Contemporary art
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- Contemporary art should not be confused with modern art - the former is art being created today and the art of roughly since the early seventies, while the latter generally refers to art from the 1860s until the 1970s. Contemporary art is characterized by its extreme diversity and the apparent lack of specific movements.
Contemporary art is recently produced visual art. When recently produced visual art ages, it loses the status of being contemporary. When recently produced visual art ages it becomes, strictly speaking, historical. Ideally, the term is applied to art produced in the present.
Contemporary art prizes
Some competitions, awards and prizes in contemporary art are
- Emerging Artist Award awarded by The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
- Hugo Boss Prize awarded by the Guggenheim Museum
- Turner Prize for British artists under 50
- Jindrich Chalupecky prize for Czech artists under 35 [1]
- Participation in the Whitney Biennial
- Vincent Award, The Vincent van Gogh Biennial Award for Contemporary Art in Europe, founded by The Broere Charitable Foundation and hosted by Stedelijk Museum.
- Marcel Duchamp Prize awarded by ADIAF and Centre Pompidou.
- Ricard Prize for a French artist under 40.
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