Contemporary art is the art of today, produced by artists who are living in the 21st century. It reflects the complex issues that shape our diverse, global, and rapidly changing world. Through their work, many contemporary artists explore personal or cultural identity, offer critiques of social and institutional structures, or even attempt to redefine art itself.
Here are my personally chosen ‘artworks of today’ applied with different elements and principles of contemporary arts:
APPROPRIATION
Andy Warhol aggressively engaged popular culture as subject matter, and he helped define the role of artist-as-instigator/provocateur in the early post-modern era.
PERFORMANCE
The performance consisted of the artist walking barefoot through the streets of Brixton for nearly an hour, with Doc Marten boots, usually worn by both police and skinheads, attached to her ankles by their laces.
SPACE
Leviathan – formed of three 35 metre-high interconnected balloons. The Leviathan sculpture has a dark purple skin and translucent red interior.
HYBRIDITY
Rachel McNaughton uses wine as the medium for her artworks.
TECHNOLOGY
Film negative and x-ray artworks – a series of portraits created from used film negative and x-ray artworks by Nick Gentry
“The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.” – Jerzy Kosinski
References
https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/jikumoshijiku/philippine-contemporary-art-128570465
http://www.markpennerhowell.com/?page_id=555
A Collection of Portraits on Floppy Disks by Nick Gentry
https://www.americanflat.com/products/red-wine-pour-by-rachel-mcnaughton-art-print
Deserie Aquino 
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