Contemporary trends of art

Art is always in tune with its time; it is modern and reflects the outlook of society in general. In its turn, the art has a strong influence on the people, so the attitude of the artist to the life is important. The development of multiple distorted trends in art, the so-called pseudo-art, is in keeping with the times.

Beginning of the 21^st century is a jump into the new period. Today we can observe the development of the computer technology, the appearance of new trends of art, new creative decisions in fashion, art, science, life-style and so on and so forth. Among contemporary art trends there are classical realism, avant-gardism, relational art, street art, stuckism, superflat, videogame art, superstroke, VJ art, virtual art, altermodern, IMMAGINE&POESIA, kinetic art, pop-art, op-art, underground, body-art and many others.

I am of the opinion that the most striking, impressive and unusual modern trend of art is body-art. Body art is art made on, with, or consisting of, the human body. The most common forms of body art are tattoos and body piercings, but other types include scarification, branding, scalpelling, shaping (for example tight-lacing of corsets), full body tattoo and body painting.

I am not an admirer of the excess in this sphere, but moderate body-art looks rather attractive to my mind. More extreme body art can involve things such as mutilation or pushing the body to its physical limits. I think that it is not art, it is disfiguring of human’s body and its natural beauty and damaging of human’s health.

The purposes of body art:

-          change and transformation of the personality

-          the putting of symbols, ritual variants

-          the desire to overcome the pain

-          to beautify the body

-          to distinguish oneself

To appreciate or not is a matter of taste. So look the video and  form an estimate about body-art.
Nice viewing :))