Contemporary Paintings

Contemporary art - AccordingWikipedia,  is art produced at the present period in time.

 In fact Contemporary art continues from, postmodern art, which is itself a successor to  modern art, it does not define subject matter,  many post and post modern artist have painted biblical pictures. the only qualification by some art Galleries  is that it was painted in the life time of the artist, and some Galleries and dealers specify that it was painted in the last ten years. So in reality any painting  done in the last 10 years is contemporary art.

 Some Galleries and some say anything since post modern is contemporary art.

This is confusing  to the lay person and also to artist  like me, because unlike pop art  or pointillism and impressionism  or any of the periods through the history of art it is meaningless. 

 

My view is contemporary art  should represent what the world

is like in this present period, such as progress in all fields of life i.e. electric trains not steam that belongs to nostalgia.

It should contain  anything from the latter part of the 20th Century to the present day. be it everyday mundane to exciting

 

  My Contemporary Paintings

 

Title Fruit in a Plastic Bag,  there are thousands of still life paintings of fruit on plates dishes etc so what makes this contemporary  This is contemporary because the bag is plastic

 

 

Title Orange in tissue paper this qualifies for the same reason

 

Title Old people who meet every Sunday to sunbake Contemporary? Yes Only in the last four or five decades would  you have seen this also in these types of bathers 

 

 

Title Weary Tramp in shopping centre