Top-11 contemporary artists who will change your perception of reality

These contemporary artists go beyond the painting canons representing the other side of reality. Some of them create amazing fantasy worlds, others — reflect reality so realistically that their paintings are confused with photographs.

Contemporary art means freedom of self-expression and unlimited choice of painting tools, thanks to which the master creates a masterpiece. A clear benefit of modernity is the space for inspiration searching has become wider, and the meanings have become deeper. Some paintings of the contemporary artists just overturn the mind. We have selected 11 masters of contemporary art, who set the tone for painting in the modern world.

1. Andrea Coach, USA

Andrea creates artworks reminiscing optimistic plots of post-war America of the last century and fantasy surrealism from illustrations of fantasy novels, where the main character is an ordinary average alien. Woman is as the embodiment of lightness and youth, unencumbered by the pain of loss. Light, almost airy, dancing according to the laws of the universe – this is her heroine. It has both Monroe's smile and the wind that lifts Merlin's skirt. Frivolity and wise feminine calmness. Yin harmony, which is perfect in everything.

2. Peter Doig, Canada

The landscape painter knows how to paint very dear, similar to childhood memories: parental home, a winter day that smells with pies from the window and is announced by the cry of fighting cats. Vague memories that have already lost their clearness, but are felt on the canvas of memory as a sketch of happy days. The artist creates a composition that few people succeed to so well with such oversaturation of the foreground. Simple plots, as they would say - "not worthy of the artist's brush." But they turn out to be worthwhile in all the senses. For example, “Rosedale” was auctioned off for $ 28.8 million.

3. Aurelio Bruni, Italy

The artist's artworks are a seemingly impossible combination of surrealism and realism. Something from the Bible books, something from the sleepy siesta of the sunny city, something from aged wine and irrepressible love. Here sensuality is like goosebumps. The details are drawn with incredible precision and create the effect of presence or even touch for the viewer. The artist's paintings are very atmospheric and pure in terms of emotional sound. Their contemplation is an ideal tuning fork for the human soul in the bustle and hustle of modern life.

4. Alexander Balos, Poland

Oil and souls — it seems that Alexander writes with these materials. His paintings are somewhat reminiscent of Vrubel's demoniade, but his characters are too mortal. Their nudity has no eroticism or gender emotion. It is about the wheel of samsara, about what is behind everyone at the end of the path. About the severity of this burden and its invisibility. Balos flirts with devilry, veiling the views of the heroes with it. Boldly — yes! Stacked, almost frightening and endlessly talented.

5. Vinicius Quesada, Brazil

Quesada occupies a special place in the list of the most provocative artists of our time. He guides his viewer along a fine line of common sense, leaving an aftertaste like from the stories of Edgar Poe. To turn vanity into something imperishable – perhaps this is the main message of the artist. Anyway, his paintings make the viewer feel uncomfortable. They make you want to leave them as soon as possible and to stare forever at them at the same time. The point is that the artist paints with blood and urine, and he uses half a litre of blood a month. These paintings are from the flesh and blood of their Creator, not otherwise. Blood and picturesque jazz spleen in the plots elevate Vinicius to Olympus not only among the best artists, but also among the most interesting philosophers of our time.

6.Antonio Finelli, Italy

Finelli paints hyperrealistic portraits of elderly people, keeping in their eyes every drop of feelings and experiences. The artist works primarily with a pencil, which makes his portraits look like monochrome photographs.

Views shaped by over-lived, wrinkles – each of which is a notch of fate. Why is that? People's faces are the most honest canvases, where their fate is written. All portraits are part of the Auto-Portrait series.

The painter emphasizes that we all walk along the same road and, no matter how much we turn off it, time cannot be deceived. The flattery of youth is fleeting, and only in maturity the mirror show us real.

7.Helen Flockhart, Scotland

What is Helen painting about? About a beauty in red, about a mysterious stranger, about love, about the first tango of two who have not yet met, but are already burning. About the rain, about the evening, lowering the veil of secrecy on the metropolis, about the vague outlines of happiness somewhere in the future or memories of it somewhere in the past. The artist's paintings are atmospheric, like Paris in autumn and fiery, like flamenco, the notes of which fly from the strings of a handsome young man under the heels of a dancing senorita.

8. Wojciech Babski, Poland

Wojciech Babski creates portraits of women that seem to have been written just from men's fantasies, inspired by jazz improvisations. He subtly feels the mysteries of colors, the mysticism of tone play and the subtlest emotions of his characters. His models are Muses, Dreams, Illusions. They contain as much passion, as it is necessary for eternal love, and as much temptation, as it is required for loss of reason. Spots of color form the lines of their body and facial features, merge into a single whole. And with this radiance, it is not a dirty gray created, but an original and slightly daring image of his paintings.

9. Felipe Pantone, Spain

Master of monumentality and king of graffiti. Pantone is not satisfied with the framework of the canvas and creates his paintings on the streets of multi-million cities. The master's exhibitions are also held here. The color storm of his abstractions fills the space and can rightfully be called the largest element of modern street art. It is difficult to predict whether this style of painting will go into the annals of the "classical" painting, since the artworks themselves cannot be taken to the museum, so seize the moment and enjoy the paintings of a modern artist.

10. Denis Chernov, Ukraine

Glory about the talent of the Lviv artist goes far beyond the borders of Ukraine. The master paints surprisingly realistic, quivering and touching portraits of his Margaritas, delighting connoisseurs of modern art with the fragility of emotions and the softness of lines. The heroines of the Ukrainian artist are naked and closed, totally feminine and tangible. In addition to portraits, Chernov paints graphic landscapes filled with the sun and a light breeze, as well as historical paintings.

11. Banksy, England

Banksy is the most mysterious artist of our time. The counterculture genius, the mysterious graphic painter Banksy, has long troubled the minds of the whole world. His artworks are exhibited in the most famous galleries, estimated at several million dollars, but his face has not yet been seen. The genius's guerrilla style, originating in modernism, makes people from all over the world admire and follow his work. It is still unknown who is hiding behind the mask of a genius – an ordinary England resident or a famous artist of our time.

These are, perhaps, the main trendsetters in the world of contemporary art, who have gone beyond the word "pictorial" and turned it into "transforming", "changing the way of perceiving the world." The viewer asks: "How does an artist manage to see the world like this?" and in search of an answer, begins to consider the world from new, unusual points of view. A viewer includes fantasy where the essence is hidden behind the stereotypes, learns to feel the emotion, the moment, its fundamental principle. This is worth a lot in the world of momentary pictures and deliberate primitive that has captured many illustrators.

In the online gallery of oil paintings Struchaieva Art you can find and buy paintings of different themes and genres. I paint with oils and dry pigments, using special durable stretchers and woolen canvases.