What everyone should know about contemporary art

Cash Myricks is a huge fan of contemporary art. In a broad sense, contemporary art is any art created after World War 2. However, over the years, contemporary art has come to have several defining characteristics.

For today’s blog, Cash Myricks discusses some of the things everyone should know about contemporary art.

Different understanding

For people who cannot take away their traditional art mindset, it’s next to impossible to understand contemporary art. To understand and ultimately appreciate contemporary art, one must accept several things, such as the constant experimental nature of contemporary artists and the fact that it is okay not to have a subject, which in many ways is the subject itself.

Any reaction is a good reaction

Unlike most traditional art, it has to elicit positive reactions to its quality for it to be good. For contemporary art, however, Cash Myricks explains that any reaction is a good reaction. Even the lack of a reaction is considered acceptable. For many contemporary artists, what’s important is that it is accepted as art and an expression of oneself.

Multiple meanings

A lot of contemporary art pieces have more than one meaning. In fact, it all falls to what people perceive the art to be. Again, this is a departure from traditional art where subjects, history, and the artist give their pieces meaning, Cash Myricks concludes.