Contemporary art and all its postmodern features were invented last century. You may ask: ‘What’s next?’ Will the artists be able to come up with something even more abstract and incomprehensible? Let’s discuss this in the article.
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Trend number 1. Hand-drawn pictures are popular again
According to critics, the painting was “dying” until recently, being replaced by other types of art like videos and installations. In the end of the 2000s, the situation changed dramatically: the painting was revived as a genre.
The border between fine art, made in the old fashioned way with a brush on canvas, and contemporary art with its deliberate madness and noncoformism, suddenly disappeared somewhere.
The audience, and first of all, the artists themselves, missed the paintings in the traditional sense terribly. However, to grab attention in the gigantic, oversaturated art market, a painting must be truly talented.
Trend No. 2. The revolution of interfaces: you draw on a tablet and get an oil on canvas
The widespread use of the iPad mechanic has seriously affected the technology of creating paintings. For example, diasec frontal printing has become popular: in a manner similar to photographic printing, inks are applied to acrylic. In this way, innovative techniques help the evolution of the creative method.
Trend No. 3. Democratization of the art market: accessibility and wide spread of art
Surprising fact: the original work of a famous master can now cost less than $100. The democratization of prices for high art is especially noticeable on the example of the many years of success of the largest international fair AAF (Affordable Art Fair).
For its organizers, the most important criteria for selecting works is their cost: it should not exceed the price ceiling available to people of average income.
The accessibility is achieved through the release of limited editions on paper and canvases of author's originals. It means that work can exist in five copies, but each of them is an original, which is confirmed by an international certificate.