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hi this is Anita from Five Minutes with
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Art you know there's two terms which can
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be interchanged in the art world which
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sometimes can be confusing modern art
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and contemporary art so just to make a a
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really short definition modern art
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refers to roughly from the 1860s to the
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you think Pascasio Matis those type of
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artists contemporary art is made from
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the 1970s onward so when you think about
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modern art modern art was about a 90year
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period or span it was from you know
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1860s and 1970s where contemporary art
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is from the 1970s onward so people a lot
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of times get confused between these two
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and they use them interchangeably and
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they're not sure what the difference is
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in them you know the common themes of
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modern art would be you know abstraction
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innovation whereas contemporary art was
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more identity politics technology and
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critique modern art broke from the
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tradition it you know key movements of
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it were like you know impressionism
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cubism futurism and then abstract
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expressionism were some of the key areas
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of modern art like you know for example
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Claude Monet's you know picture of the
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waterlies was a you know break from some
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of the realist art which is being shown
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at the time or Pablo Pagosio some of
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Pablo Pagasio's art contemporary art is
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art that sort of like is known more to
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sort of like talk back if you could say
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that you know the the world of art
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shifted in the 1970s artists started
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using media video performances
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you know they focused towards concepts
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identity politics and questioning what
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art was so some of the key features of
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contemporary art would be things as you
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know art that's conceptdriven
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uh multidisciplinary you know video
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sound insulation and as the world is
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changing this is also really changing
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with art where we're seeing you know AI
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come into focus with art and and other
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things like that where you know you're
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seeing the digital art and all of those
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things happening within the art world
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itself a lot of times the art in
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contemporary art had a social commentary
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and they you know it's personal identity
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you know some of them would be like
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displays where it could be like the
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infinity room um done by uh Yayo Kasuma
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you know where you know with spaces
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mirrors and lights which is more like an
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installation something you go and you as
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the as the observer is invested in it
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and you're observing it I also think of
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it is going like quite a few years ago a
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couple years ago when it came to
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Milwaukee and I went with my sister and
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her husband and we went to the um the
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Van Go exhibitions that they had
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traveling around which was all digital
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and you would you know sit in this space
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you just be immersed in his paintings
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you know where it was on the floor and
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and on the walls and you know it's just
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all all around you and you could sit
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there and just feel immersed into the
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space itself you know so these are some
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of the you know the key differences some
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of the ways to be able to tell the
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difference is to look at the date if it
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was before 1970 it would probably be
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considered modern art you know
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afterwards probably contemporary is it
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trying to look different or say
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something different is it traditional
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painting sculptures or does it have
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unexpected materials are there things
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popping out at you and does it feel like
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it belongs in a history book or in a
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headline today there's some different
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examples that you know we show i have a
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blog post I've written on this if you're
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interested and be able to learn and to
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be able to discover more about this and
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with that I have some frequently asked
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questions about modern art and
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contemporary art that you can be able to
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read through um with it also but if
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you're interested in it check out our
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podcast which will be we'll have a link
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to it in our description below which is
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entitled What is the difference between
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modern art and contemporary art and that
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hopefully looking at the pictures and
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reading some of the frequently asked
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questions it can help you to be able to
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better answer this question of what the
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difference is between these two terms
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which can really be interchanged and
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kind of be a little bit confusing
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sometimes this is Anita from Five
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Minutes with Art where we like to spend
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