"Contemporary Art Today Is Postconceptual Art"

Peter Osborne, philosopher

With great difficulty mastering the term conceptualism, Russian  shamans and interpreters from art discovered that the surrounding life presented them with a new rebus in the form of postconceptualism. Life is just not standing still, but it is displaying by the artist many changes together with the production patterns and with the mentality of the public. Botched work and blasphemy could be called the works of Amedeo Modigliani at the time of Giotto di Bondone.  Inertia of thinking, of course, slows down the educational process, but there will always be artists ahead of their time.  Because the main differences between artists do not related to the quality of the depicted object - after all, it is difficult to compete with a wide-angle camera of 100 Megapixels - but with the artist's point of view, his vision of the world around him. This is dynamic, that puts the commenters of art at a standstill - without knowing the wisdom of conceptualism, they are forced to move on, stepping to a shaky field of guesses and sensations, to which they, without being artists in most cases, are not ready. An interesting impression remains from visiting Moscow museums of modern art. Curators and authors of expositions seem to have frozen in the last century - in the illusion they can still comment on, but are clearly afraid to move on. Contemporary art directions, largely synthetic, such as Conceptual Symbolism or Art Collage remain unclaimed largely at the initiative of such figures.

And we only have to repeat Peter Osborne 's phrase: "Modern art today is postconceptual art"