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A Newer Way of Art
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How thought provoking a piece of
art can be depends how open you are to the message an artist is trying to
tell you. The most artistic work from the 19th century to around the 1970's
was called "modern art". This approach
had artists displaying their emotions and abstractions on canvas as they
were able to veer away from the traditional concepts of painting that had
been used since the Renaissance era. |
Stardust, by Osnat Tzadok |
During the
second half of the twentieth century, modern art turned its name more towards
contemporary art. Contemporary art encompasses all art being done now. It tends
to include any art made from around the 1970s to the present, or after the end
of the modern art period.
When talking about art, modern is not used as a
synonym for contemporary. The art that was first defined as modern was the art
of the first half of the 20th century.
Futurism, Cubism, Constructivism are all
parts of modern art. Contemporary art is exactly what the name says, the art of
today or the very recent past. Characterized by no real common ground,
contemporary art offers a wide range of styles.
Since World War Two, art movements have included
Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Post-modernism, Minimalism and Feminist art.
The number of art movements has grown so much that virtually every year
avant-garde movements with new names have surfaced in the art world. One
movement that dominated contemporary art for several decades was one of the
movements I just mentioned, Abstract Expressionism. Artists in this movement
felt that the expression of their feelings was the main reason for making art,
and the art they made generally had no reference to anything in the external
world.
Although many people love modern and contemporary
art, there are some that do not think of it as an art. These viewers think of
art as being something like portraits or
landscapes….something recognizable.
When modern and contemporary artists create something that makes them think,
something that is not easily recognizable, then these viewers reject the idea
of this even being art.
After reading through a survey concerning
Contemporary art, I noted one quote regarding the matter. She states, "I just
don't think it takes any great talent to spatter paint on a canvas (Jackson
Pollack) or paint cubes (Various Artists). How does one discern any meaning to
such things? It is like the ink blots during a psychological exam? How do tell
good splattering from bad splattering? It's much easier to look at a painting
that gives you some sort of idea of the message it's trying to convey." So
similar to abstract art, it is more about understanding the concept and knowing
about the artist and their artwork to truly grasp the meaning of what they are
trying to portray.
So for today's world, we will try to enjoy what
contemporary art brings us. We will learn to interpret what contemporary
artists try to portray with their work. Art is a form of expression, a mode of
communication that is supposed to convey some sort of message from artist to
viewer. How that is done is up to the artist, and how the message is received
is up to each individual viewer.
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