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Have you personally been to an art gallery lately? Do you listen to your professor during your art classes?
Ever heard of installation art? Are you familiar with contemporary paintings or artists? As of the present, most people might know who Leonardo who da Vinci is, but not too many people may be familiar with Andy Warhol or with his 'cool' and abstract paintings.
Do we really have to know anything about current or contemporary artists? Let us take a look back in history. During the 1960s, pop art, or popular art, had succeeded the abstract paintings of the past.
Pop art focused on what was popular or mainstream, including Warhol's paintings of soup cans.
These paintings offered a cool , new way of expressing the artists' thoughts about the current or contemporary events of the present day.
We also have contemporary acrylic art which became popular in the mid-20th century. And since we are talking of the present, we of course now have computerart.
Let us be proud of the art of our current time. Years from now, the paintings of the present may offer the new generation a glimpse of how cool life was during the past.
They can learn about our thoughts, our dreams, and our fears. Such information may help them relate to us, as well as aid them in thinking of solutions by learning from our mistakes.
This is one of the important roles which paintings can play in our lives, and I hope that we could appreciate the artists and their works more, because of this.
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