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
Un Jardín en mi Hogar
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
"Queen of Bavaria" Yellow Bird Original Oil painting in Vintage Frame
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Greenwich, CT
Hunt Slonem - Queen of Bavaria
Original Framed Oil Painting. Signed on Verso.
Our Gallery works directly with Hunt Slonem.
This painting was acquired directly from the artist and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Red Houses No. 1, Norway by Calo Carratala - Snowy landscape painting
Located in Paris, FR
Red Houses No. 1 is a unique oil on laminated wood painting from the Norway series by Spanish contemporary artist Calo Carratalá, dimensions are 46 × 74 cm (18.1 × 29.1 in).
The art...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Untitled
Located in Firenze, FI
Untitled
Mixed media on canvas
Size 100x100 cm
Andrea Stella Florence 1950 - 2019
A gifted genius born in Florence of Greek heritage, resided alternately in two cities that are t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
CRESCENT OBELISK - Contemporary Realism / Still Life
Located in New York, NY
Original Oil Painting by Kevin Palme
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Full Moon is coming to Town
Located in New York, NY
Mixed media painting on canvas.
Ready to hang
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Silk, Acrylic, Etching
They didn't teach me how to be loved
Located in Porto, 13
"They Didn't Teach Me How to Be Loved" by Ritchelly Oliveira is a poignant depiction that explores themes of love, vulnerability, and the absence of guidance. Against a backdrop of p...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic
Insomnia
Located in Porto, 13
"Insomnia" by Ritchelly Oliveira is a thought-provoking painting that draws viewers into the depths of the human psyche. Against a white background, the central focus of the artwork ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic
Moon Shadow
Located in San Diego, CA
"Moon Shadow" in the "Celeste and Sea" collection is an original painting by San Diego Artist Shima Shanti in the ancient art form of Encaustic. Up to 50 layers of purified beeswax ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Wax, Encaustic, Oil
Skull with Shutters
By Geoffrey Key
Located in Manchester, GB
Geoffrey Key is a highly acclaimed and celebrated artist known for his bold, distinctive style and his ability to capture the essence of the human form and the natural world. His pai...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Leaving Earth
Located in Santa Clarita, CA
Larisa Safaryan has chosen to work with a most unconventional and delicate medium: an eggshell. Without question she is an innovator in what she does.
The strength and fragility of ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Canvas
TEACUPS - Contemporary Still Life / Russian American Artist
Located in New York, NY
Original oil painting by Olga Antonova
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Promenons nous dans les bois
Located in STRASBOURG, FR
This is a narrative painting on porcelain with miniatures details. Rose-Marie Crespin describes a walk in the forest. A natural world true trees, flowers and plants. A story between ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain, Paint
The last drop
Located in Sandton, ZA
Fabric on canvas
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Fabric
Pancakes with butter and Honey- 21st Century Hyper Realistic Still-life Painting
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Heidi von Faber
Pancakes, Butter & Syrup
Acrylic on linen
100 x 100 cm ( framed/ included in price 105 x 105 cm)
Dutch artist Heidi Von Faber lives and works in The Hague.
The Sti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
Untitled - Woman, nude portrait, figurative oil painting, blue & black
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
Using pure oil paint, which gives the artwork its unique texture, the artist manages to use two particularly difficult colors to work with: black and blue. In his composition, he cre...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pommier fleuri dans un ciel bleu
Located in STRASBOURG, FR
Louis Danicher vous présente ses peintures inspirées de la végétation des bords de chemins, une nature si proche de nous et si changeante avec les saisons.
Elle est intime, fragile, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Gravity's Rainbow, unique signed painting on canvas by celebrated female artist
By Thelma Appel
Located in New York, NY
Thelma Appel
Gravity's Rainbow, 2010
Acrylic on Canvas
Hand Signed, Titled & Dated on the back of canvas
48 × 60 inches
Unframed
Thelma Appel was the subject of a 50 year career surv...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The pig and the bird of prey Timothy Archer Contemporary art painting red oil
Located in Paris, FR
Oil painting on canvas
Hand-signed lower right by the artist
Unique work
News from Eéa
“At the time of the last cosmogony I heard from Eéa
In the middle of the water, an island sur...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled - abstract, oil painting, squares, blue & black
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
Using pure oil paint, which gives the artwork its unique texture, the artist manages to use two particularly difficult colors to work with: black and blue.
This artwork is part of ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
White Landscape, Diptych, Original Art , Made in Italy by Marilina Marchica
Located in Agrigento, AG
White landscape
oil painting on canvas
original painting
one of a kind
diptych
overall dimensions 130x92
(65x92 each single canvas)
Marilina Marchica, born in 1984, was born in Agr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Handmade Paper
La pêche dans les calanques de Marseille
Located in Barcelona, ES
Contemporary figurative painting
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Barbie World
By Adam Umbach
Located in Greenwich, CT
American, b. 1986
Adam Umbach was born in Chicago, and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. After being inspired from an early age by the modern masters collection at th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Large Robert Kiley Painting
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Additional Information: Work is titled “Aperture Series 1985”; Provenance: Collection of Phyllis Kiley (wife of the artist), Boca Raton, Florida
Marking(s); notes: signed on label
...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Conté, Acrylic
Bird of Paradise II
By Sharon Okun
Located in Queenston, ON
A study in flight and motion.
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Large Jack Youngerman Painting, 92″W
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Additional Information: Work is titled “Gray Open”. Provenance: Tupperware Brands Corporate Collection, Orlando, Florida.
Marking(s); notes: signed; 1972-73
Country of origin; mate...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paint
Untitled Face III (To be named by owner)
By Hayoung Kim
Located in Seoul, KR
About Faces Series
Hayoung Kim's paintings incorporate her own experiences in real life. Now she has given birth and encountered a whole new phase of life. While experiencing motherh...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Watercolor, Pencil
Large Composition VI
Located in Bantam, CT
Patricia Udell's art is a combination of Color Field and Hard-Edge abstraction, and her beautiful artworks are deceptively simple. Her signature style and contemporary use of color ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Atracción
Located in Barcelona, ES
Acrylic painting
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
I'm hungry
Located in Barcelona, ES
Portrait of a tiger
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Leaves with Arching Red Tulips
Located in Bantam, CT
Patricia Udell's art is a combination of Color Field and Hard-Edge abstraction, and her beautiful artworks are deceptively simple. Her signature style and contemporary use of color ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Enredos
Located in Barcelona, ES
Acrylic painting
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
La isla
Located in Barcelona, ES
Acrylic painting
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Mujer y su inconsciente
Located in Barcelona, ES
Acrylic painting
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Enigmática
Located in Barcelona, ES
Acrylic painting
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Estatuas doradas
Located in Barcelona, ES
Acrylic painting
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
No me dejes
Located in Barcelona, ES
Acrylic painting
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Castigada contra la pared
Located in Barcelona, ES
Acrylic painting
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
The charge
Located in Barcelona, ES
Portrait of an elephant
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
¿Qué hay detrás de la puerta?
Located in Barcelona, ES
Acrylic painting
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Pelirroja
Located in Barcelona, ES
Acrylic painting
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Circo
Located in Barcelona, ES
Acrylic painting
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
" Lady with a cat"
Located in La Quinta, CA
The artist's new artwork " Lady with the cat" brings his approach
to his indian roots from the Andes Mountains in Bolivia.
A native lady is resting in calm and relaxing ambiance surr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Bilocation
Located in Nashville, TN
Andy King is fascinated with the interplay between chance, perceptions, the influence of others, and mystical experiences in the role of the evolution of personhood. This series of w...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Still Life
Located in Miami, FL
Miguel Padura
"Still Life"
Oil on canvas
21 1/2 x 38 in
Category
1990s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Desnudo 2
Located in Barcelona, ES
Strokes, lines, points, signs come from the plexus, travel through the arm and hand, reaching the
canvas with the indicated “nerve.”
Lights and shadows complete the possibility of th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Cigale
Located in PARIS, FR
Circular oil and acrylic painting by artist Wenyu Zhu. The artist uses bright yellow and red to cover half of the painting, which is in stark contrast with the sunflower shrubs at the bottom of the painting. Especially for the cicada...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil, Acrylic
Le Maître Coiffeur
Located in Porto, 13
The master barber, not without pride, here in a demonstration of talent and technique! His apprentices in the background are divided between a certain admiration and some disdain bec...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Figurative Ink Painting N.2 'Vessels II' by Dmitry Samygin
Located in Paris, FR
Figurative Ink on Cotton paper
Painting N.1 'Vessels II' by Dmitry Samygin
H.27 x 19.5 cm
About Dmitry Samygin
Furniture and Product Designer. His approach relies on simple forms and clarity in ideas with carefully chosen materials to expose the essence of an object. His products exemplify humanistic design, comfort in everyday use and ergonomic function.
He is a prize-winner in international competitions. He has taken part in exhibitions in Paris, Milan and Moscow, collaborates with European and Russian production, architectural and design companies. Since 2021 Dmitriy's design has been presented in a permanent exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Moscow. Dmitry's graphics and designs are in private collections all over the world.
Samygin's Awards
2023 I+D / Design Now / winner (product design & decor)
2021 Red dot / Modul
2021 I+D magazine award / Shelter (covers for the sculptures of Moscow State Architectural Museum)
2020 Best 2020 AD Russia
2019 Andrew World...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Cotton, Paper, Ink
Old Man
Located in New York, NY
2020, Oil on canvas
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
American People III - 21st C., Figurative, Nude, Female body, Feminism, Acrylic
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
The title of this painting, together with the subject depicted, underlines the message of Pep Anton Xaus's artworks. Pay especial attention to the donke...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Make up - Part I
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
Sebastien's body of work unfolds around the image. Almost always, he works on his work in series, which means that several works result from one source image.
He is very methodical ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Acrylic, Monotype
Sky Garden II
By Perry Burns
Located in Fairfield, CT
Perry Burns received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1988. Since then he has been making paintings that merge the traditions of Middle Eastern patterns and European...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cinquième saison
Located in PARIS, FR
Circular oil and acrylic painting by artist Wenyu Zhu. The work shows a unique imaginal season that doesn’t exist in reality – the fifth season. In this seas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil, Acrylic
El Puerco / Gordo
Located in Southampton, NY
"El Puerco/Gordo (The Pig)) is one of a series of farm animal paintings by J. Oscar Molina. The artistic distillation into bold shapes and facial expressions render a humanistic qu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
La Vaca
Located in Southampton, NY
"La Vaca" (The Cow) is one of a series of farm animal paintings by J. Oscar Molina. The artistic distillation into bold shapes and facial expressions render a humanistic quality to ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"La lluvia de la semilla" colorful, figurative, organic, ink painting
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
Through fluid strokes, rhythmic details, and archaic beings, the work shows us the artist's interest in exploring color. This abstract landscape is built by stages of primary colors,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Aquatint
Roman Road, Linton, Cambridgeshire, Contemporary British Artist
Located in London, GB
Oil on board, signed bottom right and dated on reverse
Image size: 9 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches (24.75 x 19 cm)
The Artist
Andrews developed a unique style combining objective studies of n...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Contemporary paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Contemporary Paintings>paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add paintings created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple, red, orange and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Hunt Slonem, Steven Miller, Howard Tangye, and Irena Orlov. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Fabric and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Contemporary paintings, so small editions measuring 0.75 inches across are also available.
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