Modern Art

Modern Art - Contemporary Art

"Modern art" as a term is not defined in a delimiting way. In common usage, it describes the avant-garde art of the 20th century, but it was used well before that. Thus, no concrete style can be defined, which makes the transitions from and to other art forms fluid and prevents a clear classification. This is one of the reasons why, for example, the technical language uses the term "modern art" and thus generally refers to all developments since the 1870s. We embrace this diversity and field of tension and use it creatively.

Expressionism: Modern painting by the artist Dieu in panoramic format, 150 x 50 cm, 2019, further works in colour and graphics by the artist Discover Artist Dieu

The multifaceted Portfolio of our gallery offers you a large collection of the most diverse exhibits - including modern positions and authentic abstract subjects, independent in themselves, with an impressive radiance and sophisticated profundity. In your search for the right style, keep an eye on the most important currents and movements of the "avant-garde", take the necessary time to inform yourself about important art movements and to understand and correctly classify them.

Knowledge of art history, events and the important art movements will certainly influence you in your search for the right work of art.

Overview: History and development

The aforementioned abstract painting is not only an example of modern art, but also exemplifies the departure from the principles of occidental representations that had prevailed until then. While up until the 20th century, painters and artists in general were still characterised by realistic depictions, the increasingly popular abstract art movement fundamentally changed this. From then on, the focus was on composition and the ordering of colours and contrasts, as well as lines and geometric constellations in a more or less pronounced way. This development was fed not least by modern progress in the economy and society and also by catastrophic events such as the world wars. Abstract collections and non-objective portraits also served as the nucleus for later forms of art, such as Pop Art and Happening, as well as Fluxus, Situation Art and Conceptual Art.

Expressionism by Marita Tobner	Edit figurative features	Original by L.Morgenstern

Examples with thematic classification

If one takes a look at paintings created in the 19th and 20th centuries, the great diversity of variations under the collective term "Modern Art" becomes apparent. While some works, such as "Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway" by William Turner, depict the new achievements of mobility in contrast to the prevailing landscape painting of the time, paintings such as "Doubt" by the Expressionist Edvard Munch or "Esto es peor" ("This is worse") by Francisco José de Goya y Lycientes focus on the individual-emotional or the unsparing depiction of personal suffering.

 

Image: Visitors admire a collection at an art exhibition, 2019

 

The Dadaists, in turn, often resorted to the stylistic device of parody and in this way showed their aversion to the conventional art form and bourgeois society of the time. At the same time, they set important impulses by breaking with conventions. Apropos: One of the most radical and at the same time most controversial works of art in this respect is certainly the series "Black Square" by Kasimir Malevich, which consists of squares painted in black and surrounded by borders painted in white.

Modern or contemporary - works and landmarks

In the 21st century, one might think, a new art movement is emerging on a global scale with the claim to worldwide and borderless contemporaneity. This term sets itself in opposition to modernism. It is striking that both in the naming of galleries and in the catalogues of art houses, the term "modern" is increasingly being replaced by "contemporary". The term contemporary has apparently already replaced the epoch of modernism.

Museum Painting	Arrival Paintings	Discover concrete art styles

What is different?

Contemporary art is largely different than modern art ever was. But what ultimately makes the difference? It is striking to observe that the worldwide art fairs and biennials have already realised the turning point of this epoch. The regular exhibitions and art fairs have recently begun to present a conglomeration of regional and international art, and this at regularly changing locations for a cosmopolitan art-loving community of interest. Today, the art style of contemporary art mostly puts political and cultural problems critically in the foreground.

 

Recognition

In the so-called modernist art period, artistic trailblazers reached into the future to leave their mere contemporaries behind and bring forth a new artistic epoch. Today, on the other hand, many artists are primarily concerned with being perceived as contemporary at all or with being recognised as modernist artists. They no longer want to be condemned as zero beginners or newcomers. So the only choice is between unconditional conformity (painting what pleases the buyer) or admitting to being ideologically different.

Illustration: Expressive sculpture, Sculpture by Katrin Jähne (2017)

 

Trendy contemporary artists

You are interested in art and would like to discover abstract portraits, sculptures or different art styles as well as new painters in our portfolio?

Positions directly from the studio of the artists' collective In the individual categories, we inform you, for example, about the modern subjects but not art prints of our artist collective and also present interesting historical backgrounds. Furthermore, in the category "Worth knowing" you will find interesting information about the current art market, paintings, art styles & trends respectively commissioned painting as well as the topics art investment and art purchase.

Positions directly from the studio of the artists' collective

In the individual categories we inform you, for example, about the modern subjects, but not art prints, of our artist collective and also present interesting historical background information. Furthermore, in the category "Worth knowing" you will find interesting information about the current art market, paintings, art styles & trends respectively commissioned painting as well as the topics art investment and art purchase.

Modern Art abstract	Magic Realism	Fineart Painting

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Sport Collections: New Art History from 2014, "SPORT [1]" 70 x 50 cm, oil on canvas

The Inspire exhibition of this art is known for its visual and formal language even outside the institutional art world. However, intensive observation reveals the extent to which popularity obscures the view of the artworks. The extensive show in the rooms of the Dresden Gallery presents positions and milestones from the early years, which were mainly created in the Dresden area - up to the most recent collections. In addition to the pictorial works, there is also space for sketches and graphics and a selection of sculptures. The Dresden gallery, founded in 2005, does not impose any constraints on itself, and plays with the entire portfolio in a way that is both poetic and analytical. The collection includes paintings, drawings, prints, editions & collections, sculptures and compositions. Art is always a process for the artist group. The realisation of ideas and experiences, the development of pictorial ideas - incessantly questioned, examined and analysed, which the collection and the exhibition in the gallery spaces clearly show. The former art project began with simple subjects from the surroundings: landscapes, portraits, interiors. Newsletter - for an invitation to our regular events or promotions, simply subscribe to our popular gallery newsletter.

Magical realism: oil painting by the academy - artist Peggy Berger, 70 x 50 cm, year of creation 2017, discover more works in colour and graphics by Peggy Berger

Abstraction: The recourse to the simplest anthropological forms such as stick figures - to follow as elements in a system of codified gestures. These proved to be the most useful model to express the reading of the world. The makers experimented with pictorial logic and developed a standard notion, incorporating attempts at sign spaces and signals. Many works balance between semantic clarity and simultaneous opacity. Abstraction is the consequence, an attempt to reach abstraction with reduction. "The figurative has remained because the whole theory or philosophy is related to the figure, the image of man, to procedures, processes related to man." Stylistically, the works on offer are far removed from the "required realism".

Modern Niehoff Collections	Colours as a Means of Expression - Abstraction in Panorama Format	Floral characteristics: Poetic composition

 

Important exhibition halls and museums

Important exhibition spaces for the presentation of these art styles in Germany today include the Pinakothek der Moderne (Munich), the Neue Nationalgalerie at the Kulturforum Berlin and the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen K20 in Düsseldorf. The latter collection includes important positions by Pablo Picasso, Piet Mondrian, Henri Matisse as pioneers of Impressionism and Paul Klee as a representative of Expressionism. But representatives such as Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Tony Cragg and Katharina Fritsch also make their mark on the permanent collection.

 

(c) Illustration: Cubism , Expressionism and Impressionism at the K20 (Düsseldorf)

If you are interested in current exhibitions and are looking for different artistic styles, you should not miss the regular art show in the new modern art gallery, Hoyerswerdaer Str. 21. The gallery owners and artists are present at the exhibition openings, which take place regularly on a quarterly basis, and have a lot to say about their working methods. Current information on the opening dates and exhibition themes can be found at https://www.neue-galerie-dresden.de.

The represented artists of the modern century present themselves particularly extensively as painters of the present time. On closer inspection, the epoch of colours and colourful art movements and collections of the modern era can be glimpsed pictorially. An attempt to deal with the epoch of modern sculptures and modern sculpture style - directions. In doing so, there is basically no constraint: editing or reworking works seems to expect an analytical and at the same time poetic examination. However, it is difficult to work on the collections and works of the current time with scientific theories and concepts, art movements and painters of the past century. A modern style that can be extensively analysed for art prints and sculptures opens itself up to freely edit collections.

Literature

The following further literature is recommended on the subject of modern art: From the series of libraries dealing with modern art, we pick out three books here without claiming an evaluative order:

• Ingo F. Walther: Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts (Deutsch). Gebunden, 2018, ISBN 978-3836541114

• Johannes Kirschenmann: Moderne KUNST: Zugänge zu ihrem Verständnis. Gebundenes Buch, 2014, ISBN-13: 978-3122054304

• Maria Carla Prette: Kunst verstehen: Alles über Epochen, Stile, Bildsprache, Aufbau und mehr in über 1000 farbigen Abbildungen. Gebunden, 2009, ISBN: 978-3625126508

• Franz Marc: Eine Biographie (Deutsch) Gebundene Ausgabe Franz Marc – 1. Februar 2016, Franz M. Autor Wilfried F. Schoeller, ISBN-13 : 978-3446250697

• Paul Cézanne: Leben und Werk (Deutsch) Paul Cézanne Taschenbuch – 22. August 2006, Paul C. Autor Götz Adriani, ISBN-13 : 978-3406546907

In addition, detailed information on modern art can also be found at Wikipedia.

 

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