Contemporary painting

Gallery of
Contemporary painting

XX and XXI Centuries

From the most famous masters.

"while I know that the beautiful, the spiritual and the sublime are today suspect I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art." Ian Hornak

XX Century

Renoir, The Terrace at Cagnes, ca. 1908.
Renoir, Madame Thurneyssen, 1908.

Fernand Leger, The Smokers, 1912.

Hurricane by John Marin, 1944.

Paul Cézanne, Sous Bois Provençal, c. 1900-06.

One of the most influential artists in the history of twentieth century painting, Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) has inspired generations of modern artists. Generally categorized as a Post-Impressionist, his unique method of building form with color and his analytical approach to nature influenced the art of Cubists, Fauvists, and successive generations of avant-garde artists. [1]

"The Blue Mountain" Wassily Kandinsky, 1908.
"Red Fish and a Sculpture", Henri Matisse, 1911.
"Feuille de Musique et Guitare" Pablo Picasso, 1912.
"Dynamism of a Cyclist", Umberto Boccioni, 1913.
Vasily Blajenniy, Aristarh Lentulov, 1913.
"La Tour Eiffel", Diego Rivera, 1914.
"Alpine Kitchen", Ernst Kirchner, 1918.
"Maiko", Seiki Kuroda, ca. 1920.
"Brasil", Benito Quinquela Martín, 1920.
"Romeria" Salvador Dali, 1921.
"Mañana Tibia", Fernando Fader, 1923.
"Personage", Joan Miró, 1925.
"The Couple", Max Ernst, 1925.
"Self-Portrait", Fernando Fader, 1925.
"Birthplace of Herbert Hoover", Grant Wood, 1931.
"Vista del Popocatepetl", Dr. Atl, 1934.
"The Basin of Deauville", Raoul Dufy, 1935.
"Anemones", Raoul Dufy, 1937.
"The Migration of the Negro", Jacob Lawrence, 1940-1941.
"Galaxy", Jackson Pollock, 1947.
"High Plains - Range Land", Raymond J. Eastwood, 1950.
"Woman 1", Willem de Kooning, 1950-1952.
"At the Sea", Aleksey Motorin, 1953.
"Flower Seller at La Madeleine", Edouard Leon Cortes.
"Incendiare", Jean Miotte, 1958.
"Three-Flags-1958", Jasper Johns, 1958.
"Watermelons", Rufino Tamayo, 1965.
"Le blanc Seing", René Magritte, 1965.
"Atardecer Brillante", Benito Quinquela Martín, 1972.
"Untitled", Max Bill, 1972.
"Dunes In Winter", Ian Hornak, 1972.
"The Living Room" Red Grooms, 1981.
"Ixtacihuatl", Baruj Salinas, 1993.
"Girl with Goats", Viktor Safronov, 1993.
"I Giardini di Giotto", Maurizia Manfredi, 1998.

Mordecai Ardon, The Awakening, 1969.

XXI Century

Bruno Landi, Donna con glicine, 2003.

John Hoyland, Lebanon, 2007.

"A girl by the window" Iman Maleki, 2000.
"An Achaemenian Soldier", Iman Maleki, 2001-2002.
"Sunset", Zhang Guanghai, 2001.
"5.8 Richter scale", Jesús María Cormán, 2001.
"Horizon Center Focus No 2", David Sorensen, 2004.
"The Old album", Iman Maleki, 2006.
"Un Poco de Nosotros", Roberto Fabelo, 2007.
"Hope", Richmond Garrick, 2008.
"Untitled", Roberto Fabelo, 2009.
"Picnic", Vladimir Ageev, 2009.
"Piazza Navona", Valentin Bobylkov, 2012.

Contemporary painting comprises the following schools and movements among others: Der Blaue Reiter, Die Brücke, Dada, Surrealism, The Bauhaus, De Stijl, Expressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Muralism, Abstract painting, Futurism, Suprematism, Geometric abstraction, Constructivism, Symbolism, Abstract Expressionism, Lyrical Abstraction, Color Field painting, Pop Art, Op Art, Minimal art, Art brut, Abstract Illusionism, Hard-edge painting, Collage, Assemblage painting, and Digital painting.