The Modern Day Art Manifesto - (a work in progress)
Modern Day Art is an evolutionary succession away from Contemporary Art.
It can be referred to as #mdArt, #mdA, #notContemporaryArt, #nCA, or #modernDayArt.
Two aesthetic subsets of Modern Day Art are #postContemporary and #newModern. Both refer to esoteric Modern Day Art ecosystems. These obvious manifestations do not preclude more existing and future sub-genres.
All art creation exercises additive, subtractive, transformational, spiritual, temporal, theoretical, cognitive, and other forms of artistic agency.
In the case of Modern Day art as an aesthetic ecosystem, it subtracts from Contemporary Art - Identity Politics and the hubris of toxic academic entanglement. Consider its relationship to Contemporary Art's Art World as an orthogonal social entity wholly disengaged from those trappings and expectations. The creation, quality, and intent of Modern Day Art is not to satisfy an Art Market but rather an Art future while mindfully acknowledging the importance of providing the artist's means to a dignified living.
Modern Day Art promotes an exclusive Art for Art's Sake aesthetic.
The subtraction of political identity virtue signaling neutralizes holding galleries and art patrons hostage to the discriminatory tribalism of gender, age, moral superiority claims, "saving______" platitudes, and so on. The Art is intended to feed aesthetic, artistic, and intellectual hunger.
- Frank Krasicki, May 2021