As far as I understand, Modern art and Contemporary art **can** be visually and thematically the same, with the difference that one is deemed contemporary because is made in the present.
Thus it seems that Contemporary art is just an umbrella term for art made in the present (according to the art world, that seems to be since the later half of the 20th century) cause, although it can look like any other style, if its made recently (and has some sort of justification or “hidden meaning”), its contemporary. I have come to this conclusion because regardless of the style a “present-time” artists uses, they call themselves (or other people call them) a “contemporary artist”.
Am I mistaken? Is there any other definition I´m missing?
Thanks in advance.
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I’m not an art historian, but an art major and painter. In visual arts, “Modern” refers to a movement in art that generally began with the Impressionists and carried on into the mid 1900s. There are many other movements or “schools” within Modernism, like Cubism or Expressionism. The word “contemporary” simply refers to art being made at the current moment. So, in 1920 contemporary art was also Modern art, but today Modern art is not contemporary art.
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