Post #15 - GRQs & Discussion: Arson & Mansfield Modern Art Excerpts

I find the changes that art went through during this time to be truly fascinating. It is interesting to see how the different movements each changed the art world in their own way, and contributed to breaking from the past and each other. The main eras that people refer to when talking about recent art are Modern, Postmodern, and Contemporary. 
Modern Art (1860s-1970s) was all about throwing out the old ways of doing things and embracing new ways. It was heavily tied to the Industrial Revolution, which gave way for new changes in technology, including transportation of ideas and photography. Things like dreams and experiences became artists' new subjects. 
Postmodern Art (1960s) is the period in which artists started to raise questions such as "What is art?".  Things like performance art, mix-media, installation, and conceptual art all started appearing during this time. 
Contemporary Art (today) is hard to define, as the term was brought up to signify the end of Modernism. Essentially, contemporary art encompasses all art that is made recently. This can include postmodernism, as contemporary is sometimes used as an umbrella term. 

Chance artwork was a important part of Dada period. It involved throwing out all the planning usually involved in art, and letting everything quite literally fall where it will. We made one in class, and made the following video explaining our project:


GRQs
1) Constructivism / Constructivism
2) Faktura
3) Dada
4) Futurist
5) Tatlin
6) Rodchenko
7) Gabo
8) Stepanova
9) chance
10) "noise-music"
11) kinetic
12) "Art into Life"
13) "readymade"
14) light, space, and motion
15) industry
16) machinery

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