FINALS: Contemporary Art Flashcards
(19 cards)
• refers to art-namely, painting, sculpture, photography, installation,
performance, and video art produced today.
Contemporary Art
• 1947
• “promotion of art that came to be from that year onward”
• challenge the foundations of contemporary art
• bit skewed if the assumption is, contemporary art started decades later
Institute of Contemporary Art, London
• 1977
• TATE framed contemporaneity in a ten-year rolling basis and was placed under the bounds of their Museum of Contemporary Art
• Tate holds the National Collection of British art from 1500 and international modern and
contemporary art from 1900.
• Tate’s collection embraces all media from painting, drawing, sculpture and prints, to photography, video and film,
installation and performance.
• Tate seeks to represent international modern and contemporary art from a global perspective and has recently
expanded its holdings of work from Latin America, South-East Asia and Eastern Europe.
• Tate Callery opened in 1897, its collection consisted of the works gifted by Henry Tate to the Nation.
New Museum of Contemporary Art
•disgression of artist away trom past conventions ano traditions and
toward freedom
• celebrated the opportunities in novel art between 1860s to late 1970s
• figurative works abstraction
Modern Art
• The International Rise of Manga and Anime and the Birth of Otaku
Culture during the Hesei Era in Japan
• the globalization manga and anime.
Rise of commercial culture
• driven by ideas and theories
• involvement of television, photography, cinema, digital technology, performance, and even objects of everyday
Contemporary Art
Three (3) movements in the midst of modern and contemporary art
- minimalism
- pop art
- postmodernism
• 1960s
• Extreme types of abstraction
• Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, and Dan Flavin are some key Minimalist artists.
• New art favoured the cool over the dramatic
• Painters and sculptors avoided overt symbolism and emotional content.
• focus on the materiality of works
• subtext was deference to truth
Minimalism
• 1950s
• this is a distinctive genre of art that first “popped” up in post-war Britain and America.
• inspiration from commercial culture
• turned to commodities designed and made for the masses
• popular (designed for mass audience), transient (short-terms
solution) expendable (easily forgotten), low cost, mass produced, young (aimed at youth), witty, sexy, gimmicky, glamorous, bis business”
Pop art
• Socio-cultural and intellectual movement
• encroaches other smaller movements, like conceptual art, neo-expressionism, feminist art
• importance of individual experience
• Steeped in complexity and contradiction
• established rules, barriers and distinctions were abolished
Postmodernism
• first ideas of Dada
• ready-made materials were used
• Dada-art movement formed during the First World War in Zurich in negative reaction to the horrors
and folly of the war
Neo-Pop Art
• resurgence of figurative art
•realistic depictions is a choice
Photorealism
• resurgence of figurative art
•realistic depictions is a choice
Photorealism
• Fought against the idea that art is a commodity
• Issues brought about by art institutions such as museums and galleries
• Idea of concept is the most important
Conceptualism
• 1960s
• Ephemeral works of art
• Not about medium or the format
• It is about how specific context is made in which through engagement or interaction, questions, concerns, and conditions will be fleshed out
Performance Art
• Immersive work
• Environment or the space in which the viewer steps into or interacts with, is transformed or altered
Installation Art
• The natural environment is transformed by artists
• Human intervention into specific landscape or terrain
• It’s a landscape manipulation and the materials used were taken directly from the ground or vegetation
Earth Art
• By-product of grafitti in the 1980s
• not traditional in format
• Informed by the iluustrative, painterly and print techniques, stickers and installations or installative/sculptural objects usually out of common objects and
techniques
Street Art
A wall painting from the House of the Centenary in Pompeii shows the earliest known depiction of Mount
Vesuvius
Ancient Roman City of Pompeii
