postmodern art

Examples of postmodern art in the following topics:

• Contemporary Art

  • Modern art, radical movements in Modernism, and radical trends regarded as influential and potential precursors to late modernism and postmodernism emerged around World War I and particularly in its aftermath.
  • The discourse surrounding the terms Late Modernism and Postmodern art is fraught with many differing opinions.
  • There are those who argue against any division into modern and postmodern periods.
  • Some don't believe that the period called modernism is over or even near the end, and there certainly is no agreement that all art after modernism is post-modern, nor that postmodern art is universally separated from modernism; many critics see it as merely another phase in modern art or another form of late Modernism.
  • This last point is one of particular controversy in art, where many institutions argue that being visionary, forward-looking, cutting edge, and progressive are crucial to the mission of art in the present, and that postmodern art therefore represents a contradiction of the value of art of our times.

• Painting

  • Postmodern painting rejects modernism's grand narratives of artistic direction and eradicates the boundaries between high and low forms of art.
  • Not all art labeled as contemporary art is postmodern, and the broader term encompasses both artists who continue to work in modernist and late modernist traditions as well as artists who reject postmodernism for other reasons.
  • Chief among the proponents of this aspect of postmodernism is the Art Renewal Center with its staunch rejection of all art it perceives to be modern.
  • Other modern movements cited as influential to postmodern art are conceptual art and the use of techniques such as assemblage, montage, bricolage, and appropriation.
  • Its strong links with the commercial art market has raised questions both about its status as a postmodern movement and the definition of postmodernism itself .

• Postmodernist Sculpture

  • The characteristics which lend any type of art to being postmodern, such as collage, pastiche, appropriation, and the destruction of barriers between fine art and popular culture, can also be applied to sculptural works.
  • The characteristics which lend any type of art to being postmodern can be applied to sculptural works.
  • While inherently difficult to define by nature, we can say that postmodernism began with pop art and continued within many following movements including conceptual art, neo-expressionism, feminist art, and the Young British Artists of the 1990s.
  • The plurality of idea and form that postmodernism is defined by essentially allows any art to be considered postmodern.
  • In terms of sculptural practice, mediums like  intermedia, installation art, conceptual art, video light art and sound art are often regarded as postmodern by nature.

• Gender

  • Postmodern art is a body of art movements that sought to contradict aspects of modernism or emerged in its aftermath.
  • In general, movements such as Intermedia, Installation art, Conceptual Art and Multimedia, particularly involving video, are described as postmodern.
  • Several characteristics help to define postmodernism, including bricolage, the use of words as a central artistic element, collage, simplification, appropriation, performance art, the recycling of past styles and themes in a modern-day context, and exploring the barrier between fine or "high" art and "low" art, such as popular culture.
  • Postmodern feminist art seeks a mode of expression that is amorphous and not consigned to the conceptual, theoretical, or aesthetic limitations of modernity.
  • Analyze the growth of the postmodern feminist art movement in the 1960s and 1970s.

• Neo-Expressionism

  • Baselitz's style is interpreted as Neo-Expressionist, but from a European perspective it is seen as postmodern.
  • During the 1990s, she received multiple honors, including the College Art Association Distinguished Art Award for Lifetime Achievement, and an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the New School for Social Research/Parsons School of Design.
  • The return to traditional painting in the late 1970s and early 1980s seen in Neo-Expressionist artists such as Georg Baselitz and Julian Schnabel has been described as having postmodern tendencies, and as one of the first coherent postmodern movements.
  • Its strong links to the commercial art market has raised questions about its status as a postmodern movement and about the definition of postmodernism itself.
  • Brian Massumi claims that Deleuze and Guattari opened the horizon for new definitions of beauty in postmodern art.

• What Does Art Do?

  • Art can function therapeutically as well, an idea that is explored in art therapy.
  • While definitions and practices vary, art therapy is generally understood as a form of therapy that uses art media as its primary mode of communication.
  • With the introduction of conceptual art and postmodern theory, practically anything can be termed art.
  • The decorative arts add aesthetic and design values to everyday objects.
  • Examine the communication, utilitarian, aesthetic, therapeutic, and intellectual purposes of art

• Race and Ethnicity in Postmodernism

  • Postmodernism frequently serves as an ambiguous overarching term for skeptical interpretations of culture, literature, art, philosophy, economics, architecture, fiction, and literary criticism.
  • A great deal of art during this era sought to deconstruct race through a postmodern lens.
  • Primarily through a postmodern perspective, hooks has addressed race, class, and gender in education, art, history, sexuality, mass media and feminism.
  • Galleries and community art centers were developed for the purpose of displaying African-American art, and collegiate teaching positions were created by and for African-American artists .
  • Post-black art arose during this time as a category of contemporary African-American art.

• Deconstructivism

  • Deconstructivism is a development of postmodern architecture that began in the late 1980s.
  • Deconstructivism is a development of postmodern architecture that began in the late 1980s.
  • Its relationship with Postmodernism is also decidedly contrary.
  • While postmodernism returned to embrace, often slyly or ironically, the historical references that modernism had shunned, deconstructivism rejects the postmodern acceptance of such references.
  • One example of deconstructivist complexity is Frank Gehry's Vitra Design Museum in Weil-am-Rhein, which takes the typical unadorned white cube of modernist art galleries and deconstructs it, using geometries reminiscent of cubism and abstract expressionism.

• Postmodern

  • Postmodern architecture was a response to Modernism and a return to wit, ornamentation, and previous architectural traditions.
  • The Postmodern response to the formalism of Modernism continues to influence present-day architecture.
  • Postmodernism has its origins in the perceived failure of Modern architecture.
  • The architect for this Postmodern building was selected by a design competition held by San Antonio in July of 1991.
  • Contrast the characteristics of Postmodern architecture with that of Modern architecture.

• The Influence of Feminism

  • Feminist and intersectional sentiments in art have always existed in opposition to the white, patriarchal foundations and current realities of western art markets and art history.
  • Feminism in art has always sought to change the reception of contemporary art and bring visibility to women within art history and practice.
  • Miriam Schapiro, co-founder of the Feminist Art Program at Cal Arts
  • Things are beginning to shift in terms of a more gender balanced art world as postmodern thought and gender politics become more important to the general public.
  • Postmodern feminism is an approach to feminist theory that incorporates postmodern and post-structuralist theory, and thus sees itself as moving beyond the modernist polarities of liberal feminism and radical feminism towards a more intersectional concept of our reality.