Art 2010

Art in 2010 is so loose; it could be over looked as a mistake, yet so detailed it becomes like the fine work of a spider in the early evening. I would name it the Brief Movement, in correlation to the creation and deterioration of a spider’s web. I feel that this movement began in the late 1980’s with the development of the personal home computer and the Internet. With the increased technological aspect of our world, art has become somewhat lost with in the chaos defined as, “The Flattened World”.
Auspiciously speaking though, I believe we are on the fringes of another huge art trend. The art that is being created today is like the wash for a future body of work. We need to separate and distinguish art from advertisement, in doing so; we will bring forth the “Movement” of our time. With programs such as Art 21 on PBS, educators and artists can utilize their understanding of what is being done and where art is headed.
Some of the most influential artist of the 80’s such as Keith Harring and Jean-Michel Basquait as well as David Hammon began the stepping-stones for the artist of today. In the 90’s artists such as Mariko Mori, Christian Schumann and Ebon Fisher dissected the area between art of yesterday and art of today even further.
Working artist today, such as Pierre Huyghe, who, “...probes the capacity of cinema to distort and ultimately shape memory,” PBS Art 21 magazine, work with such a vast array of materials that it becomes hard to say what type of artist he is. This is also true for artist such as Judy Pfaff, Alfredo Jarr, Jenny Holzer, Cao Fei, Paul McCarthy, Yinka Shonibare, Ida Applebroog and Arturo Herrera. Their work is so vast and multi-faceted; it is hard to predict what maybe next.
The critics of today are not limited to educated professionals, instead art has become incorporated into such a wide variety of objects that we have mangers in corporate offices giving their two cents of what is artistically sound and not. Along side these corporate advertises we still have the public bloggers, magazine writers and educated critics of our time. With that said some of the art critics of the 2010 movement are, John Canaday, Ben Davis, Elisabeth Kley, Richard Scarry and Rachel Wolff.
This multi media, multi-geniuses species of artist on a global level, is profound to even think about. There is so much work going on simultaneously that it is hard to pick the pieces out that will end up being influential. Thusly speaking this quickly moving, ever changing time period that we are standing in now, may seem as if it is producing the art of tomorrow; but I think it is only a small step forward to where art as a whole is going.




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Pfaff