Modern Art

There was a time when artistic endeavors couldn’t depart from the traditions of culture or politics without serious repercussions to the artist. When Geniuses like Mozart and his renowned Marriage of Figaro Opera were treated with disdain for abstaining from norms or flouting conventions established by the imperial powers of the time.  When Vincent Van Gogh’s red vineyard only sold for 400 francs and was the sole painting he managed to sell before his death. When Author/Thinker Franz Kafka never sold a book yet today he stands a titan of 20th century literature and even has an overused English word coined in his name “Kafkaesque”, a feat seldom any author has come close to. All of these people, these great influencers shared one common insight, one we characterize progressive men by, thinking beyond the boundaries of culture.

Rules, laws, conventions, all delimit artistic expression and in doing so also delimit our perception of the world.Modern art has been conceptualized as art that defers from long-established practices of art institutions prior to the 18th Century. The 18th century otherwise dubbed as the enlightenment era saw a fascinating movement in painting that separated it from the contemporary practice of portraying reality just as it is. This movement involved printing the artist’s impression of the subject rather than simply trying to copy the subject itself. This was done in many different ways such creating contrasts in strokes, colors and light. Portraying the subjects of paintings in this manner gave a whole new depth to the art because it made possible to capture the surrealism of the moments experienced by the artists.

 

This ripe, new avant-garde genre gave a whole new connotation to art through its aesthetic innovations by using colors expressively, experimenting with unconventional techniques and materials. Following the publication of Sigmund Freud’s “The Interpretation of dreams” which postulated the idea that part of our worldviews and decisions are imposed by our subconscious, artists began experimenting with different styles of portraying reality. The belief vested in theventure was that art could reflect the artists own dreams, symbolisms and subjective experiences and that this would offer greater insight into the human mind and its subconscious projections than conventional art.

 

This movement can be traced back to the Industrial revolution in Europe, so around the time of the first railroads and trains. Although art of this style wasn’t awarded much consideration or merit, it was a time of profound change in culture and lifestyle, change that still managed to seep into artwork. And it’s probably because prior to 19th Century in Europe, most art was financed by wealthy institutions, royalty or the Catholic Church and was only really used to depict mythology or religious ideas and dignitaries. The birth of Modernism can be said to have begun when artists decided to create art that personally reflected them, their subjective experiences and on topics of their choosing. Challenging the notion that art must depict the world was not received well as one can guess, but after the 20th Century, these works were given due credit and valuation. Today artists are inspired to take keep surprising us by taking their art in new and unforeseen directions, showing us just how truly big our world is. Modern art focuses more on interpreting the aesthetical experience of reality than copying it in its crude form.

 

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