What is Contemporary art?
'''Contemporary art''' means [[modern art]] done after [[Pop Art]] and [[Conceptual art|Conceptual Art]]. Another term, which really means the same thing, is '''postmodern art'''. Yet another term, which goes wider than art, is [[Postmodernism]]. This problem of labelling comes about because the word 'modern' in art was used for some art from the mid-[[Victorian era|Victorian period]] through the whole 20th century. It covers a wide range of styles and movements. So when art critics wanted to describe post-[[WWII]] art they had to use a different word. Thus, in art, 'contemporary' (which really means 'at the same time as') comes to mean 'modern', and modern comes to mean 'earlier'. == Related pages == *[[Conceptual art]] *[[Street art]] [[Category:Art movements]]