Contemporary Art

Contemporary art is a term used to describe the art of today, generally referring to art produced from the 1970s onwards. It is a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing art that continues the challenging of boundaries that was already well underway in the 20th century. Contemporary art is part of a cultural dialogue that concerns larger contextual frameworks such as personal and cultural identity, family, community, and nationality. The classification of "contemporary art" as a special type of art goes back to the beginnings of Modernism in the English-speaking world, with institutions such as the Contemporary Art Society being founded in the 1910s and 1930s. The definition of what is contemporary is naturally always on the move, anchored in the present with a start date that moves forward, and definitions of what constitutes "contemporary art" in the 2010s vary, and are mostly imprecise. Sociologist Nathalie Heinich draws a distinction between modern and contemporary art, describing them as two different paradigms which partially overlap historically, with contemporary art challenging the very notion of an artwork.learn more on wikipedia