In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's easier to make art for a society at a certain point in time with an understanding of what's going on.
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life.
What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.
Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
What the art world has done, it has been constantly been pushing the boundaries about what art can be. It's like expanding its territory.
Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive - in the past, that was mixed up with other illustrative duties, but that was still its central function that has been liberated in the art called modern.
In no way am I demeaning writing or any other form of art because it's popular. What I'm saying is that anything fed into the industrial machinery to comply with rules of size and length and shelf-life has a hard time surviving as art.
Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.
All art is contemporary art because it had to be made when it was now.