As is known, creative people a little out of this world ... Pictures of some famous or shocking with their entanglement either hit at the price for the usual black square. But artists who create in the styles of our list are more likely to introduce you at a loss.
Body parts drawing
Incredibly, some artists use parts your body instead of a brush. From the arms and legs, to the chest and even the tongue! There are of course people who use more intimate parts of the body, but let's not go into such depth ... Oddly enough, but the popularity of such idiosyncratic artists only increases.
Body fluids instead of paints
Waste Products organisms are used to create a background, and the very blood to complete the details. Most artists discovered their attraction to such art during the second world war. Some psychologists attribute this to a mental disorder and childhood trauma. But the artist, dipping himself in the blood of animals, defies reasonable explanation... By the way, several times they were brought against him criminal proceedings.
Dirty cars instead of canvas
Although not the cleanest, but clearly much more pleasant art than previous candidates. Agree, it is much more pleasant to see a beautiful drawing on the back window of the car than the banal "Wash me!", Or generally obscene language. Moreover, the drawings are not inferior world masterpieces.
Photorealism
At last we have reached art in literally this word. Artists this style focuses not on outrage or scandal, but exclusively on your skill. The point is to create a drawing as similar as possible to photograph. The detailing is amazing, because you can see everything: from individual hairs to needles on spruce.
Anamorphosis
Proud Representative contemporary art boasts a truly amazing variety of variations. Any joint several surfaces can become a canvas for the artist of this style. The task is to distort drawing or inscription so that it can be seen only at a certain angle.
Nowadays, in order to see inspiring works art You don't have to go to the museum. The Internet has made it possible for people to appreciate and enjoy art, providing an endless stream of masterpieces. However, finding what excites you is another matter entirely. Need to reconsider different types arts such as artwork, sculpture, photography and installations. And it is not easy at all and takes a lot of time. Therefore, today we will present to your attention some of the most popular trends in art in last years. From book sculptures to breathtaking installations, these are exactly the trends that people can't stop admiring.
1. Sculptures and installations from books
From the incredible book sculptures by From Brian Dettmer and Guy Laramee to the crumbling wall sculpture by Anouk Kruithof and the intricate igloo by Miller Lagos. Never before have books been so popular in art. As more and more people are switching to e-books, these works of art are doubly valued. They are a welcome reminder that, despite the fact that we live in the age of the Internet, books will always have a special place.
2. Beautiful umbrella installations
Often umbrellas lie in the closet until it rains, but in Lately they are increasingly appearing in various installations around the world. Portuguese umbrellas of all colors of the rainbow, a pink installation in Bulgaria - this is not to keep people from getting wet, but to show how art can be created from ordinary objects.
3. Interactive street art
Street art is created not only for social or political purposes, but simply to please passers-by. From children riding Ernest Zacharevic's bikes to Panya Clark's subway stairs, these installations are built for interactivity. On purpose or even without knowing it, passers-by become part of the art, bringing a new dimension to an already interesting work.
4. Creativity made from thousands of things
Creativity, created from a thousand things, is always interesting. A flowing river from Luzinterruptus' books, a bright red bird created from Ran Hwang's buttons and pins, these installations show us what thousands of things can look like in the hands of patient creators. Who knew that a pixelated portrait could be made with pointillist pencils if it wasn't for Christian Faur? This good example ingenuity in art.
5. Epic sculptures from Lego
While plastic bricks for kids are a classic Lego product, some designers are using them to create epic sculptures. These amazing sculptures built very carefully, brick by brick - Victorian scary house, Batman's underground cave, Roman Colosseum, house from Star Wars- they are all amazing.
6. Creativity in all colors of the rainbow
One- or two-color creations are boring - how about creations that combine all the colors of the rainbow! The creators of these installations know how to make you smile. Christopher Janney's rainbow-windowed aisle or Olaf Breuning's multicolored smoke bombs are not just beautiful to look at, they have to be experienced. Even origami and toy cars look more entertaining when arranged in a rainbow of colors.
7. Sets of little people
These photos show us how little people live. From food scenes by Christopher Boffoli to mini-kits on the streets by designer Slinkachu, these cute creations tell funny stories for midgets who will understand and ordinary people. This is real art, making us feel what we have never felt.
8. Thousands of LED bulbs
These installations and sculptures are best viewed at night or in a dark room. With the help of smoke and a laser, Li Hu created a creepy bed that causes mixed feelings. Makoto Tojiki hangs light bulbs on ropes, creating magnificent light sculptures people, horses and birds. Panasonic floated 100,000 LED bulbs down the river to recreate the glow of fireflies.
9. Thread installations
Not only grandmothers use threads. Recently, more and more often they are used over vintage photographs or sculptures. Designer Perspicere pulled the threads so that they mimic paint splatters in the shape of Batman's signal. Gabriel Dawe created a stunning installation in all the colors of the rainbow by attaching a huge number of skeins of thread to the ceiling. Apparently, the threads in the design are relevant now.
10. Exciting interactive installations
Although street installations can be very good, when a designer works within four walls, this allows him to spread out wider. French designer Serge Salat invites visitors to walk through the many layers of Beyond, a multimedia experience that combines Oriental art with Western Renaissance art. Yayoi Kusama shows what happens when children are given an unlimited supply of colorful stickers. The barbican in London has recently created a rainy room where visitors won't get wet. Who wouldn't want to visit one of these installations?
One of the main ways we think. Its result is the education of the most general concepts and judgments (abstractions). In decorative art, abstraction is the process of stylization of natural forms.
IN artistic activity abstraction is always present; in its extreme expression fine arts it leads to abstractionism, a special trend in the visual arts of the 20th century, which is characterized by the rejection of the image of real objects, the ultimate generalization or complete rejection of form, non-objective compositions (from lines, dots, spots, planes, etc.), experiments with color , spontaneous expression inner peace the artist, his subconscious in chaotic, unorganized abstract forms (abstract expressionism). Paintings by the Russian artist V. Kandinsky can be attributed to this direction.
Representatives of some currents in abstract art created logically ordered structures, echoing the search rational organization forms in architecture and design (the Suprematism of the Russian painter K. Malevich, constructivism, etc.) Abstractionism expressed itself less in sculpture than in painting.
Abstractionism was a response to the general disharmony of the modern world and was successful because it proclaimed the rejection of the conscious in art and called for "yielding the initiative to forms, colors, colors."
Realism
From fr. realisme, from lat. realis - real. In art in a broad sense, a truthful, objective, comprehensive reflection of reality by specific means inherent in the types of artistic creativity.
The common features of the method of realism is the reliability in the reproduction of reality. At the same time, realistic art has a huge variety of ways of cognition, generalization, artistic reflection reality (G.M. Korzhev, M.B. Grekov, A.A. Plastov, A.M. Gerasimov, T.N. Yablonskaya, P.D. Korin, etc.)
Realistic art of the XX century. acquires bright national traits and variety of forms. Realism is the opposite of modernism.
avant-garde
From fr. avant - advanced, garde - detachment - a concept that defines experimental, modernist undertakings in art. In every era, innovative phenomena arose in the visual arts, but the term "avant-garde" was established only at the beginning of the 20th century. At this time, such trends as Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, Expressionism, Abstractionism appeared. Then, in the 20s and 30s, avant-garde positions were taken by surrealism. In the period of the 60-70s, new varieties of abstractionism are added - various forms actionism, work with objects (pop art), conceptual art, photorealism, kinetism, etc. Avant-garde artists express their own protest against traditional culture.
In all avant-garde trends, despite their great diversity, one can single out common features: rejection of the norms of the classical image, formal novelty, deformation of forms, expression and various game transformations. All this leads to the blurring of the boundaries between art and reality (ready-made, installation, environment), the creation of an ideal open work art, directly invading the environment. The art of avant-garde is designed for the dialogue between the artist and the viewer, the active interaction of a person with a work of art, participation in creativity (for example, kinetic art, happening, etc.).
Works of avant-garde trends sometimes lose their pictorial origin and are equated with objects of the surrounding reality. Modern directions avant-gardism are closely intertwined, forming new forms of synthetic art.
underground
English underground - underground, dungeon. A concept meaning an "underground" culture that opposed itself to the conventions and limitations of traditional culture. Exhibitions of artists of this direction were often held not in salons and galleries, but directly on the ground, as well as in underground passages or the subway, which in a number of countries is called the underground (underground). Probably, this circumstance also influenced the fact that behind this trend in the art of the XX century. the name was approved.
In Russia, the concept of underground has become a designation for a community of artists representing unofficial art.
Surrealism
Fr. surrealism - super-realism. Direction in literature and art of the XX century. established in the 1920s. Originating in France on the initiative of the writer A. Breton, surrealism soon became an international trend. Surrealists believed that creative energy comes from the realm of the subconscious, which manifests itself during sleep, hypnosis, painful delirium, sudden insights, automatic actions ( random walk pencil on paper, etc.)
Surrealist artists, unlike abstractionists, do not refuse to depict real-life objects, but represent them in chaos, deliberately devoid of logical relationships. The absence of meaning, the rejection of a reasonable reflection of reality is the main principle of the art of surrealism. About detachment from real life the very name of the direction speaks: “sur” in French “above”; artists did not pretend to reflect reality, but mentally placed their creations “above” realism, passing off delusional fantasies as works of art. Yes, in number surreal paintings included similar, inexplicable works by M. Ernst, J. Miro, I. Tanguy, as well as objects processed beyond recognition by the surrealists (M. Oppenheim).
The surrealistic direction, which was headed by S. Dali, was based on the illusory accuracy of reproducing an unreal image that arises in the subconscious. His paintings are distinguished by a careful manner of writing, accurate transmission of chiaroscuro, perspective, which is typical for academic painting. The viewer, succumbing to the persuasiveness of illusory painting, is drawn into a labyrinth of deceptions and unsolvable mysteries: solid objects spread, dense objects become transparent, incompatible objects twist and turn inside out, massive volumes become weightless, and all this creates an image that is impossible in reality.
This fact is known. Once at an exhibition in front of a work by S. Dali, the viewer stood for a long time, peering carefully and trying to understand the meaning. Finally, in utter desperation, he said loudly, "I don't understand what that means!" The audience's exclamation was heard by S. Dali, who was at the exhibition. “How can you understand what it means if I don’t understand it myself,” the artist said, expressing in this way the basic principle of surrealist art: to paint without thinking, without thinking, abandoning reason and logic.
Exhibitions of surrealist works were usually accompanied by scandals: the audience was indignant, looking at the ridiculous, incomprehensible pictures, believed that they were being deceived, mystified. Surrealists blamed the audience, declared that they fell behind, did not grow up to the creativity of "advanced" artists.
General features of the art of surrealism are fantasy of the absurd, alogism, paradoxical combinations of forms, visual instability, variability of images. Artists turned to imitation primitive art, creativity of children and the mentally ill.
Artists of this trend wanted to create on their canvases a reality that did not reflect the reality prompted by the subconscious, but in practice this resulted in the creation of pathologically repulsive images, eclecticism and kitsch (German - kitsch; cheap, tasteless mass production designed for an external effect).
Some of the Surrealist finds were used in commercial areas. decorative arts, for example, optical illusions that allow you to see two different images or scenes in one picture, depending on the direction of your gaze.
The works of the surrealists evoke the most complex associations, they can be identified in our perception with evil. Terrifying visions and idyllic dreams, riot, despair - these feelings are in various options appear in the works of the surrealists, actively influencing the viewer, the absurdity of the works of surrealism affects the associative imagination and psyche.
Surrealism is a controversial artistic phenomenon. Many really advanced cultural figures, realizing that this trend destroys art, subsequently abandoned surrealistic views (artists P. Picasso, P. Klee and others, poets F. Lorca, P. Neruda, Spanish director L. Bunuel, who made surrealistic films ). By the mid-1960s, surrealism had given way to new, even more flashy strands of modernism, but the bizarre, mostly ugly, nonsensical works of the surrealists still fill the halls of museums.
Modernism
Fr. modernisme, from lat. modernus - new, modern. Collective designation for all the latest trends, trends, schools and activities of individual masters of art of the 20th century, breaking with tradition, realism and considering experiment as the basis creative method(fauvism, expressionism, cubism, futurism, abstractionism, dadaism, surrealism, pop art, op art, kinetic art, hyperrealism, etc.). Modernism is close in meaning to avant-gardism and is opposite to academism. Modernism was negatively assessed by Soviet art critics as a crisis phenomenon of bourgeois culture. Art has the freedom to choose its historical paths. The contradictions of modernism, as such, must be considered not statically, but in historical dynamics.
Pop Art
English pop art, from popular art - popular art. Direction in art Western Europe and the United States since the late 1950s. The heyday of pop art came in the turbulent 60s, when youth riots broke out in many countries of Europe and America. The youth movement did not have a single goal - it was united by the pathos of denial.
Young people were ready to throw all past culture overboard. All this is reflected in art.
A distinctive feature of pop art is the combination of challenge with indifference. Everything is equally valuable or equally priceless, equally beautiful or equally ugly, equally worthy or not worthy. Perhaps only the advertising business is based on the same dispassionately business-like attitude to everything in the world. It is no accident that it was advertising that had a huge impact on pop art, and many of its representatives worked and still work in advertising centers. The creators of commercials and shows are able to shred to pieces and combine washing powder and famous masterpiece art, toothpaste and Bach's fugue. Pop art does the same.
motives mass culture exploited by pop art in different ways. Real objects are introduced into the picture through collage or photographs, usually in unexpected or completely absurd combinations (R. Rauschenberg, E. War Hall, R. Hamilton). Painting can imitate compositional techniques and the technique of billboards, a comic book picture can be enlarged to the size of a large canvas (R. Lichtenstein). Sculpture can be combined with dummies. For example, the artist K. Oldenburg created similarities of display models of food products of huge sizes from unusual materials.
There is often no border between sculpture and painting. Piece of art pop art often not only has three dimensions, but also fills the entire exhibition space. Due to such transformations, the original image of an object of mass culture is transformed and perceived in a completely different way than in a real everyday environment.
The main category of pop art is not an artistic image, but its “designation”, which saves the author from the man-made process of its creation, the image of something (M. Duchamp). This process was introduced in order to expand the concept of art and include non-artistic activities in it, the "exit" of art into the field of mass culture. Pop art artists were the initiators of such forms as happening, object installation, environment and other forms of conceptual art. Similar trends: underground, hyperrealism, op-art, ready-made, etc.
Op art
English op art, abbreviated. from optical art- optical art. A trend in the art of the 20th century, which became widespread in the 1960s. Op art artists used various visual illusions, relying on the features of the perception of flat and spatial figures. The effects of spatial movement, merging, floating forms were achieved by the introduction of rhythmic repetitions, sharp color and tonal contrasts, the intersection of spiral and lattice configurations, meandering lines. In op art, installations of changing light, dynamic constructions were often used (discussed further in the section on kinetic art). Illusions of flowing movement, a successive change of images, an unstable, continuously rebuilding form arise in op art only in the sensation of the viewer. The direction continues the technical line of modernism.
kinetic art
From gr. kinetikos - setting in motion. A trend in contemporary art associated with the widespread use of moving structures and other elements of dynamics. Kinetic like independent direction took shape in the second half of the 1950s, but it was preceded by experiments in the creation of dynamic plasticity in Russian constructivism (V. Tatlin, K. Melnikov, A. Rodchenko), Dadaism.
Earlier folk art also showed us samples of moving objects and toys, such as wooden birds of happiness from the Arkhangelsk region, mechanical toys that imitate labor processes, from the village of Bogorodskoye, etc.
In kinetic art, movement is introduced in different ways, some works are dynamically transformed by the viewer himself, others - by vibrations. air environment, and still others are driven by a motor or electromagnetic forces. Endless variety of materials used - from traditional to ultra-modern technical means up to computers and lasers. Mirrors are often used in kinetic compositions.
In many cases, the illusion of movement is created by changing lighting - here kineticism merges with op art. Kinetic techniques are widely used in the organization of exhibitions, fairs, discos, in the design of squares, parks, public interiors.
Kineticism strives for the synthesis of arts: the movement of an object in space can be supplemented by lighting effects, sound, light music, a movie, etc.
Techniques of modern (avant-garde) art
hyperrealism
English hyperrealism. A direction in painting and sculpture that arose in the United States and became an event in the world of fine arts in the 70s of the XX century.
Another name for hyperrealism is photorealism.
Artists of this trend imitated a photo with pictorial means on canvas. They depicted the world of a modern city: shop windows and restaurants, metro stations and traffic lights, residential buildings and passers-by on the streets. At the same time, special attention was paid to shiny, light-reflecting surfaces: glass, plastic, car polish, etc. The play of reflections on such surfaces creates the impression of interpenetration of spaces.
The goal of the hyperrealists was to depict the world not just reliably, but super-likely, super-real. To do this, they used mechanical methods of copying photographs and enlarging them to the size of a large canvas (overhead projection and scale grid). The paint, as a rule, was sprayed with an airbrush in order to preserve all the features of the photographic image, to exclude the manifestation of the artist's individual handwriting.
In addition, visitors to exhibitions of this direction could meet in the halls human figures made of modern polymeric materials in full size, dressed in ready-made clothes and painted in such a way that they did not differ from the audience at all. This caused a lot of confusion and shocked people.
Photorealism has set itself the task of sharpening our perception of everyday life, symbolizing the modern environment, reflecting our time in the forms of " technical arts, widely spread precisely in our era technical progress. Fixing and exposing modernity, hiding the author's emotions, photorealism in its programmatic works found itself on the border of fine art and almost crossed it, because it sought to compete with life itself.
Readymade
English ready made - ready. One of the common techniques of modern (avant-garde) art, which consists in the fact that the subject industrial production breaks out of the usual everyday environment and is exhibited in the exhibition hall.
The meaning of the readymade is as follows: when the environment changes, the perception of the object also changes. The viewer sees in the item on the podium not a utilitarian thing, but an artistic object, the expressiveness of form and color. The name readymade was first used in 1913-1917 by M. Duchamp in relation to his "ready-made objects" (comb, bicycle wheel, bottle dryer). In the 60s, ready-made became widespread in various areas of avant-garde art, especially in Dadaism.
installation
From English. installation - installation. Spatial composition created by the artist from various elements - household items, industrial products and materials, natural objects, text or visual information. The founders of the installation were the Dadaist M. Duchamp and the Surrealists. Creating unusual combinations of ordinary things, the artist gives them a new symbolic meaning. Aesthetic content of the installation in the game semantic meanings, which change depending on where the object is located - in a familiar household environment or in an exhibition hall. The installation was created by many avant-garde artists R. Rauschenberg, D. Dine, G. Ucker, I. Kabakov.
Installation is an art form widespread in the 20th century.
Environment
English environment - environment, environment. Extensive spatial composition, covering the viewer like a real environment, one of the forms characteristic of avant-garde art of the 60s and 70s. Naturalistic environment imitating an interior with figures of people was created by sculptures by D. Segal, E. Kienholz, K. Oldenburg, D. Hanson. Such repetitions of reality could include elements of delusional fiction. Another type of environment is play space, suggesting certain actions of the audience.
Happening
English happening - happening, happening. A kind of actionism, the most common in the avant-garde art of the 60s and 70s. Happening develops as an event, rather provoked than organized, but the initiators of the action necessarily involve the audience in it. Happening originated in the late 1950s as a form of theatre. In the future, artists are most often involved in organizing happenings directly in the urban environment or in nature.
They regard this form as a kind of moving work in which environment, objects play no less a role than living participants in the action.
The action of the happening provokes the freedom of each participant and the manipulation of objects. All actions are developing according to a previously planned program, in which, however, great importance allotted to improvisation, giving vent to various unconscious urges. Happening may include elements of humor and folklore. The happening clearly expressed the desire of avant-garde to merge art with the course of life itself.
And finally, the most advanced form of contemporary art - the Superplane
Superplane
Superflat is a term coined by contemporary Japanese artist Takashi Murakami.
The term Superflat was created in order to explain the new visual language actively used by the generation of young people. Japanese artists such as Takashi Murakami: “I was thinking about the reality of Japanese drawing and painting and how it differs from Western art. For Japan, the feeling of flatness is important. Our culture is not 3D. 2D shapes approved in historical Japanese painting, akin to the simple, flat visual language of modern animation, comics, and graphic design."
Art is created to delight, surprise, and sometimes shock the public.
Creative people are always a little crazy. Their fantasy has no limits. Before you - the most unusual types of contemporary art.
1. Anamorphosis is a technique for creating images that can only be fully understood from a certain point or angle. In some cases, a normal image appears only if you look at the picture through a mirror. One of the earliest famous examples anamorphosis are some of the works of Leonardo da Vinci dated to the 15th century.
2. Photorealism. The photorealist movement emerged in the 1960s. The creators sought to create amazing realistic images that are indistinguishable from photographs. They even copied the smallest details from photographs, creating their own paintings. There is also a movement called super-realism, or hyper-realism, which embraces sculpture as well as painting. He was quite influenced by modern pop art culture.
3. Painting dirty cars. Drawing on an unwashed car is often not considered high art, since most of these "artists" rarely write anything more than "wash me." But a 52-year-old American designer named Scott Wade has become famous for his amazing drawings that he creates on the windows of cars dusted from Texas roads. Wade originally painted on car windows with his fingers or sticks, but now he uses special tools and brushes.
4. Use of bodily fluids in art. It may seem strange, but there are a lot of artists who create their works using bodily fluids. For example, the Austrian artist Hermann Nitsch uses urine and a huge amount of animal blood in his work. The Brazilian artist Vinicius Quesada is well known for his series of paintings called Blood and Piss Blues. Remarkably, Quesada only works with his own blood. His paintings create a dark, surreal atmosphere.
5. Drawing with body parts. Recently, the popularity of artists who use parts of their own body for drawing has grown. For example, Tim Patch, who is known under the pseudonym “Pricasso” (in honor of the great Spanish artist Pablo Picasso), paints with his ... reproductive organ. In addition, the 65-year-old Australian artist regularly uses his buttocks and scrotum as a brush. Patch has been doing this kind of work for more than ten years and his popularity is growing every year.
6. Reverse 3-D visualization. While anamorphosis aims to make 2D objects look like 3D objects, reverse 3D rendering is designed to do the opposite - to make a 3D object look like a drawing or a painting. The most notable artist in this area is Alexa Meade from Los Angeles. She uses non-toxic acrylic paints to make people look like two-dimensional inanimate paintings.
7. Shadow art. Shadows are fleeting in nature, so it's hard to tell when people first started using them in art. Contemporary artists have achieved amazing mastery of shadow work. They lay out various objects in such a way that the shadow from them creates beautiful images of people, words or objects. Since shadows are traditionally associated with something mysterious or mystical, many artists use the theme of horror or devastation in their work.
8. Reverse graffiti. Similar to painting dirty cars, the art of reverse graffiti is about creating images by removing dirt rather than adding paint. Artists often use hoses filled with water to remove grime and exhaust grime from walls, creating amazing paintings. The movement was born thanks to English artist Paul "Moose" Curtis, who painted a picture on the smoke-filled wall of a restaurant where he washed dishes as a teenager. Another British artist Ben Long creates his paintings on the back of caravans by using his finger to remove dirt from exhausts.
It is customary to call contemporary art all kinds of artistic movements that developed at the end of the 20th century. In the post-war period, it was a kind of outlet that once again taught people to dream and invent new realities of life.
Tired of the shackles of the harsh rules of the past, young artists decided to break the old artistic norms. They sought to create new, previously unknown practices. Opposing themselves to modernism, they turned to new ways of revealing their stories. The artist and the concept behind his creation became much more important than the end result. creative activity. The desire to move away from the erected framework led to the emergence of new genres.
Disputes began to arise among artists about the meaning of art and the ways of expressing it. What is art? By what means can genuine art be achieved? Conceptualists and minimalists found the answer for themselves in the phrase: "If art can be everything, then it can be nothing." For them, the departure from the usual visual means resulted in various actions, happenings and performances. What is the peculiarity of contemporary art in the 21st century? This is what we will talk about in the article.
Three-dimensional graphics in the art of the XXI century
The art of the 21st century in 3D graphics is famous. With development computer technology artists gained access to new means of creating their art. The essence of three-dimensional graphics is to create images by modeling objects in three-dimensional space. If we consider most forms of modern art in the 21st century, the creation of three-dimensional images will be the most traditional. 3D graphics have many sides, in the truest sense of the word. It is used when creating programs, games, images and videos on a computer. But it can also be seen right under your feet - on the pavement.
3D graphics took to the streets a few decades ago and have remained one of the the most important forms street art. Many artists paint on their "paintings" volumetric images capable of striking with its realism. Edgar Müller, Eduardo Rolero, Kurt Wenner and many other contemporary artists today create art that can surprise anyone.
Street art of the 21st century
Formerly occupation wealthy people. For centuries it was hidden by the walls of special institutions, where access to the uninitiated was closed. Obviously, his grandiose strength could not languish forever inside stuffy buildings. It was then that it got out - into the gray gloomy streets. Chosen to change your history forever. Although at first it was not so easy.
Not everyone was happy about his birth. Many considered it the result of a bad experience. Some even refused to pay attention to its existence. Meanwhile, the brainchild continued to grow and develop.
Street artists faced hardships along the way. With all its variety of forms, street art was sometimes difficult to distinguish from vandalism.
It all started in the 70s of the last century in New York. At this time, street art was in its infancy. And Julio 204 and Taki 183 supported his life. They left inscriptions in different places of their area, after expanding the territory of distribution. Other guys decided to compete with them. It was then that the most interesting began. Enthusiasm and desire to show off resulted in a battle of creativity. Everyone sought to discover for themselves and others more original way leave your mark.
In 1981, street art managed to cross the ocean. In this he was helped by a street artist from France BlekleRat. He is considered one of the first graffiti artists in Paris. He is also called the father stencil graffiti. His signature touch is drawings of rats, which refers to the name of their creator. The author noticed that after rearranging the letters in the word rat (rat), art (art) is obtained. Blek once remarked: "The rat is the only free animal in Paris that goes everywhere, just like street art."
the most famous street artist is Banksy, who calls BlekleRat his main teacher. The topical work of this talented Briton is able to silence everyone. In his drawings, created using stencils, he denounces modern society with his vices. Banksy tends to be traditional, allowing you to leave an even greater impression on the audience. An interesting fact is that until now the identity of Banksy is shrouded in mystery. No one has yet been able to solve the riddle of the artist's personality.
Meanwhile, street art is rapidly gaining momentum. Once relegated to marginal currents, street art has risen to the stage of auctions. The works of artists are sold for fabulous sums by those who once refused to talk about him. What is it, the life-giving force of art or mainstream trends?
Forms
To date, there are several rather interesting manifestations of contemporary art. Overview of the most unusual shapes contemporary art will be brought to your attention below.
Readymade
The term readymade comes from English, which means "ready". In fact, the goal of this direction is not to create anything material. The main idea here is that depending on the environment of an object, a person's perception of the object itself also changes. The ancestor of the current is Marcel Duchamp. His most famous work is "Fountain", which is a urinal with an autograph and a date.
Anamorphoses
Anamorphoses are called the technique of creating images in such a way that it is possible to fully see them only from a certain angle. One of the brightest representatives of this trend is the Frenchman Bernard Pras. He creates installations using whatever comes to hand. Thanks to his skill, he manages to create amazing works, which, however, can only be seen from a certain angle.
Biological fluids in art
One of the most controversial currents in modern art of the 21st century is drawing, painted with human fluids. Often followers of this modern art form use blood and urine. The color of the paintings in this case often takes on a gloomy, frightening look. Herman Nitsch, for example, uses animal blood and urine. The author explains the use of such unexpected materials difficult childhood which came during World War II.
Painting of the XX-XXI century
A brief history of painting contains information that the end of the 20th century became the starting point for many cult artists of our time. In the difficult post-war years, the sphere experienced its rebirth. Artists sought to discover new facets of their capabilities.
Suprematism
Kazimir Malevich is considered to be the creator of Suprematism. Being the main theorist, he proclaimed Suprematism as a way of purifying art from everything superfluous. Rejecting the usual ways of conveying the image, the artists sought to free art from the non-artistic. The most important work in this genre serves as the famous "Black Square" by Malevich.
Pop Art
Pop art has its origins in the United States. In the postwar years, society experienced global changes. People could now afford more. Consumption has become an essential part of life. People began to be erected into a cult, and consumer products - into symbols. Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol and other followers of the current sought to use these symbols in their paintings.
Futurism
Futurism was discovered in 1910. The main idea of this trend was the desire for a new, the destruction of the framework of the past. The artists depicted this desire with the help of a special technique. Sharp strokes, influxes, connections and intersections are signs of futurism. The most famous representatives of futurism are Marinetti, Severini, Carra.
Contemporary Art in Russia in the 21st Century
Contemporary art in Russia (21st century) has smoothly flowed from the underground, "unofficial" art of the USSR. Young artists of the 90s were looking for new ways to realize their artistic ambitions in new country. At this time, Moscow actionism was born. His followers challenged the past and its ideology. Destruction of boundaries (directly and figuratively words) made it possible to depict the relationship younger generation to the situation in the country. Contemporary art of the 21st century has become expressive, frightening, shocking. The one from which the society closed for so long. Actions by Anatoly Osmolovsky (“Mayakovsky - Osmolovsky”, “Against Everyone”, “Barricade on Bolshaya Nikitskaya”), the ETI movement (“ETI-text”), Oleg Kulik (“Piglet gives gifts”, “Mad Dog or the Last Taboo guarded by a lonely Cerberus"), Avdey Ter-Oganyan ("Pop Art") forever changed the history of contemporary art.
New Generation
Glory to ATGM - contemporary artist from Yekaterinburg. Some of his work may remind the work of Banksy. However, Slava's works carry ideas and feelings familiar only to a Russian citizen. One of his most notable works is the "Land of Opportunities" campaign. The artist created an inscription made of crutches on the building of an abandoned hospital in Yekaterinburg. Slava bought crutches from the inhabitants of the city, who once used them. The artist announced the action on the page in social network, supplemented by an appeal to fellow citizens.
Museums of modern art
Perhaps, at one time, contemporary visual art of the 21st century seemed to be a marginal environment, but today more and more people are striving to join a new field of art. All more museums open their doors to new means of expression. New York holds the record for contemporary art. There are also two museums that are among the best in the world.
The first is MoMA, which is a repository of paintings by Matisse, Dali, Warhol. The second is a museum. The unusual architecture of the building is adjacent to the creations of Picasso, Marc Chagall, Kandinsky and many others.
Europe is also famous for its magnificent museums of contemporary art of the 21st century. The KIASMA museum in Helsinki allows you to touch the objects of the exhibition. The center in the capital of France impresses with unusual architecture and works of contemporary artists. Stedelijkmuseum in Amsterdam houses the largest collection of paintings by Malevich. in the capital of Great Britain has a huge number of modern art objects. The Vienna Museum of Modern Art has works by Andy Warhol and other talented contemporary artists.
Modern art of the 21st century (painting) - mysterious, incomprehensible, bewitching, forever changed the vector of development not only of a separate sphere, but of the whole life of mankind. It reflects and creates modernity at the same time. Constantly changing, the art of modernity allows a person who is constantly in a hurry to stop for a moment. Pause to remember the feelings deep inside. Stop to pick up the pace again and rush into the whirlwind of events and affairs.
