Post Modern Art
Postmodern Art describes art forms, which both arise from and react against or reject trends in Modernism. These art forms include: Intermedia, Installation Art, (Conceptual Art), (Performance Art) and Multimedia.
Postmodern Art aims to blur the boundaries between high and low art, and to ignore genre boundaries, encouraging the mix of ideas, media and forms to promote parody, humor and irony. The use of industrial materials, pop-culture imagery, bricolage, collage and
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Post Modern Art
Postmodern Art describes art forms, which both arise from and react against or reject trends in Modernism. These art forms include: Intermedia, Installation Art, (Conceptual Art), (Performance Art) and Multimedia.
Postmodern Art aims to blur the boundaries between high and low art, and to ignore genre boundaries, encouraging the mix of ideas, media and forms to promote parody, humor and irony. The use of industrial materials, pop-culture imagery, bricolage, collage and text are often employed to achieve this expression. Intermedia and Performance art especially disband genre labels by combining disciplinary activities such as theater and painting, poetry and drawing.
Postmodern Art champions the value of individual and personal interpretations; reality only comes into being through interpretations of what the world means to the individual. Postmodern artists turn away from many aspects of Modernism including formal purity, medium specificity, art for art’s sake, authenticity, universality, originality and revolutionary or reactionary tendency. In essence, Postmodern art stems from a recognition that reality is not simply mirrored in human understanding of it, but rather, is constructed as the mind tries to understand its own particular and personal reality.
Notable Postmodern artists include: Laurie Anderson, John Baldessari, Antonio Berni, Christian Boltanski, Judy Chicago, Erro, David Hockney, Barbara Kruger, Cady Noland, Jeff Koons, Robert Longo, Bruce Nauman, Paul Rusconi, Arthur Sarkissian, Cindy Sherman, Daniel Spoerri and Fred Tomaselli. (hide)
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