CONTEMPORARY ARTS Flashcards
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relating to the present or recent
times as opposed to the remote past
modern
expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form
art
usually associated with art in which traditional norms are abandoned in favor of experimentation
modern art
modern art era
1860s to 1970s
• works tend to move
away from narrative, which was characteristic of past
art forms, and toward abstraction
• forms, and toward abstraction
• depicts the diverse, global, and ever-changing issues that shape our world.
• typically generate difficult or thought-provoking subjects without providing clear answers in the process
contemporary art
other term for contemporary art
postmodern art
- living or occurring at the same time.
- belonging to or occurring in the present
contemporary
best tools for approaching a piece of
modern art
• curiosity
• an open mind
• a desire to discuss and debate
the difference of contemporary art from modern art
• Contemporary Art emphasizes innovation and freedom
more than Modern Art
• Contemporary art focuses on societal influence, with
society as the major emphasis, whereas Modern art is
an expression of personality
• Modern Art was made
on canvas, but Contemporary Art may be found in a wider range of materials, including object design, tech- enabled artwork, and graphical arts
founder of Contemporary Art Society
Roger Fry
when was Contemporary Art Society founded
1910
• defined by academics as a distinct style that corresponds to a certain time period
• modern
style, on the other hand, evolves with time, resulting in a wider range of methods and outputs
modern art
artist seeks to depict not
objective reality but rather the subjective emotion and responses that objects and events arouse within a person.
abstract expressionism
refers to
a number of German artist, as well as Austrian, French, and Russian ones, who became active in the years before World War I and remained so throughout much of the interwar period
expressionism
two major styles of abstract expressionism
• action painting
• color fields
direct, instinctual, and highly dynamic kind of art that involves the spontaneous application of vigorous, sweeping brushstrokes and the chance effects of dripping and spilling paint onto the canvas
action painting
• the term typically describes largescale canvases dominated by flat expanses of color and having a minimum of surface detail
• paintings have a unified single-image field and differ
qualitatively from the gestural, expressive brushwork
color fields
abstract expressionism artists and their works
• Convergence (1950) by Jackson Pollock
• Multiform (1948) by Mark Rothko
• geometric abstract art that deals with optical illusion
• 20th century
• achieved through the systematic and precise manipulation of shapes and colors
optical art
effects as basis for optical art
• perspective illusion
• chromatic tension
• in painting, it is the dominant medium of Op art
• actual pulsation or flickering is perceived by the human eye
surface tension
optical art artists and their works
• Zebra by Victor Vasarely
• Achaean by Bridget Riley
• art from any medium that contains movement
perceivable by the viewer or that depends on motion
for its effect
• moniker developed from a number of sources
kinetic art
• sculpture in which movement (as of a motor-driven part or a changing electronic image) is a basic element
• became an important aspect of sculpture in 20th century
kinetic sculpture
