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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.

Find a collection of Contemporary prints, photography, paintings, sculptures and other art on 1stDibs.

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Style: Contemporary
Morning Ritual, Gondola, Venice, black and white photography cityscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Morning Ritual Study 2, Venice - no. 11060 // Black and white fine art cityscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 9. Signed, titled, dated and numbere...
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2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

KAWS Changbai brown (KAWS holiday chanbgai)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS Holiday Changbai Mountain (KAWS brown Changbai): A beautifully composed KAWS COMPANION published to commemorate KAWS' larger-scale ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Resin, Vinyl

110.03.98 by Klaus Kampert - Dance photography, male body, nude, black & white
Located in Paris, FR
110.03.98 is a limited-edition photograph by contemporary artist Klaus Kampert. It belongs to the series More Typographic Creations. In order to resemble typographic characters, Klau...
Category

1990s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Death of Marat
Located in Burlingame, CA
Molesky’s latest body of work approaches art history with wit and irony. Drawing from classical themes and the heroic narrative, he subverts these traditions by casting the banana as...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Linen, Oil

"Birds Eye View" - Vivid Contemporary Abstract Painting in Blues, Green, and Red
Located in Carmel, CA
Maria Poroy (American, born 1952) "Birds Eye View" 2023 Acrylic Paint, Canvas, Stretcher Bars The artist signed the bottom right of the painting. "Birds Eye View" unfurls like a mem...
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2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars

Sunbeams - underwater black & white nude photograph - print on aluminum 36x24"
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Underwater B&W photograph of a young naked woman wrapped in air bubbles and sunbeams. There were five grand-pianos at her house, a pool on the third floor, and a sad man on the bott...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Metal

Portrait of Adefunke
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Portrait of Adefunke" is an original painting created by Eyitayo Alagbe. Eyitayo created "Portrait of Adefunke" with Mixed Media on a Primed canvas of 20Wby 26H Inches The Portrait...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic

Seascape XVIII Diptych (framed) - abstract monochromatic ocean water surface
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mesmerizing large scale photographs from the artist's Seascape series, a body of works capturing the tactile surfaces and monochrome nature of oceanic waterscapes SEASCAPE XVIII Di...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment, Plexiglass

The Sound of the Ocean - Original Soft Pastel Tone Oceanscape Painting on Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Charlotte Elizabeth has been working with paint professionally for over fifteen years. Elizabeth’s training in theatre design preceded a busy career as a Theatrical Scenic Artist in ...
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2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Gold Leaf

Ballerina Blue Skirt- Bronze sculpture of a figurativ ballerina contemporary art
Located in Hamburg, DE
"Ballerina Blue Skirt" is a unique bronze scultpure (2023) of Bulgarian mid career artist Günay Aliev. In this sculpture the artist depicts a ballerina with a blusih skirt standing ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Bronze

Kate Moss 1993, Paradise Island Bahamas, Portrait Photograph, Custom Framed
Located in London, GB
For the 1994 Pirelli Calendar shot on the Paradise Island in the Bahamas, photographer Herb Ritts set out to capture in a series of nudes what he called “the gentle innocence” of Kat...
Category

1990s Contemporary Art

Materials

Glass, Wood, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print

Fragment n°2 by Martine Demal - Bronze sculpture, abstract, harmony of forms
Located in Paris, FR
Fragment n°2 is a bronze sculpture by contemporary artist Martine Demal, dimensions including patinated brass base are 60 × 30 × 10.5 cm (23.6 × 11.8 × 4.1 in). The sculpture is sig...
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2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Bronze

May that be the reflection I see- 21st Century Contemporary portrait Painting
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Tania Rivilis May that be the reflection I see 50 x 50 cm framed (included in price) 53,5 x 53,5 cm Oilpaint on wood panel Tania Rivilis (b. 1986) 2022 winner of the 'William Loc...
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2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Hunt Slonem "Purple Pasture" Bunny
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt Title: Purple Pasture Series: Bunnies Date: 2025 Medium: Oil on wood Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8" Framed Dimensions: 14.5" x 12.5" Signature: Signed by ...
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2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Oil

Piece of Mind, contemporary, wildlife, black and white photography, Lion
Located in München, BY
Edition of 12 more sizes on request A Portrait of big majestic male lion lying in the sun. Joachim Schmeisser is represented by leading Galleries worldwide. His photographs are amo...
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2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Donkey by Cécile Raynal - Animal smoke-fired stoneware sculpture, fable, clay
Located in Paris, FR
Donkey is a unique smoke-fired stoneware, resin, plaster and clay sculpture by French contemporary artist Cécile Raynal, dimensions are 82 × 60 × 60 cm (32.2 × 23.6 × 23.6 in). This ...
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2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Clay, Stoneware, Resin, Plaster

"Beyond the Horizon of a Golden Day", 2025. Series "Vibrations of the Earth"
Located in Zofingen, AG
shipped in roll In this painting, the moment unfolds when light no longer just illuminates space but becomes space itself. The horse, immersed in radiance, embodies serenity and a de...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

AFTERNOON STROLL Signed Lithograph Nostalgic City Street Scene Victorian Fashion
Located in Union City, NJ
AFTERNOON STROLL is a hand drawn original lithograph by the artist Ari Gradus printed in 13 colors using traditional hand printmaking techniques on archival Arches paper 100% acid fr...
Category

1970s Contemporary Art

Materials

Lithograph

Abstraction - Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting, Colorful, Dynamic
Located in Warsaw, PL
MONIKA ROSSA studied painting at the University of Arizona, in the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and at the Escuela de Diseno in Barcelona. She practices drawing and easel painting....
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Ed Mell, This Palomino Ain't No Pal of Mine, Giant Size, 54 x 36 in , Special Ed
Located in Phoenix, AZ
This Palomino Ain’t No Pal of Mine 1982 Giant Size, Special Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print Original Pencil Signature, Signed Lower Right Made in collaboration with Ed Mell ...
Category

1980s Contemporary Art

Materials

Digital

Curious Calf- 21st Century Contemporary Animal Portrait by Paul Jansen
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Paul Jansen Curious Calf 51 x 61 cm (Framed 67x 78 cm, Frame is included in price) Oil on wood panel Painter Paul Jansen (1960) started his artistic career as a photographer, and a ...
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2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Half Angels Half Demons #6, Underwater nude limited edition color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The angel is a being that religion has bequeathed us as a sign of purity, innocence, and goodness, from the same source, we have been sold to the devil as the form that represents ev...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Vase With Flowers - Floral Painting By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
Floral - Abstract Painting - Oil On Canvas By Marc Zimmerman Marc Zimmerman creates playful paintings, whether deep mysterious jungle or delightfully whimsical florals. His color ...
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2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Thin Ice"
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
"Thin Ice" is a richly layered oil painting featuring a composition of elegant female figures spread across a cool, moody room. Each woman is dressed in a classic silhouette. Some in...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Little Pond
Located in Bozeman, MT
This is an unframed original painting on birch panel. Unpainted edges. "Landscape provides Gregory Hardy with an inexhaustible source of mystery. His paintings are not representati...
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2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Birch, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Lawyer's Office Circa 1835 - Kupjack Studios Miniature Room
Located in Chicago, IL
The details are so painstakingly exact that the viewer is deceived into believing they are viewing a full scale replica of a lawyer's office from 1885. ...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Mixed Media

MAB: (ETCHING I) 1971 GREY
Located in Berkeley, CA
Color aquatint, hardground, and softground. Edition of 25
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Etching

Chick Close Self Portrait HAND SIGNED Vintage Screen-print
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This signed and numbered self-portrait by acclaimed artist Chuck Close is a striking piece created to benefit the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York. Known for his me...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Screen

OUT WEST Signed Lithograph, Nostalgic Wild West Town Scene, Cowboys
Located in Union City, NJ
OUT WEST is a hand drawn original lithograph by the artist Ari Gradus printed in 13 colors using traditional hand printmaking techniques on archival Arches paper 100% acid free. OUT ...
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1970s Contemporary Art

Materials

Lithograph

Jungle Bouquet By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
Jungle Bouquet - Abstract Paintings - still-life Modern Art By Marc Zimmerman This masterwork is exhibited in the Zimmerman Gallery, Carmel CA. Marc Zimmerman creates playful pain...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Fishing for Joy – Sitting, Contemporary Bronze Figure Sculpture
Located in Taichung, TW
Fishing for Joy – Sitting captures the leisurely pleasure of fishing, a pastime that is as much about patience and calm as it is about outsmarting the fish. The figure sits quietly with a hat shading the face, embodying a sense of ease, as if feeling the breeze drift by or perhaps drifting into a light nap. It reflects the essence of fishing not only as a test of patience but also as an experience of slowing down, enjoying nature, and savoring the simple passage of time. Huang uses varied carving textures to suggest different materials: the rugged irregular surface of the stone contrasts with the subtle gradation on the clothing, evoking the shimmering reflection of water. Cast in bronze using the lost-wax method, the sculpture faithfully preserves the wood grain and tactile quality of the original wooden carving. The surface patina replicates the natural coloration of the original, while the bamboo fishing rod...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Bronze

Interior Space#2 Sea, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
The shimmering sea peeks through a beach house and offers a glimpse of its tranquil beauty. The floor, wall, and ceiling lead to the water, creating a seamles...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Acrylic

Pomegranate Tableau & Apple Wild Painting, Set of 2, original painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Chiaroscuro Pomegranate Tableau is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket painting series featuring small scale realistic oil paintings, with a nod...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"My Horizon - Cypress" Abstract Gradient Color Field Contemporary Painting Paper
Located in New York, NY
An acrylic and oil on heavy weight paper piece with bright use of color and texture. We are focused on the simplicity of beauty in the moment as Shaoul creates a translucent but very...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Oil, Archival Paper, Acrylic

John Van Alstine, Cambre 7-21, Sculpture 2021
Located in Stamford, CT
Cambre 7-21 Bronze and Vermont slate 21" (height) x 14.5" (width) x 4.5" (depth) Stone and metal, usually granite or slate, and found object steel are central in my sculpture. The i...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Slate, Bronze

Clouds - Contemporary Atmospheric Landscape Oil Pastel Painting
Located in Salzburg, AT
Janusz Kokot was born in Kalisz in 1960. He studied at the Pedagogical University in Częstochowa at the Art Institute. He practices painting and drawing. In the years 1988 - 2020 he ...
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2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Paper, Oil Pastel

"Still Life with Flowers in Pink Vase" 2025 Oil on Linen
Located in New York, NY
Remnants of our consumer culture keep finding their way into my work. Our visual lives are cluttered with packages, clothing and furnishings that come at us in a swirl of color and p...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Linen, Oil

Sunrise Oak (Framed 36 x 36 inch acrylic painting)
Located in Oakland, CA
Sunrise Oak (36 x 36" acrylic painting on canvas) This is the silhouette of the branches of an oak tree at sunrise. It's as if you were walking beneath the trees or looking out a wi...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite

Large Arch by Yann Guillon - Semi-abstract bronze sculpture, smooth forms, dark
Located in Paris, FR
Large Arch is a bronze sculpture by contemporary artist Yann Guillon, dimensions are 40 × 25 × 15 cm (15.7 × 9.8 × 5.9 in). The sculpture is signed and numbered, it is part of a limi...
Category

1990s Contemporary Art

Materials

Bronze

Panther
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Nabos. From The Bodegones Series. Still life color photography
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The bodegones are a pictorial interpretation based on a research project of the famous chef Juan Carlos Franco, on old food recipes of different periods in history. The photographer ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Tetons (3)
Located in Bozeman, MT
Piggott finds resonance and beauty in the familiar. His subjects, anchored in the stuff of the every day, are quietly captured in a moment of time. Each composition speaks to the art...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Bert Stern, "Lolita, " 1962, original photograph, hand signed
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Artist: Bert Stern Title: Lolita, 1960 Year: shot in 1960, printed at a later date Medium: Color photograph, hand signed and numbered in red ink, also signed in back of piece in blac...
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1960s Contemporary Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Indian Summer - Dreamy warm small abstract sunset landscape painting
Located in Silverthorne, CO
Oh, my pinky golden sky as the twilight envelopes the wild mountain on the longest evenings of the year. If only you could last forever. A small canvas on a deep frame, with perfect...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Oil

Josh Keyes Sunspot Fine Art Print Contemporary Street Art
Located in Draper, UT
CLASSIFICATION Limited edition MEDIUM TYPE Print MEDIUM/MATERIALS 290gsm natural white print INVENTORY ID N/A CATEGORIES Lithograph / Contemporary Academic Realism / Graffiti and Street Art...
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2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Giclée

TODAY - large format photograph of conceptual motivational billboard at night
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale original photograph of a billboard against ultramarine blue night sky from a series of conceptual motivational messages on iconic Americana signs and billboards in landsc...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Giclée

Dylan Martinez - Cool Breeze Water Balloon, Sculpture 2025
Located in Stamford, CT
A hyper-realistic glass sculptor, Dylan's playful creations deceive the eye with their lifelike appearance. Whether mimicking water balloons or plastic bags filled with water housing...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Glass

Incident: Large Framed Vertical Luminist Style Oil Landscape Painting
Located in Hudson, NY
Oil on canvas 60 x 48 inches This large vertical painting of an expansive pastoral landscape was created by artist Leigh Palmer a few years after his move to the Hudson River Valley...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Linen, Oil

Green Bowl
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Cast Glasswork
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Glass

SMILING MAN, MARDI GRAS - Portrait Photograph, New Orleans, Signed Limited Ed.
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
A Mardi Gras Indian known as Spoons during Super Sunday 2007, in which Mardi Gras Indians parade down from the Bayou St. John in New Orleans. Photograph Print is 12 x 9 inches, Frame is approximately 19.5 x 15 inches. Statement: "My mission is to capture the vitality of human experience and to present it on paper in a visually compelling manner. I work with daily life, ritual and celebration within which I look for moments of insight. From Coney Island, to New Orleans, Cuba, Haiti, Colombia and India I use my camera as a tool for understanding and mutual respect between cultures!" Andy...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Nudity - Original Offset after Renato Guttuso - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Nudity is an offset print realized after the Sicilian artist Renato Guttuso, 1980s. Very good conditions. Renato Guttuso (Bagheria, Palermo 1912 - Rome,1987) was a famous Italian ...
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1980s Contemporary Art

Materials

Offset

Allonge Male, Atelier
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
In his work entitled Allongé – to elongate or stretch - Richard MacDonald has sculpted the powerful lines of the male dancer, accentuating the graceful form of his body. Working with...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Bronze

"Fever Dream" Abstracted Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Westport, CT
This contemporary abstract landscape painting by Bri Custer, titled Fever Dream, captures the electric quiet of a seascape at sunset. A band of radiant orange and blush dissolves int...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Fern I (20x20cm) - Polaroid, Contemporary, Color, 21st Century, Nude
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Fern I, 2018, Edition 1/7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Based on an original Impossible film Digital C-print, not mounted. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2018-47...
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2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Turbulence No 2 - large, narrative, corten steel, abstract outdoor sculpture
By Terence McGlade
Located in Bloomfield, ON
"My work explores the relationship between the tyranny of ageing and urban spaces. With influences as diverse as Brancusi and Buckminister Fuller, new synergies are crafted from simp...
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2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Steel

Clarence James "Bon Voyage"
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: James, Clarence Title: Bon Voyage Date: 2025 Medium: Aerosol and acrylic on Canvas Unframed Dimensions: 72" x 67" Signature: Signed Edition: Unique
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2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic

Bodice of a Man and Man in Tunic. From The Blanco - Black and White Series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
For this black-and-white photography series, he used elements such as water (emotions) to narrate a story. He worked with the color white in the fabrics to communicate clarity and re...
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2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Black and White, Archival Pigment

Five Window Chevy Pickup, by Frank Romero
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Cars are a central theme in a lot of Chicano art, and Frank Romero has made several famous images on the theme. This a unique stencil painting made on handmade paper (from Bhutan). There are 20 prints in the edition, with hand-painting on each. Throughout his 40 year career as an artist, Frank Romero has been a dedicated member of the Los Angeles arts community. As a member of the 1970s Chicano art collective, Los Four, Romero and fellow artists Carlos Almaraz...
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2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Paint, Stencil

Petra - Original Abstract Expressionism Figurative Portrait Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Erin Hammond is a contemporary abstract expressionist artist whose free-form paintings capture the essence of her inner, subjective realities. With a vibrant palette and dynamic mark...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Garden spirit no. 30, original painting, contemporary
Located in Deddington, GB
Original painting on paper from 'Garden Spirits series' Additional information: Acrylic paint on Paper 65 H x 90 W x 1 D cm (25.59 x 35.43 x 0.39 in) Sold unframed Image size: Heig...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Acrylic

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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