Question

n what way do contemporary artists consider issues of national and cultural identity? What are their strategies for calling traditional divisions into question through their art? Use at least two art examples to support your post.

Answer 1

Contemporary Art offers works with a dynamic combination of materials, methods, concepts and subjects that challenge the traditional and defy easy definition. Artists explore ideas, concepts, questions and practices of the past with the aim to understand the present and envision the future.

Nowadays artist face issues in the society. Artist use satire and social engagement to portray their art but sometimes the art comes under hammer of government and they are banned. The artist sometimes has to face discrimination for the art they have made. Most of the people don’t understand contemporary art in today’s time, so the artist has to face identity crisis, as many people don’t know them.

The iconic Mexican printmaker Jose Guadalupe Posada created an artistic legacy through his sketches of skeletons and skulls, one he honed to remark on the national politicians of his time.

‘Hansel and Gretel’ by Ai Weiwei and Herzog & de Meuron:

Ai Weiwei has teamed up with Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron to create an immersive installation that tackles the issues of surveillance and privacy in the age of social media.

Kidmograph

Argentinan artist Kidmograph, a.k.a., Gustavo Torres, makes GIFs and music videos that exist in between the digital world and reality, refusing to commit to either. Influenced by the political films of his home country and the sci-fi classics of his youth, he makes artwork that envisions a better. more advanced world.