lesson 9: caught in between: modern and contemporary art

institute of contemporary art in london

this institution includes in its mandate "the promotion of art that came to be from that year onwards"

new museum of contemporary art in new york

this institution's starting point is dated at 1977

TATE

formed contemporaneity in a 10 yr rolling basis and was placed under the bounds of their museum of contemporary art

modern and contemporary

_______________ and_______________ are considered synonymoous but is not

modern art

predecessor of contemporary art

modern art

this art saw the digression of artist away from past conventions and tradition and toward freedom

Anything goes

There is the famous adage of "_______________ " roughly between the 1960's to late 1970's, creatives celebrated the novel art

figurative works

the devotion of artists to a strict narrative was often illustrated in their __________ works

Contemporary art

Effectively, this period can be traced from the 1970s to the present. There is a reason behind this cutoff. The cutoff was hinged on two reasons.The 1970s saw the emergence of "postmodernism"The 1970s saw the declined of the clearer identified artistic movements

Tamplin (1991)

"Art may be spoilt for choice. In a world where nothing is seasonal or regional any more, there is no home base from which to operate. And so the arts today can be seen as responding to a number of issues some from within their own structures of means and techniques, some more widely understood as issues within society. Typically none is resolved."

Contemporary art

_______________ art was heavily driven by ideas and theories, and even the blurring of notions of what is and can be considered as "art" with the involvement of television, photography, cinema, digital technology, performance comma and even objects of everyday life

abstract expressionism

Early 1940s to mid 1960s. Took the basic tenets of abstraction and combined with it gestural techniques, mark-making, and a rugged spontaneity in its visual articulation

often affiliated with new york painters hence being called new york school

Action painting and Color fields

Abstract expressionism 2 art syles

Action painting

____________ painting underscored the process of creation in that it showed the physicality, direction and most often, the spontaneity of the actions that made the drips and stroke possible

Color fields

Emphasized the emotional power of colors. From the vivid demarcations to the more toned-down transitions, these bands of color were akin to the effect of landscapes

Op art or optical art

Early 1960s onward. "-" art relied on creating illusion to inform the experience of the artwork using color, pattern, and other perspective tricks that artist had on their mind

kinetic art

Early 1950s. Harnessing the current and direction of the wind, components of the artworks which was perdominantly sculptural, msot were mobiles and even motor-driven machines.

theo jansen

known for his massive sculptures or beasts, as he likes to refer them. using plastic tubes and PVC pipes, he has created several life forms that took over the sea-side

movement and a sense of dynamism

in japan, during the post-war, platforms that were grounded on _______________ and_______________ were utilized to convey ideas attatched to the new-found freedom.

Gutai

1950s-1970s. Which means embodiment of concreteness, it preceded the later forms of performance and conceptual art

Yoshihara Jiro

founder of gutai art association or gutai group

challenge the mud by kazuo shiraga

entitled "____________" (1955), _________ utilized his body, writhing in a pile of mud

minimalism

1960s. Seen as an extreme type of abstraction that favored geometric shapes, colors, fields, and the use of objects and materials that had an "industrial" sparse

pop art

1950s. It drew inspiration, sources, and even materials from commercial culture, making it one of the most identifiable and relatable movemenrs in art history

richard hamilton

Addressed to his friends Peter and Alison Smithson

"Pop art is: popular (designed for a mass audience), transient (short-term solution), expendable (easily forgotten), low cost, mass produced, young (aimed at youth), witty, sexy, gimmicky, glamorous, big business." (Hamilton, 1957)

very banal or "low" objects and subject matters

one of the most critical statements against pop art

Postmodernism

1970s. Enroaches on other smaller movements that include conceptual art, neo expressionism, feminist art, and the young british artists of the 1990s, among others

contemporary art

one of the main developments during this time was the turn from the traditional notions of what art is

neo-pop art

In the 1980s, there was a renewed interest in Pop art specifically to Andy Warhols worlds and his contemporaries.]

it appropriated some of the first ideas of dada in which ready-made materials were used for the artworks

dada

Is a movement that was very much against the values of the Bourgeois the colonial and even the national

Koon's "Puppy"

he uses computer modeling to create a behemoth of a sculptural work

Photorealism

These drawings and paintings are so immaculate in their precision that it starts to look likr it is a photo without direct reference to the artist who created it

Conceptualism

Are shaped by pop art. As opposed to celebrating commodities as references to real life, "-" fought against the idea thatartis a commodity

Performance art

this can be planned or spontaneous and done live or recorded.

Related to conceptual art, whose rosters of well-known artists include the likes of Marina Abramovic. As a movement it began in the 1960s and instead of being concerned with entertaining as audience.

Installation art

Compared to traditional art formats, "-" art is a kind of an immersive work where the environmenr or the space in which the viewee steps into or interacts with is transformed or altered

Earth art

sometimes considered as a kind or a spin off of installation art, "-" art or land art. It is when the natural environment or a specific site or space is transformed by artists.

Street art

This art movement is related to grafitti art as it is a by-product of the rise of grafitti in the 1980s

artworks created are not traditional in format but are informed by the illustrative, painterly and print techniques and even a variety of media

Street art

These artworks operate under interesting circumstances since they are unsanctioned and do not enjoy the invigilated environment of museums of galleries