is Salvador Dali a contemporary artist?

Question

is Salvador Dali a contemporary artist?

Answer 1

Contemporary means literally belonging to the present time, so an artist who has created Art in a style easily recognizable as modern , even if he is dead can be defined as a contemporary artist.

Contemporary art is art produced at the present period in time. Some define contemporary art as art produced within "our lifetime," recognizing that lifetimes and life spans vary. However, there is a recognition that this generic definition is subject to specialized limitations.



Contemporary art includes, and develops from, Postmodern art, which is itself a successor to Modern art. In vernacular English, "modern" and "contemporary" are synonyms, resulting in some conflation of the terms "modern art" and "contemporary art" by non-specialists.



The non-official definition says that "contemporary artist" are those whose peak of activity can be situated somewhere between the 1970s (the advent of postmodernism) and the present day.

Artists must meet some criteria: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_contemporary_artists

Salvador Dali is not considereded as contemporary, but not because he is dead: he doesn´t meet the criteria. Francis Bacon (+1992) is considered a contemporary artist, as well as Lucien Freud (+2011).

Answer 2

No. Salvador Dali died in 1989, therefore he is not a contemporary artist. To be a contemporary artist he would have to be alive, now.



You and I are alive now, therefore we are contemporary to each other. If we would have both been alive in 1800 we would have been contemporaries (living at the same time).



Hirst, Fielding and Koons are alive and are therefore contemporary to our time, to you and me, and to each other.



Artist and Designer, U.S.



Good point, Weez.

Answer 3

no. contemporary usually means right now, still alive. dali was a surrealist and modernist. that period has been over for a bit and he has been dead for a bit as well.

Answer 4

Isn't he wondrous. He has influenced many contemporary artists such as Hirst, Fielding and Koons among many others..

Answer 5

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