History of Contemporary Art Automatic translate

The art of our time, or as it is also called, contemporary art owes its appearance to the recent past, as well as the present. Of course, this contemporary art becomes a historical one over time.

However, we are talking about the art that appeared somewhere in the second half of the twentieth century, and lives on to this day.

The whole path of contemporary art can be traced, dividing its existence into two periods - modernism, or the art of the Age of Impressionism (late XIX - mid XX centuries), and contemporary art itself, and, in particular, contemporary paintings - from the middle of the twentieth to the present day.

The mid-twentieth century was a turning point in the history of art. As already mentioned, new concepts about postmodernity appeared at this time, in addition, until 1970 all artistic movements were classified quite clearly and easily because of their small number. After the emergence of the direction of postmodernism in art, the number of areas of artwork increases significantly - and hence the number of socially oriented contemporary paintings is growing.

By the way, the definition of “contemporary art” is not quite akin to the term “contemporary” - for example, members of the Union of Artists of Russia mean by this phrase innovative art in the field of technical means. Thus, contemporary art quickly wears out, and only then it goes down in history as contemporary art of the 20th and 21st centuries. In particular, the direction of the avant-garde was called actual art - new techniques and techniques, radicalism, innovative ideas, etc.