Have you ever paid attention to the types of art that someone has hanging on their walls or setting on tables in their homes? If you haven’t taken the time to look, try it. The next time that you stop by a friend or family member’s house, look carefully at the types of art in their house.
You can tell a lot about someone by the types of art and decorations that they have in their houses. Art is very personal. It is also very unique. What one person might consider art may not be the slightest bit appealing to the next person.
If you were to walk into an art museum and look around, you will see many different forms of art. Art is in the form of statues and paintings. It can also be abstract pieces of art made of cans or metal or any other material that someone finds to be beautiful or unique.
Some people find pictures and video of dead trees a very beautiful sight. They may have paintings or photos displayed around their houses for everyone to see. While you or I may not find them particularly intriguing, the old saying ‘Beauty is in the eye of the beholder’ is a very true statement.
To a professional artist or an emerging artist, everything that they create is a masterpiece. Through their eyes their creation is worthy of being displayed in the most extravagant museum or art display. Festivals are created with the only intent being to display different types of art.
In many towns, a gallery hop is hosted. A gallery hop is a grouping of businesses that will display different local professional artists and emerging artists works. Most of the art pieces are for sale. During a gallery hop, the streets are usually filled with music and the sounds of people laughing and enjoying themselves can be heard in every direction.
The gallery hops are not intended to be uptight and rigid. They are a celebration of creativity. It provides a place for local professional artists and emerging artists artists to display their works of art. People wander around the displays and have a drink or two. They make comments about the art and how wonderful or different each piece is.
Art can definitely being people together. A painting or picture of a sunrise can bring back many memories to the person that is looking at it. It can spark up conversations between perfect strangers that could possibly be an influence into a long lasting friendship. The emotions that can be spurred by a piece of artwork are truly amazing.
Music is also a form of art. Music also acts as a joint between strangers. The sounds of a favorite musician playing to their fans are a conversation piece between two strangers that both share the love of that artist. Music is a very diverse form of art. There are many different types of music and it is loved by all sorts of people.
Art is an expression of a personal feeling or thought. You can definitely tell things about someone who is a complete stranger by the type of art that they prefer. It allows you to look into their personality without letting them know that you are looking. Take a look around your family and friends houses the next time you visit. See if there is something that you can discover about someone who you thought you knew so well. Art is an ever changing medium. It is a reflection of the times and the culture. It transforms as culture and people transform. This modern age has brought many types of art and along with that a wide variety of metaphors and wonders that captivate our modern audience. With the age of computers among us it seems a wonder that true art even exists anymore. The 21st century is the most promising centuries that art has ever experienced. Art itself may have gone through many changes over time but the change it will go through over the next century is sure to be enormous. To prove this theory, let’s take a look at the changes art went through over the last century.
Modernism actually began in the last part of the 19th century. Post Impressionism and Art Nouveau that began in the 19th century led to Fauvism in France and Di Bruke in Germany.
Fauvism in France began a non representational color in figurative painting.
Die Brucke held expressionism in emotion as important.
Cubism was a movement by Picasso and rejected anything that the art from the Renaissance brought to art.
Futurism showed movement and machine age images.
Suprematism was happening in Russia and also Jack of Diamonds expressed themselves through nature.
Dadism, which attacked ideas of high art and tried to break down distinctions between high and low culture, evolved into Surrelism, which celebrated the flow of the subconscious with the influential techniques like automatism and nonsense juxtaposes.
Theories of Freud in Psychology led to work by artists like Salvador Dali where dreams and the unconscious were depicted.
The dream art moved into non representational art in the 1950′s. The Abstract Expressionist School led artist like Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko who painted detached imagery.
Andy Warhol came from the detached imagery artists and moved into commercial imagery. He minimized the role of the artist. This change moved art from Modernism to Post Modernism.
The switch from Modernism to Post Modernism in art was a major movement. There are many types of art that are involved in Post Modernism. Some are installation art, conceptual art and inter media. One main trait in these arts is bricolage which is the use of words as an artistic element. Post Modernism was a reaction to modernism. World War II led to the disillusionment of art. Post Modernism concerns itself with the questions of the organization of knowledge. In postmodern society knowledge is functional. Use the knowledge- don’t just learn it.
So when you consider all of the many changes in art over the last century- art seems to be ever changing. It develops along with the culture and also with society. Art seems to be a representation of the society in which we live. Therefore, if you want to understand a culture, learn their art. Understand their art and study the changes that their art has gone through. Major events in history tend to change art.