introduction to contemporary art Flashcards
A statement that an artist makes about life, thoughts, ideas, beliefs, and many other things that define human life
Contemporary Arts
Characteristics of Contemporary Arts
- Many contemporary artists are self-taught
- Originality is not an issue
- The favorite subjects are children, women, or the environment.
- In some artworks, subject matter is not easily recognized or it can be the technique itself.
Painted by Juan Luna, and is considered to be one of the most internationally renowned pieces of modern Filipino Art.
Spoliarium
A Filipino painter, sculptor, and a political activist of the Philippine Revolution.
Juan Luna
The viewer has to engage in thinking and exploring the meaning of the artwork. Some artworks are intended to make a statement about an issue so the viewer is guided by a written explanation.
Muffet Villegas
It is a post World War II art movement in American painting, developed in New York in the 1940s. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve international influence.
Abstract Expressionism
Art from any medium that contains movement perceivable by the viewer or depends on motion for its effect.
Kinetic Arts
A form of abstract art that gives the illusion of movement by the precise use of pattern and color, or in which conflicting patterns emerge and overlap.
Op art
Form of art in which artists use their voices and/or their bodies often to convey artistic expression. it is different from visual arts.
Performing arts
A range of artistic practices encompassing both historical approaches to nature in art and more recent ecological and politically motivated types of works.
Environment Art
It refers to the efforts and accomplishments of feminists internationally to produce art that reflects women’s lives and experiences, as well as to change the foundation for the production and reception of contemporary arts.
Feminist art
Forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is set out to expose the essence, essentials or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms, features, or concepts.
Minimalism
An art form which relies on moving pictures in a visual and audio medium. It came into existence during the late 1960s and early 70s as new consumer video technology became available outside corporate broadcasting.
Video Arts
One of the most radical contemporary art movements, it commonly refers to decorative imagery applied by paint or other means to budlings, public transport, or other property
Graffiti art
Art made on, with, or consisting of, the human body.
Body art
