The 20th century art
It
has been calculated that there are more artists practising today than were
alive in the whole Renaissance, all three centuries of it. But we are no longer
following one storyline: we are in a new situation, where there is now no
mainstream. The stream has flowed into the sea and all we can do now is to
trace some of the main currents.
20th-century
art is almost indefinable, and ironically we can consider that as its
definition. This makes sense, as we live in a world that is in a constant state
of flux. Not only is science changing the outward forms of life, but we are
beginning to discover the strange centrality of our subconscious desires and
fears. All this is completely new and unsettling, and art naturally reflects
it.
The
story of painting now loses its way temporarily: it enters upon an encounter
with the unknown and the uncertain. Only the passage of time can reveal which
artists in our contemporary world will last, and which will not.
We
have dates in the 20th century, and pictures to attach to them, but there is no
longer a coherent time sequence. This can be irritating to the tidy-minded, but
it is in fact exciting in its adventurous freedom. With so many interesting
artists, some of whom time may vindicate as of great importance, there is only
space to touch briefly on those who seem to many observers to be part of the
story, and not just footnotes.
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