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Contemporary Art

The document provides an overview of several 20th century art movements including Abstract Expressionism, Optical Art, Kinetic Art, Gutai, and Minimalism. Abstract Expressionism emphasized gestural techniques and spontaneity. Optical Art used color, pattern, and perspective tricks to create optical illusions. Kinetic Art incorporated moving components and machines. Gutai embraced performance and the relationship between body, movement, and spirit. Minimalism tested various media and favored geometric shapes over symbolism.

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Contemporary Art

The document provides an overview of several 20th century art movements including Abstract Expressionism, Optical Art, Kinetic Art, Gutai, and Minimalism. Abstract Expressionism emphasized gestural techniques and spontaneity. Optical Art used color, pattern, and perspective tricks to create optical illusions. Kinetic Art incorporated moving components and machines. Gutai embraced performance and the relationship between body, movement, and spirit. Minimalism tested various media and favored geometric shapes over symbolism.

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ART APPRECIATION

FINALS
CONTEMPORARY ART – was heavily driven by  Multiple platforms: performance, theatrical
ideas and theories, and even the blurring of notions events, installation, and even painting
of what is and can be considered as ‘art’  YOSHIHARA JIRO (1952) – founder of
- With involvement of television, photography, Gutai Art Association or Gutai Group
cinema, digital technology, performance,  “Challenge to the Mud”
and even objects of the everyday 5. MINIMALISM (early 1960s, New York)
- Idea over visual articulation  Artists testing the boundaries of various
ART MOVEMENTS: AOKGMPNPCPIES media
1. ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM (early  EXTREME TYPE OF ABSTRACTION
1940s to mid-1960s) (favoured geometric shapes, color fields,
 Took the basic tenets of abstraction and and used of objects and materials)
combined with it with gestural techniques,  Favored COOL over DRAMATIC
mark-making, and a rugged spontaneity in  Painters and sculptors avoided overt
its visual articulation. symbolism and emotional content
 Still, Jackson, Pollock, Kooning, Newman,
Rothko
 Had the ability to convey and elicit
emotions
 2 TYPES:
a. ACTION PAINTING – underscored the
process of creation in that it showed the
physicality, direction and spontaneity of
actions (drips and strokes)
b. COLOR FIELDS – emphasized
emotional power of colors, vivid
demarcations to the more toned-down
transitions
2. OPTICAL ART OR ‘OP ART’ (early 1960s
onward)
 Relied on creating an illusion to inform the
experience of the artwork using color,
pattern, and other perspective tricks
 Showed certain kind of dynamism
3. KINETIC ART (early 1950’s onward)
 Components of artworks which were
predominantly sculptural, mobiles,
motor-driven machines
 ART AND TECHNOLOGY can be brought
together
4. GUTAI (1950s-1970s) - Japan
 Embodiment or concreteness, it preceded
the later forms of performance and
conceptual art
 Hold deeper desire to makes sense of the
relationship between body, movements and
spirit of their interaction during the process
of creation

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