The Modern Age

Natural Modernism	Biomorphic Abstraction	Cloud Sculptures	Dream House Diorama
Zymoglyphic Art of the Modern Age Gallery		Sketches

In the Modern Age, Zymoglyphic art becomes more formalized and self-referential, more about art itself than serving a specific function in cultural life. We see a succession of art movements as each new trend pushes aside the old, establishing itself as the latest thing before becoming outdated itself. Artists reject the notion of well-crafted, narrative painting and sculpture (in a land of indolent dreamers, this was never very popular anyway, but it was now justified on theoretical grounds).

Each new style or medium, however, is inevitably a recasting of traditional forms. The curiosity cabinets and dioramas of the Age of Wonder reappear in modern form as shoebox art galleries. The Natural Modernists and the cloud sculptures of the School of Ephemeral Abstraction, for example, draw on the tradition of viewing stones of the Era of Oriental Influence.

The major movements

Biomorphic Abstraction - Acrylic paintings that explore the notion of evolution from the primordial ooze

The School of Ephemeral Abstraction - Cloud sculptures made from windblown debris

Sketches - Spontaneous drawings intended to illuminate various aspects of the Zymoglyphic region

Miniatures - Small size works of art housed in the Zymoglyphic Art of the Modern Age Gallery
Highlights from that collection include:
    Found Art, also known as TTLLA (Things That Look Like Art)
    Natural modernism - a specialized form of found art
    Miniature variations on Biomorphic Abstraction

The Dream House Diorama is a modernist take of the traditional natural history diorama of the Age of Wonder