The Museum Of Modern Art(New York) And The Canonization Of The Contemporary Art

How to make American contemporary art classic is one of the core issues in American art history.In the 1950 s,the world's art center gradually shifted from Paris,France to New York,the United States,which is actually a reconstruction of power and artistic value.In addition to the concept of time,contemporary art also bears the traces of ideas and culture generated by the contemporary global art mechanism.In this art mechanism,the functions of public museums such as exhibition planning,collection and public education have a strong say,and museums have a strong influence on the classicization of contemporary art.Moma is the earliest museum dedicated to modern art exhibition,collection and public education practice in the world.When moma was founded,the American art world did not pay much attention to modern art,and the mainstream art trend was still realism.The logic of art history of bahr's own stylistic study of moma constructs many aspects of the museum,including the multi-department setting and the basic logic of the exhibition,from which the museum collection also derives,forming the criteria for the identification of works of art through the identification of quality and historical value of works of art.And nelson Rockefeller and other family members of the company's operating mode makes a museum is a museum has been expanding trend,both the authority of the strong,the museum of modern art,which makes the spread of modern art in the United States,to build the modern art of narrative and classic,also for the later art wave up to,say,in the contemporary art,New York museum of modern selection of works is often decided the future of work.Among them,the introduction of abstract expressionism by moma is an important case of the classicalization of American contemporary art,which involves the relationship between modern art museums and national policies.How moma detects abstract expressionism step by step and finally names it.The support of the government,academic criticism,the promotion of museums and the preference of the public have made abstract expressionism a classic of Americanart.Museum in great power mastered,along with the continuous renewal of the world,museum and the artist's is in a state of conflict or mutual relationship,this is actually the art mechanism in power relations,the relationship is also in constant evolution,such as the concept of contemporary art in the art,can be said to be using field and exchange their art museum,the museum as a criticism of art institutions will be the construction of exhibition and voice concessions to concept artist,then the museum concept artists exhibition brings into a whole series,it is a museum for reforming the new contemporary art,from beginning to end,Museums are strengthening their grip on artistic narrative.