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Postmodernism and

contemporary art
Contemporary art
-Art that has been and continues to be created
during our lifetimes
-Achieved a big success when it became part of
popular culture in the 1970s

http://arthistory.about.com/od/current_contemporary_art/f/what_is.htm
-Works have new materials, topics and ideas
-Contemporary art includes, and develops from,
postmodern art, which is itself a successor to
modern art

http://arthistory.about.com/od/current_contemporary_art/f/what_is.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_art
Postmodernism
-A movement in architecture, art, which
developed as the response on the simplicity and
rationality of modernism
-Art works are paintings, sculptures, sounds,
videos and smells

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism

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