Contemporary art refers to works created from the late 20th century onward. Modern art does not refer to a specific time period but rather an approach distinguished from other genres. This document defines and provides examples of 11 different art genres: Abstract Expressionism, Kinetic Art, Op Art, Performance Art, Environmental Art, Feminist Art, Minimalism, Video Art, Street Art, Post-modern Art, and Body Art. Each genre has a distinct style, materials, or themes.
Contemporary art refers to works created from the late 20th century onward. Modern art does not refer to a specific time period but rather an approach distinguished from other genres. This document defines and provides examples of 11 different art genres: Abstract Expressionism, Kinetic Art, Op Art, Performance Art, Environmental Art, Feminist Art, Minimalism, Video Art, Street Art, Post-modern Art, and Body Art. Each genre has a distinct style, materials, or themes.
Contemporary art refers to works created from the late 20th century onward. Modern art does not refer to a specific time period but rather an approach distinguished from other genres. This document defines and provides examples of 11 different art genres: Abstract Expressionism, Kinetic Art, Op Art, Performance Art, Environmental Art, Feminist Art, Minimalism, Video Art, Street Art, Post-modern Art, and Body Art. Each genre has a distinct style, materials, or themes.
Contemporary art refers to works created from the late 20th century onward. Modern art does not refer to a specific time period but rather an approach distinguished from other genres. This document defines and provides examples of 11 different art genres: Abstract Expressionism, Kinetic Art, Op Art, Performance Art, Environmental Art, Feminist Art, Minimalism, Video Art, Street Art, Post-modern Art, and Body Art. Each genre has a distinct style, materials, or themes.
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Contemporary art refers to works created during the late twentieth
and early twenty-first centuries. This is usually taken to refer to art created following the Modernist movement. Modern art, on the other hand, does not refer to work created within a certain time period. There is a specific style or approach to this genre of art that distinguishes it from others.
1. Abstract Expressionism
Autumn Rhythm (Number 30) (1950)
Artist: Jackson Pollock
Abstract art is inspired by non-natural objects such as
geometric patterns, forms, and formats. This art style is based on landscapes and figures and depicts simplicity, spirituality, and purity. Colors, lines, textures, patterns, compositions, and procedures are central to abstract painting. As a result, abstract art is often known as nonobjective art or concrete art, and it typically incorporates non- representational work. Abstract art has been inspiring audiences for more than a century. One of the most appealing aspects of abstract painting is its openness to interpretation; all you need is an open, curious mind willing to investigate the artwork. 2. Kinetic Art
Bicycle Wheel Artist: Marcel Duchamp
Kinetic art is defined as art created in any medium that
contains perceptible movement or relies on motion for its effect. The first examples of kinetic art are canvas paintings that broaden the viewer's viewpoint of the artwork and integrate multidimensional movement. More specifically, kinetic art is a phrase that today most commonly refers to three-dimensional sculptures and figures, such as mobiles, that move spontaneously or are controlled by a machine.
3. Op Art
Vega III Artist: Victor Vasarely Op Art is a type of abstract or concrete art that consists of non- representational geometric shapes that produce various types of optical illusions. When viewing Op Art paintings, for example, the eye may detect a sensation of movement on the surface of the painting. And the patterns, shapes, and colors employed in these images are usually chosen for their illusionary properties rather than their substantive or emotional significance. Furthermore, Op artists employ both positive and negative space to achieve the intended effects.
4. Performance Art
The Anthropometries of the Blue Period (1958)
Artist: Yves Klein
Performance art is a type of artwork or exhibition that is made
through activities performed by the artist or other participants. It may be witnessed live or through documentation, spontaneously produced or written, and is traditionally presented to an audience in a fine art environment in an interdisciplinary mode.[1] Also known as creative action, it has evolved over time into its own genre in which art is presented live. It played a significant and crucial part in avant- garde art in the twentieth century. 5. Environment Art
Wheatfield, a Confrontation (1982)
Artist: Agnes Denes
Environmental artists attempt to study our human relationship
with the environment by incorporating it into their artistic practice. This shifts our perspective on the location of artistic production; rather than using the artist's studio as the sole location for creation, environmental artists engage the natural world in a much more active and immediate way, either by working in new ways outside, or by bringing natural materials into new settings. Environmental artists strive to work in harmony with, rather than against, the natural environment. This means that they take into account the impact that they have on nature as individuals and do not sacrifice its health or wellbeing in order to create work. Furthermore, by collaborating with organic landscapes, Environmental
6. Feminist Art
Womanhouse (1972) Artist: Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro Feminist artists frequently used alternative materials associated with the female gender, such as textiles, or new mediums previously infrequently used by males, such as performance and video, which did not have the same traditionally male-dominated precedence that painting, and sculpture did. Women wanted to broaden the notion of fine art and integrate a broader range of artistic ideas by expressing themselves through non-traditional techniques. Feminist art does not discriminate based on geography, but rather links female voices from all across the world. Over the movement's decades-long history, notable Feminist artists have represented a varied range of countries, including Philippines and others, as women continue to battle for equal rights and exposure within the arts.
7. Minimalism
Die (1962) Artist: Tony Smith
Minimalists differentiated themselves from Abstract
Expressionists by erasing all traces of biography or metaphors of any type from their work. This denial of expression, along with a desire to create items that did not resemble high art, resulted in the production of sleek, geometric sculptures that purposely and profoundly reject conventional aesthetic appeal. 8. Video Art
Sun In Your Head - Television Décollage (1963)
Artist: Wolf Vostell
People got a new all-consuming activity with the emergence of
television in the second half of the twentieth century. Many artists of the time employed video to create works that highlighted what they regarded as TV's growing and increasingly pernicious power by parodying advertisements and television shows. They poked fun at how society had become (passively) enamored with television or had succumbed to its alluring illusions. Artists brought their own perspectives to the table by co-opting the technologies of this medium, rounding out the brave new world of broadcasting capabilities to include creative, distinctive, and individualized contributions.
9. Street and Graffiti Art
Untitled (New York Subway Graffiti) (1982)
Artist: TRAP, DEZ and DAZE
Street Art is frequently viewed as a tool for promoting an
artist's personal agenda concerning contemporary social concerns, with city facades serving the same function as an old-fashioned soapbox; a place to extol the artist's opinion on a wide range of issues ranging from politics and environmentalism to consumerism and consumption. Many street artists use the public canvas of buildings, bridges, lampposts, underpasses, ditches, sidewalks, walls, and benches to ensure that their individual messages are seen by a broad swath of the population, rather than being filtered by target demographics or only accessible to art world denizens.
10. Post-modern Art
Untitled Artist: Ian Quirante
Postmodern art is a collection of art movements that tried to
oppose some characteristics of modernism or aspects that formed or grew in its aftermath. Postmodern movements include intermedia, installation art, conceptual art, and multimedia, notably those using video. The use of text prominently as the central artistic element, collage, simplification, appropriation, performance art, the recycling of past styles and themes in a modern-day context, and the breaking down of the barrier between fine and high arts and low art and popular culture are all characteristics that lend art to being postmodern. 11. Body Art
Anthropométrie sans titre (1961)
Artist: Yves Klein
Body art blurred the line between artist and artwork by putting the body in the spotlight as an actor, medium, performance, and canvas. Lines were eliminated between the message and the messenger, or between the creator and the creation, providing new meaning to and enhancing the concept of authentic first person perspective. Body art can be viewed as a forerunner to today's general public acceptance of tattooing, piercing, scarring, or otherwise beautifying the body as a means of establishing one's personal identity as well as links to particular forms of community and likeminded thought.
