Anselm Kiefer – Bohemia Lies by the Sea
When most people think of visual art, they think of painting and sculpture, and as something they don’t understand. What they don’t realize is that art is ubiquitous, and it permeates every aspect of our lives. It’s used in designing our food packaging, and the ads on Quora, Google and other websites. Art is an important element in creating logos for companies and apps, and when designing our clothes, homes and buildings. Art is the foundation for industrial designers who build furniture, computers, phones and cars. Those who put together film, TV and theatre sets also incorporate art into their designs. And each form speaks to the other and effects what is created.
Whatever medium, every generation creates a style that defines their time in history. Think of all the different hairstyles over the last 50 years. In the 1980s, the popular style for women was big hair.
Sarah Jessica Parker 1980
Whitney Houston 1980
Justin Berfield, Leonardo DiCaprio and Kurt Cobain 1990s
In the 1990s, for men, there was a variety of styles from spikey to a round cut, and long and carefree.
However, around 2000, there was a shift in culture, and the artistic movement transitioned into a free-for-all where everything was acceptable. But…now…again…there is an artistic evolution and with that comes a new trend. Though it’s usually unnoticeable, the advances are occurring before most realize it. It seemed like computers and the Internet came out of nowhere, but engineers had been working on these developments since 1939.
Google what will humans look like in 1000 years, and you won’t find any pictures with big hair, the images and articles describe people’s eyes as larger and their skin more pigmented to adapt to living conditions due to climate change. There will also be an architectural shift away from the steel and 100-story buildings. As the earth’s climate alters, architecture will also morph into the structures that we have seen in the dystopian environs in movies like Black Panther, Avatar and Star Wars., with the shapes of buildings and homes becoming more in tune with nature, curvaceous and blending in with the surroundings. They will seem to conjure both the future and past simultaneously.
There are already futuristic cities being built all over the world. Telosa City in the U.S. is being constructed in the desert between Nevada, Arizona and Utah. The plan is to have 50,000 people living there by 2030.
Currently, no one can own real estate in outer space…but no doubt, future generations will vacation among the stars, and the universe that we have only read about, seen in film and TV, for them it will be an everyday occurrence. Someone will create the vehicle that will transport people to their galactic destinations, and the design will be miraculous.
It’s clear that the visual arts are important, because they provide an essential outlet for creativity and emotions, make it possible for human history to be visually recorded, and create a space in which ideas can be expressed in ways other than words and writing. Art is not just the work we see in museums that is untouchable, but an ongoing thread, a creative dialogue, that connects us from one generation to the next and helps us move through time.
DearCityGirl 