The Changing Role of Art and Interpretations of Art in Contemporary Societies

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Art Works ◽  
Rule Breaking ◽  
Changing Role

In this chapter the changing role of art and interpretations of art in contemporary societies are discussed. Visual art works are always open to a great diversity of possible interpretations, impressions and opinions. There are also vastly differing opinions and ideas about what art is or should be. What characterizes contemporary art is the idea that it is one of the areas freedom that allow and encourage rule-breaking and visions. In short, it is the refuge of imagination in a society that otherwise is built on modern science, logic and reflexivity. For some that freedom and imagination is too much: modern art may include elements of carnival madness, sophomoric humour, cheap publicity-seeking or hoax – in addition to great art providing deep experiences and/or thoughts to people who cherish the opportunity to feed their souls with art. Viewing art can be a deeply intimate individual process or a social statement, sometimes both of these. However, this book also offers consolation to all art lovers: art itself is globally in no danger of disappearing as a result of any political or commercial pressure.

scholarly journals The Work of Modern Art: In Search for the New Meanings

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Moskalyuk ◽  
Tatyana Serikova
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
First Century ◽  
Art Practice ◽  
Case Examples ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Art Works ◽  
The World ◽  
Twenty First Century

The article discusses the characteristics of contemporary art works and the specifics of its interaction with the audience. We demonstrate that contemporary art is not so much a way of reflecting on the world around us, but rather a way of learning about it, as well as a peculiar game (provocation) whose meanings are unknown and closed for discussion. Today it is impossible to provide unambiguous answers to the challenges faced by the art practice of the twenty-first century. Nevertheless, it is necessary to consider topical issues, outline ways to study them, structure groups of facts, and determine methods for their research and description. The priority during this process is to identify the qualitative components of the works of contemporary visual art. To do this, it is necessary to determine the features that distinguish contemporary works from those created at the previous stages of art development. Further research is required for this problem. Here we use as case examples the works of Krasnoyarsk artists Anna Osipova and Alexander Surikov, who combine both classical and actual characteristics. Keywords: contemporary art, communication, Anna Osipova, Alexander Surikov

scholarly journals Mediação como atribuição de força a uma arte fraca

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (35) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tania Queiroz
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Art Works

Investiga a proximidade entre arte contemporânea e público - a relaçãoentre arte e vida - entendendo que é o que os distancia. Apresenta: rupturasprovocadas pela arte moderna sob a ótica de artistas da época; artistascontemporâneos cuja obra seja atravessada por outros campos; programaseducativos em instituições culturais; perfis de mediação para a arte hoje.Palavras-chave: Arte. Arte contemporânea. Ensino. Programas educacionais.Mediation as a strength’s attribution to a weak artAbstract: Investigates the proximity between contemporary art and public - artand life - understanding that as the reason of their distance. It presents: theruptures of modern art from its own artists perspective; contemporaneous artistswhose art works are corelated to other fields of knowledge; educational programsin cultural institutions; mediation’s profiles for the current art.

scholarly journals Parallels in Development of Modern Painting and Enameling in China

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-73
Author(s):  
Daria Mostovshchykova ◽  
Nataliia Stryzhko
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Parallel Analysis ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Art Objects ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Artistic Analysis

This paper highlights trends in the development of contemporary visual art in China through a parallel analysis of two of its components: painting and enamel art. The focus of the research is on the work of artists whose works combine a ‘western’ style with ‘eastern’ tradition. It was found that in the 21st century, the layer of Chinese cultural heritage was successfully transformed into new forms of expression, such as art objects, enamel sculptures, brightly colored paintings and more. At the same time, it has preserved the symbolism of color, plasticity of lines, narrative and figurative components, which is typical of the centuries-old traditions of the Celestial Empire. Artistic analysis was carried out on specific pictorial and enamel examples, distinguishing common and distinctive features in the concepts of the artists and their embodiment in the material. The way in which contemporary art enters the urban space of megacities and the interior of public institutions was analyzed. In conclusion, it is emphasized that the combination of ‘traditional’ and ‘recent’ trends in one work help to rethink the role of classical images in today’s art, as well as to identify Chinese artists in the globalized intercultural space.

Muck, Mummies and Medicine: Disgust in Early Modern Science

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-65
Author(s):  
Sarah-Maria Schober
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Culture Studies ◽  
Early Modern Science ◽  
History Of Emotions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
Over Time

Abstract This essay shows that early modern practices that used human bodily matter cannot be – as hitherto – explained by the absence of the emotion of disgust nor as being conducted in spite of disgust. Instead, it proposes to read those practices’ changing history as part of the history of the ‘paradox of disgust’. Four case studies (on anatomy, excrement, mummies and skulls) demonstrate that disgust was highly productive: it attracted fascination, allowed physicians to fashion themselves, and was even believed capable of healing. Over time and for complex reasons, however, the productive side of disgust declined. Combining current approaches in the history of emotions and material culture studies, this essay sets out not only to propose a new narrative for the changing role of disgust in early modern science and societies, but also to explore how variations in settings and human intervention changed the way emotions were used and perceived.

Teaching Essential Drawing Principles in Relation to the Human Figure

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah A. Rockman
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Human Form ◽  
Traditional Art ◽  
Human Figure ◽  
Visual Artist ◽  
Principles Of Design ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
Applied Arts

There is perhaps no more significant experience in the study of drawing than the study of the human figure. One needs only to look to the ancient Greeks and to the Renaissance masters to recognize the historical importance of the human form in the study of the visual arts and the refinement of visual expression. Although the figure’s presence and significance during the period known as modernism and in contemporary art has ebbed and flowed, its influence is always felt to some degree, and no classical or traditional art education would be complete without a substantial focus on drawing and studying the human form. Much debate is currently taking place about the changing role and responsibility of foundation courses for students studying both the fine and applied arts. If we examine those aspects that the fine and applied arts have in common, we find that a concern for communication is paramount, whether it takes place in a gallery or museum, in a television or magazine ad, on a showroom floor, on a computer monitor, or in any number of other locales. The power of the human form to communicate cannot be overstated, primarily because it is what we are. We have things in common with other humans that we have in common with nothing else. Looking at a human form in any context has the potential to provide us with the experience of looking in the mirror, of seeing our own reflection, so to speak. It follows that any significant experience in visual communication must thoroughly examine the role of the figure, and for the visual artist this requires experience with drawing the figure. The fine and applied arts also have in common a concern for principles of design and aesthetics. If we acknowledge the presence of these principles in nature, then we may also recognize an element of universality. Quite simply, I can think of no finer example of the application of principles of design and aesthetics than the living, breathing human form, and the human form is universal.

Alfred H. Barr, MoMA, and the Entrance and Exit of Outsider Art (1936–1943)

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-25
Author(s):  
Dieter De Vlieghere
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Art Museum ◽  
Museum Of Modern Art ◽  
Art World ◽  
Outsider Art ◽  
Creative Agency ◽  
Changing Role

Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism (1936), curated by Alfred H. Barr at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, was the first major exhibition of outsider art at the epicentre of the art world. The entrance of outsider art in the art museum coincided with the changing role of the curator: from a custodian of fine arts to an exhibition author with creative agency. The disconnection of outsider art from canonized art history and the peculiar appearance of the works and their makers inspired new curatorial narrations and settings. Barr’s inclusive vision of modern art and curation was, however, strongly criticized, and a few years later that vision was replaced by a hierarchical one demanding the exclusion of outsider art from the art museum. The developments at MoMA between 1936 and 1943 exemplify how outsider art served as a catalyst for the curatorial turn in which the division between the roles of curator and artist began to shift.

Contemporary Art in the Classic Museum: Strategies for a Productive Dialogue

2021 ◽  
pp. 19-27
Author(s):  
Е.А. Kartseva
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Domestic Institutions ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Art Practices ◽  
Specialized Institutions ◽  
Cultural Dialogue ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Changing Role

A variety of strategies for incorporating contemporary art are found today in almost all world museums. Domestic institutions in recent years have also taken a course on contemporary art, which has become the occasion of numerous discussions. Not all are advocates of such integrations, suggesting that for contemporary art there are specialized institutions. However, with the changing role of the museum in the modern world, the acquisition of new functions, as well as the development of contemporary art practices, classical cultural institutions are less and less able to resist the expansion of contemporary art. The article formulates the advantages and risks of including contemporary art in a classical museum, and offers scenarios for a productive cultural dialogue.

Creational Aesthetics and the Challenge of Conceptual Art

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 663-673
Author(s):  
Steven Félix-Jäger
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Conceptual Art ◽  
Art World ◽  
Theological Aesthetics ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Essential Form ◽  
God's Image

A trend in theological aesthetics is to advocate for a “creational aesthetic” when discussing the ontology and calling of the artist. In its essential form, a creational aesthetic affirms that artists honor the Creator God by creating art. In some way artists are functioning as God’s image when they make art. While this view is popular in the Christian engagement of the arts, it is uncertain if such an observation is the preeminent way of understanding the role of the artist. Can one be considered an artist if s/he is removed from the tactile process of making? In the contemporary art world, the role of the artist in visual art has come into question with a stronger emphasis on conceptuality, over and against construction. In this article I argue for an alternate way of understanding creational aesthetics that makes room for conceptuality in art.

scholarly journals The Dialectic of Visual Arts Life in West Sumatra 1986-2003

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Nessya Fitryona
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Transition Period ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Presence Data ◽  
Art Practices ◽  
Art Works ◽  
West Sumatra ◽  
Historical Movement

West Sumatera is one of areas in the visual arts development in Indonesia. In 1980-1990s, there were found the presence data about installation of art and some alternative art works in art institutions and in public. The emergence that art works caused the struggle of the view of art practices in art society. That struggle seemed to thaw since emergence of Komunitas Seni Belanak (2003). This research explained the process of view of art practices that were occurred in West Sumatra which had changed from 1986 until 2003. This research used the concept of historical movement by Hegel dialectics theory and sociohistorical approach. The changing process of the art practices started from antithesis phase which was divided into two periods. The first antithesis period was the arrival of Agus Purwantoro (1986-1999). The second was the movement of IKIP Padang college students (1995-2003) and continued to the emergence of Komunitas Seni Belanak. The results of this study was the struggles in view of art practices in 1986 until 2003 was important as the transition period between the practices of modern art and the development of contemporary art in West Sumatra.

scholarly journals Contemporary Russian street art. Formation and development

2021 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
pp. 343-351
Author(s):  
Vasily P. Veshnev ◽  
Dmitry G. Tkach
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Street Art ◽  
Subsequent Formation ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
Art Works ◽  
Media Space ◽  
Public Recognition ◽  
Characteristic Features

The paper provides an overview of the main periods of formation of Russian street art as an artistic phenomenon. It analyzes the role of leading authors and associations that have played a key role in the development of this type of art. The study identified the structure and characteristic features of Russian street art. Street art is a specific form of contemporary urban visual art, characterized by a wide variety of creative concepts and artistic techniques. Street art works are always contextual, to a greater or lesser extent integrated into the urban aesthetic and communication environment, and as a rule, stylistically and thematically relevant, aimed at direct dialogue with the viewer. In Russia, street art emerged in the late 1990s and early 2000s as a continuation of artistic practices of the graffiti subcultures and included three periods of its subsequent formation and development: 1995–2005 — the formation of an artistic phenomenon; 2005–2015 — development and public recognition; 2015 till present — active expansion into the information and media space, into the field of art and design, institutional recognition. The development of street art in Russia, as well as throughout the world, is affected by the global mass visual culture, however, in the last decade, an alternative trend has been gaining momentum, which consists in the active use of national artistic and imaginative content. Thus projects reflecting socio-political and cultural agenda that is relevant for Russia and timed to coincide with memorable dates and major events in the country are being promoted and approved.

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