The Many Changes in Art
Posted: Thursday, September 03, 2009
by Annie Deakin
Annie Deakin
Art is an ever changing medium. It is a reflection of the times and the culture. It transforms as culture and people transform. This modern age has brought many types of art and along with that a wide variety of metaphors and wonders that captivate our modern audience. With the age of computers among us it seems a wonder that true art even exists anymore. The 21st century is the most promising centuries that art has ever experienced. Art itself may have gone through many changes over time but the change it will go through over the next century is sure to be enormous. To prove this theory, let's take a look at the changes art went through over the last century.
Fauvism in France began a non representational color in figurative painting.
Die Brucke held expressionism in emotion as important.
Cubism was a movement by Picasso and rejected anything that the art from the Renaissance brought to art.
Futurism showed movement and machine age images.
Suprematism was happening in Russia and also Jack of Diamonds expressed themselves through nature.
Dadism, which attacked ideas of high art and tried to break down distinctions between high and low culture, evolved into Surrelism, which celebrated the flow of the subconscious with the influential techniques like automatism and nonsense juxtaposes.
Theories of Freud in Psychology led to work by artists like Salvador Dali where dreams and the unconscious were depicted.
The dream art moved into non representational art in the 1950's. The Abstract Expressionist School led artist like Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko who painted detached imagery.
Andy Warhol came from the detached imagery artists and moved into commercial imagery. He minimized the role of the artist. This change moved art from Modernism to Post Modernism.
The switch from Modernism to Post Modernism in art was a major movement. There are many types of art that are involved in Post Modernism. Some are installation art, conceptual art and intermedia. One main trait in these arts is bricolage which is the use of words as an artistic element. Post Modernism was a reaction to modernism. World War II led to the disillusionment of art. Post Modernism concerns itself with the questions of the organization of knowledge. In postmodern society knowledge is functional. Use the knowledge- don't just learn it.
So when you consider all of the many changes in art over the last century- art seems to be ever changing. It develops along with the culture and also with society. Art seems to be a representation of the society in which we live. Therefore, if you want to understand a culture, learn their art. Understand their art and study the changes that their art has gone through. Major events in history tend to change art.
Annie Deakin is a
journalist, fashion and furniture expert and editor at mydeco.com and
is currently very impressed by the great range of armoire, bedside table and console tables.
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