The future development trend of art will accelerate the decline of art in the future, and the five major trends will start and end! The future development trend of art can be judged from five trends: diversification, interdisciplinary, retro classic vs. new trend era, and millennium mainstream.

In the winter of repeated epidemic, many overseas museums closed one after another, but MoMA in New York did the opposite. It announced the "Fall Reveal", predicted the future trend of art development, and kept pace with the global innovation.

Museum of Modern Art, New York

Different from other permanent works of art in museums, MoMA will replace some exhibits every six months. The way of curation will also be more subject oriented, and a large number of works of new designers and artists will be added.

All these indicate that with the end of the decade of the 21st century, the art world will face great reform, not only museums, but also great changes in all aspects. This is also what we should pay close attention to as art students, and always follow.

Next, we will interpret the five major trends in the art world in 2021 predicted by the industry for your reference.

　　 Accepting diversity and opening up the vision of globalization

From behind the change of MoMA's curatorial method, it shows that the museum is no longer dedicated to the display of single collections, nor just providing art education for the audience, but guiding them to explore freely with an open attitude and feel the integration of art and culture.

The most fundamental factor in promoting artistic diversity lies in artists. Many European and American museums and art galleries tend to focus on white artists and male artists when choosing artists' works. Colored people and female artists account for less than 10%.

Famous performance artist Marina Abramovic

Now, with the advent of a new era, art has no borders, and art has no gender has become the slogan of more people. Promote the diversity of artistic works from a global perspective, abandon the idea of focusing on the West, show more works of art from Africa, Latin America and Asia to the world, and greatly increase the proportion of female artists' works.

A famous Japanese female artist - Yasuo Cajima

In addition, artists should also look at the world and create works that resonate with more people from a higher and more distant perspective. Many top art schools in art study also include the global perspective in their application requirements, requiring applicants to use original expression, global perspective, and critical thinking to complete their design works when making collections.

originate UAL University Official website

Not only is the trend of art popular, but art colleges have already carried out courses in this area for research. The "ninth son" Decolonising Arts Institute of London University of the Arts is committed to studying colonial and national heritage, and promoting cultural, social and institutional changes.

Throughout the world, interdisciplinary cooperation and research driven projects are established through the partnership between the UAL and other fields.

　　 Interdisciplinary Media Collision

Single graphic art works and static installation works have become increasingly difficult to meet people's sensory needs. In addition, the interactive immersion technology is increasingly upgraded, and the way of art presentation is becoming more and more diverse.

Van Gogh, Starry Night

Museum of Light, Paris, France

The times are progressing, and the art circle will have a new direction of development. The addition of interactive design will change the noumenon crisis of art - the work will be reduced to a dynamic image that can be large or small, better showing the connotation and creation theme of the work. Communication, appreciation, criticism and trade will all be based on the all-round work, which will be more attractive and show the essence of art.

People interact with each other through media

Moreover, through this form of art presentation, the works can get the first eye in the "short and smooth" Internet rhythm, and then affect the communication of the artist's concept and the recognition of the works.

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Also in today's overseas art education, interdisciplinary has become one of the hot spots. Different from art, which simply meets aesthetic needs, art majors now advocate people-oriented teaching and achieve social goals through design. This is also a major change in the combination of art and technology, and medical treatment to achieve greater social benefits and promote social development.

　　 Vintage Classic VS New Fashion Era

Nowadays, the times are progressing constantly. While young people are chasing new trends and fashions, classic masterpieces have always stood firm in everyone's hearts. How to combine classics with the times and conform to the trend of the times?

I believe everyone has heard about Monkey King and Magic Brush Ma Liang even if they haven't seen them. These are all masterpieces of Chinese cartoons. However, due to the progress of the times, the traditional animation has been far exceeded in character design and screen production.

Therefore, Mr. Wu Hongliang, the top international curator, personally organized the art exhibition for the 120th anniversary of the birth of "Zhang Guangyu, the originator of Chinese comics". The most traditional mechanical way, digital technology, and visual interaction of photoacoustic wind power were used to create a comprehensive "sense of the future", making the classic works "fashionable and trendy"!

Artists more than half a century ago may not have thought that their works would one day be regarded as classics, while avant-garde, trendy and other words will also be occupied by new artists. Will classics be forgotten?

In fact, it is not the case. When art students apply for making works, they have absorbed many elements from excellent works of art. For example, in the architectural design, the characteristic elements of Chinese Ming and Qing architecture are used, and the characters in the animation design are extracted from the characters in Wu Daozi's murals for creation.

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The collision between these future artists and the works of well-known art masters can not only reflect the inheritance of classic works, but also recreate the classics to show the progress of art design.

　　 Millennials take over the mainstream of the industry

As we enter the 1920s of the 21st century, the Millennials are no longer a wonderful flower in people's mouth, but have grown into a new generation of social forces.

The word Millennials comes from American culture, and is also called Generation Y. Last August, the U.S. Trust conducted a study on high net worth collectors, and the results showed that art collectors of the millennial generation are gradually influencing the American art market.

As a generation growing up surrounded by electronic screens and digital content, millennials show different taste preferences and behavior habits from their parents, making great contributions to the exponential growth of online art trading.

Two years ago, Millennial collectors were regarded as a new force, and they gradually occupied the main force in art creation and art auction. The enthusiasm in the current digital ecology has proved its desire for art and art collection.

Today's art study group is this generation of enthusiastic young people. Their views on art are very unique and novel. They start from their own interests, develop their own design thinking through the design methods they have learned, and create works of art with more personal style.

Pictures of works created by overseas students of natural light art

The resulting "super contemporary" artists are very typical. They do not deliberately pursue the avant-garde proposition, nor are they obsessed with the elite or the public, academia or business. Instead, they really start from their own concerns or views, carry out personalized creation, and express their artistic attitudes.

"Super contemporary" artists

Untitled by Eddie Martinez

Although in today's art market, the well-known older generation masters still hold a high position, the rising stars should not be underestimated. From the post-80s generation to the post-90s generation, the artistic concepts of these new artists are increasingly recognized and supported by everyone. I believe that with the full help of Millennial collectors, the new forces will certainly achieve a qualitative leap.

　　 Academic or commercial? Values refuse to be labeled

In fact, when it comes to the values of the art circle, it's a bit difficult. Because the evaluation criteria are various, some people say that it is judged according to the age, some people choose to judge according to the popularity of artists, and even more according to the price of the auction house.

I think there is no clear criteria for judging art, and the choice of academic perspective is often different from that of business perspective. Although the emergence of online celebrity exhibitions and street art has been criticized by many artists, it most truly reflects the current dominant art consumption mode - art consumption dominated by traffic and social attributes.

Cool "Time and Space Crossing" Exhibition

The value of works of art lies in understanding, so whether academic or commercial, its value lies in the heart of the people. The source of artistic creation starts from the artist's understanding of things. The value orientation of each person cannot determine the value of artistic works.

No one can monopolize the definition of art, nor can online ecology be doomed to pursue traffic as the basic principle. Therefore, art is priceless, and the best work is the art created from one's own heart.

　　 Summary of today

We are going to say goodbye to 2020, and the new year and new era art circle will bring more different development and changes. From the above trends, we can see that the art circle will be more free and open to artists to bring excellent works.

You can synthesize the above trend analysis to create works with more personal style. Students applying for art study abroad can also follow the trend when making collections of works, try to create interdisciplinary multi element projects from their own majors, and reinvent the classics.

Studying abroad in Natural Light Arts has been deeply studying and teaching in interdisciplinary applications, mining students' application advantages in interdisciplinary applications, integrating multi-dimensional concepts, improving students' comprehensive artistic literacy, and laying a solid foundation for future applications and studying abroad.

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