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Processing Questions:
1. What are the 7 major forms of art?

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2. Are these art forms important? Why?
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3. Can you identify examples of art forms in your city or place you live?

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What Is It

Readings: What is Contemporary Art?

• Contemporary art is the term used for art of the present day. Usually the artists are alive

and still making work.

• Contemporary art is often about ideas and concerns, rather than solely the aesthetic (the
look of the work). Artists try different ways of experimenting with ideas and materials.

• Contemporary artists use whatever they think illustrates their idea most appropriately.

Nowadays artists have many different methods and materials to use. Some use painting
and drawing but there is also photography, sculpture, film, new media, live performance,

light, sound and installation. https://baltic.art/uploads/Question_Kit_Cards.pdf

• Contemporary art is the art of the present, produced by living artists in the twenty-first
century. Contemporary art provides an opportunity to reflect on today social issues relevant

to humanity, and the world around us. Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced,
very culturally diverse, and advanced technological world.

https://www.virtosuart.com/blog/how-to-understand-contemporary-art

Contemporary Philippine Arts from the Region is an art produced at the

present period in time. In vernacular English, “modern” and “contemporary” are synonyms,

resulting in some conflation of the terms “modern art” and “contemporary art” by non-
specialists.

The term “contemporary art” refers to art made and produced by artists living
today. Today’s artists work in and respond to a global environment that is culturally diverse,

technologically advancing, and multifaceted. Working in a wide range of mediums,

contemporary artists often reflect and comment on modern-day society. When engaging with
contemporary art, viewers are challenged to set aside questions such as, “Is a work of art

good?” or “Is the work aesthetically pleasing?” Instead, viewers consider whether art is

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