{"id":61639,"date":"2022-08-21T14:18:57","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T14:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artspainter.com\/?p=61639"},"modified":"2022-08-21T14:18:57","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T14:18:57","slug":"modern-art-the-next-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artspainter.com\/blog\/modern-art-the-next-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern Art &#8211; The Next Generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nE1HnZfNefs?autoplay=1&#038;mute=1\"><\/iframe>The question is though, how can we define modern art? If you go to a museum and see all the modern art, it seems like it&#8217;s merely a bunch of abstract paintings. However, if you are in an art class drawing your self-portrait, and someone walks in and says &#8220;that&#8217;s not modern art, that&#8217;s just a drawing of yourself,&#8221; they&#8217;re wrong. What is it then, then?<\/p>\n<p>What defines modern art from the rest? It may be quite difficult to explain to someone who has never seen any of this kind of work before. You definitely need to have an appreciation for modern art for this explanation to make sense. The best way to define Modern Art is by describing it as an evolution of traditional representational art.<\/p>\n<p>The representational art we are all familiar with today is the kind of painting where you have the picture of a face or object that looks exactly like its real-life counterpart. That is what traditional representational art is: realistic objects or people. An example of this would be portraits that look exactly like their subject; one example would be Van Gogh&#8217;s self-portraits.<\/p>\n<p>However, there is nothing stopping an artist from changing paint colors around or adding things that aren&#8217;t there and calling it representational.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of a painting as an object in itself \u2013 an autonomous work of art \u2013 is a very modern one. It is a notion that comes to us from the Romantic artists of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, who believed that art should be created by and for its own sake, not simply to illustrate or glorify God or His creation.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there had been earlier examples of what we now call &#8216;modernist&#8217; art. Gericault&#8217;s The Raft of the Medusa (1819), for instance, broke with the conventions of traditional history painting with its fragmented, subjective viewpoint and its emphasis on human suffering. But it was G\u00e9ricault&#8217;s contemporary Th\u00e9odore G\u00e9ricault who took this new sense of subjectivity to its extreme, creating works such as The Desperate Man (1824), which showed nothing but a human skull on a pedestal.<\/p>\n<p>However for all their apparent radicalism, the Romantics were still concerned with beauty and harmony, whereas the next generation &#8211; led by Gustave Courbet &#8211; believed that truth-telling trumped all other considerations. Courbet&#8217;s paintings were intended to shock &#8211; to make his public question their assumptions about life, even about reality itself. He called them &#8216;Realist<\/p>\n<p>In the beginning of the nineteenth century, Europe was largely confined to monochromatic paintings. Artists could only depict an image in a single color; if they wanted to make something look like it was made of gold, they would have to paint it in yellow. However, this did not mean that the painting had to be just that one color. There were different ways of achieving this goal, such as blending the colors so well together that they would appear as a single hue.<\/p>\n<p>In 1835, Joseph Marie Peytrel made a machine that could paint in two colors. He patented his invention and established a company called &#8220;Peytrel Fr\u00e8res&#8221; with his brothers, whose purpose was to promote his new method. Peytrel&#8217;s machine worked by rolling a painting onto a wooden cylinder and then using an etching needle to prick the canvas. A mechanism then activated the etching needle so that it would step down into the canvas and transfer paint onto it from the palette above. The needle would then lift up and store itself away before moving over to make another prick in another location on the canvas.*<\/p>\n<p>The French government purchased Peytrel&#8217;s patent for 80,000 francs (more than $1 million in today&#8217;s currency). It granted him exclusive rights<\/p>\n<p>The versatility of the camera is nowadays enormous, and that&#8217;s why photographers are capable of producing a wide range of styles. But what about representational art? I was going to say that representational art has always been the more difficult one to master, but then I remembered that painters &#8211; even the great ones &#8211; had very few techniques at their disposal, and they used them all to their full extent.<\/p>\n<p>With so many possibilities available today, it seems that there isn&#8217;t any reason to restrict oneself in producing realistic art. If you want to shoot a photo of your grandfather with an iPhone and a macro lens, go ahead. You might be able to achieve a result that&#8217;s just as beautiful as one taken on a medium format with a Hasselblad lens using analog film.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not saying we&#8217;re living in some sort of renaissance era where everything is possible. There are still always rules and regulations restricting what you can do. But I believe that the restrictions are less rigid now than they were before, and more importantly, there&#8217;s no longer the same stigma associated with realism.<\/p>\n<p>The first abstract painting was created by Giorgio de Chirico in 1914.<\/p>\n<p>De Chirico was born in Greece in 1888. He moved to Paris in 1907. He was one of the earliest proponents of Cubism and Metaphysical art movement. In 1913, he started a magazine called Valori Plastici (Plastic Values) in which he published his own work and that of other artists who had similar ideas about art. The magazine only lasted for three years, but de Chirico exposed his ideas to the public. His goal was to break away from realism and move art towards abstraction or pure fantasy.<\/p>\n<p>The first abstract painting was done in 1914, entitled<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The definition of Art is a subject of much debate. It&#8217;s been debated since there have been people around to debate it. The most common approach is to have an art critic look at the work and decide whether it is art or not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This statement can be contested by many artists, including the one who first said this. As we all know, art is in the eye of the beholder. Of course, it is also in the hands of the artist but we are going to take a closer look at it from a different point of view.<\/p>\n<p>It can be said that Art is a manifestation of an artist&#8217;s subconscious or subliminal thoughts and feelings. It can be said that Art is a representation of what you see and how you feel about it, as well as a reflection of your inner self, as well as a projection of your desires and hopes for what life should be like.<\/p>\n<p>I think that art should not be limited to any specific definition because if you try to define it, you will only end up limiting yourself and what you are capable of doing with your own creativity. Some people have different ideas about art than others so we will never really come up with any definite explanation for what art really is and that&#8217;s why I think that &#8220;art<\/p>\n<p>There are various reasons that representational art is not as popular as it once was in Western societies. The term &#8220;representational&#8221; is used in the artistic sense and not referring to the way the art represents objects and figures. One of the main reasons is because this type of art requires more skill and attention from the viewer.<\/p>\n<p>With abstract art, viewers can relate to the work on any number of levels and don&#8217;t need to delve into its meaning or message. It is simply a set of shapes, colors, lines, etc. that makes up an abstract artwork that can be interpreted many different ways.<\/p>\n<p>Some have said that with abstract art viewers tend to focus more on their own interpretation of the work rather than what the artist intended for them to see in it. With representational art, however, viewers are more inclined to take in what the artist wants them to see in it based on what it depicts.<\/p>\n<p>Viewers who have a talent for abstract arts typically say that representational art is too limiting for them because they are so used to creating their own interpretations of something that they already know how they want people to view their work. They feel as if they are being forced into a mold when they try to create representational work and that they aren&#8217;t able to express<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YooFwA7xj18?autoplay=1&#038;mute=1\"><\/iframe><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Da_ntFWqK3A?autoplay=1&#038;mute=1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The question is though, how can we define modern art? 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