It is much less an expression of breaking away with the past and norms and rules, like the Art Nouveau current was. This is mainly due to the fact that contemporary art has been an expression of the individual freedoms throughout the 20th century and the numerous experimentations during this period produced no limits to the artistic capacity of individuals. The art of the 1990s continues the anxiety expressed in art through the 20th century and adds to it elements characteristic of this decade.
More and more, the 1990s formed what is known as the Internet art, along with related segments such as information art. Internet art prefers to use the internet as the main environment of expression. From this perspective, it is less a differentiation in the notion or concept of the artistic expression and more of a different way of presenting the material and ensuring that it reaches the final...
The website on which Internet art is usually integrated is available and accessible to virtually any viewer, increasing its widespread reach.
At the same time, information art is an eclectic form of artistic expression which puts together some of the major components of the 1990s: information technology, the Internet, media, computers. The result is, as mentioned, eclectic and a true expression of how each of these elements have become an essential part of our everyday lives. The 1990s was probably the first decade in which this fact was truly emphasized and all these entered our lives to stay. The anxiety expressed in such art forms is no different from the one expressed in the Art Nouveau movement, but the means of expressions differ substantially.
Bibliography
Duncan, Alastair. Art Nouveau. World of Art. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1994.
