What is Modern and Contemporary Art?

Modern  Art and Contemporary Art

1. Modern Art 
• 1860s-1960s
• Modernism:
• Impressionism, Cubism, Abstract expressionism
• All things since the early renaissance.
• Social, Cultural, technological, and political developments.
• Industrialization and Urbanization were significant factors in influencing art.
• photography, film, and new styles were being created.
• Art movements were prominent in modern art.
• Late 1960s created different and more provocative types of art.
• Experimental art was a prominent practice.
• This then led to the popularity in art based events.
• Modernism whenever an artist used a new technique that would create a "modern" style.
• Modern vs. Modernism
• One is of the current fashion and the other respectively is the type of style in the era of modern art.
• Modernism Rules
• specific time and place created, medium it was made of, how it was made.
2. Contemporary Art
• 1970s-Present
• Art made by living artists
• Theory and idea driven.
• Post-Modernism
• Contemporary art is an idea that must be explored individually.
1. Contemporary Art: Whatever that means
• A different technique must be created for a different age of artist.
• Seen as an image that provokes the mind.
• Contemporary art is most seen as a way to break the current rules of art.
2. Themes in Contemporary Art
• Participation
• Linked by the collective action and shared ideas
• Site/Place
• The location of where art is created is significant.
• Cinematic
• Moving images have become a common use.
• Medium
• What is used to create the art.