In my opinion, you can be authentic through art and design to create artwork reflecting new styles and express your personality. Work can be authentic if it’s real and not forged “Genuine” and “true” – Denis Dutton. Nevertheless, artwork can be reproduced to make fakes. In my belief by not being authentic is by copying and artists work and now can be seen as plagiarism. The Modernist movement still holds value in contemporary practice as it contains culture and has changed Western societies. The Modernist movement explores culture, politics, and social ideology that’s still used in contemporary practice. The form of Conceptualism in the 1960s symbolises the rotation where Modern art gave way to contemporary art.
Contemporary practice has been influenced by the Modernist movement as it’s inspired to create new ways of working and new movements such as, Earth art, Digital art, Neo-Expressionism and Performance art. From this I feel that you can still be authentic by constructing work that is influenced by either themes or elements in the modernist movement including styles, composition and method. You can likewise use the movement to help you gather ideas and research that can lead to new techniques and media work. Although, not by duplicating work produced by others or already exists, that can be seen as unauthentic.
Overall, I feel that you can be authentic through contemporary practice, as long as you’re not replicating work nor taking away elements of other artist’s ideas and claim ownership.
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Contemporary Art Movements (1970-present). ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ART. Visual-arts-cork.com. Available from: http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/contemporary-art-movements.htm#conceptualism [Accessed 28th October 2017]