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Caught in Between: Modern and Contemporary Art

This document summarizes key art movements from Modern to Contemporary art. Modern art emerged in the 1860s and was characterized by a departure from traditions toward more freedom of expression. It reflected social and technological changes of the time. Contemporary art, from the 1970s onward, is heavily concept-driven and blurred definitions of art. Major movements discussed include Abstract Expressionism, Optical Art, Pop Art, Minimalism, Conceptualism, Performance Art, Installation Art, Earth Art, and Street Art. Contemporary art continues to fragment and incorporate new media.

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Caught in Between: Modern and Contemporary Art

This document summarizes key art movements from Modern to Contemporary art. Modern art emerged in the 1860s and was characterized by a departure from traditions toward more freedom of expression. It reflected social and technological changes of the time. Contemporary art, from the 1970s onward, is heavily concept-driven and blurred definitions of art. Major movements discussed include Abstract Expressionism, Optical Art, Pop Art, Minimalism, Conceptualism, Performance Art, Installation Art, Earth Art, and Street Art. Contemporary art continues to fragment and incorporate new media.

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Caught in Between:

Modern and
Contemporary Art
CONTEMPORARY
- “Present”, of “today”, or
“now”.
MUSEUM
FOR EXAMPLE:

Museum of
Contemporary
Art, Chicago
MODERN ART
MODERN ART

- saw the digression of artists


away from past conventions and
traditions and toward freedom.
MODERN ART

- roughly between the 1860s to late 1970s,


creative celebrated the novel opportunities
in art, from the materials to be
manipulation and ways of seeing and
thinking about art.
MODERN ART
- The tenets of this period were not only
reflected in its art, but it was also evident in the
way people lived and conducted themselves, the
social issues that were relevant, fashion, music,
and the wide range of images and activities they
were engaged in.
MODERN ART

- saw the heavy mass production of goods,


along with encouraging environment made
possibly by industrialization, new
technology, urbanization, and rise of
commercially driven culture.
MODERN ART

-there was also a palpable secularization of society,


interest in nature, and primacy of the self and
individuality.
- Artists were committed to developing a language
of their own--- original but representative.
This period can be traced from the 1970s to the
present. There is a reason behind this cutoff:
1. The 1970s saw the emergence of
“postmodernism”. The affix was a clue that whatever
followed was segregated from it precursor.
2. The 1970s saw the decline of the clearer identified
artistic movements.
CONTEMPORARY
ART
CONTEMPORARY ART
- Was heavily driven by ideas and theories, and the
even the blurring of notions of what is and can be
considered as “art”, with the involvement of
television, photography, cinema, digital
technology, performance, and even objects of the
everyday. It was the idea that was more important
than its visual articulation.
Abstract expressionism
One of the early movements (early 1940s to mid-
1960s), which took the basic tenets of abstraction
and combined with it with gestural techniques,
mark-making, and rugged spontaneity in its visual
articulation.
- New York painters( hence being called the New
York School), some of them include Clyfford Still,
Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Barnett
Newman, and Mark Rothko, who were committed
to creating abstract works that had the ability to
convey and elicit emotion, especially those
residing in the subconscious.
Two major styles emerged from this:
1. Action Painting 2. Color Field
Underscored the process of Emphasizes the emotional
creation in that it showed the power of color.
physicality, and most often, the
spontaneity of the actions that
made drips and strokes
possible.
• Creating energy was at the center of “op art” or optical art ( early 1960s onward).

Relied on creating an illusion to inform the experience of the artwork using color, pattern, and other
perspective tricks that artists had on their sleeves.
It inspired several artists in different countries to
create their own iteration of op art:
Victor Vasarely – Hungarian artist
Bridget Riley and Peter Sedgley – British artists
Richard Anuszkiewicz and Israeli Yaacov Agam
- American artists
Kinetic art
- (early 1950s onward) harnessing the current
and direction of the wind;
-predominantly sculptural;
-and most were mobiles and even motor-driven
machines.
In Japan during the post-war, termed gutai
( 1950s-1970s) means embodiment or
concreteness, it preceded the later forms of
performance and conceptual art.
Yoshihara Jiro- (1952) founder of the Gutai Art
Association or Gutai Group.
Minimalism
- (Early 1960s in New York) saw the artists testing the boundaries of various media. It was seen as an extreme type of
abstraction that favored geometric shapes, color fields, and the use of objects and materials that had an “industrial” the sparse.
Pop Art
- (1950s-1960s) it drew inspiration, sources, and even materials from
commercial cultures, making it one of the most identifiable and
relatable movements in art history.
Postmodernism
- most pertinent movement that solidified the move to contemporary.
OTHER
CONTEMPORARY
ART MOVEMENTS
Neo-Pop Art
- (1980s) appropriated some of the first ideas of Dada in which
ready-made materials were used for the artwork.
For example:
KOON’S PUPPY
Photorealism
-the resurgence of the figurative art,where realistic
depictions is a best choice, is proof how varied and
fragmented postmodernism is.
Conceptualism
-as opposed to celebrating commodities as references to
real life, conceptualism fought against the idea that art is
a commodity.
Performance Art
- it began in the 1960s and instead of being concerned
with entertaining its audience, the heart of the artwork its
idea or messages. Done live or recorded.
Installation Art
-kind of immersive work where the environment or the
space in which the viewer steps into or interact with
(going around installation art) is transformed or altered.
Example of
Installation Art

CADILLAC RANCH
Earth Art
- also called land art, is when the natural
environment or the specific site or space is
transformed by artists.
Street Art
- related to graffiti art as it is a by-product of the
rise of graffiti in the 1980s. Artwork created are not
traditional in format but are informed by the
illustrative, painterly and print techniques.
Example of Street Art
SWEEPING IT UNDER
THE CARPET

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