What is Contemporary Art?
v Contemporary Art is art works of the present. Contemporary artists are still
living today. These artists could be creating video installations and
performances, which are some of the new forms of creating art.
Contemporary art is diverse and eclectic; they have no single medium or
ideology dominance. There is no definition of what this is since it is constantly
changing but it will always be the art of the present, the current art of our
time.
Why is Contemporary Art Different than Modern Art?
v Contemporary art is the art of the
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present, the art of our time
It is constantly changing
There is no unified, crystalized
interpretation of it.
v Modern art is the art from the late 19th
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century to the first half of the 20th
century
It has an emphasis in composition
The art work creates an autonomous
aesthetic effect
Examples of:
Contemporary Art
Modern Art
Marc Quinn: Self, 2006.
Sculpture. Sculpture is created
with the artist's own blood and
molded into a cast that is
shaped of his face.
Pablo Picasso: Woman in Hat
and Fur Collar, 1937, Oil on
Canvas painting, portrait of
Marie-Thérèse Walter, his
lover between 1927 and
1935.
Bill Viola: Ocean Without a
Shore, 2007, Video and Sound
Installation, Running time:
approx. 90 minutes, People walk
across a veil of rushing water.
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Marcel Duchamp:
Fountain 1917, replica
1964. Porcelain. A urinal
that is a ready-made
object Duchamp
appropriated to create
his artwork for an
exhibition.