1980s
Context: Social, Political, Cultural, Economic
"Hip-hop’s ascension had been steady, but in 1988 the genre exploded into a diverse array of styles and sounds that forever restructured how the artform was perceived and how the music was marketed." Daily Beast, 2018
Seminal
Events
A Flood of Representation
Streets, Clubs and Speakeasies
Art Term: Queer Art
Neo Expressionism
Art Term: New Expressionism
''It's a humanistic gesture, more than anything else,'' said the artist, who called his work ''a political and subversive act - an attempt to psychologically destroy the wall by painting it.'' (On Keith Haring's painting of the Berlin Wall, 1988) New York Times
Institutional Critique + Appropriation
Art Terms:
Institutional Critique
Appropriation
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Illusionism / Consumerism / Generative
ART TERM: Generative Art is a type of art that uses algorithms, mathematical equations, and machine learning to create unique, dynamic, and often interactive pieces. The art is "generated" based on a set of rules, parameters, or inputs, rather than being manually created by an artist.
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