Throughout history there have been numerous attempts to get it all down, to depict the expanse of eras from the beginning to the present and beyond. The Histomap shows 4,000 years of world history. The Histomap of Evolution shows 10,000,000,000 years. But what about the future?
Illustrator Sara Fanelli charts the course of modern art in a wall to wall 130′ inscription at The Tate Modern. Beginning in 1900 with Art Nouveau, Post-Impressionism, Vienna Sucession, and Les Nabis scrolling through to the year 2000.
We know the drill. Movement supplanting movement, style after style, one manifesto usurping another…on and on it goes in linear progression, laid out in lock-step succession. But, after 2000 something notable happens. It’s not just that she can not predict the future — there are artists but there is no name for the definitive style of now and beyond.
Although the names of many of the artists were familiar, I could not bring to mind an image of their work. So here they are with hyperlinks:
And since we still have not figured out what’s next, we do know, thanks to Steve Miller Band’s classic, Fly Like an Eagle that, Time keeps on slippin…slippin…slippin…
Future of Art 