl
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Al Saralis 'Summer Breeze' 100 x 100 cm oil on canvas Artist Al Saralis lives and works in Hampshire (United Kingdom) and, as he says, does not paint reality, but what he perceives ...
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Canvas, Oil

Japanese Contemporary Art by Hiromi Sengoku - The Milky Way
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic, gouache on panelled linen Hiromi Sengoku is a Japanese artist born in 1982 who lives & works in Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from Musashino Art...
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Linen, Acrylic, Gouache

Midday nap- 21st century painting of a girl in a red dress on a blue sofa
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Ksenya Istomina 'Midday Nap' 60 x 80 cm ( Frame is included in price, size framed in a black frame form the pictures is: Oil on linen, framed Painted after life, the artist always ...
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Linen, Oil

Infinite Unapologetic Love
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to a Greek immigrant mother and a first generation Greek-American father. She received her BFA from the Newcomb College of Tulane Univers...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

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Canvas, Oil

Window of the World, Zzyzx Resort Pool, Soda Dry Lake, California - Color Photo
Located in Cambridge, GB
Zzyzx Resort Pool, Soda Dry Lake, California. Photograph from Richard Heeps 'Dream in Color' Series, from a California road trip, this abandoned structure...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Art

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Tulle no. 37, Nantucket, MA
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The hovering installations featured in this ongoing series of photographs are inspired by self-organizing, "emergent" systems in nature such as termite mounds, swarming locusts, scho...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

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Archival Pigment

Woodland Skyscape 45, Woodcut Print of Forest Canopy and Sky, Violet, Blue, Cyan
Located in Kent, CT
This woodcut print on paper is a peaceful view through a forest canopy. The symmetrical composition of trees is shades of dark blue and cobalt blue. The monotype brings to mind the t...
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color Pencil, Monoprint, Woodcut

Lemons, Again?!, affordable art, original art, pattern art, fruit art
Located in Deddington, GB
A celebration of colour and pattern, with a nod to the popular prompt of how best to respond 'when life gives you lemons'. Kerry Louise Benn...
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Paper, Acrylic

Night arrival. Figurative Painting on Paper, Young art, Vibrant, European art
Located in Warsaw, PL
Figurative acrylic on paper painting by young professional European artist Waleria Matelska. Artwork is minimalistic and composed with synthetic shapes. Painting is vibrant- main col...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

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Paper, Acrylic

French Contemporary Art by Christiane Hess - Promenade
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic on canvas
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Canvas, Acrylic

Isis, oh Isis
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to a Greek immigrant mother and a first generation Greek-American father. She received her BFA from the Newcomb College of Tulane Univers...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

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Canvas, Oil

Proud Pansy - colorful, expressive, abstract, floral, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
In vivid blue Pat Service has captured the simple beauty of the pansy. Reminiscent of Andy Warhol, Service’s flowers are pared down to the essentials--simple shapes without leaves or...
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Canvas, Acrylic

Let There Be Love - colourful, lyrical, gestural abstract, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
In this beautiful new work by Alice Teichert, a universal symbol of love--the image of flames appears to explode from the canvas in golden hues against a deep red, green and blue bac...
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Acrylic, Canvas, Crayon

Chanel Night
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: La Pun, Campbell Title: Chanel Night Series: Chanel Date: 2018 Medium: Aerosol on panel Unframed Dimensions: 40.5" x 28.6" Signature: Signed Edition: Unique
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Spray Paint

NAMO EK YOGE, Abstract Geometric Rainbow Composition Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Born and raised in India, Canadian Contemporary artist Jeet Aulakh participates in a rich and varied cultural and social history in which notions of humanity are indivisible into secular and spiritual realms. A central theme in Indian philosophy is the ultimate release from the subservience of life and all its contingent aspects: to be detached from life by the realization of the “absolute supreme principle”, which is itself beyond definition. The goal is to achieve, through inner realization, a reintegration into this indefinable absolute realm. Aulakh ably depicts this other abstract realm through the use of floating circles of saturated colour seemingly floating in the dark to evoke cosmic cycles in which human history and individual identity is peripheral. The radiant world of the enraptured, disembodied soul is undiminished by this enveloping cosmic darkness. His images suggest a cosmic egg...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

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Canvas, Acrylic

NV2, limited edition print, abstract, figurative style, landscape print
Located in Deddington, GB
NV2 [2016] limited_edition Relief Print Edition number Unique Image size: H:70 cm x W:61 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:76 cm x W:111 cm x D:0.1cm Sold Unframed Please note tha...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

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Digital

Dancing off the Cliff (for the Women of Souli)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to a Greek immigrant mother and a first generation Greek-American father. She received her BFA from the Newcomb College of Tulane Univers...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

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Canvas, Oil

CENTAUR IN BLUE original art Paula Craioveanu Neo Mythology
Located in Forest Hills, NY
Centaur Part of Neo Mythology series. Size is 27.5x70x19.5cm Centaur is a mythological figure with the upper body of a human and the lower body and legs of a horse. In my artwork, ...
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Ink, Tempera

Between – Dominique Teufen, Photography, Abstract, Landscape, Colour, Fine Art
Located in Zurich, CH
Dominique TEUFEN (*1975, Switzerland) Between, from the series 'Rays of Light', 2019 Hahnemühle Fine Art Baryta Sheet 80 x 120 cm (31 1/2 x 47 1/4 in.) Frame 91 x 130 x 4 cm (35 7/8...
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Pigment

Pilot's Notion Five, Red, Yellow Star, Blue Vertical Geometric Abstract Monotype
Located in Kent, CT
This geometric abstract work on paper layers shapes on a blue background transitioning from deep cobalt on the bottom to teal at the top. A red orange rectangle in the top left and g...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Art

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Archival Paper, Monotype

Bruno Bruni - "Notte Turca" - color offset lithograph
Located in Winterswijk, NL
Color offset lithograph. Signed by hand. In good condition, minimal marginal defects. A beautiful artwork that looks good in every room and especially in the living room or bedroo...
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20th Century Contemporary Art

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Paper, Lithograph

In embrace 10 - Figurative Painting on Paper, Young art, Colorful, Vibrant
Located in Warsaw, PL
Dimensions are of the composition, not papersheet itself WALERIA MATELSKA (born 1994 in Belarus) In 2012-2015 she studied at the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in K...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

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Paper, Acrylic

The Surgeon’s Photograph by Mychael Barratt, limited edition woodcut print
Located in Deddington, GB
The Surgeon’s Photograph by Mychael Barratt [2022] limited_edition and hand signed by the artist Woodcut Print on Paper Edition number of 50 Image size: H:50 cm x W:49 cm Complete S...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

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Paper, Woodcut

White Horse Beneath a Waterfall, Color Photography, Vertical
Located in US
"Unbridled" In this vivid and best selling image, a lone white Icelandic horse stands calmly beneath the famous waterfall Skogafoss. Set against Iceland’s iconic backdrop, the pri...
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Archival Pigment

Yule, nature art, owl art, limited edition linocut print, affordable art
Located in Deddington, GB
Yule Limited Edition Linocut Edition of 10 Image Size: H 32cm x W 42cm Signed Sold Mounted but Unframed 'Yule' represents both the end and the beginning of the turning of the wheel. the Tawny owl sits in the beech tree watching...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

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Paper, Linocut

Contemporary art for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Contemporary art 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 art 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, orange, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Stefanie Schneider, Tyler Shields, Kirsten Thys van den Audenaerde, and Richard Heeps. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Paper 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 art, so small editions measuring 0.02 inches across are also available.

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