Ideas and transboundary age characteristics of contemporary art

Contemporary art is not only embodied modernity, the artist is living the reality of today's environment, contemporary art is bound to reflect the characteristics of the times today, the Contemporary. Athol art critic and philosopher, Danto Arthur Danto (USA, 1924-) that "contemporary" is a broader term, post-modern art is part of the contemporary art movement. The reason why the exhibition is now widely used "Contemporary Art" was, because of "modern art" in terms of easy and that there had been "modern art" confused, while the "contemporary art" is not only embodied in the "modern sex ", as well as the artist's life experience based on today's society" contemporary "of the artist exposure of today's cultural environment, in the face of today's reality, their work is bound to reflect the characteristics of the times today. Some art historians have a more original assertion, modern, late modern art from modern art did not reach consensus after refusing Aesthetics of Modernism has been re-established. In addition, the well-known traditional painting techniques and artistic themes of reunification, even many theorists and artists that, whether there has been so much post-modern and post-modern today, the latest avant-garde art should still be classified as modern art. And a description of some of the tendencies of contemporary art, the contemporary art has been used to denote a stage of modern art. This position was made Greenberg modern art theorist Clement Greenberg (American, 1909-1994), as well as and termed radical modernist defenders, philosopher Guattari Pierre-Félix Guattari (France, 1930-1992, ) to be sure, in his book "The last gasp of modernism" in.

Neoconservatives, culture and art theorist Kramer Hilton Kramer (USA, 1928-) was described as a modernist "modernism tail limited creation." Philosophical and literary theorist Lyotard Jean-François Lyotard (France, 1924-1998), the literary critic and Marxist political scientist Fredric Jameson Fredric Jameson (USA 1934-) academic analysis suggested that there does not exist a post-modern stage is completely different from the height of modernism; on the contrary, this or that post-modernism are not satisfied only part of the modernist style of modernism, or, nurture new modernist experiments. Lyotard in terms of aesthetics and art is an important post-modernist philosophers. Generally speaking, the reason the fight is the core issue of contemporary aesthetic experience, and specific protest behavior has been reflected in different levels. First, in order to fight the shackles rational, contemporary aesthetic tends to wallow in non-mainstream, more tendencies, pornography, drugs and violence as an artistic theme impulse, become part of the contemporary art and aesthetic.

He appeared in the 1990s in the United States, two new contemporary art tendencies, one concern foreign art, such as attention as the "other" of Chinese contemporary art, the second is to focus on the territory of the "others", such as artists living in the United States, other countries. It is in this context, he lived in the United States of Chinese artists Xu Bing, Cai Guoqiang, Gu Wenda, Huang ice was able to come to the fore. Likewise, America's minorities have similar artistic trajectory, such as the black art, which can be traced back to the civil rights movement of the mid-20th century. In the 1980s, the black art of getting into the mainstream, and to the late 1990s and the 21st century, blacks are no longer a special topic of art, culture no longer be divided by color, black and white artistic art, are the United States of Contemporary Art part of it. But, black artists are more concerned about the topic of the black community, for example, was born in 1971 black women artists Mi Kailin · Thomas (Mickalene Thomas), then in his works explore the home and family lineage from a personal point, the This explore the social and cultural problems ethnic groups. American Contemporary Art Aboriginal art also belong to this category, but the impact is much smaller, and infected with a strong tourism economy and business colors. However, the value of anthropology and cultural studies of Aboriginal art can not be ignored.

Postmodernists Jacques Derrida Jacques Derrida, (France, 1930-2004) that "the end of man" point of view, propose rejection of the body and idealism of humanism; make people self-discipline, social, historical sex; raise awareness of the critical assumptions; against free History tradition of humanism, refuted the progress of knowledge and history; exposed the philosophical established as "true science" disillusionment, philosophy and people will come to an end together. In the United States, the end of the century is the era of unrest flared up, rich cultural open era, the artists of the existing order are suspect, in confusion and bewilderment gradually a new understanding and exploration, focus on the past has been neglected female culture, minority ethnic cultures, different sexual orientation, subculture, against the existing order, against centralism, because of the center is the basis of the existing order can be established and maintained. By the early 1990s, the late 21st century, the decline of postmodernism, cultural studies up to the summit, the United States because of political aspirations of contemporary art and the concept is still dominated, artistic vision more open, express ideas is no longer confined to the visual arts. Thus, in the first decade of the 2050s, to the United States as the representative of contemporary art in Western art to be second to redefine the concept of "art" and a re-definition of European Dada and Duchamp's first year echoed.

Performance art is the art of cross-border, not only in the visual arts across internal installation, photography, video and other styles, but also in the visual arts across the categories of the external boundaries of the visual arts and performing arts, visual arts and performing arts space reproduction time narrative through again. Since the categories of cross-border, performance art to outsiders caused the confusion, some people think that performance art far worse than the stage. In fact, this evaluation involves the concept of performance art, characterization, evaluation standards and other issues, and even inside the visual arts, some people lack the necessary understanding of this. On the other hand, there are some acts of artists who go to the extreme, indeed to the inner office outsiders have caused confusion. In the early 21st century, New York had been extreme female performance artist performances, challenge people to accept limits. The women artists in the gallery sex in public and visitors, and during sexual intercourse painting, the work sold to intercourse with male visitors. The idea of ​​this behavior is actually relatively simple, but to explore the artistic behavior, commodity exchange, the relationship between body materialized, legal justice, social customs, especially the vulnerabilities and interpenetration between interspersed among these few persons, and how to exploit demand take material interests and living conditions. In fact, the real sensation of this behavior lies in the personal life of hidden content, transferred to a public space for display, meet people voyeuristic desires and psychological self-subversion, this is the challenge of thinking and behavior generally limits.

New York artist Matthew Barney (Matthew Barney, 1967-) in the mid-1990s to nearly a decade in the early 21st century, with huge artistic program "cremation cycle" (1994-2002) is known. Inspiration from the works of ancient Greek mythology, Barney in which to play half-human beast 淫浪 Faun. After the secular art of the European Renaissance, the faun is a popular image, representing earthly joy. Barney's performance to record images to the final style movie. In making this work more than eight years, the implementation of each shot is a behavior, in other words, the implementation process of this program is to act as a result of realization of the recorded images. In this, Barney crossed the boundaries of visual presentation of synchronic and diachronic narrative between performance, increasing the dimension of time in the three-dimensional visual space. On the concept, the work of the cycle of life and death, to the space-time finite and infinite, addressed the issue of absolute and relative, the eternal and the momentary existence of interdependence and mutual conversion also involves gender relations. All this makes Barney works not only cross-border and cross-cultural categories on the art style, it is transboundary conceptual.

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