contemporary

This tag marks work made in a current, present day style, leaning toward newer approaches rather than a specific historical movement or classical technique. It shows up across many mediums and categories, since contemporary art doesn’t follow one single visual rule. What generally connects pieces tagged this way is a sense of being made for today’s eye, whatever that happens to look like for the individual artist. Use this tag to browse work with a distinctly modern feel, regardless of medium or subject matter.

The resurgence of figurative art in the contemporary gallery scene

Is figurative art resurgent? What museums, market data and critics say, and which figurative artists on WooArts carry the tradition forward.
Spotlight on Korean watercolor artists shaping the contemporary realism movement

Meet Korean watercolor artists whose quiet, detailed work is shaping contemporary realism, including Misulbu, Jung Hun-Sung and Nagkyoo Seong.
Celebrating the vibrant color palettes used by contemporary Serbian painters

Explore how color works in the art of Serbian artists such as Dusan Djukaric and Ivana Besevic, alongside the historic master Pavle Paja Jovanović.
The importance of artist profiles in building emotional connections with art collectors

Why artist profiles matter to collectors: how biography, process and story build trust and connection, and what a good profile should include.
Andrew Salgado

Andrew Salgado is a Canadian painter known for large, emotionally charged portraits built with wild color and texture. Since moving from Regina to London, he has built a career of sold out exhibitions, a documentary, and a major monograph on his work.
Neil Welliver

Neil Welliver was an American landscape painter who left teaching at Yale to move to Maine, where he painted huge wilderness scenes, sometimes eight feet wide, outdoors in every kind of weather. He died in 2005, but his paintings of cold rivers and quiet woods still hang in the Smithsonian and the Tate.
Ignat Ignatov

Ignat Ignatov is a Bulgarian American painter born in 1978 in Veliko Tarnovo who trained at an art school in Tryavna before moving to the United States in 1997. Known for bold brushwork and glowing color influenced by Sargent and Sorolla, he has also painted shelter dogs to raise money for animal rescue.
Mark Lague

Mark Lague is a Canadian painter born in Lachine, Quebec, in 1964 who spent 13 years in animation before becoming a full time painter in 2002. Known for his luminous painterly realism, he builds up layers of translucent oil paint to create serene landscapes and waterscapes inspired by the Romantic movement.
Daniel Gerhartz

Daniel Gerhartz is an American realist painter born in 1965 in Kewaskum, Wisconsin, celebrated for his luminous light and tender portrayals of childhood and women. An Art Renewal Center Living Master, he has won top honors at the Prix de West and the Oil Painters of America National Juried Exhibition.
R. B. Kitaj

R. B. Kitaj was an American painter born in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, in 1932, who studied at the Royal College of Art in London and became close friends with David Hockney there. Known for merging Pop Art collage with Abstract Expressionist brushwork, he was elected to the Royal Academy in 1985, the first American since…
Mamma Andersson

Mamma Andersson is a Swedish painter born in Luleå in 1962 who studied at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, where her nickname stuck after a classmate shared her real name. She worked as a guard at Moderna Museet early on and calls fellow painter Dick Bengtsson her greatest teacher, and her narrative paintings…
David FeBland

David FeBland is a British painter born in London, who earned degrees from the University of Virginia and the University of Manchester and worked in landscape architecture and communication design before turning to painting in the mid 1980s. Since 1984 he has bicycled through fifty five countries, using what he sees along the way to…