Contemporary Art - New Concept

Contemporary Art

            Through this class my knowledge of Contemporary art has expanded in a very constructive way. At the beginning of the course my opinion about Contemporary Art was almost clear, at least I thought that. But after all these weeks full of art work, knowledge, paintings, artists, and so on I gained a new concept of what Contemporary Art means. Contemporary Art means "art that has been and continues to be created during our lifetimes." In other words Art from the 1960's or 70's up until this very minute. Contemporary Art was built through a process of hard work, artists that wanted to change people and culture's mind, movements emerging all over the moment trying redirect the world of Art into a new direction, new techniques, etc.

            "Contemporary art is a style that covers many other styles born at the beginning of the 20th century. It encompasses the full range of artistic productions made ​in the twentieth century, in other words, all executed artwork since 1900. At this point new artistic styles and movements arose to challenge what was known as modernism in painting, sculpture, and other media. The never ending search for different forms of expression and the great aesthetics heritages are part of many of its characteristics. I think that  all behind any artwork there is a story and with contemporary art there is almost always a story behind it in which every author expresses the main point of their work."

             During the late 1960s and early 1980s art was changing. All of society and everyone in it was going through changes. Fashion, music, paintings, sculptures, architecture, literature and many other aspects of culture were beginning new trends and creating new conventions. The way people looked at art was even beginning to vary. People's traditional opinions and knowledge were being tested and whether they kept up or not, they would continue to be challenged. Even artists whose work was typically classical and familiar were beginning to use new techniques and theories.

 Contemporary art, painting, sculpture and graphic arts embraces a wide variety of movements, theories, and attitudes whose artists resides particularly in a tendency to reject traditional, historical, or academic forms and conventions in an effort to create an art more in keeping with changed social, economic, and intellectual conditions. Contemporary art is much more socially conscious than any previous era has been. Some contemporary artists reflect the influence of Modernism, including Impressionism, Surrealism, and Cubism and others break away with Post Modernism, including no connections to past art movements.