Welcome to the exciting, stunning and sometimes creepy world of contemporary art! No era in the history of human creativity has been so contradictory in its views and so disunited in its achievements as the one in which we happened to live. Although the works of Raphael, Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, when considered separately, demonstrate the different temperament andunique style of the artists who created them, perceived together, despite all the differences, they show an aesthetic consistency and an indisputable belonging to< /p>to the same period of the High Renaissance. They sing, as they say, on the same notes. And what kind of score could harmonize such diverse voices as, say, the jaded flesh of the late portraits of the British painter Lucian Freud and the steep mountains of cellophane-wrapped candies that make up the conceptual installations of the Cuban-born artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres?Kelly Grovier (born 1951), an American art historian, art critic and poet, tries to answer this and other questions that puzzle the modern viewer. thirty years.