Modern art
I would make the line between the old-times art and the modern art when the big “Europe wide“ styles ended. I think so, because after, the art was free, and that is the time when artists became more then just painters, sculptors, and visionaries. They became themselves; they showed their guts in the artwork, they showed their fear, their love, their hatred. They flew away from the island full of radars; they managed to free themselves. That is when the real art was born officially.
I love the freedom, the passion, the mood, the variety of forms, shapes, shades, colors, ideas. It is crazy, crazy world, where you can loose yourself completely or find yourself finally. It is as being in brightly white room 3×3 meters, in just a few minutes, you feel lost, you don´t know anymore where the ceiling is where the floor is, you don´t have a point to focus on to make sure everything is the way it should be. Each of us finally scrapes a little point on the wall to give the little universe some ground. But, are we sure we all have it right, that we all think the same about so basic things. That is the magic of art, it shows how we feel and what we see in only our perspective and we hope people will understand us, at least at same basic level, so that we know we are not lost totally. We are going crazy inside, we are wrong somehow, we try to see things to understand them, to analyze them to make a valuable conclusions. I like the idea that art is a mood. It is the only true in arts for me. It is the most important attribute of a piece of art.
“A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.” Albert Camus
“A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.” Oscar Wilde
We all are artists, creating ourselves. This art takes the span of our life. It takes guts to hazard, to try, to change. That is the most profound art of all.