In 100 Years What Will They Call Modern Art?

hello..i think ther is such a huge variety in today's art that it be very difficult to put any label on it. maybe they just call it old::::::>

they will just give it a name like all the other ones..My hope is that artists will be more digital then. So that oil on canvas will be a rarity.

Modern furniture from the middle of the 20th century is still called modern... Mid century modern

Yea Marlene.. that's kinda what I meant. Modern Art is now 100 years old! Seems like a bad choice of labeling ;O)

Only if you assume that the word modern means today. Contemporary would be more accurate.

Hmmm.. contemporary sounds more like Ikea furniture.

I was thinking that in Star Trek time what we call modern art today maybe called something like 20th century industrial art.

They'll probably call it old-fashioned... :)

There's already a new term--it's called Post-Modern. All of these terms really mean nothing, just a convention to box-up the times and movements. But someone's earlier comment--"My hope is that artists will be more digital then. So that oil on canvas will be a rarity"--should insult any real creative individual's senses. Once again, we hear the urge of those who rely on ready-made imagery, then manipulated via mechanical instruments, as creative replacement of those who create from scratch. Why, we wonder, is this advocate so eager to bury oil on canvas in the face of digital mechanics?

" those who rely on ready-made imagery, then manipulated via mechanical instruments " Ouch, that kind of vaguely sounds like photography...

Universal Art.... :)

Ikea is put together furniture and i seriously doubt that it will be elevated to the level of fine art anytime soon or in the future.
Bob, I think you are confused as to using the term 'modern art.' It does NOT mean the art of today, hence, suspect to becoming antiquated. It was a specific time period f art....unless the masses decide to change every other name for a period of art, why would modern art need a new name?
Here's a blurb from MoMA (Museum of Modern Art, NY)

The birth of modernism and modern art can be traced back to the Industrial Revolution, a period that lasted from the 18th to the 19th century, in which rapid changes in manufacturing, transportation, and technology profoundly affected the social, economic, and cultural conditions of life in Western Europe, North America, and eventually the world. New forms of transportation, including the railroad, the steam engine, and the subway changed the way people lived, worked, and traveled, both at home and abroad, expanding their worldview and access to new ideas. As urban centers prospered, workers flocked to cities for industrial jobs, and urban populations boomed.

A Modern Art

Prior to the 19th century, artists were most often commissioned to make artwork by wealthy patrons, or institutions like the church. Much of this art depicted religious or mythological scenes that told stories and were intended to instruct the viewer. During the 19th century, many artists started to make art about people, places, or ideas that interested them, and of which they had direct experience. With the publication of psychologist Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams (1899) and the popularization of the idea of a subconscious mind, many artists began exploring dreams, symbolism, and personal iconography as avenues for the depiction of their subjective experiences.

Challenging the notion that art must realistically depict the world, some artists experimented with the expressive use of color, non-traditional materials, and new techniques and mediums. One of these was photography, whose invention in the 1830s introduced a new method for depicting and reinterpreting the world. The Museum of Modern Art collects work made after 1880, when the atmosphere was ripe for avant-garde artists to take their work in new, unexpected, and “modern” directions.

Hi Marlene... ;O)

I would in no way put IKEA design into anything called "art". No.. it is just "in my mind" the word contemporary connotes [ to me ] the mundane and middle of the road design. That is not to say that in the art world it could mean something else.

I do understand what the term modern art means... I just wonder how that will sound to people 1000 years from now. I am sure the Egyptians didn't call their art "ancient art" ;O)

Maybe a term like "Industrial Revolution Art"? Again I am not talking about changing it now.. but like the term "turn of the century art" just doesn't work today to as it did 15 years ago.

bob

Neo Mertz?

@Ronald... please explain??? ;O)

Bob, it was an art movement named "modern Art" and it is over.
I don't understand the problem.
Egyptian art is still Egyptian art...cave paintings are still cave paintings. Renaissance art is still......you get the picture.

Marlene, you are so right -
"The terms contemporary art and modern art often cause a little confusion. So what is the difference? Simply put; contemporary art typically refers to any artwork that was made since World War II, and it usually refers to artists who are still living and still producing work. On the other hand, modern art usually refers to art that was created between the 1860s and 1970s when artists began challenging the traditional academic view of art and looking at the world differently."

And although I know the difference, like many people, I often catch myself using the word 'modern' wrong - it seems to fit better for things that are current. But that word is really contemporary, which actually means coexisting, of our time, now.

But it doesn't help that when you look up the definition for contemporary, it includes explanations like this - of the present time; modern: "a lecture on the contemporary novel."

For art, maybe we should take care to use the right word. But for everything else, I think it's too late to change us!

But Marlene there is still and Egypt, and Egyptians are still producing a distinct art. I think you would have to call art from the time of the Pharaohs as Ancient Egyptian Art.... no?
Renaissance is a description of a specific point in time so that works great!

So.. again I am not trying to say that "we" change anything... My question was do you think that people in the next millennia might want to.. and "if so" what might they choose to call it.

I get from your replies that you think they will not want to change it, and I accept that. ;O) No need to get defensive about the question. I genuinely appreciate your comments.. thanks

bob