TRADITION AND INNOVATIVE EXPERIMENT IN VISUAL ARTS
TRADITION AND INNOVATIVE EXPERIMENT IN VISUAL ARTS

Summary/Abstract: Time separates past and present, old and new, tradition and modernity. A distinction must be made between traditional terms and traditionalism. Modern art generally despises the tradition immediately preceding the last generation, but not the essential and eternal tradition, which, most often admires it, and although it claims its uniqueness and originality, sometimes goes back in time. Any modernity, because it has always an upward vector, a forward momentum, obviously leaves behind a past. To be valuable a cultural fact needs validation through time and the widest exposure. Postmodernism has been described as a pluralistic decadent period, the avant-garde art was institutionalized and stereotyped and art models seem to stand in an ironic relationship with all that was before. For the modern artist, art is a way of talking, a way of giving a discourse rather than an expression of the existence, of living inside himself. He takes whatever influences previous artistic movements he likes and translates them into contemporary terms.

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