WHAT IS CONTEMPORARY ART?

        Contemporary Art to me is any painter or painting that has been created within our generation.  That would go as far back as the 60's or 70's.

        I have personally lived through those years to witness what I call a transformation in the art world.  I have always felt that the rise of social consciousness and feelings of helplessness after the assassination of President Kennedy, the struggles of the Civil Rights movement and the beginning of the Vietnam war in the 1960's, led to what we call our generation of Contemporary Art.

        Pop art which was a more care free and fun, had its influence in the 1960's with Andy Warhol and Peter Max to name a few.

        There was also art that depicted hardship and struggle.

        Also art that expressed tragedy. 

        That generation of art continues to this day with many new causes and social injustices to paint about and today's artists haven't let me down.

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