Discussion: Contemporary Art

Q2: When we talk about contemporary art, we often talk about ISSUES. Why? What do we mean by that? How is that important? Make sure you refer to Jenny Holzer’s work in your response.

The contemporary art is deeply involved with life, and keeps us in touch with spiritual or abstract matters. In addition, contemporary is important for us to see the lives we live, the issues that concern us, our sense of what it is like to be in the world here and now. Issue is like the icon of the contemporary art, we can acknowledge what happen and what is we should concern around our life. Therefore, when we talk about contemporary art, we should talk about what is the issue of this contemporary art. Like Jenny Holzer’s work, her work is use of the words and ideas in public space, as in T-Shirt, lights and plaque. Her works express the explicit content that profound statement about the world of advertising and consumer society today. Meanwhile, Her short statement called “Truism” is easier for people to get the exactly meaning through her work.

Contemporary Art

From browsing the PBS website, I found it is a useful tool for us to learn the Contemporary Art. For me, I am interested in the paintings with the theme “humor”. In my opinion, it can reflect deeply our life through the artwork with humor. I am impressed on the artwork by Elizabeth Murray, who is one of the artists to paint her artwork with the theme of humor. When people asked her what did she think about the humor part of the paintings, she responded: “Like what makes you laugh? It is something about life and about accepting. Life is tragic and funny and you get into horrible situations and you go on. “ In Elizabeth Murray’s artwork, she combined different shape into her work with colorful. In addition, her artworks seem like abstract but also like recognizable. Murray has spent a lifetime developing her particular vision of zany and vibrant images.