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Post-Modern Art

Post-Modern Art. Presented by: Ashley Gregory Brittany Julious Graeme MacDougall William Stark. Origins of Postmodernism. Postmodernism began to emerge around the 1920’s with the Dada movement. It was not until after the Second World War that postmodernism was really recognized.

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Post-Modern Art

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  1. Post-Modern Art Presented by: Ashley Gregory Brittany Julious Graeme MacDougall William Stark

  2. Origins of Postmodernism • Postmodernism began to emerge around the 1920’s with the Dada movement. • It was not until after the Second World War that postmodernism was really recognized. • One of the reasons that postmodernism was thought of as a different movement from that of modernism was because of the different economic and technological changes that took place.

  3. Origins of Postmodernism, cont. • Another basic concept of postmodernism is that every form of rebellion has already been explored • Because of this, postmodernist artists usually use ideas from many different periods and combine them to form one image

  4. Authors and their ideas of postmodernism • Arnold Toynbee • Jean Baudrillard

  5. Arnold Toynbee • Is thought to be the first person to use the term postmodern • Used this term in his A Study of History, and said that this idea of postmodern occurred from around 1850-1875 • He later changed his original thought and said that the modern came to and end during the First World War, and that postmodernism really began to form during the years between the first two world wars (1918-1939)

  6. Jean Baudrillard • Wrote that there are four processes of obtaining value: • There is a functional value of an object • There is an exchange value of an object • There is a symbolic value of an object • There is a sign value of an object

  7. Deconstruction • One of the key ideas of postmodernism is to conceive things as texts • Derrida • Argued that deconstruction shows that texts can have multiple meanings and these different meanings can be cleared up through close textual analysis • One possible consequence of deconstruction is that texts may be defined too broadly

  8. Technology and Art

  9. Aspects of • Photography • Digital Photography • Computers • Mass Media and Communication • What Technology Has Done

  10. Photography • From painting light to capturing light • Art of the few • George Eastman

  11. George Eastman • Kodak • Mass Production • Brings Camera’s into everyday use

  12. Everyone’s a Photographer? • Eastman brought photography into mainstream culture • No longer an art for the few • Popularization of photography as art • New technologies create new demands

  13. Digital Photography • Snapshots of anything • Editing Photos • A new outlook on Photography • Is what you see really what you see? • Broadens the definition of ‘art’

  14. Photoshop Sunset

  15. Computers • Digital Editing • Digital Spaces • Photoshop • New outlet of imagination

  16. Mass Media and Communication • “Information and communication have therefore become terms of comparison with which to redefine and reinterpret the roles of all disciplines.” • Radio • Newspaper

  17. Mass Media and Communication cont. • Magazine • Post-Cards (art as communication) • Internet • Commercialization of Art • Loss of aura as art/anything as art • No longer art for arts sake

  18. What Technology Has Done • “the institutions of the art world continued to believe in – indeed to expect – breakthroughs, and the galleries, the collectors, the art magazines, the museums and finally the corporations that had become the major patrons of the age were also awaiting prophets and revelations” - Arthur Danto • Created a demand for ‘new’ art

  19. Movements and Artists

  20. Neo-Expressionism • Emerged in late 1970s; prominent until mid 1980s • Developed in Europe  reaction to conceptualism and minimalism • Heavily promoted by the media and art galleries

  21. Characteristics • Recognizable objects • Rough, violent or abstract interpretation • Vivid colors • Inspired by German expressionism Jedd Garet Curtain of Protection (1980)

  22. George Baselitz Julian Schnabel Keith Haring Jean-Michel Basquiat Francesco Clemente Prominent Neo-Expressionist Artists

  23. Julian Schnabel • Imfluences include Antoni Gaudi, Cy Twombly • Plate paintings • Schnabel said he was, "aiming at an emotional state, a state that people can literally walk into and be engulfed." • Other mediums

  24. Graffiti Art • Used to display artists tags, as well as social and political messages and sometimes advertising • Spray paint, markers or other materials • Application without authorization to public spaces • Public art? • Radical and political purposes • High art

  25. Graffiti Art

  26. Jean-Michel Basquiat • Graffiti background  SAMO tag • “The Radiant Child” by Rene Ricard • Andy Warhol • Art periods • 1980-1982 • 1982-1985 • 1986-death

  27. Jean-Michel Basquiat Prayer (1984)

  28. Keith Haring • Grafitti/pop artist • NYC subway chalk drawings • “The Radiant Baby” • Andy Warhol • The Keith Haring Foundation

  29. Francesco Clemente • Combines both surrealism and expressionism • Career in the 1970s • Career in the 1980s • Collaborations with Warhol and Basquiat

  30. Post-Modern Conceptualism

  31. Laurie Anderson “I Hate Television” A Public Service Announcement

  32. Matthew Barney Drawing Restraint 9 (trailer) The film concerns the theme of self-imposed limitation and continues Matthew Barney's interest in religious rite, this time focusing on Shinto.

  33. Matthew Barney

  34. Common Criticisms

  35. Questions Raised by Postmodernism • What is art? • What is the purpose of art? • How has the purpose changed in the face of Postmodernism?

  36. What is Art? • How do we decide what is art? • Philosophical in nature? • Representation of reality? • Consumer oriented? • Aesthetically pleasing? • What is the role of skill in art?

  37. What makes art? What makes this art and not boxes? Arthur Danto, an art critic, said, “Art is dead. Art [has] raised…the philosophical question of art.” Andy Warhol Brillo Boxes, 1964

  38. Robert Gober 1986 Playpen Commodities as art? Is using someone else’s work art? Barbra Kruger (Untitled)

  39. Consumerism • Art is now created to be sold Is this good or bad, or even true? • Danto: • The Market needed something to sell and artists needed to make a reputation

  40. The Importance of Skill “Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art,” Tom Stoddard. Rembrandt The Sacrifice of Abraham 1635 Oil on Canvas

  41. Lack of Skill? Roberto Matta Enerjeros Charcoal and pastel 1985

  42. Subjectivity of Art • Since Art is entirely subjective can it ever really be defined? • What makes a piece “good art” opposed to “bad art” • Is Rembrandt a better artist than Matta? Who is to say? • Will we ever know what art is?

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