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It's contemporary art, not modern art.
by emsy 9y ago
It's contemporary art, not modern art.
- lbotos 9y agoI'm glad I wasn't the only one who was a little miffed about that. For those you are like "huh?" in Art (big A) Modern imo is ~1900-1960. Wikipedia starts it about 40 years earlier which I'm apt to believe just not familiar with.
- nxsynonym 9y agoCorrect - modern art is an art movement during a specific time period. Contemporary art is simply "made by living artists, now" - and will inevitably be re-name with some -ism to help classify the common themes and styles.
- tgb 9y agoThough the beauty of the English language is such that the word "modern" refers explicitly to now but the word "contemporary" can refer to any time period at all, depending on context! With the ultimate fun being that contemporary can mean exactly its own opposite: "DaVinci's work surpasses all contemporary art." Does that mean DaVinci's contemporaries or the writer's contemporaries?