The main directions of contemporary Western art. Contemporary Art Presentation on the topic of art in the modern world
Art of the XX - XXI centuries.
Painting Like contemporary art, contemporary painting in its current form was formed in the 60-70s of the XX century. There were searches for alternatives to modernism, and the opposite principles were often introduced. French philosophers introduced the term "postmodernism", and many artists joined this movement. Conceptual art and minimalism became the most notable art phenomena of the 60s and 70s. In the 70s and 80s, people seemed to be tired of conceptual art and gradually returned to figurativeness, color and figurativeness. The mid-80s saw the rise of mass culture movements such as campism, East Village art, and neo-pop. Photography is flourishing - more and more artists are beginning to turn to it as a means of artistic expression. The pictorial art process was greatly influenced by the development of technology: in the 60s - video and audio, then - computers, and in the 90s - the Internet Work from the collection of Viktor Bondarenko
Actual Art In Russia in the 90s there was a term "actual art", which, although similar to the term "contemporary art", is not identical to it. It meant innovation in contemporary art in ideas and technical means. It quickly became outdated, and the question of its entry into the history of modern art of the 20th or 21st century is open. In many ways, contemporary art was attributed to the features of avant-garde, that is, innovation, radicalism, new techniques and techniques. Works from the collection of Viktor Bondarenko Valery Koshlyakov "Embankment" Dubossarsky-Vinogradov "Land-champion"
Abstractionism Abstractionism (lat. “abstractio” - removal, distraction) is a direction of non-figurative art that has abandoned the depiction of forms close to reality in painting and sculpture. One of the goals of abstractionism is to achieve "harmonization", the creation of certain color combinations and geometric shapes in order to evoke various associations in the contemplator. Mikhail Larionov "Red Rayonism" Wassily Kandinsky "Zershönesbild" Malevich Kazimir "Grinder"
Cubism (French Cubisme) is an avant-garde trend in painting of the 20th century, primarily in painting, which originated at the beginning of the 20th century and is characterized by the use of emphatically geometrized conditional forms, the desire to “split” real objects into stereometric primitives. Cubism Picasso "The Maidens of Avignon" Juan Gris "Bunches of Grapes" Fernand Léger "The Builders" Juan Gris "Breakfast"
Surrealism Surrealism (French surréalisme - super-realism) is a new direction in painting, formed by the early 1920s in France. It is distinguished by the use of allusions and paradoxical combinations of forms. The main concept of surrealism, surreality is the combination of dream and reality. To do this, the surrealists offered an absurd, contradictory combination of naturalistic images through collage and ready-made technology. The surrealists were inspired by the radical left ideology, but they proposed to start the revolution from their own consciousness. Art was conceived by them as the main instrument of liberation. Salvador Dali "The Temptation of St. Anthony" Max Ernst "The Angel of the Hearth or the Triumph of Surrealism" Rene Magritte "The Son of Man" Wojtek Siudmak "The World of Dreams and Illusions"
Modern Modern (from French moderne - modern) or Art Nouveau (French art nouveau, literally "new art") is an artistic direction in art, more popular in the second half of the 19th - early 20th centuries. Its distinctive features are: the rejection of straight lines and angles in favor of more natural, "natural" lines, interest in new technologies (especially in architecture), the flourishing of applied art. Art Nouveau strove to combine the artistic and utilitarian functions of the created works, to involve all spheres of human activity in the sphere of beauty. Alphonse Mucha "Dance" Mikhail Vrubel "The Swan Princess" A. N. Benois "Masquerade under Louis XIV" Mikhail Vrubel "Pearl"
Optical art Op-art - an abbreviated version of optical art - optical art) - an artistic movement of the second half of the 20th century, using various visual illusions based on the features of the perception of flat and spatial figures. The current continues the rationalistic line of technicism (modernism). Op art. seeks to achieve the optical illusion of movement of a motionless art object by psychophysiological influence on the audience, their activation. Jacob Agam "New Landscape" Josef Albers "Factory A" Bridget Riley "Big Blue"
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Expressionism (from Latin expressio, “expression”) is a trend in European art that developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, characterized by a tendency to express the emotional characteristics of the image (s) (usually a person or group of people) or the emotional state of the artist himself . Edvard Munch. scream
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Primitive zm - a style of painting that contained a deliberate simplification of the picture, making its forms primitive, like the work of a child or drawings of primitive times. Niko Pirosmani. margarita
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Fauvism (from French fauve - wild) is a trend in French painting. The artistic style of the Fauvists was characterized by the spontaneous dynamism of the brushstroke, the desire for the emotional power of artistic expression, bright color, piercing purity and sharp contrasts of color, the intensity of open local color, and the sharpness of rhythm. Henri Matisse. Still life
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Cubi zm (fr. Cubisme) is a direction in the visual arts, characterized by the use of emphatically geometrized conditional forms, the desire to “split” real objects into stereometric primitives. L. Popova. Portrait of a philosopher
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Supremati zm (from lat. supremus - the highest) is a direction in art, expressed in combinations of multi-colored planes of the simplest geometric outlines (in the geometric shapes of a straight line, square, circle and rectangle), devoid of pictorial meaning. Kazimir Malevich. Composition
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Abstraction zm (Latin abstractio - removal, distraction) - a direction of art that has abandoned the image of forms close to reality in painting and sculpture. One of the goals of abstractionism is to achieve "harmonization", the creation of certain color combinations and geometric shapes in order to evoke various associations in the contemplator. Wassily Kandinsky. Troubled
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Surrealism zm (fr. surréalisme - super-realism) is a direction in art, the distinguishing feature of which is the image of the irrational world, there are recognizable objects in the paintings, but they look strange or in an unusual composition. Salvador Dali. Temptation of Saint Anthony
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Modern Art
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Contemporary art is a set of artistic practices that developed in the second half of the twentieth century.
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Modern art is understood as art that goes back to modernism, or is in conflict with this phenomenon.
Floral murals: floral wall paintings by Paul Morrison
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History of modern art
Contemporary art was formed at the turn of the 1960s and 70s. The artistic search of that time can be characterized as a search for alternatives to modernism. This was expressed in the search for new images, new means and materials of expression, up to the dematerialization of the object (performances and happenings). Many artists followed the French philosophers who coined the term "postmodernism". We can say that there has been a shift from the object to the process.
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Performance is a form of contemporary art in which the work consists of the actions of an artist or group in a specific place and at a specific time.
Nude performance for the opening of the Munich Opera Festival
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Any situation that includes four basic elements can be classified as a performance: time, place, the body of the artist, and the relationship between the artist and the viewer. This is the difference between performance and such forms of fine art as painting or sculpture, where the work is constituted by the exhibited object.
Performance by Joseph Beuys, 1978
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Installation (English installation - installation, placement, installation) is a form of contemporary art, which is a spatial composition created from various elements and is an artistic whole.
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Types of installations
An installation can be characterized as a valuable symbolic decoration created at a certain time under a certain name. It is important that the viewer does not contemplate the installation from the side, like a picture, but finds himself inside it. Some installations approach sculpture, but differ from the latter in that they are not sculpted, but mounted from dissimilar materials, often of industrial origin.
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Star installation Grotte Stellaire on the ceiling and walls. Art project by Julien Salaud
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The founders of the installation were Marcel Duchamp and the Surrealists.
Installation masters Joseph Beuys Robert Rauschenberg Joseph Kossuth Edvard Kienholz Ilya Kabakov
Hyperrealistic Surrealism by Nancy Fouts
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Forest of colorful lace. Pop-Up Paradise installation
Kilos and kilometers of colorful lace hanging from the ceiling of the Faena Arts Center gallery in Buenos Aires is an original art project by Argentinean designer Manuel Ameztoy, which thus depicted the natural landscapes and plant motifs that really exist in the province of Entre Rios, where he was born and spent his childhood. The textile installation is called Pop-Up Paradises, and this name clearly demonstrates how attached the author is to his homeland and appreciates the beauty of Argentinean nature.
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Watershed Wall - an installation in Toronto dedicated to the power of water
Many major cities are built next to a large and stable source of water. Some, next to several at once. So Toronto does not experience any shortage of fluid in taps and pipes. However, many of the water sources that this city uses are no longer visible - they are hidden. The Watershed Wall installation is dedicated to the real water map of Toronto.
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Camera Flowers installation. Flower beds where cameras bloom
The dream of an amateur photographer is to come to a forest, a garden or a city park, a garden or a field, and collect there a rich harvest of lenses, cameras and flashes for every taste, color and size. In some ways, Brazilian artist Andre Feliciano brought this idea to life in his colorful installation Camera Flowers, presented in the greenhouse of the New York photo village Photoville.
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House-library from Miler Lagos (Miler Lagos)-installation.
Of course, in the original, the igloo is built from snow or ice blocks, bricks, but this is something rich, as they say. The book igloo, neatly built of bricks in the form of novels, fairy tales, reference books, encyclopedias, textbooks and plays, is part of the exposition at the MagnanMetz Gallery and is called Home ("House")
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Plastic fish - environmental installation at the G20 summit
After all, it is no secret to anyone that the amount of garbage in the oceans of our planet is growing at such a pace that even now this growth is the largest environmental problem on Earth. And artists from all over the world are trying to draw attention to this disgrace. For example, Angela Pozzi, who organized a whole exhibition of her own sculptures, made of plastic, she found on the ocean near her home.
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Illusory installations in city parks by Cornelia Konrads
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Art that borders on magic, a reality that can easily be mistaken for a mirage, an illusion, an optical illusion - such an effect is produced on an unprepared and inexperienced viewer by the masterpieces of the artist Cornelia Konradz (Cornelia Konrads). Her installations adorn city parks and squares in Germany and every time surprise passers-by, not only visitors, but also locals.
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Three-dimensional sculptures-installations of hanging stones
Jaehyo Lee's work reflects the beauty of the original elements in a new stylized form. He makes ordinary stones, picked up on the pavement, float in the air, turning into airy, almost weightless stone sculptures. The Korean author probably possesses some special magic that can control nature and force organic materials to play completely different roles, without losing, however, their face. So, in his works, stone always remains stone, wood - wood, sand - sand...
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Floating installations by Bak Sung-chi
Figures and images hovering in the air are a special kind of modern sculpture, which art historians sometimes call an installation, because they can’t decide how it will be right.
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Bak Song Chi, the famous charcoal installation
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Creative dinner among trees and birds Art installation - happening.
At a VIP dinner at the art fair at Art Brussels, Belgian designer Charles Kaisin unveiled the 3m Fantasies of Сharles oak table with tree-sprouted surface.
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Happening is a theatrical performance with elements of improvisation, designed to involve the public in the performance itself and pursuing commercial goals.
The main task of such a happening is to add variety to the ordinary procedures of public relations. A presentation or a press conference acquires elements of a happening. Moreover, they can be completely transformed into happenings, or happenings can become part of them. The application of happening as a method can be extremely wide, but the goal will always be the same - to stand out so that the target audience remembers the event.
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Collage is a technical technique in the visual arts, which consists in creating works of art by gluing materials that differ from the base in color and texture onto a base.
Collage was introduced into art as a formal experiment by the Cubists, Futurists and Dadaists. At that stage, scraps of newspapers, photographs, and wallpaper were used for pictorial purposes. Pieces of fabric, chips, etc. were pasted onto the canvas.
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Dogs made from paper trash. Original collages by Peter Clark
Does not bark, does not bite, is called a dog. No, this is not the same character that is present in every e-mail address. These are amazing, original paper collages created by the talented author Peter Clark from a variety of waste paper found literally under your feet.
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Currency Collages by Rodrigo Torres
Different artists “mock” banknotes in different ways. For example, Hans-Peter Feldmann makes wallpaper out of them, Scott Campbell cuts them, and Craig Sonnenfeld folds origami figures out of banknotes. But Rodrigo Torres turns the currencies of different countries of the world into collages.
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Awakening. Coffee painting by Arkady Kim, presented in Gorky Park
Since coffee is already firmly associated with morning and the need to wake up for many people, this is how the Moscow artist Arkady Kim called his huge painting of coffee beans - Awakening - a monumental work of 30 sq.m. was presented to the public in Moscow.
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Body art (English body art - "art of the body") is one of the forms of avant-garde art, where the human body becomes the main object of creativity
Body art compositions are played right in front of the audience or recorded for later demonstration in exhibition halls. The direction originated at an early stage of the avant-garde, but became especially widespread in the period of postmodernism, which resorts to it as an element of installations and performance.
History of contemporary art Contemporary art was formed at the turn of the 1990s. The artistic search of that time can be characterized as a search for alternatives to modernism. This was expressed in the search for new images, new means and materials of expression, up to the dematerialization of the object (performances and happenings). Many artists followed the French philosophers who coined the term "postmodernism". We can say that there has been a shift from the object to the process. Modernism
Performance is a form of contemporary art in which the work consists of the actions of an artist or group in a specific place and at a specific time. Nude performance for the opening of the Opera Festival in Munich Nudes for the opening of the Opera Festival in Munich
Any situation that includes four basic elements can be classified as a performance: time, place, the body of the artist, and the relationship between the artist and the viewer. This is the difference between performance and such forms of fine art as painting or sculpture, where the work is constituted by the exhibited object.
Types of installations An installation can be characterized as a valuable symbolic decoration created at a certain time under a certain name. It is important that the viewer does not contemplate the installation from the side, like a picture, but finds himself inside it. Some installations approach sculpture, but differ from the latter in that they are not sculpted, but mounted from dissimilar materials, often of industrial origin.
Forest of colorful lace. The Pop-Up Paradises installation Kilos and kilometers of colorful lace hanging from the ceiling of the Faena Arts Center gallery in Buenos Aires is an original art project by Argentinean designer Manuel Ameztoy, which thus depicts natural landscapes and plant motifs that really exist in province of Entre Rios, where he was born and spent his childhood. The textile installation is called Pop-Up Paradises, and this name clearly demonstrates how attached the author is to his homeland and appreciates the beauty of Argentinean nature.
Watershed Wall installation in Toronto dedicated to the power of water Watershed Wall installation in Toronto dedicated to the power of water Many large cities are built around a large and stable source of water. Some, next to several at once. So Toronto does not experience any shortage of fluid in taps and pipes. However, many of the water sources that this city uses are no longer visible, they are hidden. The Watershed Wall installation is dedicated to the real water map of Toronto.
Camera Flowers installation. Flower beds where cameras bloom Camera Flowers installation. Flowerbeds where cameras bloom A photographer's dream is to come to a forest, a garden or a city park, a kitchen garden or a field, and collect there a rich harvest of lenses, cameras and flashes for every taste, color and size. In some ways, Brazilian artist Andre Feliciano brought this idea to life in his colorful installation Camera Flowers, presented in the greenhouse of the New York photo village Photoville.
House-library from Miler Lagos (Miler Lagos)-installation. Of course, in the original, the igloo is built from snow or ice blocks - bricks, but this is something rich, as they say. The book igloo, neatly built of bricks in the form of novels, fairy tales, reference books, encyclopedias, textbooks and plays, is part of the exposition at the MagnanMetz Gallery and is called Home ("House")
Plastic fish - ecological installation at the G20 summit Plastic fish - ecological installation at the G20 summit It's no secret that the amount of garbage in the oceans of our planet is growing at such a pace that this growth is already the largest environmental problem on Earth. And artists from all over the world are trying to draw attention to this disgrace. For example, Angela Pozzi, who organized a whole exhibition of her own sculptures made of plastic, which she found on the ocean near her home. sculptures made of plastic
Art that borders on magic, a reality that can easily be mistaken for a mirage, an illusion, an optical illusion - such an effect is produced on an unprepared and inexperienced viewer by the masterpieces of the artist Cornelia Konradz (Cornelia Konrads). Her installations adorn city parks and squares in Germany and every time surprise passers-by, not only visitors, but also locals.
3D Hanging Stone Sculpture 3D Hanging Stone Sculpture Jaehyo Lee's work reflects the beauty of the original elements in a new stylized form. He makes ordinary stones, picked up on the pavement, float in the air, turning into airy, almost weightless stone sculptures. The Korean author probably possesses some special magic that can control nature and force organic materials to play completely different roles, without losing, however, their face. So, in his works, stone always remains stone, wood - wood, sand - sand...
Installations "floating" in the air by Bak Song Chi Figures and images hovering in the air are a special kind of modern sculpture, which art historians sometimes call an installation, because they can not decide how it will be right.
Creative dinner among trees and birds Art installation - happening. At a VIP dinner at the art fair at Art Brussels, Belgian designer Charles Kaisin unveiled a three-meter tall oak table called "Fantasies of Charles" with trees "sprouted" on its surface.
Happening is a theatrical performance with elements of improvisation, designed to involve the public in the performance itself and pursuing commercial goals. The main task of such a happening is to add variety to the ordinary procedures of public relations. A presentation or a press conference acquires elements of a happening. Moreover, they can be completely transformed into happenings, or happenings can become part of them. The use of happening as a method can be extremely wide, but the goal will always be the same to stand out so that the target audience remembers the event. Presentation press conference
Collage is a technical technique in the visual arts, which consists in creating works of art by gluing materials that differ from the base in color and texture onto a base. Collage was introduced into art as a formal experiment by the Cubists, Futurists and Dadaists. At that stage, scraps of newspapers, photographs, and wallpaper were used for pictorial purposes. Pieces of fabric, chips, etc. were pasted onto the canvas by cubist futurists and dadaists
Dogs made from paper trash. Original collages by Peter Clark (Peter Clark) Dogs made from paper trash. Original collages by Peter Clark Doesn't bark, doesn't bite, it's called a dog. No, this is not the same character that is present in every address. These are amazing, original paper collages created by the talented author Peter Clark from a variety of waste paper found literally under your feet.
Currency collages from Rodrigo Torres (Rodrigo Torres) Currency collages from Rodrigo Torres (Rodrigo Torres) Different artists in different ways "mock" banknotes. For example, Hans-Peter Feldmann makes wallpaper out of them, Scott Campbell cuts them, and Craig Sonnenfeld folds origami figures out of banknotes. But Rodrigo Torres turns the currencies of different countries of the world into collages. Hans-Peter Feldmann makes wallpaper out of them Scott Campbell cuts them Craig Sonnenfeld folds origami figures from banknotes
Awakening. Arkady Kim's coffee painting, presented in Gorky Park As soon as many people associate coffee with morning and the need to wake up, this is how the Moscow artist Arkady Kim called his huge coffee bean painting - Awakening - a monumental work of 30 sq.m. was presented to the public in Moscow.
Modern painting - body art. Beginning in the 1960s, body painting began to develop in the West as part of a change in public morality towards greater freedoms. Resurrected in the West, body painting is mistakenly considered a young art. Famous artists have used body art for their exhibitions and performances. Gradually, body art began to be used for commercial purposes - for promotions, advertising. Public morality
Body art (eng. body art "art of the body") is one of the forms of avant-garde art, where the main object of creativity is the body of an avant-garde person. Body art compositions are played right in front of the viewer or recorded for subsequent demonstration in exhibition halls. The direction arose at an early stage of the avant-garde, but gained particular popularity in the period of postmodernism, which resorts to it as an element of installations and performance.
World Famous Brands in Tattoos on Human Body World Famous Brands in Tattoos on Human Body Time goes by and imperceptibly favorite brands enter our lives so tightly that we can no longer "change" them with other brands. This is evidenced by the work of the advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi Lovemarks, showing tattoos of famous "lovemarks".
