-Earlier modernist principles
- Postmodernism is a philosophical movement away from the viewpoint of modernism.
-"Postmodernism" is not easy to define.
-The term is used in philosophy, literature, social sciences and architecture.
-"Postmodernism" is composed by two parts "post"and "modernism". Post means "after" and modernism means "refers to the modern period.
-Modernism refers to a certain period of western cultural, artistic and sociological history.
-Postmodernism is wide-ranging term which is applied to literature, art, philosophy, architecture, fiction, and cultural and literary criticism, among others.
-The fundamental reason for the center of attention in meetings and ideological trend is implied.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism
ALVE Book P.21
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/postmodernism
2. Use a quote by Witcombe (2000) to define the Post-Modern artist.
-"modernism, in a form identified as ‘secular humanism,’ has been attacked by the so?called ‘religious right’ whose conservative ideology has seriously undermined the very constitutional foundations of the whole American modernist experiment. Fundamentalism in nearly all of the world’s major organized religions ? Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism ? has risen sharply in recent years in direct opposition to modernism."
3. Use the grid on pages 42 and 43 to summarize the list of the features of Post-Modernity.
- Art and Design was very hugely influenced by the postmodernity and shift form arts and viewers. And art and designs are getting more interesting by Hyper-realiy. It seems more powerful than the "real", images with no texts with no prior "original". Also they make things looks very realistic. They uses more interested in exploring with new materials and methods to creates their art works.
4. Use this summary to answer the next two questions.
5. Research Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's 'Han Dynasty Urn with Coca-Cola logo'(1994)
in order to say what features of the work are Post-Modern.
- Ai Weiwei was born in 18 May 1957. He is a Chinese artist and political activist who are active in architecture, curating, photography, film and social and cultural critism. The work Ai Weiwei's 'Han Dynasty Urn with Coca-Cola logo'(1994)
he printed the "Coca Cola" logo in his pot by hand. It is hand printed. This works shows us that it is a mordernist feature. By combines two different ideas on his work like a work showing below, we can see this artist is an modernist artist who mixed and combines the different ideas to present the post mordernism.
'Han Dynasty Urn with Coca-Cola logo'(1994), Ai Weiwei
Ai Weiwei dropping a Han Dynast Urn.to discuss how each work can be defined at Post-Modern.(Use your list from point 6.)
-The street artist Banksy is a England graffiti street artist. He was born in 1974 and raised in Bristol England. This artist is famouse to some people and very new to other people. Because his works are quite unique and works on street walls.
Banksy is political activist like a "Ai Weiwei", film directer andn painter. The work "Flowe Riot" shows the idea of Post mordernism by throwing the beautiful flowers instead of others like glass bottles, blocks..etc harmful and damaging metarials.
Also he operates post-mordernism act in itself by rejecting the mordern ways in his works.
'Flower Riot', Banksy
Los Angeles (2008), Banksyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksy
http://banksystreetart.tumblr.com/
http://www.artofthestate.co.uk/banksy/banksy.htm
I agree with how you said art and design is higly inflienced by post modernity and how you said many works seem hyper-real and how it seems alot more attractive then the actual item/thing. How artists use something to represent something instead of the real thing seems to be a trend through art. Like you stated new methods and materials are being used to expand the life span of art.
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