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Contemporary Art
ART ARTICLES
The Basic Dilemma of the Artist
by Sam Vaknin
The psychophysical problem is long standing and,
probably, intractable. We have a corporeal body.
It is a physical entity, subject to all the laws
of physics. Yet, we experience ourselves, our internal
lives, external events in a manner which provokes
us to postulate the existence of a corresponding,
non-physical ontos, entity. This corresponding entity
ostensibly incorporates a dimension of our being
which, in principle, can never be tackled with the
instruments and the formal logic of science. A compromise
was proposed long ago: the soul is nothing but our
self awareness or the way that we experience ourselves.
But this is a flawed solution.
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Why Art?
by Joseph Devon
The following is the hardest thing Ive ever
had to write. If I can get through this, all the
way through this, than my little corner of the universe
will make sense again and Ill be able to get
a good nights sleep. If I dont get through
it
well
if I dont get through it
then you wont be reading this and Ive
vanished off into the world of obscurity. The following
is the hardest thing Ive ever had to write
for the very simple reason that I, in no way, feel
like writing it.
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FAMOUS ARTISTS
Read
about the works and biographies of famous painters
such as Marc Chagall, Leonardo Da Vinci, Henri Matisse,
Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Joseph Mallord William
Turner and Vincent Van Gogh.
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PAINTING STYLES AND SCHOOLS
Since
the birth of art throughout the ages, different
schools or styles of painting have been developed
and used by different artists all over the world.
These are Baroque, Abstract Expressionism, Cloisonnism,
Cubism, Expressionism, Fauvism, Neo-Impressionism,
Op Art, Pointillism, Pop Art, Primitive, and Surrealism.
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CONTEMPORARY ART
Contemporary
Art is an artistic work from the present era that
uses the current practices and styles of its discipline.
The term contemporary generally defines art as that
which was produced during the second half of the
twentieth century.
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