Contemporary Art- The Art of Modern Era

When we talk about contemporary art, the answer is very simple: it is an art made by living things. You can say this is art of the present day. It is very different from modern art because modern art comes earlier than contemporary art. If we talk about Modern art, it is an art that comes around the mid of 19th century. but when we talk about contemporary art it has grown recently in mid of 20th century. Contemporary art is related to experimental free reign and passion, where modern art is related to history and heritage.

Nowadays we can see the popularity of this form of art is growing rapidly. There are some most common elements of contemporary art you should know that is colours, shape, form, texture harmony. It is a combination of material, concept, subject, and creative power of an artist. If you talk about the characteristics of contemporary art the most important is conceptual expressionism.

In the past, we saw many famous contemporary artists like Jean Michel Basquiat, Peter Doig, Christopher Wool, Rudolf Stingel, Mark Grotjahn, Keith Haring, these are some of the best contemporary artists we have. There are also some new-age contemporary artists like Jordan Casteel, Lucas Arruda, Henry Taylor, Loie Hollowell, they are doing very great work in contemporary art. Jenny Saville is the highest-paid contemporary artist(woman). Her one painting sold for $12.4 million.

If anybody wants to know more about contemporary art you can go to many contemporary art exhibitions, art galleries or museums. If you see There are so many popular art galleries all over the globe You can check out many famous contemporary artist websites and can see their work.

So we can say contemporary art is becoming very popular day by day. Many people spend their time and lots of money to see this form of art. Many museums and art exhibition centers conduct many shows and people love to watch artists and their art.