Contemporary art puzzle

Our contemporary art puzzles from the post-war period feature the artworks of the most important painters of the last 70 years.

Contemporary art is the art of attempting to communicate anew.
Indeed, after World War II, given the extreme diversity of political, economic, and social situations that arose on both sides of the Atlantic, post-war art took on forms and evolutionary lines that were completely diverse and above all unpredictable.
In this context, artists sought new languages to express their ideas, breaking with past traditions.

America, which had lived in the reflection of European artistic events, now became a fundamental reference point for all new avant-gardes.

Post-war contemporary art is indeed completely different from the historical avant-gardes of the first three decades of the century.

The abstract characterization, initially developed within Der Blaue Reiter and then exploded in the works of Kandinsky, Javlensky, Mondrian, and Klee, in the second half of the twentieth century often became predominant over figurative expression.

The contradictions of artistic expression are in fact a reflection of those increasingly evident in the new Western society, based on the exaggeration of consumerism and the commodification of all values.

Thus, artistic languages also explored new experiments, expanding their fields of investigation to include photographic, cinematic, television techniques, and in recent years, computer and multimedia techniques.
New technologies offer unprecedented expressive possibilities, allowing artists to overcome the traditional limits of painting and sculpture and to explore new forms of interaction with the public.

If art must continue to be in some way the reflection of the globalized society that expresses it, it is necessary to make the best use of all the new expressive tools that technological evolution gradually provides.

Synthetic paints, various plastics, mechanical elements, neon tubes, and more recently, monitors and video projectors are often used in the creation of assemblages, compositions, or installations.

The true meaning varies each time: to entertain, astonish, provoke thought, challenge, or even simply to irritate and even scandalize.