At a time when culture is at the center of the debates, we wanted this beginning of the week to talk to you about contemporary art. In fact, art has invaded our daily life and this in different forms. But what exactly is contemporary art? It is not easy to define exactly this modern art, today's art, our time … nothing better, ultimately, than a selection of some surprising artists of this art to understand the works and approach of these artists.
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Let's start with contemporary paintings by American painters and more precisely New York. This is known mainly for his paintings that represent letters made in the stencil. These black and fat texts, on a white background, are completely in the air when the minimalist returns in force and with him, the tendency of quotes. In addition to its texts, it also uses graffiti techniques with scratches or aerosol painting, offering abstract and modern works highly appreciated by lovers of contemporary art.
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Ivan Puig
Contemporary art is also surprising and surprising by the creations that transmit a message, which sometimes must be able to decipher. This is the case of the Mexican Ivan Puig, who plays with perspectives and creates surprising illusions through these works.
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Hasta-Las-Naries-02 so, through this creation called Hasta Las Nardes, it is surprising everyone by cutting a ladybug of the Volkswagen of the 70s, to create illusion and pretend that sinking to a certain extent, not water but milk! The technical company is simply breathtaking! And then, it is therefore the roundabout of chairs that sink into an external floor, then a wooden boat in parquet slats.
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Takashi Murakami
Contemporary art is sometimes eccentric and colorful, with saturated colors. This is the case of one of the flagship artists of contemporary art, Takashi Murakami. Raised in the culture of Kawai, he is a Japanese visual artist, he is classified in 2006, 6And Most expensive artists in the world. His joyful and ultra -color artistic style has conquered many celebrities and many brands. This is how the very famous brand Louis Vitton collaborated with him, for his 2002-2003 collection to bring a well-known fantasy to his high sewing bags.
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Louis-Vuitton-Collezion-Takashi-Murakami in 2007, is the singer Kanye West to decipher the artist's colored madness and trust him for his cover of the album «Range». We recognize Takashi Murakami's paw, which makes this cover a real poster of a Japanese animated film, far from the usual hip hop standards.
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Takashi Murakami and Kanye West since then, Takashi Murakami exhibits everywhere, in many contemporary art museums but also at the Palazzo di Versailles in 2010, where his works mixed with the furniture and the precious materials of the castle.
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Expo Takashi Murakami Museum
Damien Hirst
Now placed to a British artist, who produces works that deal with art, life and death. (Without a doubt this is the fact that he is worked in an morgue during his studies, which has strongly influenced his work …). This artist creates controversy with his animal works immersed in formalum or with his 18 -year -old human skullAnd Covered centuries with 8601 diamonds. In addition, the sale of this work to $ 100 million in 2007 made it the most expensive living artist in the world.
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Wang Guangyi
He returns to Asia, but this time in China, with one of the Chinese artists, probably the best known. In contemporary canvases, they are inspired by the pop art of the 1960s and incorporates a dimension of the social criticisms in which it stages the symbolic characters of Maoism. Thus he shows his opposition to his country's policy that uses propaganda means identical to marketing to control people.
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And to finish our journey, return to France, with this French painter. These colorful and graphic works often inspire comics and graffiti. In the 1980s, he gave birth to the «free figuration», with a collective of other artists. The «free figuration» is the use of non -traditional, simple, very colorful and illustrative images, images very linked to the codes of comics.
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Herve-of-Rosa-Roland-Garros here, our world of contemporary art is over. We hope you liked this article. Good week everyone!