Contemporary art is considered as art produced in the 20thor 21stcentury. This art is a combination of different materials, methods, concepts, and subjects. It is common for artists during this era to work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world. The term is specifically referenced to art made and produced by artists that are living today. It is mentioned that contemporary artists usually reflect and comment on modern day society. They also are known to question traditional ideas of how art has been defined or what constitutes it. Since the early 20thcentury, many artists have chosen to turn away from “realistic representation” and have converted to abstraction. Recently contemporary artists have been working within the postmodern movement and have rejected the concept of mainstream art.
Judy Chicago:
The Dinner Party, was an important icon of 1970s feminist art movement. This was also a milestone in twentieth-century art. The Dinner Party is staged as a ceremonial banquet, arranged on a triangular table with a total of thirty-nine place settings. Each place setting is an important woman from history. The settings consist of embroidered runners, utensils, and china-painted porcelain plates. The names of another 999 women are written in gold on the white tile floor below the triangular table. This exhibition honors the 1,038 women that have influenced feminism over the years.
The Dinner Party, By Judy Chicago 1974-79
Frida Khalo:
Frida Kahlo began to paint in 1925, while recovering from a near-fatal bus accident. She executed paintings that portrayed her hardships. By exploring, questioning, and staging herself and identity she also often evoked her ongoing struggle. Many of her paintings were displayed through the physical pain and the emotional distress caused by her relationship with another painter by the name of Diego Rivera.
The Broken Column, By Frida Khalo 1944
Mickalene Thomas:
Mickalene Thomas was a New Jersey native that made paintings, collages, photography, video, and installations that draw on art history and popular culture to create a contemporary vision. Through female sexuality, beauty, and power she constructs complex portraits, landscapes, and interiors in order to examine how identity and gender are related to the ways women are represented in art and popular culture. In addition, the Rhinestones in her paintings are used to symbolize feminism. She uses this to confront her audiences assumptions about feminism.
A Little Taste Outside of Love, 2007
Louise Burgeouis:
Louise Bourgeois's work during the 20th century was influenced by the traumatic events she endured during her childhood. Bourgeois's often used sexually explicit subject matter and her focus on three-dimensional form was unusual for women artists at this time. Beginning in the 1970s, she hosted Sunday salons in her Chelsea apartment. This is where students and young artists would take their work to be critiqued by Bourgeois. Her influence has also had an impact on other artists feminist-inspired body art and in the development of installation art.
Arch of Hysteria, By Louise Bourgeois 1993
Adrian Piper
Piper’s transformative work has shaped conceptual art since the 1960’s. She influenced many of the pronoun artists today. Piper was known to investigate the political, social, and spiritual potential of conceptual work. This frequently addressed gender, race, and xenophobia.
Decide Who You Are, By Adrian Piper 1992
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