Task 1.3.

Contemporary art of the 21^st century spread like wildfire. Among the most accessible art movements such as loss and desire art, classical realism, altermodern, street art, virtual art, relational art and others one should single out the most peculiar one, to my mind, - stuckism. Stuckism is a radical and controversial art group that was co-founded in 1999 by Charles Thomson and Billy Childish along with eleven other artists. The name "Stuckism" was coined in January 1999 by Charles Thomson in response to a poem read to him several times by Billy Childish. In it, Childish recites that his former girlfriend, Tracey Emin had said he was "stuck! stuck! stuck!" with his art, poetry and music. Stuckists are pro-contemporary figurative painting with ideas and anti-conceptual art, mainly because of its lack of concepts.

The main purpose of this art movement can be vividly reflected in the following quotation of one of its members - Terry Marks:   "We all choose to be painters, but not as if rock & roll, television, cars, cinema, jazz, and the whole 20th century never happened. We’re saying, 'Let’s use paint to describe our lives now.'”

Considerable impact of “stuckism” to the audience can be expressed through the following points:

·        primary importance of truth to self and experience;

·        emotional engagement;

·        meaning;

·        content;

·        communication.
 The peculiarities and the originality of “stuckism” become obvious from the next video: