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This is a general overview Movements of Modern Art from 1900 upto today,
some there wer some overlaps etc, the order is not very precise:
1900
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Fauvism
Expressionism
Cubism <--- sign that art was dieing
Futurism
Abstract / Non-objective art
Dada <-- art was delirius at this point
Surealism
Constructivism
Abstract Expressionism <----black outs, and fits of rage
Post Painterly Abstraction
Pop Art <-- denial of its diagnosis
Minimalism
Conceptual Art <-- over thinking to prolong it's death
Photorealism
Modernism <--last leg: chrysalis formed
Post-Modernism <--- autopsy performed;
Super-Modernity <---the morphosis, butterfly emerged
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2001When did Art Die and who killed it?
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In my thesis that Art died at the end of Modernism. I rambled on about how it was societies misreading of Modern Art that caused the death of art and the disagreement between the artist and it's public. Generally art is made to express/communicate to the public. Once the art can no longer communicate to the public it is dead. The only galleries, museums, currators and collectors attempt to keep it on life support. It is hardly supported by the public. To some degree artist questioned their roles, I concentrated on three groups of artist responce to this delema: defend/attack mode, narcisstic mode, and questioning mode (precursor to post-modernism). One example of defense/attack mode is Richard Serra's "tilted arc" placed in the financial disctrict of lower manhattan:
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Square/1371/serra.htmlTo make a long story short, the end of modernism / begining or post-modernism was the start of a very confusing period in art.
Post-modernisms attempt at a postmortem examination of art to that date led to the re-examination of art of the past, clipping, mixing, and bastardizing previous beliefs in art and history. But what post moderism found was "collapse of an idea of progress" (M.Auge) Leaving artist with a lonely and alienating spirit. Progress had initialy been measured using time and space.
When the internet, (a contributing factor to "Super-Modernity" (M.Auge), came about it reduced space and time, allowing people to travel back an forth in time, to and from spaces more easier than ever before. My conclusion today is that, theoretically, with the help of the internet*, Art is not so much dead as it has morphed into new phase: "Super-Modernity" 'Uebermoderne'. Like a caterpillar that has turned into a butterfly.
Primitive man might have thought at one point the caterpillar had died and a new airborne insect had immerged from the chrysalis. Museums, Galleries, and critics are the primitive men in this situation. When they realize thier institutions/constructs have died, i.e. the caterpillar, and they cannot grasp it this new life, i.e. the butterfly, or have no part in the new
"museum without walls", (-Andre Malraux vision of an art book, this one with hyperlinks!), they become ultimately frustrated. [*In the SuperModernity phase the internet allows for people everywhere to
experience what they want and when they want it, and in the privacy of thier homes, in the case that a big museum & fancy gallerie$ intimidates them.
Nolonger do they have to be subjected physically to something the do not want to encounter - the public chooses and no one is a winner, no one is a loser no matter how many unique visitors ;). The big PLUS is that they are ALSO allowed to express themselves online, display their art, the peoples art, without needing the approval of a gallerist, currators, or museums to
do so.]
Interesting lecture relating the internet to Marc Auge defenition of "SuperModernity":http://www.physicsroom.org.nz/log/archive/10soft.htm
And what of Painting as a specific medium, Is it dead?
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My opinion, to use another metophor, is that painting is not dead, but has
been orphaned by the non-existant walls on the internet. Indeed people will
paint and paintings will continue to made but there are no more walls to
hang them on.Any comments, corrections, support, fuck off muserna, new views, different
angles?