What is contemporary art?

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Permalink Reply by lucia mesquita bleasby on February 19, 2012 at 19:25

The influence of Marcel Duchamp in Contemporânea 

Marcel Duchamp was an artist who asked through his work which is a work of art, and proposed a new method for its realization: from the ideas, rather than from one's everyday affairs.

The fact is that Duchamp was an artist who never met the expectations of época.Começou production in the early twentieth century, and over time his work has acquired characteristics ironic and confrontational.

T Endo began his career as a painter, he performed works that were characteristic Impressionist, Expressionist and Cubist.

Permalink Reply by lucia mesquita bleasby on February 19, 2012 at 19:28

Duchamp's work retained this inquisitive nature and dissatisfied with the standards to the point that Duchamp destroyed hitherto existing standards. He made a kind of art that did not fit into any category. The ready mades are not painting, printmaking and sculpture are not even as he made them. With this act, designate an object manufactured in series as a work of art, Duchamp has expanded the horizons of contemporary art. As I said Luiz Camillo Osorio Professor of Aesthetics and Art History at UFRJ, from the Renaissance to Picasso's artistic transformations occurred in the interior of a pictorial language, a historical conception of form and artistic object. And from Duchamp that trajectory has changed direction and took it completely changed the design of contemporary art.

As noted by Octavio Paz in his book "Marcel Duchamp or the Castle of Purity," "Picasso became visible in our century, Duchamp showed us that all the arts, without excluding the eye, spring and end in an invisible zone. In the clarity of instinct opposed the instinct for clarity: the invisible is not dark or mysterious, but transparent. "

 

This simple gesture, but unthinkable until then, made the art world found himself facing two very important considerations for contemporary art, what makes us consider an art object? How important is the gesture of the artist in the artwork?

The ready mades became the major element of the production of Duchamp.Among the most famous and ironic, we can cite the work LHOOQ (initials, read French, resembles the sound of the phrase "Elle a chaud au cul," which, translated into Portuguese, means "She has fire in the ass" ), which is a reproduction of the Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci , with a mustache.

Permalink Reply by lucia mesquita bleasby on February 19, 2012 at 19:40

It is prudent to begin a reflection on what is art in contemporary culture with a question about the very same definition of art. 

In contemporary society, the very culture that decides which object is art and what is not. The object itself does not have this setting. Art can not be explained, it need not be explained, everything can be art just people wanting to be what will change is that like it or not. But to give more clarity to the issue is valid to try a brief definition, since the breakdown of concepts gives rise to more concepts;                                                                                                                                        art are certain manifestations of human activity before an admiration that will classify it as art and will submit it to a judgment,  "Activity that involves the creation of feelings or states of mind, aesthetic, born of personal experience and deep, and can inspire in others the desire to ... extension or renewal, the ability of the creative artist express or transmit such sensations or feelings.                                    What is Art, to define what is art or not culture has specific instruments that give the object status of art, one is speaking about the art object, a critical analysis of a specialist art which has jurisdiction and authority to judge her art, our culture also classifies some artwork for the places where it manifests itself, such as local museums, galleries, theaters, cinemas, books, finally, ennobles and appreciates the work giving you thus the status of an art object. Institutions have a critical articulation of art thus allowing the manifestation of the artistic object to the public which includes seeking new opportunities to combine thought with sensitivity, thus, the public has that the cultural intermediary as a means of art, for it is that presents to society. What is easy to understand and difficult to learn is the fact that an object be exposed in an exhibition site itself does not qualify as better than another object, what determines this quality  art derived from the strong presence the subject, and thereby opens the art of aesthetic expression. " During the Dada art, circa 1915, Marcel Duchamp took an anti-art attitude, characteristic of this period, breaking the concept of art given to people. Seeking some modes of expression, Duchamp manifests itself with the Ready-Made appropriating objects that are already made, as was the case of a porcelain urinal, a shovel, a wheel of a bicycle. With the exhibition of these objects, Duchamp had a provocative attitude, as did the use of objects of common use as a private art thus changing the thinking of many people, because he changed the concept of art. "For Duchamp, an artist was not simply to produce paintings or sculptures by using a technique mastered, a skill, but reveal new, unexpected, unusual."  Marcel Duchamp by exposing one dishwashing machine health, just as those who exist in all men's urinals, questioned the difference between "field of thought as logical and sensitive field of art as" proposing a living everyday with the popular imagination, because this object does not match subtended art in our culture. "A critical enterprise about what is and shall always spontaneously as normative figure of beauty," Duchamp does not seek the beautiful, nor that the public approves his art, but seeks an audience's reaction when confronted with it. When present in a Exposure industrial objects as "art objects", Marcel Duchamp questioned the concept of art given by our cultural society. The art of Duchamp's urinal was not, but what above the urinal in a gallery made with the thought of alienated people. So that was not by chance that Duchamp would claim later that "art is everything I say is art." Our culture makes people have characteristic patterns of collective behavior of society, then these people go to an exhibition to see paintings by Monet, Picasso, Michelangelo, or going to a theater watching a play of "The Cats" or to hear Beethoven, and even there is no appropriate concept for art, learn to identify them is something common to all, because the minimum knowledge and contact with it makes everyone aware of some common works as Mona Lisa and the Ninth Symphony, each its form and its value added, but lead to the same direction. Marcel Duchamp did not want to change the thinking of society to consider the health unit as a work of art and title it as "Modern Art", but wanted to change the normative thinking people modifying the symbolic relationship with nature and with the growing distance between man and the natural world leading them to obtain a form of vision different from the real object, different from the object by object, to begin to realize what is beyond what .Moreover, Duchamp is a question of why the art has to be exposed in a media environment and why it should be recognized by critics to be considered art. At one point in his career as a painter, Duchamp said a sentence that clearly shows your interest and its design goals: "Until I came here and I do not paint anymore. It is no rebellion, but by something much more difficult to recognize: I do not have ideas, "Duchamp gave a real importance to each object and what he saw and felt in every object. The important thing was to paint. The important thing was to innovate. It is consistent with a complete reflection of what is art in contemporary culture. Although most people who excel in anything they are intelligent people, and this also happens in the world of art, the truth is that the artist does not always need to be smart. Art does not depend on it. Nor does it depend on the culture. The same thing goes for people who like art or cosas that claim to be artistic. No need to understand or explain, it makes sense to pursue the message that is contained in the artwork. Sometimes there is not any message, and the artist in no time had the intention to change the world or their environment. He just felt and acted. And created art. Each one a profoundly important contribution: to classify the department of things that each one of the things we like or not like, with all possible gradations.

DUCHAMP AND CONTEMPORARY ART

In 1917, under the pseudonym R. Mutt, Duchamp sent to the Hall of the Association of Independent Artists a porcelain urinal, toilets used in male, with a suggestive title of Fountain . It was the first readymade - appropriation and displacement of prefabricated objects into the middle of Art, in 1913, Duchamp had already used a database of kitchen where screwed in seat, a bicycle wheel.  Ninety years after this irreverent gesture, which almost ruled the fate of Fine Arts until today, is an opportune time to interrogate what relationship exists between Duchamp and what we are witnessing with the designation of Contemporary Art. Hailed as a liberating influence by some, cursed by others, such as peer facilitator and catastrophic. Maybe it's much quoted and little understood. Indeed, Duchamp and several demonstrations in the name of art, do not match  More than a provocateur, Duchamp was a quiet thinker. In the context of modern art, the invention of the readymade is one of the most significant gestures. Impressionism was the first revolution in art, breaking with the line that surrounded the figure; Cubism made a definitive break with the Renaissance space, the decomposition of the figure put in evidence the plan, as the truth of modern plastic space. Duchamp's gesture was more than a break with a tradition that recognized in the art and skill of the artist, the condition of works of art. The artist is no longer the guy who does the work and became someone who chooses and decides what is art. The readymade is an industrially produced object proposed by an artist as an object of art. The artist constructs the object, select it and signs.   No more depending on the artist's hand, art has become something determined by the power exercised by a person / artist who works within a specific institution, able to legitimize their actions. Resigned to learn hand to constitute a critical attitude in a world dominated by images produced by modern means of production and reproduction. Making art has become a form of reflection on the condition of art in modern society, a device of thought and not the entertainment, as in artistic events in the contemporary situation

A questão acerca da natureza da arte é antiga. Nasceu com Platão e daí para cá não tem deixado de, uma ou outra vez, inquietar os filósofos. Mas na segunda metade do séc. XX esta questão impôs-se como inadiável, em grande parte devido às surpreendentes e filosoficamente perturbantes mutações que iam acontecendo na prática artística. A perplexidade era compreensível. Até aí, quase toda a gente sabia como decidir se um objecto era ou não uma obra de arte porque a diferença entre as obras de arte e os outros objectos era explicitamente exibida nas próprias obras pela via de propriedades de forma e conteúdo. Por exemplo, era uma condição necessária, para que uma coisa fosse uma pintura ou uma escultura, que fosse uma imagem, a duas ou três dimensões, de um objecto ou acontecimento, real ou fictício. Aquilo a que hoje chamamos arte abstracta não seria admitido como arte por não satisfazer este requisito. no sistema das artes para realidades como os happenings, os objects trouvés, os ready-made ou a arte conceptual. "Objecto ansioso" foi a expressão inventada pelo crítico de arte Rosenberg para designar a espécie de criação artística que visa deliberadamente manter-nos na incerteza sobre se é ou não uma obra de arte. O mais célebre de todos foi A Fonte, de Duchamp, mas outros apareceram depois dele que continuaram a dividir os filósofos quanto à posição que deviam tomar a seu respeito.

Duchamp e ARTE CONTEMPORÂNEADadaism was a movement originated between 1915 and 1916 in Zurich, Switzerland. The movement promoted the "cultural terrorism" because it denied all social and artistic traditions. Was based on nihilism (absolute disbelief), the illogic (lack of logic or rules) and the slogan "the destruction is also creation."  In art, there was great admiration for abstract art and worshiped the magical realm of childhood: "Mona Lisa with mustache, Marcel Duchamp" In the literature, Dadaism sought to shock the public.Aggressiveness, improvisation, disorder, rejection of any kind of rationalization and balance, were present in the texts. Chance replaced the inspiration and play took the place of seriousness.Invention of words based on sounds. Die Schlacht (Battle), Ludwig Kassak Berr ... Bum, bum, bum ... Ssi ... Bum, papapa, bum, bumm Zazzau ... Dum, bum, bumbumbum To, to, to ... frog, ah-ah, aa ... Haho ...

Permalink Reply by lucia mesquita bleasby on February 20, 2012 at 22:44

 Thus, the twentieth century has more than variety of styles. It was in the modern period that artists produced paintings not only with traditional materials, like oil on canvas, but also with any material that was available. This innovation led to creations even more radical, such as conceptual art and performance art. With that, he extended the definition of art, which now includes, in addition to tangible objects, ideas and actions. .CONSTRUCTION OF CONTEMPORARY ART Because of this diversity, it is difficult to define contemporary art including all the art produced in the twentieth century . For some critics, the most important feature of contemporary art is its attempt to create paintings and sculptures focused on themselves and thus distinguished from earlier forms of art that conveyed ideas of powerful religious or political institutions. Since contemporary artists were no longer funded by these institutions, had more freedom to assign personal meanings of their works. This attitude is generally referred to as art for art's point of view almost always interpreted as art without political or religious ideology. Although government institutions and non-religious patrocinassem most arts, many contemporary artists sought to convey political messages or spiritual. The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, for example, found that the color combined with abstraction could express a spiritual reality out of the ordinary, while the German painter Otto Dix created openly political works of nature who criticized the guidelines of the German government. Another theory holds that contemporary art is rebellious by nature and that this rebellion is more evident in the quest for originality and willingness to surprise. The term "vanguard" as applied to contemporary art often comes from the military term avant-garde - which in French (see French language) means cutting edge - and suggests what is modern, new, unique or advanced. Many artists of the twentieth century attempted to redefine the meaning of art or expand the definition to include concepts, materials and techniques never before associated with it. In 1917, for example, the French artist Marcel Duchamp exhibited a mass production of utilitarian objects, including a bicycle wheel and a urinal as if they were works of art. In the 1950s and 1960s, American artist Allan Kaprow used his own body as a vehicle for artistic performances that spontaneous, he said, were artistic representations. In the 1970s, American artist who followed the style of the earthworks, Robert Smithson, used elements of the environment - soil, rocks and water - as material for his sculptures. As a result, many people associate contemporary art with what is radical and disturbing.Although the theory of rebellion could be applied to explain the quest for originality that motivated a large number of artists of the twentieth century, it would be difficult to apply it to an artist as Grant Wood, whose American Gothic clearly rejected the example of avant-garde art of his time. Another key feature of contemporary art is its fascination with modern technology and the use of mechanical methods of reproduction such as photography and letterpress printing. In the early 1910s, the Italian artist Umberto Boccioni sought to glorify speed and accuracy of the industrial age in his paintings and sculptures.Around the same time, the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso in his paintings incorporated a new technique, the glue, he used newspaper clippings and other printed materials. Following the same line, but other contemporary artists sought inspiration in the spontaneous impulses of children's art or exploitation of traditional aesthetic traditions of cultures that were not Western or industrialized. The French artist Henri Matisse and the Swiss Paul Klee were influenced by children's drawings, Picasso closely observed African masks and Pollock developed his technique of splashing paint on the canvas, drawing on the sand paintings of Native Americans. From another perspective, however, states that the basic motivation of contemporary art is to create a dialogue with popular culture. To this end, Picasso pasted pieces of paper in his paintings, Roy Lichtenstein transported both style and theme of comics for his paintings and Andy Warhol made the representation of canned soups Campbell. However, even breaking down the barriers between art and popular culture is something typical of Picasso, Lichtenstein and Warhol, is not typical of Mondrian, Pollock or a majority of abstractionists. Each of these theories is convincing and could explain the many strategies used by contemporary artists. However, even this brief analysis shows that the art of the twentieth century is too diverse to fit into any of its many definitions. Each theory can help to address one part of the puzzle, but none of them represents a separate solution. ORIGENS The art of the late nineteenth century anticipated many of the characteristics of contemporary art. They include the idea of art for the emphasis on originality, the exaltation of modern technology, the fascination with the primitive and the commitment to popular art.

Permalink Reply by lucia mesquita bleasby on May 12, 2012 at 20:56

Contemporary Art Lucia mosque Fortaleza Ceará Brazil was initiated in the 60s to the end of the abstractionist movement, where he intended to restore human values and value nature. The evolution of the arts is driven by changes in world view.
   Pop-Art

At the beginning of the 60s, in order of abstraction, there is a new style, as opposed to "non-figurative." The man takes the last 15 years, the assets of a highly industrialized society. Have no fear of the machine. The man yes, is your propagator. Understanding the beauty of the environment, changes in technology open their eyes to the world. Hence the origin of the name. This term suggests an art for the people, through their day-to-day, spread by mass media such as newspapers, magazines, display of products, etc.., Turning everything into a reason for a work of art.
The main precursors of this movement were: Marcel Duchamp, Schwitters and Picasso. But each tried a different symbolism, with their own philosophies of communication, the time in which they lived. Some critics, the new reality and the materials used, called it "Neo-Dada" and "Neo-Realism." It originated in the United States, spreading worldwide in the 60s. They called it "Pop Art" and had the artists who joined this movement names such as Andy Warhol Wesselmann Lichtenstein, Hopper,
    New Figuration

The new style called "New Figuration" which came from 65, had some common values with the Pop-Art. It is humanism, which emphasized the human figure. It was a realism based on the symbolic, expressing a mood, an emotion, but with new forms and original expressions. Among the major artists find: Balthus, Francis Bacon, Karel Appel (who left the abstract), Fernando Odriozola, Maryam, Robert Nelson, Hopper and others.
    Fantastic Art

In this style, the contemporary artist tries to show a world of ghosts and science fiction. It differs from Surrealism, because the images are not those of the subconscious. The artist demystifies the mysteries unraveled by science. They are visionaries of a new world, using modern techniques, fiberglass, polyester, thick textures, fabrics castings, etc.. In this art we find: "Ben Shahn, Sutherland, Anna Gunther, Hassior, Schapiro, etc..

   Op-Art

                                J Albers. Integrations color
 Support studies on the perception was called "Op-Art." The optical effects and colors gave way to movements produced by the human eye. In mid-1965, Victor Vassarely theorized this research, begun in "concrete art". He explored various visual phenomena, through the perception of the object. Based on perceptual research, developed the Vassarely Op Art, where this movement perception, initiated the mechanical movement, the "kinetic art", which appeared soon after the Op-Art. We call it "Open Work", when the viewer changes the work of art. Forcing the retina to follow the rhythms and movements that change with accommodation, participation is effective. Pure optical illusion.
• Kinetic Art

When the artist gets a piece of art that moves, called "kinetic art". It is an art show, because the technology with the advancement of electronics, mechanics and electricity, is incorporated into the work of art. The spectator's participation in artistic creation is notorious, as you can modify the shape, color, movement and sometimes sound, let alone his passivity, may modify, or playing the mechanisms triggering it. "Aesthetic structure" are remarkable.
   Contemporary Art
  Fauvism - appeared in 1905 in Paris, led by Henri Matisse and Derain and Vlaminck participation. It was a small stage, but with influence on expressionism.

  Primitivism - Henri Rousseau, French, representing the so-called naive art, which characterized by childlike drawing, perspective errors and gay themes.
    Expressionism - Style that he intended to express the human suffering during the First World War. Precursors was the Norwegian Edvard Munch and James Ensor Belgian, and Van Gogh. Between 1905 to 1930, there was the main period in Germany. Of the two groups Expressionists - Die Brücke and Der Blaue Reiter, arise Oskar Kokoschka, Emil Nolde and Wassily Kandinsky. Exponential figure of this century, Kandinsky influenced the Bauhaus and the rise of abstraction, painting in 1910, the first abstract work.

    Cubism - Pablo Picasso in 1907 marked the emergence of style in representing objects and pictures from all angles, the paint and expose "Les Demoiselles D'Avignon." Picasso shared with Georges Braque, of cubism and the creation of the collage. Then branched into analytical cubism, where the first phase was the deconstruction of the figure and the synthetic phase, the reorganization of the fragmented figure. Appears there, collage, adding to the screen, pieces of papers and materials with great diversity.
   Futurism - The Italian poet Filippo Marinetti founded in 1909, a movement which celebrates the speed of the media and transport and dynamics of modern life. The style of literary origins back to the visual arts with the leadership of the painter Umberto Boccioni and Giacomo Balla.
   Dada - In 1915, founded by Tristan Tzara in Zurich, characterized by violent revolt against traditional values, there is Dada. There was a common behavior: the irony and provocation. In 1912, Marcel Duchamp invented ready-made (with existing compositions using existing objects as well) with a bicycle wheel on a bench in the kitchen. Until the mid-20, lasted and influenced the emergence of surrealism and conceptual art.

   Bauhaus - She was a school of German art and architecture founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius. His style was severe lines, bringing the form to function. With Nazism, was closed in 1933.Among the painters, we find Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky. The School of Fashion, founded in 1955 by architect Swiss sculptor Max Bill, in Ulm (Germany)

   Abstraction - Abstract art that originated from Cubism and Fauvism, owes its creation to two Russian artists, Wassily Kandinsky and Kasimir Malevich. The use of simplified forms, essential, as the sculptures of Brancusi, was another feature of this style. It can be geometric or informal. Identification with the paintings of intense color rectangles by Piet Mondrian with concreteness, was the geometric style. The characterization of patches of color and brush gestures, seeking to express subjective feelings in free compositions, the style was informal. The pioneer of this style was the American Jackson Pollock, inventor of the action-painting (painting in action) that was made of spray paint drained. In France, this style was called "Tachisme."

  Surrealism - In 1924 in France by the poet and art critic Breton, Surrealism arises. He was influenced by the discoveries of the unconscious forces of thought by Freud. Fascinated by the symbolism of dreams, the surrealists wanted to achieve the fantastic atmosphere in his paintings through the flow of ideas and eliminating the control of reason. Salvador Dali, Spanish was the most famous. Among other names, we have: the Belgian René Magritte and Paul Delvaux; metaphysical painting was the name given in Italy and was represented by Giorgio de Chirico. The Surrealists mostly opted for a more detailed realism of academic art.
    Concretism - The simple geometric shapes such as squares, triangles and circles in compositions planned, initiated an abstract art called Concretism. This term, created in 1930 by the Dutch painter Theo van Doesburg, an example is the series of paintings in homage to the square of the German Josef Albers.

   Pop Art - In Britain in the late 50th and flourishing in the early '60s in the U.S., appears to Pop-Art. It used simple images with pictures of advertising, comics and movie screen. The Englishman Richard Hamilton was a pioneer, but the most famous representative was American Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns created with the American flag paintings, Roy Lichtenstein used magnified images of comic books, etc..

   Minimalism - was the so called minimal art. The minimum feature and simplification of form was the expression to be searched.Emerged in the late '50s, Ives Klein and French, one of the pioneers. Ives Klein, is also one of the pioneers of-Body Art (body art). Already in 1970, was born the Arte Povera (poor art), working with materials with natural transformation process, such as rusty metal.

  Conceptual Art - It was a trend set by Joseph Kosuth in the early '50s, which aimed to generate ideas. Photos, text, diagrams, maps and videos, was the diversity of resources that used to take the viewer from a passive observation.

   Art Performatic - Allen Kaprow created the happening (event) to act on the boundary between theater and visual arts. In this style, public participation is key, deriving the performance, which is carefully planned and then does not provide for collaboration of the audience.

  Transvanguard - Young artists, as a reaction to the art of ideas (conceptual art), which had abolished the paint, canvases and paints sought to rescue the tradition of figurative art and create the German post-expressionism. The greatest was the German painter Anselm Kieter. In 1979, Italian transvanguard appears. This uses a gigantic human figures with neoclassical details. It was also established during this period, the new English sculpture, refreshing critique of consumer society of pop art in the 60's in the works with fragments of plastic trash Tony Cragg and cuts of carcasses of cars Bill Woodrow. Advances in technology and invention of new devices, created new forms of artistic expression. The most impressive is the video art, Bill Viola which represents one of the leading names. In addition, other current techniques are electrography (xerox of prints), the hologram (laser beam) and computer graphics.

Permalink Reply by lucia mesquita bleasby on July 17, 2012 at 3:35

Andy Warhol (1928-1987)

Johan Vermeer (1632-1675)

Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)

Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825)

Piet Mondrian (1872-1944)

Frida Kahlo (1907-1954)

René Magritte (1898-1967)

Jackson Pollock (1912-1956)

Permalink Reply by lucia mesquita bleasby on March 1, 2013 at 19:01

Contemporary Art .  Conceptual Art  is nothing more than one of many possible forms of artistic expression for the development of a work by the artist. In the 60s, through the ideas conveyed by the group  Fluxus , the  Conceptual Art becomes a worldwide phenomenon. In the late 60's, the political repression that had settled dismantled groups conceptual artists, who were expelled from the halls, biennials, and galleries. The 70, in turn, is characterized by the expansion of  Conceptual Art , that is,  art as idea , through artistic mediums, working with new media technology , and a multimedia space and another mode called fragmented work - installation. At that time, new technologies are associated with the operation of the conceptual artist, as art and computer. Characteristics of  Conceptual Art  in the 70s are the reflection, the reason  could with the conventional means of painting and sculpture. In  Conceptual Art , the public is obliged to stop being just a passive observer, because the understanding of the artwork is no longer straightforward. The public is also required to reflect and leave the comfortable situation of knowing, in advance, to assess whether a work of art is "bad" or "good." You can no longer go to a show and tell if the landscape is well composed, or if the painting is of quality. Classic questions of art such as composition, color study and use of light may not have any sense in Conceptual Art. In Conceptual Art, the public is invited to think about the artwork to accept it and understand itthe same way as a figurative painter must deeply study his technique and form of expression so you can make, for example, a portrait quality, the conceptual artist needs to have a deep knowledge of philosophy, history, culture and information about the world today so you can create "reflections" visually consistent. This effort is essential for the artist interested in Conceptual Art .         Most conceptual artists comes from a university education. Often compelled by the need to study these artists end up producing masters and doctoral research in the arts. Currently the conceptual artists produce their ideas through various forms of artistic expression: video art, photography, installation, performance, web art and Land Art . Each of these forms of expression the artist brings new challenges, and often a return to traditional forms of expression of the arts such as painting, printmaking and sculpture. This movement of the interrelationship between traditional and contemporary artistic traditions has often been called  Neo-Conceptualism . Perhaps the  Neo-Conceptualism  is nothing more than overcoming the preconceptions that have so hampered the free expression of the artist today, enabling him to finally make art without being labeled as an academic or contemporary. Perhaps the  Neo-Conceptualism  allow the artist is simply an artist

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