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contemporary art, the art of the late 20th cent. and early 21st cent., both an outgrowth and a rejection ofmodern artmodern art, art created from the 19th cent. to the mid-20th cent. by artists who veered awayfrom the traditional concepts and techniques of painting, sculpture, and other fine arts that had beenpracticed since the Renaissance (see Renaissance art and architecture)......Click the link for more information. . As the force and vigor of abstract expressionismabstractexpressionism, movement of abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the mid-1940s

and attained singular prominence in American art in the following decade; also called action paintingand the New York school......Click the link for more information. diminished, new artistic movements and styles arose duringthe 1960s and 70s to challenge and displace modernism in painting, sculpture, and other media.Improvisational and DadaDada or Dadaism , international nihilistic movement among European artistsand writers that lasted from 1916 to 1922. Born of the widespread disillusionment engendered byWorld War I, it originated in Zrich with the poetry of the Romanian.....Click the link for more information. -like styles employed in the early 1960s and thereafter byRobert RauschenbergRauschenberg, Robert , 1925, American painter, b. Port Arthur, Tex.Rauschenberg studied with Josef Albers and in the late 1950s he came under the influence of MarcelDuchamp......Click the link for more information. and JasperJohnsJohns, Jasper, 1930, American artist, b.

Augusta, Ga. Influenced by Marcel Duchamp in the mid-1950s, Johns attempted to transform commonobjects into art by placing them in an art context......Click the link for more information. had widespread influence, as did the styles of many otherartists. The most significant of the often loosely defined movements of early contemporary art includedpop artpop art, a movement that first emerged in Great Britain at the end of the 1950s as a reactionagainst the seriousness of abstract expressionism. British and American pop artists employed acommon imagery found in comic strips, soup cans, and Coke bottles to express.....Click the link for more information. , characterized by commonplace imagery placed in newaesthetic contexts, as in the work of such figures as Andy WarholWarhol, Andy, 192887, Americanartist and filmmaker, b. Pittsburgh as Andrew Warhola. The leading exponent of the pop art movementand one of the most influential artists of the late 20th cent......Click the link for more information. and Roy LichtensteinLichtenstein, Roy , 192397, American

painter, b. New York City. A master of pop art, Lichtenstein derived his subject matter from popularsources such as comic strips......Click the link for more information. ; the optical shimmerings of the international op artop art ,movement that became prominent in the United States and Europe in the mid-1960s. Deriving fromabstract expressionism, op art includes paintings concerned with surface kinetics......Click the link for more information. movement in the paintings of Bridget RileyRiley, Bridget,1931, English painter. Associated with the pop art movement, Riley covers large canvases withinterlocking bands, undulating curves, scattered discs, or repeated squares or triangles......Click the link for more information. , Richard Anusziewicz, and others; the cool abstract images ofcolor-field paintingcolor-field painting, abstract art movement that originated in the 1960s. Comingafter the abstract expressionism of the 1950s, color-field painting represents a sharp change from theearlier movement.

.....Click the link for more information. in the work of artists such as EllsworthKellyKelly,Ellsworth, 1923, American painter, b. Newburgh, N.Y. He moved to New York City in 1941,studying at Pratt Institute, and later attended the Boston Museum Arts School......Click the link for more information. and Frank StellaStella, Frank, 1936, American artist, b.Malden, Mass. In his early "black paintings" Stella exhibits the precision and rationality thatcharacterized minimalism, employing parallel angular stripes to emphasize the rectangular shape of hislarge canvases......Click the link for more information. (with his shaped-canvas innovations); the lofty intellectualintentions and stark abstraction of conceptual art by SolLeWittLeWitt, Sol , 19282007, Americanartist, b. Hartford, Conn. LeWitt, who came into prominence in the 1960s, termed his work conceptualart, emphasizing that the idea or concept that animates each work is its most important aspect......Click the link for more information. and others; the hard-edged hyperreality ofphotorealism

photorealism, international art movement of the late 1960s and 70s that stressed the precise renderingof subject matter, often taken from actual photographs or painted with the aid of slides.
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.....Click the link for more information. in works by Richard EstesEstes, Richard, 1936, Americanpainter, b. Evanston, Ill. One of the best-known American exponents of photorealism, Estes is noted forhis street scenes......Click the link for more information. and others; the spontaneity and multimedia components ofhappeningshappening, an artistic event of a theatrical nature, but usually improvised spontaneouslywithout the framework of a plot. The term originated with the creation and performance in 1959 of

Allan Kaprow's "18 Happenings in 6 Parts......Click the link for more information. ; and the monumentality and environmental consciousness ofland artland art or earthworks, art form developed in the late 1960s and early 70s by Robert Smithson,Robert Morris, Michael Heizer, and others, in which the artist employs the elements of nature in situ orrearranges the landscape with earthmoving.....Click the link for more information. by artists such as RobertSmithsonSmithson, Robert, 193873, American sculptor, b. Passaic, N.J. After first making modular, serial sculpture, Smithson began todesign large-scale earthworks (see land art) in the 1960s......Click the link for more information. . One of the most long-lived of these movements was theabstract development known asminimalismminimalism, schools of contemporary art and music, withtheir origins in the 1960s, that have emphasized simplicity and objectivity. Minimalism in the VisualArts

.....Click the link for more information. , which emphasized the least discernible variation of techniquein painting, sculpture, and other media.

Taken together, these many approaches to art represented a wholesale rejection of the tenets ofmodernisme.g., its optical formalism, high seriousness, utopianism, social detachment, invocation ofthe subconscious, and elitismand marked the beginning of a new era in art. In their manymanifestations, these movements and those styles that followed have come to be grouped under theumbrella term of postmodernismpostmodernism, term used to designate a multitude of trendsin thearts, philosophy, religion, technology, and many other areasthat come after and deviate from themany 20th-cent. movements that constituted modernism......Click the link for more information. . For the most part, this art is one of pluralism and eclecticism.

In fact, the very lack of a uniform organizing principle or ideology is one of the most importanthallmarks of postmodern art. Nonetheless, within the enormous diversity certain tendencies, trends, andmovements can be discerned.One of the products of the almost universal dismissal of modernism by contemporary artists has beenthe development of a new historicism, ironic and detached, which has spawned a number of artistic"neoisms." These include the neoexpressionismneoexpressionism, term given to an international artmovement, mainly in painting, that began in the 1960s and 1970s, was a dominant mode in the 1980s,and has continued into the 1990s......Click the link for more information. of such German artists as Georg BaselitzBaselitz, Georg ,1938, German artist, b. Deutschbaselitz, Germany, as Hans-Georg Dern. A leading figure in theneoexpressionist movement (see neoexpressionism), he studied painting (195657) in East Berlin andmoved to West Berlin in 1957.

.....Click the link for more information. and Anselm Kiefer, of Italians including Francisco Clementeand Sandro Chia, and of the American JulianSchnabelSchnabel, Julian , 1951, American artist, b.Brooklyn, N.Y. He studied art at the Univ. of Houston and the Whitney Museum. A neoexpressionist,he became a superstar of the 1980s art world after his first one-man show in New York (1979)......Click the link for more information. . Among other contemporary "neo" styles are the cool "neo-geo" abstractions of Peter Halley and others, the stark structures of neoconceptualism, the slick neopopof such artists as Jeff Koons, and the landscape revival represented by Diane Burko and April Gornik,among others.Many new artists have simultaneously invoked and challenged art history, rejecting the heroic statureof the singular work of art and the single (usually white male) artist and invoking the ubiquity ofmechanically produced reproductions by employing sophisticated "quotations" or "appropriations"from prior works. This can be found, for example, in Cindy Sherman's photographic recreations of

paintings, in the multiple quotations of historic images of David SalleSalle, David, 1952, Americanpainter, b. Norman, Okla. One of the artists whose reputation reached its peak during the 1980s, hestudied at the California Institute of the Arts (197075) and settled in New York City in 1975.
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.....Click the link for more information. 's paintings, in the postmodern takes on Barnett NewmanNewman, Barnett, 190570, American artist, b. New York City. A member of the New York school,Newman was one of the first to reject conventional notions of spatial composition in art. Often usingmonumental scale, he took abstraction to its farther reaches......Click the link for more information. by Philip Taaffe and on ManetManet, douard , 183283,French painter, b. Paris. The son of a magistate, Manet went to sea rather than study law. On his return

to Paris in 1850 he studied art with the French academic painter Thomas Couture......Click the link for more information. by Yasumasa Morimura, and in the nearly identicalrepresentations of famous images such asPicassoPicasso, Pablo (Pablo Ruiz y Picasso) , 18811973,Spanish painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and ceramist, who worked in France. He is generallyconsidered in his technical virtuosity, enormous versatility, and incredible originality and prolificity tohave.....Click the link for more information. 's icon of modernism Les Demoiselles d'Avignonby MikeBidlo.Also widespread among contemporary artists has been a repudiation of the idea that underlies mostworks of pure abstractionthat the work of art is a self-sufficient entity. Rejecting the exclusively self-referential images of abstraction and the constricted commercialism of the art world (yet oftenembracing the wider commercialism of a consumer society), the new art has sometimes manifested a

marked if somewhat detached social consciousness, often expressed in issue-driven minority, gay(frequently AIDSAIDS or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, fatal disease caused by a rapidlymutating retrovirus that attacks the immune system and leaves the victim vulnerable to infections,malignancies, and neurological disorders......Click the link for more information. -related), and feminist imagery. By and large, the inroadsachieved byfeminismfeminism, movement for the political, social, and educational equality of womenwith men; the movement has occurred mainly in Europe and the United States. It has its roots in thehumanism of the 18th cent. and in the Industrial Revolution......Click the link for more information. in the 1970s have been reflected in later decades not so muchby the insistently female, body-derived 1970s imagery of Judy ChicagoChicago, Judy (Judy GerowitzChicago) , 1939, American artist, b. Chicago as Judy Cohen. A feminist and founder of the Women'sArt Education collective, she works in a variety of media, including such historically female crafts as

needlework and china painting......Click the link for more information. or Miriam Schapiro as by the full participation in the oncemainly male-dominated art world of such varied artists as Jenny Holzer, Cindy Sherman, BarbaraKruger, Jennifer Bartlett, Elizabeth Murray, Judy Pfaff, Sherrie Levine, Barbara Bloom, KatharinaFritsch, and others.Arising from the multimedia experiments of the 1970s, the widespread use of a variety of technology-based media has persisted into the art of the new century. Often included are elements of film, video,sound, performance (seeperformance artperformance art, multimedia art form originating in the 1970sin which performance is the dominant mode of expression. Perfomance art may incorporate suchelements as instrumental or electronic music, song, dance, television, film, sculpture, spoken dialogue,and.....Click the link for more information. ), and architecture (principally in installation art). Another

trend that has widened the definition and scope of contemporary art has been the conceptually drivenuse of both photography and language as the substance of numerous works of artin Kiefer'sphotographic collages, in Kruger's words and photographic images, in Bruce Nauman's neon phrases,in Lawrence Weiner's painted words, in Holzer's billboarded, carved, electronically reproduced, orotherwise created linguistic neotruisms, and in many other artists' works. Another contemporary artmovement,digital artdigital art, contemporary art in which computer technology is used in a widevariety of ways to make distinctive works. Digital art was pioneered in the 1970s but only came into itsown as a viable art form with the widespread availability of computers, appropriate.....Click the link for more information. , was pioneered in the 1970s but did not become prevalentuntil the beginning of the 21st cent. Digital artists make use of sophisticated computers, software, andvideo equipment to create an extremely varied body of works.Postmodern art has also blurred the distinctions between painting and sculpture (and sometimes

architecture), with artists often including in their works a host of wildly nontraditional materials. Sincethe 1960s shaped paintings and painted sculpture have become commonplace, while the materials of arthave ranged from Rauschenberg's stuffed goat to Joseph BeuysBeuys, Joseph , 192186, German
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artist, b. Krefeld; one of the most influential of postmodern artists. Drafted into the Luftwaffe duringWorld War II, he was wounded several times and in 1943 was shot down over Crimea......Click the link for more information. ' globs of fat to the smeared body fluids of variouscontemporary artists. Moreover, a wide variety of spaces and places, both private and public, havebecome arenas for the frequently ephemeral work of many contemporary artists.Later 20th-cent. and early 21st-cent. sculpture has assumed a central position in contemporary art and

has followed the patterns of the various postmodern art movements, for example, the three-dimensionalpop icons of Claes OldenburgOldenburg, Claes , 1929, Swedish-American artist, b. Stockholm.Usually considered part of the pop art movement, Oldenburg explores the ironic and humorous aspectsof common objects by grossly distorting them in scale, shape, and material......Click the link for more information. , Koons's purposely banal, often erotic figures, and theminimalist constructions of such artists as Carl AndreAndre, Carl , 1935, American sculptor, b.Quincy, Mass. A former student of Patrick Morgan and Frank Stella, Andre produces sculptures ofelemental, classic form......Click the link for more information. , DonaldJuddJudd, Donald Clarence, 192894, Americanartist, b. Excelsior Springs, Mo. His sculpture, allied with the minimalist school of the late 1960s (seeminimalism; modern art), has the appearance of industrial fabrication......Click the link for more information. , and Robert MorrisMorris, Robert, 1931, American artist, b.

Kansas City, Mo. He settled in New York City in 1960 and was allied in his early work with thesimple, impersonal forms of minimalism, e.g., an untitled 1965 work consisting of four blocks of grayfiberglass......Click the link for more information. . Other important trends in contemporary sculpture include anincreasing use of mixed media and the creation of works that draw their meaning and impact from theirarchitectural context and also emphasize the role of the spectator. This is as significant in the room-centered examples of installation art as it is in such large public works as Maya LinLin, Maya Ying ,1959, American architect and sculptor, b. Athens, Ohio. From an artistically distinguished Chinesefamily that immigrated to the United States in the 1940s, Lin was catapulted to prominence while aYale undergraduate when her magisterially.....Click the link for more information. 's Vietnam Veterans MemorialVietnam Veterans Memorial,war memorial in Washington, D.C., built 1982. Designed by the American sculptor and architect Maya

Ying Lin, it is a sloping, V-shaped, 493-ft (150-m) wall of highly polished black granite that descends10 feet (3......Click the link for more information. .

BibliographySee Papadakis, Farrow, and Hodges, ed.,New Art: An International Survey(1991); E. Lucie-Smith,ArtToday(1995); J. Cerrito, ed., Contemporary Artists(4th ed. 1996).

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In contemporary art the frontiers between the classic disciplines aredissolving. Contemporary art is becoming ever moreinterdisciplinary, at times confusing, inclassifiable where all kinds offusions, exchanges, frictions, transaction and dialogues areoccurring. There are new points of interaction, new crossings ofinformation and action. This course is an introduction to some ofthese new territories and how they are being explored by Spanishcontemporary artists.

CONTENT

Introduction
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US abstract artists| UK abstract artists|German abstract artists

It's well over a decade since figurative painting burst back onto the art scene - sidelining, in the

process, a tentative resurgence in abstract art following its plummeting visibility in the '80s and early'90s.Despite high-profile advocates such as Mark Grotjahn, Beatriz Milhazes, Sarah Morris or AnselmReyle, the opening years of the 21st Century generally marked an even lower point in its fortunes.Now, however, a new generation of artists seems increasingly inspired by the non-representational,with collectors and curators following suit in a re-appraisal of its merits.It's a fascinating re-emergence that not only serves, like all trends, to displace the overly-familiar, butalso appears to answer deeper cultural concerns.Simultaneously encompassing many of the most characteristic historical forms of abstraction, it'sunderpinned by telling geographical differences.For much of Europe, an emphasis on involved painterly practice appears to remain more or lessconstant, with high value placed on immediacy and expression.

This seems particularly marked in the UK, where many of its new and emerging abstract artistsespouse a painterly idiom and palette derived at least in part from the first flowerings of modernism,such as the orphism of Robert and Sonia Delauney, early cubist experiments, or the home-grownproductions of the Bloomsbury Group and Omega workshop.In Germany, modernist influence is likewise a conspicuous aspect of new abstraction, but here theemphasis falls on geometric forms such as suprematism, constructivism and the aesthetics (even ethos)of the Bauhaus.This surprising resurgence of European interest in early 20th century experimentation - an engagementthat even extends to literary output via a new emphasis on textuality and verbal narration in art-appears related to several factors.For one thing, the centenary of the first flurry of modernist practice coincides exactly with the present.For another, its 'international' nature - although in truth an essentially pan-European culturalinterchange - is replicable at the start of the 21st century in ways that the creation of the post-warSoviet bloc rendered impossible. Today, artists from Eastern Europe again play as formative a role inthe continent's artistic discourse as they did at the start of the last century.
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Perhaps most significantly, however, present-day social and political realities are uncannilyreminiscent of those of the modernist era. Global financial crisis, ever-present threats to security,accelerated developments in science and technology and a widening division between rich and poorcontribute to the recognition of a fundamentally altered world order, particularly with regard to the newpolitical teleogies that fast-emerging super-economies have already begun to establish.All of these issues informed the original modernist agenda which, while vacillating between optimism

and despair, was nevertheless convinced of the supremacy of art and its ability to make sense of araidly changing world.Given the specific relation of modernism to the European cultural psyche, it's perhaps unsurprising thatfor US artists, post-war abstraction seems to provide more relevant aesthetic models.Certainly curious, however, is the tendency to bypass the quintessentially American nature of abstractexpressionism for later, though certainly related, abstract movements such as minimalism and hard-edge painting.As usual, our round-up of some of the best contemporary abstract art is miscellaneous in nature,featuring well-known practitioners alongside emerging artists as well as virtual unknowns.But the point is to show how all bring different approaches to the theme of abstraction - breathing newlife, in the process, into a genre that's stealthily reclaiming its place in the limelight.

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