Modern art, as a movement, has been largely dead for the past century, but it seems to be experiencing a revival in popularity. The new age of modern art, however, may result in a wide range of styles that are more accessible to a larger audience than those of the past.
All images come from the artist’s site, unless otherwise noted.
The above examples focus on the work of one particular artist: Alice Anderson. However the techniques and concepts behind them can be found in the paintings of other contemporary artists as well.
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A great deal of retro-modernism is being inspired by this artist who creates beautiful portraits using only geometric shapes. In fact, Bourgeois was so successful at her technique that she even managed to fool some experts into thinking one of her pieces was an original Jackson Pollock.
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Another notable contemporary artist is Ji Lee whose work involves taking photos and digitally manipulating them into abstract works that have a similar look to those created by early modern artists like Kandinsky. However this abstraction is achieved with much more precision and sophistication than was possible before computers were invented.
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This article is about a new direction in painting. It’s about the increasing importance of color and movement, and the decreasing importance of representation. I’ve been writing it over several years because I realized that to understand what was happening, I needed to understand the history of art.
I’ll start with one of my favorite paintings, Seurat’s “La Grande Jatte”:
The painting is dated 1884-86, which puts it in the Post-Impressionist period. It uses pointillism, a technique Seurat invented where small dots are used to create an optical blend of colors. It also uses line, space and form to create a coherent whole. It has nothing to do with impressionism (which is just as well; Seurat hated the term). Its subject is modern Parisians in everyday dress at a popular park on a hot summer day.
It’s interesting because it marks the transition from 19th century art with its emphasis on subject matter, to 20th century art with its emphasis on color and form. The subject matter is still there; you can still identify everyone in the picture, but now that subject matter has become completely incidental; it’s just something that allows Seurat to use his brilliant technique to paint people as they look when
Modern art is an abstract and theoretical art, in which the visual elements are not integral to the concept of the work. It may or may not include recognizable elements. The movement was primarily a reaction against Impressionism and academic art, although the term is sometimes applied to trends in painting after Post-Impressionism.
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In general, modern artists rejected traditions and wanted to express their immediate perception of the modern world. In contrast to Renaissance art with its mythological subject matter and focus on the human form as an ideal, modern artists turned to nature, which they viewed as “naive,” and began depicting ordinary subject matter in a manner that was subjective, emotional, and free of historical associations. This period is also called Post-Impressionism for its rejection of the last impressionist movement in favor of short strokes of color that produce a wide range of light effects rather than an attempt to depict a particular object realistically.
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Modern art developed rapidly in the early 20th century, especially in Paris; New York City; Chicago; Los Angeles; Munich; Barcelona; and Moscow. The movement became popular throughout Europe, Russia, and America as a symbol of revolt against traditional forms. Artists used different techniques such as cubism (the portrayal
Today, art is undergoing a massive shift in focus. The way we think about our life and the world is changing; this change is reflected in the art of our time as in no other period.
The biggest change of all is the change from modernism to postmodernism. Modernism was a movement that started in the early 20th century, when artists began to reject traditional representations of reality. Instead, they focused on basic elements like form, color and line. In doing so, they began creating abstract art.
An artist whose work can be seen as a definitive example of modernism is Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944). He was a pioneer of abstract painting and collage, which he combined into compositions on an almost sculptural scale.
This break with tradition made many people uncomfortable. In recent years, however, it has been regarded as an important development in the history of art; since the 1970s, Kandinsky has been one of the most influential names in modern art.
Nowadays, abstract art still dominates museums and galleries around the world. But artists are increasingly turning to figurative and representational painting – including video art, installation work and performance art – which are becoming central and defining aspects of today’s art scene.
The concept of the avant-garde is a very modern one. Its birth can be traced back to the French Revolution, and its demise to the onset of World War I. During its life it was a crucial institution in Western culture, and an important influence on artists’ understanding of their roles.
Toward the end of the 19th century the avant-garde found itself at a crossroads. It could either accept or reject the legacy of Impressionism, which had introduced a new way of looking at art: artist as experimenter, and what matters most is how an artwork looks rather than what it “means.” The avant-garde accepted this new way of looking at art, but then rejected Impressionism’s most important contribution to it: playing by its own rules. It embraced freedom from convention while rejecting attempts to make that freedom meaningful. It became a game whose rules were that there are no rules. If you ask why this new way of looking was valuable in the first place, you won’t get an answer that makes sense—a kind of painting in which there are no right answers gets a bit tiresome after awhile.
The avant-garde became more important after World War I than it had been before it
I was born in the year 1936, in the month of June. I was born in the morning, just before dawn. I was born at home, on a bed, in a house. I was not breathing when I was born, but my father breathed air into my lungs. I weighed just over 7 pounds.
I was born premature and so my parents did not expect to have me so soon. They had planned to have me around August or September of that year. But something happened inside my mother’s womb and I came into this world four months before they thought I would arrive.
The date of my birth is June 4th, 1936 at about 5:00 a.m., though the exact time is unknown for sure. The place of my birth is Western Pennsylvania in the United States of America and more specifically a town called Turtle Creek which is located about 30 miles from Pittsburgh, PA and about 50 miles from Erie, PA.
I am an American citizen by naturalization because my parents were foreigners when they first came to this country from Hungary in early 1931. My father had been locked up for two years in Hungary for political reasons after World War I and he had escaped across the Danube River into Romania where he lived with relatives until he could get passage
