1. Roelstraete believes that our society has become a "cold-blooded culture-technology-management-sexuality system whose main practicality is that it's 'homogenous to the market.'" Do you believe this is true? If society has become this way, what does that mean for the future?
2. Will contemporary art be more easily defined in the future, just as Baroque art may be more easily identified now than it was in the 18th century?
3. If you had to pinpoint a specific "spirit" of contemporary art, what would it be?
I think that contemporary art will be more easily defined in the future. It is hard do decide what main themes and what has large impacts on a time when it is still currently going on and changing around you. Once this time has passed I think it will be easier to look back and decide what made the art of that period and what impacts it had and changes that were made, just like in past artistic movements. I also think that it is very hard to try and define the the spirit or the artists of our time. I think we will just have to wait and see!
ReplyDelete1. Roelstraete believes that our society has become a "cold-blooded culture-technology-management-sexuality system whose main practicality is that it's 'homogenous to the market.'" Do you believe this is true? If society has become this way, what does that mean for the future?
ReplyDeleteI don't really think that I will feel as deep of a connection with work in the future if this is the case. It might be artwork that appeals to the masses but for people who are old souls who don't love all this new technology and aren't so concerned with the "I" but more worried about the "we" and "us" I don't think that they will like the future ahead.
2. Will contemporary art be more easily defined in the future, just as Baroque art may be more easily identified now than it was in the 18th century?
I believe in the future there will be a definition for contemporary art. I don't know if this is necessarily a good thing because art historians will begin lumping artists together that didn't necessarily have the same ideas in mind but still arrived at creating the same type of work. In the past artists who were in certain movements were trying to communicate the same messages ie. pop, minimalism, Dada. Now in contemporary work everyone has their own message that they are trying to relay. So yes I think there will be a definition I just don't know if it will really be one that we want.
3. If you had to pinpoint a specific "spirit" of contemporary art, what would it be?
I think the "spirit" of contemporary art for current artists is making new, fresh work that embodies the message or the lack of message that they are trying to convey. I would agree with the article that contemporary work doesn't necessarily mean that it has had to be made or shown in the last 20 years. I think that whenever an artist starts a new era etc like Duchamp with Dada or Andy Warhol with Pop that they were being contemporary.
2. Since we are living during contemporary art, it is of course hard to define. In the future I definitely think that critics and people will have tried to summarize the movement and highlight only those who portrayed what they think the period was about and best known for. This of course makes everyone that lived through the period feel as if it was conditioned down to the bare minimum of artists, and a summarized message will be hard to have with such a variety of artists and their messages in this age. However, that is what art has been reduced to in the past and I feel as if it will continue in it's cycle because people like it when they can classify things. It's human nature, whether for good or for bad.
ReplyDelete2) In simple terms, hindsight is always perfect. It is possible given enough time, enough data and enough creativity to create a pattern in anything so most certainly it will be easier to define later. The question is whether or not this categorization will be in part a fabrication.
ReplyDelete2. In general, trends come and go. If we thought about music, art, and fashion, we'd be able to come to some sort of consensus of themes, but who knows how much they'd differ years later. But I agree with Kristin and Kasey in that these themes are adjusted and can be too summarized.
ReplyDelete3) I suppose the "spirit" would be cross-cultural experimentation, a sort of bold, explosive and curious thing. From what I've seen of contemporary art, everyone pulls from multiple influences from many times and cultures. For example, my influences are Surrealism, vanitas paintings, comic books and classic mythology. It's a big ole' melting pot, one I think works well for mixed media work- it further enforces this idea. Technologic enhancements, ancient techniques; it's all fair game.
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