Contemporary Art

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Art created from the 1960s onwards that reflects the diversity of styles and approaches in the art world today.

"Contemporary art is the art of today, produced in the second half of the 20th century or in the 21st century."
"Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world."
"Their art is a dynamic combination of materials, methods, concepts, and subjects."
"Their art is a dynamic combination of materials, methods, concepts, and subjects that continue the challenging of boundaries that was already well underway in the 20th century."
"Contemporary art as a whole is distinguished by the very lack of a uniform, organizing principle, ideology, or '-ism'."
"Contemporary art is part of a cultural dialogue that concerns larger contextual frameworks such as personal and cultural identity, family, community, and nationality."
"In vernacular English, modern and contemporary are synonyms, resulting in some conflation and confusion of the terms modern art and contemporary art by non-specialists."
"Contemporary artists work in the second half of the 20th century or in the 21st century."
"Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world."
"Contemporary art is part of a cultural dialogue that concerns larger contextual frameworks such as personal and cultural identity, family, community, and nationality."
"Contemporary art as a whole is distinguished by the very lack of a uniform, organizing principle, ideology, or '-ism'."
"Their art is a dynamic combination of materials, methods, concepts, and subjects."
"Their art is a dynamic combination of materials, methods, concepts, and subjects that continue the challenging of boundaries that was already well underway in the 20th century."
"Contemporary art is the art of today, produced in the second half of the 20th century or in the 21st century."
"Contemporary art is part of a cultural dialogue that concerns larger contextual frameworks such as personal and cultural identity, family, community, and nationality."
"Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world."
"Contemporary art as a whole is distinguished by the very lack of a uniform, organizing principle, ideology, or '-ism'."
"Their art is a dynamic combination of materials, methods, concepts, and subjects."
"Contemporary art is part of a cultural dialogue that concerns larger contextual frameworks such as personal and cultural identity, family, community, and nationality."
"In vernacular English, modern and contemporary are synonyms, resulting in some conflation and confusion of the terms modern art and contemporary art by non-specialists."