A New Age of Art

Art of 2010…
In this ever shrinking world, in the age of communication and easily accessible knowledge that lays at our fingertips it is hard to think that the art of 2010 is not going to become vastly technical but I hope for it. The art of 2010 lies in the hands of the ones taking this class and classes like it all over the world. I can only speak for myself and say that this constant bombarding of technology, of blogging, of tweeting, and facebooking, has urged me as an artist to visit something simpler perhaps a return to something more primal or revisit the past in a new way, discover what it means to be human now and in this age... If I had to give this new and or approaching age of art a name I would call it Neo-Nature Technological overload: A discovery of humanity… again. Maybe that is a bit lengthy for a new age title. I can’t see that on the title of a book anywhere anytime soon… I will work on something better but until then that is what I am going to stick with. I think it started in the late 90’s just as the Y2K scare threatened us with total technological apocalypse. Technology is suppose to make life simpler but instead as one new convenience comes along that simplifies one aspect of life, we fill that empty time slot with another task and then another and pretty soon we are so deeply buried under a mountain of obligation we don’t have time to just breath.
I think this movement is going to have many of the same principles as the Junk Artists and Land Artists of the 1970’s. Also, I think the green movement and the environmentalist movements that have become so popular with artists like: Andy Goldsworthy, Nils-Udo, and Chris Jordan are going to play a large role in the direction of this new artistic paradigm. Who knows, maybe individuals that are non-artists with anthropological background will have their ideas echoed through sculpture and prints. You can already hear some of these echoes in photography as anthropology pulls more and more art forms into its arena of influence in order to spread the word about humanities fascinating nuances. Only time can tell the direction of shifting paradigms. As far as I am concerned the tides are turning.

The Post-Modern Artist

The Post-Modern Art Movement was an attempt to create an alternative thought process in order to provide an avenue for the artist who wished to present their beliefs and values that contradicted those found in the Modern Art Movement. It is argued that the Post Modern Art Movement began in the 1950’s and continues to this day. The principles that are associated with the Post-Modern Art Movement are “Destroying the notion of the Avant-garde”, and questioning the value of the art being made today. Post-Modern artists sometimes pull from previous movements such as realism, pop art, Dadaism, and Surrealism. Artists like; Chris Burden, James Rosenquiest, and Rene Magritte are a few of the well known Post-modern artists of our time.

The Modern Artist

The Modern Art Movement is the collective power of all past artistic and cultural influences that impact the Art of the time. The “Modern Art Movement” began when humanity started to think, produce, and believe autonomous thoughts, reducing the power that institutional religion had; allowing for experiments that pulled at humanities curiosities. Modernism is argued to have ended shortly after Second World War. The principles of Modern art include producing art for the sake of art itself, being avant-garde, and original in both color and form. Doing things that have never been done and saying things that have never been said; a few well known modern artists include: Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, and Mark Rothko.

The Persistence of Memory (Salvador Dali 1931. Oil on canvas, 9 1/2 x 13" (24.1 x 33 cm)


Picasso Untitled (monumental sculpture) Chicago IL


Jackson Pollock, Blue Poles: Number II, 1952,
enamel and aluminum paint with glass on canvas, 82 7/8" x 15' 11 5/8"


Andy Warhol, Campbell's Soup Cans 1962


Mark Rothko Red, Orange, Tan, and Purple, 1949
Oil on canvas 84 1/2 x 68 1/2 inches (214.5 x 174 cm)

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