contemporary art

Question 1

Contemporary art definition

Answer 1

it started roughly in the 1970s and has become the art of now. It often breaks with the conventions of traditional and mordent artforms and embraces and integrates contemporary ideas, issues and technologies.

Question 2

characteristics of contemporary art

Answer 2

• use of non traditional techniques and approaches associated with craft, science, music and engineering e.g. model making, sewing and taxidermy.
• emphasizes the importance of materials. Materials can be a symbolic part of the artists concept and ideas rather than just a means of visually representing subject matter as in traditional and modern art periods.
• use of unconventional materials e.g. plastic, own body
• interactive art
• outside gallery - installations
• use of new, cutting edge technologies
• new issues shown in the art

Question 3

what is the history of contemporary art e.g. how did it start? what caused it?

Answer 3

• in the mid 1960s, changes started to occur in the way people approached creativity, history, literature, architecture, science, values and society in general.
  -Contemporary art grew as an
  approach in the late 1970s and 1980s. Contemporary art grew out of a time of historical and social change in moral princpels

Question 4

what are the 3 main influences on contemporary art

Answer 4

globalization
feminists
technology

Question 5

what is the difference between contemporary and post modern art

Answer 5

Postmodern artworks are artworks from the 1980s onwards that break conventions in art particularly to do with copying and reproducing images.
Contemporary art is any recent art, it follows many different stylistic approaches and often breaks convention and often utilizes all the new approaches in art.

Question 6

what does Barbra Kruger do?

Answer 6

• old fashion images
• quotes from famous phiopspers and re-words them
• tackles social issues throug her art
• uses her art as a platform to display her views of issues such as comsumerism

Question 7

what are the concepts of Barbara Kruger

Answer 7

• her prashes - you your i we and they - adress cultural constructions of power, identiy consumerism and secualyt

Question 8

what are the approaches of Barbra Kruger to her artworks

Answer 8

Kruger combinesphotograph-based images with slogans or aphorisms (intended to express the truth) deconstructing them visually and verbally.

Question 9

where does Barbra Kruger’s artworks usually appear

Answer 9

Her work appears in public spaces as well as on consumer merchandise.

she works in Conceptual art, Graphic design, Installation, Lithography, Typography, and Vernacular photography.