Contemporary art is art produced at the present period in time. Contemporary art includes, and develops from, postmodern art, which is itself a successor to modern art. In vernacular English, "modern" and "contemporary" are synonyms, resulting in some conflation of the terms "modern art" and "contemporary art" by non-specialists.
In this topic I choose Pop art
Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid-1950s in Britain and the late 1950s in the United States. Among the early artists that shaped the pop art movement were Eduardo Paolozzi and Richard Hamilton inBritain, and Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns in the United States.
Why POP ART ?
pop art is important because it reveals that pop art was far more than an artistic movement that was limited to artists and celebrities. The movement had socio-political implications that are still being realized today. In this regard, pop art could be considered more of a cultural movement or a social movement. The influence of pop art extends beyond the art world by influencing the business world and continually transforming culture into an ever greater artistic spectacle, desperately attempting to grapple with the apparent reality of capitalism. The essential significance of pop art is that economic and aesthetic considerations are not in opposition, as may have been the case in the traditional avante garde.
The Buddhist vihara at Sanchi, famous for its Great Stupa is located at Sanchi Town in Raisen District of the state of Madhya Pradesh, India, it is 46 km north-east of Bhopal. The Great Stupa at Sanchi is the oldest stone structure in India and was originally commissioned by the emperor Ashoka the Great in the 3rd century BCE. Its nucleus was a simple hemispherical brick structure built over the relics of the Buddha.
The most noteworthy of the structures is the Great Stupa (stupa no. 1), discovered in 1818. It was probably begun by the Mauryan emperor Ashoka in the mid-3rd century BCE and later enlarged. Solid throughout, it is enclosed by a massive stone railing pierced by four gateways, which are adorned with elaborate carvings (known as Sanchi sculpture) depicting the life of the Buddha, legends of his...
I want to get into some Eastern art,
because Eastern art is super cool. And
while art history books might make you think
otherwise, not all good things come from
Greece and Italy. The Hill of Sanchi is situated about 9 kilometres south-west of Vidisha in Madhaya Pradesh, India. Crowning the hilltop of Sanchi nearly 91 metres in height, a group of Buddhist monuments commands a grand view even from a distance. It is unique not only in its having the most perfect and well-preserved stupas but also in its offering a wide and educative field for the study of the genesis, efflorescence and decay of Buddhist art and architecture for a period of about thirteen hundred years, from the third century B.C. to the twelfth century, A.D., almost covering the whole range of Indian Buddhism. This is rather surprising, for Sanchi was not hallowed by any incident in Buddha's life; not is it known to have been the focus of any significant event in the history of Buddhist monachism.
Modern art includes artistic work produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the style and philosophy of the art produced during that era. The term is usually associated with art in which the traditions of the past have been thrown aside in a spirit of experimentation. Modern artists experimented with new ways of seeing and with fresh ideas about the nature of materials and functions of art.
This paintings is Country road in Provence by Night I have a print of his one hanging in my living room and it has grown on me quite a bit over the last year. I like the juxtaposition between the dark foreboding sky and the light path with two farmers walking home from work. It feels like Fall to me with rich colors and the farmers in their heavy coats. There's a chill in the air.
Van Gogh painted this in May of 1890 while he was staying in a mental hospital in Saint-Rémy that had once beena monastery. He was institutionalized there after a series of breakdowns in early 1889, and it ended up being one of the most creative times of his life. The hospital was surrounded by beautiful open fields that inspired much of his work for the next year, when he worked on a series of paintings of cypresses including "A Wheatfield with Cypresses," "Road with Cypress and Star" (picture above), and probably his best known of these pieces, "Starry Night" .
According to Kathleen Powers Erickson, Road with Cypress and Star more strongly reflects van Gogh's belief that he would soon die than the earlier painting The Starry Night.
20th-century art and what it became as modern art began with modernism in the late 19th century. Nineteenth-century movements of Post-Impressionism (Les Nabis), Art Nouveau and Symbolism led to the first twentieth-century art movements of Fauvism in France and Die Brücke ("The Bridge") in Germany.
One of the 20th-century art paintings is Charing Cross Bridge, London, Charing Cross Bridge is a series of oil paintings by French artist Claude Monet. Painted in between 1899 and 1904, they depict a misty, impressionistic Charing Cross Bridge in London.During the years between 1899 and 1905, Monet travelled to London to capture its sights from the fifth-floor balcony of the Savoy Hotel. Monet was captivated by the London fog, a notable atmospheric effect made markedly worse by the heavy pollution of the Industrial Revolution. He painted the Houses of Parliament, Waterloo Bridge, and Charing Cross Bridge over and over, as he had earlier done with haystacks and Rouen Cathedral, dashing off paintings to capture fleeting atmospheric effects. He was extremely prolific, beginning nearly 100 paintings in London. Thirty-seven of the canvases were of Charing Cross Bridge, only twelve of which he finished in London; the rest he took back to his Giverny studio for completion.
I like this paintings beacause it shows a lot of creativity. The Art Institute’sHouses of Parliament, Westminster resembles a tissue-thin screen of shifting blues and pinks, suggesting the changing light of the sky through the fog and in the water’s reflections
