#contemporary art movements

[pagansphinx]

Art Movements

Art movements, "schools", artist groups, and societies do not function in the same way as they once did. There were art movements in the earlier years of contemporary art but those too have gone the way of art history. In the late 20th to 21st centuries there are no art movements to speak of, due to globalization and the sheer volume and diversity of the art world. Even Conceptual Art, which endures to this day, is more of a term or category than a movement.

Some will argue that there are lots of contemporary art movements – Minimilism, Monochrome, and Participatory Art, to name a few. True, though I see these as a club with so many members that connection and cohesiveness are impossible to achieve. That isn't to say that's bad. Again, it's due to how large, diverse, and world-wide these movements are. Everyone doesn't know everyone as they did in Impressionism or Surrealism.

An example of Monochrome Art

Robert Ryman (American, 1930-2019 • Ledger • 1982 • Enamelac paint on fibreglass, aluminium and wood • Tate Modern

l'm nostalgic about the art created before the 1950s. I like some of work done in the earlier movements of contemporary art — pop art is fun. The Fluxus Movement produced some cool stuff –à la Yoko Ono. Word Art is not my favorite, though it is unlike me to dismiss it as bad art because I've not seen much of it.

An example of Word Art

Barbara Kruger (American, b. 1945) • Untitled (Your body is a battleground) • 1989 • photographic silkscreen on vinyl

An example of Participatory Art

I "participated" in this artwork – Untitled (Portrait of Ross in L.A.). It was colorful, interesting, and fun but also very sad. I believe it was at The Whitney in New York. It's a pile of candy in confetti colored wrappings (In other installations the colors vary). It can exist in more than one location at the same time, starting with a specific weight 175 pounds (79 kg). Participants are encouraged to take one candy and the quantity diminishes. The artist, Félix González-Torres was a gay man whose partner, Ross Laycock, died of complications of HIV/AIDS in 1991. One art critic's interpretation of the art work was "the diminishment recalls how he (the artist's partner) wasted away before dying." Félix González-Torres himself died in 1996 of HIV.

Félix González-Torres (Cuban-American, 1957-1996) • Untitled (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) • 1991

What is your favorite contemporary art movement or individual artist? Please comment. You don't have to be an expert, you just have to know what you like. I'd love to hear from you!

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[internationalemeteorologie]

Aryz

El festejo (series). 2022

#aryz #octavi arrizabalaga #art print #abstract figurative #surrealist art #movement #dancers #contemporary #american-spanish artist #private collection

[tssbnchn]

Detail of one of the paintings in the new series I am working on.

#art #artists on tumblr #abstract expressionism #painting #color #tassia bianchini #contemporary art #women artists #female artists #oil painting #movement

[polito0]

I wonder, when did the stars took the place of the artists' heads?

#art #creature #star #no for real; so curious about contemporary INTERNET art movements; not sure who started the Star Head thing or if it was a thing that just #started happening simultaneously in many places in many artists

[theaskew]

Pierre Alechinsky (Belgian b. 1927), Les Roue, 1971. Watercolour on Japan laid on canvas. 98 x 66.5 cm.

#art #artwork #modern art #modern artwork #contemporary art #contemporary artwork #20th century modern art #20th century contemporary art #Belgian art #modern Belgian art #Belgian artist #Belgian painter #Pierre Alechinsky #CoBrA art group #CoBrA art movement #avant garde

[sassafrasmoonshine]

Let the Children March • Frank Morrison, illustrator • (American, b. 1971) • Author, Monica Clark-Robinson • Clarion Books, publisher • 2018

In 1963 Birmingham, Alabama, thousands of African American children volunteered to march for their rights after hearing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speak. They protested the laws that kept black people separate from white people. Facing fear, hate, and danger, these children used their voices to change the world.

#illustration #art #illustrator #artwork #oil painting #contemporary illustration #african american artist #painting #children's literature #non-fiction children's literature #historical book for children #book illustration #kid lit #black american artist #sassafras and moonshine blog #black history #civil rights movement

[bijoumikhawal]

Been staring at the DS9 station's interior architecture and Cardassian screens and uh the art department really just said "Art Deco/Nouveau and Arts and Crafts" with their entire pussy huh

vs

Tell me I'm wrong

#Cipher talk #Ds9 #I'm gonna be honest the design on the bedroom doors just looks exactly like public domain art deco clip art #Also I'm being wibbly about the art D/N/C because all of these examples are from that and being quite honest #They were contemporary movements that influenced each other a lot and if you look at the broader body of work each produced there's this #Blob of things that technically are from each movement but look STRONGLY related #Moreso to each other than some of the more known works from each movement #For example that blue brooch is art nouveau from 1900 but looks very deco to me #And if you told me the year I'd knock it back to a&c before thinking of it as nouveau readily

[darksilenceinsuburbiareloaded]

Alexander Yakovlev | Untitled | black and white photography

@ayakovlevcom

#art #contemporary art #photography #contemporaryphotography #blackandwhitephotography #dancer #movement #alexanderyakovlev

[elixir]

Desert house by japanese architecht Kisho Kurokawa(1934-2007), Libya, 1979, unknown photographer.

Kisho was a leading japanese architect and one of the founders of the Metabolist movement, a post-war architectural movement fusing together megastructures and organic biological growth another example being the Nakagin Capsule Tower.

#architecture #art #nature #photography #landscape #contemporary art #japanese #desert #libya #metabolist movement #kisho kurokawa #curators on tumblr

[andreapasson]

"prəˈɡresiv" © Andrea Passon / www.andreapasson.it

#fine art prints #fine art photography #artists on tumblr #artists in tumblr #venice #long exposure #venezia #andrea passon #contemporary art #arte contemporanea #weirdo #motion #movement #dynamic #post production #color grading #art #arte #italian photographer #photography #fotografia

[zephtkm]

Complicated Fragility, 2020

#stickers #art #contemporary art #graffiti #movement #feelings #emotions #painting #colourful #colorful #texture

[internationalemeteorologie]

Lorenzo Mattotti

Danze. 2022 

#lorenzo mattotti #abstract figurative #loose brush #movement #contemporary art #italian artist #private collections

[tssbnchn]

Working on the series 'In the Field of Color'. Atelier view.'

#art #artists on tumblr #tassia bianchini #painting #contemporary art #abstract expressionism #oil painting #abstract #movement #color

[kharacore]

the accommodations of desire (1929), salvador dalí

#surrealist #surrealism #artoftheday #fine art #outsider art #art movement #contemporary art #salvador dali #oil painting #oil pastel #collage #painting #desire #love #love core #passion #abstract #abstract art #avant garde #surrealist art #surrealist painting #surrealist horror

[theaskew]

Georges Vantongerloo (Belgian 1886-1965). Composition II, Indigo Violet Derived from Equilateral Triangle Menton, 1921. Oil on canvas mounted on cardboard, 13 x 14 3/4in. | 33 x 37.5 cm. (Source: MoMa, New York)

#art #artwork #modern art #contemporary art #modern artwork #contemporary artwork #20th century modern art #20th century contemporary art #abstract #abstraction #abstract modernism #Concrete art movement #Belgian art #modern Belgian art #contemporary Belgian art #Belgian artist #Belgian painter #Georges Vantongerloo #MoMA #Modern Museum of Art

[yeswearemagazine]

Untitled © Andulka Photo :

#andulka photo #art #abstract #night shots #icm #polish photographers #emotions #masterpieces #gifts #magic #perfections #yes we are magazine #composition #movement #contemporary art #visual poetry #visual art #artists on tumblr #masters on tumblr #original photography #delicacy #hypnotic images #art in poland