In many cases, contemporary art must turn to shock value to challenge and engage the audience in the modern world. ... In our modern society, it is not the purpose of art to merely cause the audience discomfort in its viewing. ... In this modern world the graphic nature of the art forces the audience to engage with the work, and form personal opinions of society. The shocking nature of modern contemporary art is something which is a direct result of the growing tolerance and changing definitions of art; in modern society people have become harder to shock, and therefore art must take drastic m...

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Without depending on modern technology, he presents the digital visual works with imaginary interactions, image fluidity, and frame destructions. ... He began incorporating the beauty of nature into his artwork, using light, water, fog, ice, temperature, and other things found in nature to create a truly unique form of modern art. ... From 2007 to 2008, Eliasson had a long tour from Modern Art Museum of San Francisco, New York Modern Art Museum, PS1 Modern Art Museum, and Dallas Art Museum to prove ability once again. ... One of Eliasson's projects titled "Your Blind Passenger" is inst...

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Pop art ridiculed many aspects of the modern world, with mass produced objects as the main subject for their collages, sculptures, prints and paintings. ... The movement was contemptuous and mocked many aspects of the modern world, such as comic strips, consumer products, advertising and celebrities. ... Images that reflected the vulgar materialism of modern mass culture were used to provide a perception of reality even more immediate than that offered by the realistic paintings of the past modernists. ... Yasumasa Morimura appropriates previous paintings using computer technology. ...

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Nowadays, visual arts in particular and fine arts in general are counted among the forms of art that have been influenced by the development of technology most noticeably. ... The photo-exhibition created by Joseph Koudelka is the artist's reflection on modern times, representing his aesthetics of perception, broadly speaking, and, more specifically, his vision of social reality. ...

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"The art movement arose out of the need to define and represent the then new modern reality," (MDC) an author of Miami Dade College describes. ... In the past, life had been static; now however, science and technology were forced modern man to experience time, motion and space more dynamically. ...

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"In the end the art of the past is being mystified because a privileged minority is striving to invent a history which can retrospectively justify the role of the ruling classes, and such a justification can no longer make sense in modern terms"(Berger 11). ... "What the modern means of reproduction have done is to destroy the authority of art and to remove it- or, rather, to remove its images which they reproduce- from any preserve" (Berger 32). ... McFadden states on the opening page, "The complex iconography of the Five Senses, if ambiguous to a modern viewer, conve...

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The communication they use to interpret the cultural artistic and social endeavour such as technology, politics, style, music, performance and the arts. ... Danziger's work clearly depicts what a modern Briton looks like. ... ; a spectacular exhibition taking place at the National Portrait Gallery in association with Channel 4 to that focuses on "the complexity of identity" in modern Britain. ...

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These stages surround modern art. ... The futurists, a group of Italian artists working 1909 to 1916 embraced all the glorified technology and mechanization and decried anything that had to do with tradition much like that of the Fauves. ...

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 MA Curating Contemporary Design 2014/15 Title: "If the curator's task is to medicate between art and its audience, does her task differ when she deals with decorative arts from what she does when dealing with fine art?" Submitted by: Liu Shengnan + K1153705 Submission date: 07/Jan/15. ...

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