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
Melodies in Flight I
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
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Resolve
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Resolve
Date: 2024
Medium: Oil on Panel
Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8"
Framed Dimensions: 13" x 11"
Signature: Signed Verso
Edition: Unique
Provenan...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Midnight
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Midnight
Date: 2024
Medium: Oil on Panel
Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8"
Framed Dimensions: 16" x 14"
Signature: Signed Verso
Edition: Unique
Provena...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Threads" Contemporary Abstract Blue, Pink, & White Concentric Circle Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Blue, Pink, and white abstract contemporary circular painting by Houston, TX artist David Hardaker. Signed, titled, and dated by the artist on the reverse.
Artist Statement: The wo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Field Painting June 11 2021, White Flowers, Green Grass Botanical Landscape
Located in Kent, CT
A peaceful outdoor scene with a grassy field with white and yellow flowers, beautifully capturing the idyllic feel of a field of wildflowers in late June. Signed, dated and titled on...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Island Goddess - Acylic by Anna Stern - 2022
Located in Roma, IT
In the vastness of Indonesia's sea, a woman, larger than her surroundings, kneels confidently in a bikini. Her captivating gaze exudes empowerment, challenging norms with unabashed c...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
BEFORE THE STORM 2 - Contemporary Nature Oil Pastel Painting, Warm Tones, Light
By Janusz Kokot
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 ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
A glass of champagne on a summer evening, 70x50cm
Located in Yerevan, AM
A glass of champagne on a summer evening
70x50 cm
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Gouache
Carina - Original Abstract Expressionist 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 Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Memories By Bruno Paoli - Figurative Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
Certificate of authenticity and artist catalogue are included.
Bruno Paoli (1915-2005)
Teaching the masters helped create this contemporary master.
Bruno was a professor of art in F...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Destination - Original Pointillist Textured Artwork
By Susan Gale
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Susan Gale's work explores the nostalgia of community by highlighting the juxtaposition between the peaceful, quiet, mystery of light, and the rush of visually invoked sensation. She...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Field Painting November 10 2020, Orange Tree, Brown, Autumn Landscape
Located in Kent, CT
In a peaceful outdoor scene in late autumn, a tree with golden orange leaves with hints of deep red stands tall in a delicately painted, grassy field with low, rolling hills in the b...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
PALE BLUSH
By Laurie Frick
Located in East Patchogue, NY
The Imagined Time Series- Watercolors from Data artist Laurie Frick
Time, divisions of time over 24 hours, the unconscious shift from one activity to the next, sized and color-coded...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
ORANGE GREEN
By Laurie Frick
Located in East Patchogue, NY
The Imagined Time Series- Watercolors from Data artist Laurie Frick
Time, divisions of time over 24 hours, the unconscious shift from one activity to the next, sized and color-coded...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
STRIPEY GREEN
By Laurie Frick
Located in East Patchogue, NY
The Imagined Time Series- Watercolors from Data artist Laurie Frick
Time, divisions of time over 24 hours, the unconscious shift from one activity to the next, sized and color-coded...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Portrait 77" Contemporary Dutch Oil Painting of a Brown Calf, Cow
By Paul Jansen
Located in Utrecht, NL
The oil paintings of the contemporary Dutch artist Paul Jansen invites the viewer to look beyond the standard picture within the frame. It feels as if the curious animal really reach...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
PaperLandscape , Original Art on Canvas Ready to Hang, made in Italy
Located in Agrigento, AG
PaperLandscape
Oil paint and collage on canvas
80x100 cm
Original Art
Ready to Hang
Marilina Marchica was born in Agrigento, where she works and lives,
After receiving her dipl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Handmade Paper
Across the Estuary - Hampshire, Landscape Nature Rural
Located in Deddington, GB
Wild hedgerows appear to me like jewelled frames. Little worlds of independent structure housing and protecting a wide diversity of wildlife ... but also of great beauty and inspirat...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Precarious Mimicry
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
JENNY DAY earned an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Arizona, a BFA in Painting from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a BA in Environmental Studies from the U...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Ink, Canvas, Acrylic, Color Pencil
Red Coffee Tables By Bruno Paoli - Figurative Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
Certificate of authenticity and artist catalogue are included.
Bruno Paoli (1915-2005)
Teaching the masters helped create this contemporary master.
Bruno was a professor of art in F...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Balaguer Car Races, Monaco 1961, original acrylic painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
original acrylic painting
BALAGUER , Alex ( Barcelona 1968 )
During early childhood, Àlex Balaguer began to sketch motorcars symbolic of Maranello’s trademark vehicle.
Self-taught in...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Wormdigger's Bedroom, Golden Yellow Ochre Bed, Mirror, Boots, Burgundy Red Chair
Located in Kent, CT
A fisherman's bedroom interior with golden yellow ochre bedding, a still life arrangement of a mug and wine bottle on the bedside table, wader boots on a rug in the corner, a burgund...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Hop Scotch
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Hop Scotch
Date: 2023
Medium: Oil on Panel
Unframed Dimensions: 24" x 18"
Framed Dimensions: 27.5" x 21.5"
Signature: Signed Verso
Edition: Unique
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
In Her
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity
About Artist
Oluw...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Helmet By Bruno Paoli - Figurative Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
Certificate of authenticity and artist catalogue are included.
Bruno Paoli (1915-2005)
Teaching the masters helped create this contemporary master.
Bruno was a professor of art in F...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Snow In Plazzo Savonarola By Bruno Paoli - Figurative Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
Certificate of authenticity and artist catalogue are included.
Bruno Paoli (1915-2005)
Teaching the masters helped create this contemporary master.
Bruno was a professor of art in F...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The girl under the catalpa, 100x80cm
Located in Yerevan, AM
The girl under the catalpa
100x80 cm
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
From Germantown II (Plein Air Winter Landscape of Hudson River & Mountains)
By John Kelly
Located in Hudson, NY
Gestural, en plein air winter landscape painting of the Hudson River Valley and Catskill Mountains
Painted in January of 2024, by Hudson Valley based ar...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Eliyahu Boxer, Facets and Faces (triptych), acrylic & ink on canvas 60x150 cm
Located in Jerusalem, IL
Eliyahu Boxer
Facets and Faces (triptych), 2023
acrylic and ink on canvas
60 x 150 cm
24 x 59 in
Eliyahu was born in the United States and moved to Israel with his family at a ver...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
Empyreal Nocturne
Located in Kuala Lumpur, MY
I am a citizen of the world. The paintings reflect a time and place where I am right now. The buildings and architecture both fascinate and inspire me. Of course, buildings are meant...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Birds of a Feather
By Zoe Hawk
Located in Denver, CO
My work deals with the complex experience of girlhood, exploring adolescent anxiety, feminine identity, and belonging. These themes are tackled within scenes of play, group interacti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Lookout
By Zoe Hawk
Located in Denver, CO
My work deals with the complex experience of girlhood, exploring adolescent anxiety, feminine identity, and belonging. These themes are tackled within scenes of play, group interacti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Untitled (Birds)
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Untitled (Birds)
Date: 2014
Medium: Oil on Panel
Unframed Dimensions: 23" x 19"
Framed Dimensions: 27" x 23"
Signature: Signed Verso
Edition: Uniqu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Wormdigger's Bedside Table, Wine Bottle, Botanical Pattern Wallpaper Bedroom
Located in Kent, CT
A fisherman's bedside table with a still life arrangement of a dark green wine bottle, mug, and bible against a bright, lively floral patterned botanical wallpaper in green, yellow, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Floating Thoth & Two Boat Fish Sea, Japanese style, ink and gold leaf on panel
Located in Dallas, TX
"Floating Thoth and Two Boat Fish" is a fantastical Japanese and Byzantine inspired artwork by Greek artist Konstantinos Papamichalopoulos. It shows a dynamic sea, and beautifully il...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Field Painting July 24 2020, Violet Blue Flowers, Green Grass, Trees, Summer
Located in Kent, CT
A peaceful outdoor scene in summertime of delicately painted violet blue flowers in a green grassy field beneath a tree with olive green leaves, beautifully capturing the idyllic fee...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Ohio" Contemporary Abstract Orange & Gray Concentric Circle Shaped Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Orange and gray abstract contemporary shaped painting by Houston, TX artist David Hardaker. Signed, titled, and dated by the artist on the reverse.
Artist Statement: The work is a ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Contemporary Vignette of a Hunter and his Brittany Spaniel's Day in the Field
Located in Charleston, US
Renowned sporting artist, Sandra Oppegard's charming vignette of a hunter and his Brittany Spaniel's active day in the field captures the essence of the sport of bird hunting. In t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Death Star Moose
Located in Denver, CO
For the last 10 years Travis Walker has made landscape paintings about Jackson Hole, a place that never ceases to inspire him to pick up his brushes. He works on location, capturing ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Mother's Embrace, "Gardens of Resilience" series, original painting
Located in Sempach, LU
In the painting "Mother's Embrace," the artist captures a serene and reassuring moment between a mother and her child amidst a lush garden of vibrant malva flowers, a traditional sym...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Hillside View, Interior art, Contemporary, Swimming pool
By Karen Lynn
Located in Deddington, GB
This is a painting from my series of architectural works including swimming pools,sunny places and skies. I love to paint warm climates with the sun and shadows and in this particula...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Field Painting July 9 2022, Violet Flowers, Green Grass, Trees. Gray Sky, Summer
Located in Kent, CT
A peaceful outdoor scene in summer of delicately painted violet blue flowers in a grassy field beneath a tree with dark green leaves, beautifully capturing the idyllic feel of a fiel...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Playhouse
By Zoe Hawk
Located in Denver, CO
My work deals with the complex experience of girlhood, exploring adolescent anxiety, feminine identity, and belonging. These themes are tackled within scenes of play, group interacti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Green Cinderellas
By Zoe Hawk
Located in Denver, CO
My work deals with the complex experience of girlhood, exploring adolescent anxiety, feminine identity, and belonging. These themes are tackled within scenes of play, group interacti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"A Precarious Balance" Oil Painting Featuring Nude Female Figure
By Calvin Lai
Located in Denver, CO
Calvin Lai's (US based) "A Precarious Balance" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a nude female figure in a posture turned away from the viewer and balancing on one f...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Catelaya
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Catelaya
Date: 2023
Medium: Oil on Panel
Unframed Dimensions: 27" x 22"
Framed Dimensions: 34" x 29"
Signature: Signed Verso
Edition: Unique
Proven...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Burning
Located in Denver, CO
For the last 10 years Travis Walker has made landscape paintings about Jackson Hole, a place that never ceases to inspire him to pick up his brushes. He works on location, capturing ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Burning car
Located in Napoli, IT
Quartz painting on cotton canvas,
Lorenzo Maqced – pseudonym of Lorenzo Marroni (Città di Castello, 1993) – who structures this narrative through a variety of iconographies, explor...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Brian Leo 'Springtime Sphinx'
By Brian Leo
Located in New York, NY
Brian Leo
Springtime Sphinx
2013
Acrylic tin stretched canvas
20 x 20 inches
Brian Leo was born in New Jersey in 1976, and is currently living in New York City. He is a graduate of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Field Painting July 14 2021, Green Pine Trees, Grass, Hills, Summer Landscape
Located in Kent, CT
A peaceful outdoor scene on a foggy day with a grassy field beneath two trees with dark green leaves, beautifully capturing the idyllic feel of an afternoon in mid July. Signed, date...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Field Painting November 5 2020, Golden Dark Red Fall Tree, Autumn, Burgundy
Located in Kent, CT
A peaceful outdoor scene in late autumn, a tree with dark reddish brown leaves with hints of golden orange above a delicately painted, grassy field with notes of deep red, green and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Moss
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Moss
Date: 2024
Medium: Oil on Panel
Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8"
Framed Dimensions: 15" x 13"
Signature: Signed Verso
Edition: Unique
Provenance:...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Eva By Bruno Paoli - Figurative Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
Certificate of authenticity and artist catalogue are included.
Bruno Paoli (1915-2005)
Teaching the masters helped create this contemporary master.
Bruno was a professor of art in F...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Glass of wine, 65x50cm
Located in Yerevan, AM
Glass of wine
65x50 cm
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Gouache
2-5-17 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, Mixed Media, Oil
"Free fall into tiny stars" -- Painting on Canvas, by Jenny Day
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
JENNY DAY earned an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Arizona, a BFA in Painting from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a BA in Environmental Studies from the U...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Ink, Canvas, Acrylic, Color Pencil
"Tempestas" - Contemporary Nude Figurative Painting
Located in New Orleans, LA
Louis Braquet is a top-selling artist in New Orleans, and as his paintings sell out quickly at the Royal Street gallery that represents him we are thrilled to have been chosen to sho...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
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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