Modern and Contemporary Art Blog

What is the role of pop art and assemblage on mass culture? Art relies on the society around us. Because of the impact and control of consumerism mass culture is centered around production. The use of everyday objects show the impact of the viewer’s buying habits being exposed as just a part of itself being part of a capitalist system. The person’s part of the system, making them less valuable than the item being sold. The use of cultural objects to critique society changes how artists see the very point of art. Pop/assemblage use consumerism to challenge it through the buying or the representation of the materials being ultimately as pointless as the system itself views the people. Assemblage is buying materials and reaffirms the artist’s identity as counter-culture by showing a wider audience who didn’t buy the product. It is a pointless waste of money and effort on material that is better spent on the person viewing the material. Below is a pop art piece by Andy Warhol o...

What are some different styles of modern art? Some examnples include surrealism, naturalistic and biomorphic surrealism which all relate to the breakdown of reality in its altered state. It shows a shift in reality from the artist’s perspective whereas gestural, abstract, versus medium specificity shows opposite takes representing a perceived emotional truth through action versus realive inaction. Abstract art style including the dripping technique exposes the formalist method of representation, drawing form to form. Abstract represents the need to create what we have at a core emotional level instead of just the visual reproduction. The use of hard brush strokes versus dropping seemingly disorganized style exposes the individual’s understanding of what art is versus an artist's interpretation, leaving it up to mostly the viewer of the art. List of modern art categories: -Abstract Expressionism -Pop Art -Assemblage -Minimalism -Conceptual Art -Post-minimalism -Site-spe...

What is contemporary art? Contemporary art helped establish the discipline in the mid-nineteenth century after a circulation of unfamiliar artifacts throughout Europe. This was as a direct result of the colonial expansion into Africa, Asia and the Americas and archaeological excavations in Italy and Greece. The condition of contemporary art is 'heterogeneity' which means diverse or dissimilar elements are incorporated. In the last twenty-five years, the academic study of contemporary art has grown into a fastest-developing field with a lot of emphasis on new material being introduced. Contemporary art has pushed the limits of what was known and defined previously in the field of art. It emphasizes elements that address broader issues such as those of race and diversity. It highlights the values and virtues that were of most importance in the last century. It does not hold the same rules as the previous categories of art and is still continuously changing and varyi...