Baterbys Contemporary Art Month


LINKS/	Since the Enlightenment Period in the 18th Century, people have gradually broken away from conventional political, intellectual, scientific and cultural systems. Various institutions and philosophies that had for centuries been accepted without incredulity were becoming subjects of strict scrutiny. This movement towards a more "self-conscious" and "self-driven" approach to living life and tackling its most apparent and "real" issues (gender roles, sources of authority, means of productivity, definition of aesthetic beauty, etc.) gave rise to a revolution in thought and thereafter, a shift in people's behaviors and responses to the everyday particulars and abstractions. This new mindset permeated spheres of society that dealt with the application of knowledge and belief in everyday life. The Arts and Sciences were major domains that were influenced by the changes in people's frame of thinking. Simply put, people had become masters of their own beliefs and didn't feel predisposed to simply live the way their predecessors did. The kind of art that was once thought to be attractive were becoming symbols of bygone eras and remnants of ideas and beliefs that have become useless to a society that was increasingly being propelled by growth, progress and movement. There are many debates on the exact timelines that delineate art into what is "Modern" and what is "Contemporary". One group of art historians say that Contemporary Art is a category of art that came out from the 1960's up while another group says it wasn't until the 1970's that art could be called "Contemporary". Clearly, there is an coinciding period in time in which art could be called either. For Baterbys Art Exhibit this month, though the gallery carries both Modern (1860 - 1979) and Contemporary Art (1980 onwards), we will stand by the second group of art historians and critics: that Contemporary Art is art produced from the 1970's up to this present point in time. Learn more about Contemporary Art this month at Baterbys. From free Art Lectures to our Gallery Exhibits, we will focus on today's artists: What's their view of art? Are they influenced by any historical Art Movement or have they defined their own niche? More of these subjects this month at Baterbys.

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Since the Enlightenment Period in the 18th Century, people have gradually broken away from conventional political, intellectual, scientific and cultural systems. Various institutions and philosophies that had for centuries been accepted without incredulity were becoming subjects of strict scrutiny.

This movement towards a more "self-conscious" and "self-driven" approach to living life and tackling its most apparent and "real" issues (gender roles, sources of authority, means of productivity, definition of aesthetic beauty, etc.) gave rise to a revolution in thought and thereafter, a shift in people's behaviors and responses to the everyday particulars and abstractions.

This new mindset permeated spheres of society that dealt with the application of knowledge and belief in everyday life. The Arts and Sciences were major domains that were influenced by the changes in people's frame of thinking. Simply put, people had become masters of their own beliefs and didn't feel predisposed to simply live the way their predecessors did.

The kind of art that was once thought to be attractive were becoming symbols of bygone eras and remnants of ideas and beliefs that have become useless to a society that was increasingly being propelled by growth, progress and movement.

There are many debates on the exact timelines that delineate art into what is "Modern" and what is "Contemporary". One group of art historians say that Contemporary Art is a category of art that came out from the 1960's up while another group says it wasn't until the 1970's that art could be called "Contemporary". Clearly, there is an coinciding period in time in which art could be called either.

For Baterbys Art Exhibit this month, though the gallery carries both Modern (1860 - 1979) and Contemporary Art (1980 onwards), we will stand by the second group of art historians and critics: that Contemporary Art is art produced from the 1970's up to this present point in time.

Learn more about Contemporary Art this month at Baterbys. From free Art Lectures to our Gallery Exhibits, we will focus on today's artists: What's their view of art? Are they influenced by any historical Art Movement or have they defined their own niche? More of these subjects this month at Baterbys.