Contemporary art
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| :[[Contemporary art]] should not be confused with [[modern art]] - the former is art being created today and the art of roughly since the early seventies, while the latter generally refers to art from the [[1860s]] until the [[1970s]]. Contemporary art is characterized by its extreme diversity and the apparent lack of specific movements. | :[[Contemporary art]] should not be confused with [[modern art]] - the former is art being created today and the art of roughly since the early seventies, while the latter generally refers to art from the [[1860s]] until the [[1970s]]. Contemporary art is characterized by its extreme diversity and the apparent lack of specific movements. | ||
| - | '''Contemporary art''' is recently produced [[visual art]]. When recently produced visual art ages, it loses the status of being contemporary. When recently produced visual art ages it becomes, ''strictly speaking,'' historical. ''Ideally,'' the term is applied to art produced in the present. | + | |
| + | '''Contemporary art''' can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art produced [[since World War II]]. The definition of the word contemporary would support the first view, but museums of contemporary art commonly define their collections as consisting of art produced since World War II. | ||
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| Some competitions, awards and prizes in contemporary art are | Some competitions, awards and prizes in contemporary art are | ||
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Two Bodyheads (2003), contemporary art by Paul Rumsey
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- Contemporary art should not be confused with modern art - the former is art being created today and the art of roughly since the early seventies, while the latter generally refers to art from the 1860s until the 1970s. Contemporary art is characterized by its extreme diversity and the apparent lack of specific movements.
Contemporary art can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art produced since World War II. The definition of the word contemporary would support the first view, but museums of contemporary art commonly define their collections as consisting of art produced since World War II.
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Contemporary art prizes
Some competitions, awards and prizes in contemporary art are
- Emerging Artist Award awarded by The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
- Hugo Boss Prize awarded by the Guggenheim Museum
- Turner Prize for British artists under 50
- Participation in the Whitney Biennial
- Vincent Award, The Vincent van Gogh Biennial Award for Contemporary Art in Europe, founded by The Broere Charitable Foundation and hosted by Stedelijk Museum.
- Marcel Duchamp Prize awarded by ADIAF and Centre Pompidou.
- Ricard Prize for a French artist under 40.
1960s
- Abstract expressionism
- Bay Area Figurative Movement
- Color field
- Computer art
- Conceptual art
- Fluxus
- Happenings
- Hard-edge painting
- Lyrical Abstraction
- Minimalism
- Neo-Dada
- New York School
- Op Art
- Performance art
- Pop Art
- Postminimalism
- Washington Color School
1970s
- Arte Povera
- Ascii Art
- Body art
- Book art
- Feminist art
- Installation art
- Land Art
- Photorealism
- Postminimalism
- Process Art
- Video art
1980s
- Appropriation art
- Demoscene
- Electronic art
- Figuration Libre
- Live art
- Mail art
- Postmodern art
- Neo-conceptual art
- Neoexpressionism
- Transgressive art
- Video installation
1990s
2000s
- see 21st century art
See also
- Anti-art and Anti-anti-art
- Burmese contemporary art
- Classificatory disputes about art
- List of contemporary artists
- Medium specificity
- Plop art
- Reductive art
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