Post Modernism, New modernism, or the Art of Identity, have taken on a whole new market. This age is still unfolding, so new items will be added to this page as they develop.
Conceptual Art (1960's - 1970's) - Conceptual Art ends the colorful definable era of "modern art". Today’s artists are no longer a part of a collective source, but have delved into new trends and ideas that seem to change from year to year. Conceptual Art helped gain this independence, and in some sense, completes a source of new freedom began by the Impressionists 100 years ago.
Performance Art 1970's-Present
1. A performance art piece is unprecedented.
2. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
3. It is usually very current. This means that it is usually relevant of today because of the short time between conception and performance.
4. Performance art can involve the audience with taste, smell and sounds not available with electronic media and not practical with conventional theater. This is due to the usually small audience.
5. Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity.
6. Occupies an environment with specific objects and actions for a specific amount of time.
7. The space time restraints of performance art does not allow for elaborate sets/props and cost very little to produce.
8. Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting.
9. Since the audience is usually small (around 30) the performers can actually give things to the audience, such as food or money.
10. Performance Art is brief, about 15 minutes long. This is a problem in that you cannot get people to come out to watch a 15 minute performance. Therefore, Performance Art Festivals are appropriate in contrast to an individual performance.
Quote from Jack Bowman (performance artist)
Printed on a program for one of his performances.
Yvette Hilen's "Pedestrian Project"
A group of Artist's clothed in
pedestrian-crossing signs suits.
Their movements are choreographed
By Helin through radio transmitters
inside the helmets.
(From the Franklin Furnace)
 by Bill Woodard |
1983: Apple introduced its Lisa. The first personal computer with a graphical user interface, its development was central in the move to such systems for personal computers.
1984: Apple Computer launched the Macintosh, the first successful mouse-driven computer with a graphic user interface, with a single $1.5 million commercial during the 1984 Super Bowl.
1987: IBM introduced its PS/2 machines, which made the 3 1/2-inch floppy disk drive and video graphics array standard for IBM computers.
1990- The World Wide Web was born when Tim Berners-Lee, a researcher at CERN, the high-energy physics laboratory in Geneva, developed HyperText Markup Language.
The use of computer-generated graphics in movies took a step forward with Disney's release of "Tron." One of the first movies to use such graphics, the plot of "Tron" also featured computers - it followed the adventures of a hacker split into molecules and transported inside a computer. Computer animation, done by III, Abel, MAGI, and Digital Effects, accounted for about 30 minutes of the film.
Collaborative work by
Internet artists at
Open Studio and GrafficJam
www.artcontext.com/jam/jam.cgi
Post-Modern Classicism 1980's-Present -
Victorian Revival 1980's-Present -
Celtic Revival 1990's-Present -
Tribal Art 1990's-Present -
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