contemporary artistic practices and conceptual approaches

Contemporary art is a challenging genre to define because it can be any number of things from the abstract painting and sculpture of some artists like Franci Ayley, Yannis Prekas or Alex Browne. Following is a list of important types and styles that are currently the most recognized forms in contemporary art:

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1. Installation Art

For example: The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago

Practice: Immersive environments or situations the art is experienced as a single entity. Installations may occupy an entire gallery, public space or natural area.

2. Conceptual Art

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Terms: Emphasise on Ideas, Concepts beyond Tradition Aesthetic or Material factors. That art is always mixed with text, documentation or ordinary household objects to investigate philosophical and theoretical questions.

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3. Performance Art

Case in point: Marina Abramović's The Artist is Present.

Practice: art, typically a live event such as performance that would the actions of an artist or his presence as its main set-up. Performance art is such as live and time-based, made directly to a viewer.

4. Digital and New Media Art

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Description: Combines video, virtual reality (VR), and artificial intelligence (AI) to invent new ways of artistic storytelling.

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5. Street Art and Graffiti

Sample: Banksy -Girl with a Balloon

Definition: Art involving a social or political aspect that is created in public locations, on streets. Murals, stencliling and oter forms of art alien to the traditional gallery go under this category.

6. Social Practice Art

For example: “Urban Renewal Projects by Theaster Gates.

Summary:Community-Oriented Social Justice Pledge Artists regularly work with communities to produce artwork that reflect on social issues or share local narratives.

7. Environmental Art

Case in point: Christo and Jeanne-Claude, The Gates

Definition: Art that responds to natural landscapes, or is inspired by nature. The exhibition can consist of site-specific installations, land art and works that take up ecological topics.

8. Found Object Art

Example: Marcel Duchamp, Fountain

Description: Anything found or modified into art. This often brings into question what art is considered to be traditionally.

9. Mixed Media

For example, “Untitled” by Robert Rauschenberg

Description: Mixed Media, media that is a mixture of combining different art forms and techniques such as painting or collage with materials like industrial glue.

10. Body Art

For example: Yoko Ono "Cut Piece"

About: frames the human body as an interface. This might range from body painting and tattoos to performative art that uses the human body as its medium.

The practices and approaches are a reflection of the diversity in contemporary art but also illustrate how artists come about to explore & represent concepts.More