Post
Modernism
of Art
Laura Boyd
Sam Irwin
Danny Paquette
Steve Romano
Modern Art
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Artists who produced
modern art tried to create
art that was "pure"
This meant the artforms
portrayed held stylistic
integrity.
The Postmodern Era
started after the 'death' of
modern art in the mid1960s
Unknown. Beautiful Pure Girl. n.d.
Transformation to
Postmodern Art
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Postmodern art attempted to stray away
from a completely pure artform.
Reacting to the modernist
view on "pure" pieces of
artwork, artists began to
create master-pieces
integrating many different
materials and styles
Entering the Postmodern
Era...
- Visual Art had many different
styles associated with it,
including Pattern Painting and
Super-Realism
- Various types of new media
began to be used
- By the late 1960s, magazines
had replaced modernistic
artworks with the new forms of
art
Reaction vs. Resistance
Hal Foster argued that
many of postmodern
artworks are either a
reaction to past art styles
that become recycled in
new forms of art. Another
type is resistance to some
sort of political issue or
other controversial topics.
Daniel Durant, Unknown. 2011
Few Characteristics of
Postmodern Art
Site-Specificity - the construction of
various environments and sites that embed
works within a defined context
Impermanence - the construction of
works from perishable items
Accumulation - making various fragments of
the construction of art, having them become
part of a series
Discursivity - allowing an interaction between the
sensuous making the silent artwork articulate and
argumentative.
Hybridisation - Using two different forms of artwork to
create singularly inclusive constructions
Postmodern
Art Styles/Trends
Some typical styles/trends of art in the
postmodern era include
– Bricolage (creation of a work from a
collection of objects)
– Collage
– Appropriation (taking pre-existing objects
or images and changing them in small
ways)
– Performance art
Tsevis, Charis. Steve Jobs for Fortune Magazine.
Photograph. Cupertino, California, US. Flickr. 5 Mar.
2008.
Collage
- First beginning in 200 BC China, it made
a reappearance in the 20th century by
Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.
- The term collage comes from the French
"coller" meaning "glue".
- A collage typically include newspaper
clippings, color scraps, parts of other
artwork, photographs, and any other
object that will fit.
Schoeller, Martin. TIME's 2010 Person of the Year
Collage Types
Photomontage is when an
artist takes parts of different
photos and combine them into
one.
Decoupage (craft) is the
process of placing a picture
into an object for
decoration.
Left to Right:
Matisse, Henri. Blue Nude II. 1952.
Photograph. Pompidou Centre, Paris.
Bearden, Romare. The Calabash.
1970. Photograph. Library of Congress
Richard Hamilton: 1956
Just what is it that makes today's
homes so different, so appealing?
Jamie Reid:1977 "God Save the Queen"
From top left clockwise:
Tom Wesselmann: 1962
Still Life #20
Hamilton, Richard. Ust What Is It That
Makes Today's Homes so Different, so
Appealing? 1956. Photograph.
Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen,
Germany.
Reid, Jamie. God Save the Queen.
1977. Album Cover Art. N.p.
Wesselmann, Tom. Still Life #20.
1962. Photograph. Albright-Knox Art
Gallery, Buffalo, New York.
Bricolage
• This art is created with either
mass produced material or
“junk” items to make a three
or two dimensional work.
• This can also refer to the
theatrical form of
improvisation (Improv).
• Frank Vagnone
Vagone, Frank. Photograph. Crane Art Center, Philadelphia, PA.
Wikipedia. 2 June 2011. Web. 29 Mar. 2013.
Kurt Schwitters
The Merzbau
1933
From Left to Right:
Redemann, Wilhelm. Merzbau. 1933.
Photograph. The Sprengel Museum in
Hannover, Hannover, Germany.
Tenenblatt, Lenore. 2007.
Photograph
Color Photography
-William Eggleston (1939-Present)
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Before William, photography was a large art style but only black and
white photos were an accepted form of photography.
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Eggleston's work was called "common" and "pedestrian" by the art
world.
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His work eventually made color photography accepted as an art
form.
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His work is now seen around the world and featured on many
different album covers.
The Morals of Vision: 1978
Plains of Georgia
Memphis: 1968
Featured on cover of Jimmy Eat
World album Bleed American
Greenwood,
Mississippi: 1973
aka: The Red Ceiling
Featured on cover of
Big Bang album Radio
City
From top left clockwise:
Eggleston, William. The Morals
of Vision. 1978. Photograph.
Eggleston, William. Memphis.
1968. Photograph.
Eggleston, William. Greenwood,
Mississippi.1973 Photograph.
Greenwood, Mississippi
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Born August 6, 1928
He went to college at
Carnegie Institute of
Technology from 1945-1949
Started in commercial art
Pop paintings based on adds
and comics
Then he moved into making
movies, sculptures, writing
books and magazines
He died February 1987
from top to bottom
Andy Warhol, Self-Portrait, 1986
Andy Warhol, Self-Portrait, 1962
From top left clockwise
Andy Warhol, Marilyn Diptych,
1962
Andy Warhol, The Death and
Disaster Series, 1962-1963
Andy Warhol, Campbell’s
Soup Can, 1962
Andy Warhol, Brillo Boxes,
1970
Peter Max
- Born in 1937, he moved all
around the World as a child
- he studied at several art
schools in New York city
- He caused a real
transformation of art in the
60's
- He has painted for six
presidents, paints the statue
of liberty every year, super
bowl artiest, 2006 olympic
artist even painted airplanes
from top to
bottom
Peter Max, SelfPortrait, 1988
Peter Max, SelfPortrait, 2002
top left clockwise
Peter Max, Liberty Head,
2004
Peter Max, Yellow
Submarine, 1968
Peter Max, Obama, 2009
Peter Max, Continental
Airlines Boeing 777-200ER,
2004
Obey (Shepard Fairey)
Shepard Fairey, Obey
Collection, 2008
Mathematics of art:
Pre Postmodernism
De Vinci, Leonardo. Vitruvian Man. 1490
Mathematics of Art:
Post Modernism
i.
Max Bill (1908-1994)
ii. Sol LeWitt (1928-2007)
iii. Anthony Hill (1930 – Present)
iv. Francois Morellet (1926 – Present)
v.
Paul Nylander (Present)
Constructivism
Definition:
A style or movement in which assorted mechanical
objects are combined into abstract mobile structural
forms. The movement originated in Russia in the
1920s and has influenced many aspects of modern
architecture and design.
- American Oxford Dictionary
Max Bill - 1965
Field of Thirty-Two
Parts in Four Colors:
This is an oil canvas
painting created by
Max Bill in 1965
Bill, Max. Field of Thirty-Two Parts in
Four Colors. 1965
Sol LeWitt (1977/1994)
Wall Drawing #766
(Below)
LeWitt, Sol. Wall Drawing #305. 1977.
Wall Drawing #305
(Above)
LeWitt, Sol. Wall Drawing #766. 1994.
Anthony Hill (1958)
Holt, Michael.
Mathematics of Art.
Page 69 - 71.
Francois Morellet (1976)
Points with a Space:
Morellet, Francois. Unknown. n.d.
Morellet, Francois. Points with a Space. 1976.
Animation:
Kemen, Maria. Unknown. n. d.
Paul Nylander (2008)
Polynomial Roots:
Nylander, Paul. Polynomial Roots. 2008.
"This picture shows
all the roots for all
possible
combinations of
18th order
polynomials with
coefficients of plus
or minus one."
Kim Levin on
Postmodern Art
"Post-modernism is impure. It knows about shortages. It knows
about inflation and devaluation. It is aware of the increased cost
of objects. And so it quotes, scavenges, ransacks, recycles the
past. It is style-free and free-style. Playful and full of doubt, it
denies nothing. Tolerant of ambiguity, contradiction, complexity,
incoherence, it is eccentrically inclusive. It mimics life, accepts
awkwardness and crudity, takes an amateur stance. Structured
by time rather than form, concerned with context instead of
style, it uses memory, research confession, fiction - with irony
whimsy and disbelief. Subjective and intimate, it blurs the
boundaries between the world and self. It is about identity and
behaviour."
- Levin, Beyond Modernism: Essays on Art From the
'70s and '80s
Questions
Bibliography
Images
Andy Warhol, Self-Portrait, 1986.
Andy Warhol, Self-Portrait, 1962.
Andy Warhol, Campbell’s Soup Can, 1962.
Andy Warhol, Marilyn Diptych, 1962.
Andy Warhol, Brillo Boxes, 1970.
Andy Warhol, The Death and Disaster Series, 1962-1963.
Peter Max, Self-Portrait, 1988.
Peter Max, Self-Portrait, 2002.
Peter Max, Liberty Head, 2004.
Peter Max, Yellow Submarine, 1968.
Peter Max, Obama, 2009
Peter Max, Continental Airlines Boeing 777-200ER, 2004.
Shepard Fairey, Girl with Grenade, 2007.
Shepard Fairey, Obey Collection, 2008
Websites
"Andy Warhol Biography." Warhol: Biography. The Warhol, 2013. Web. 02 Apr. 2013.
"Museum Of The Street Art: Obey." Museum Of The Street Art: Obey. N.p., 03 Apr. 2011. Web. 02 Apr. 2013.
"Peter Max-Biography." Peter Max-Biography. American Fine Arts Editions, Inc, 2008. Web. 02 Apr. 2013.
Bibliography
Images
Bill, Max. Field of Thirty-Two Parts in Four Colors. 1965
De Vinci, Leonardo. Vitruvian Man. 1490.
Hill, Anthony. Constructional Relief. 1958-1960.
LeWitt, Sol. Wall Drawing #305. 1977.
LeWitt, Sol. Wall Drawing #766. 1994.
Morellet, Francois. Unknown. n.d.
Nylander, Paul. Polynomial Roots. 2008.
De Vinci, Leonardo. Vitruvian Man. 1490.
Websites
"Anthony Hill (artist)." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 17 Mar. 2013. Web. 02 Apr. 2013.
"Biography." François Morellet. N.p., n.d. Web. 02 Apr. 2013.
Ehrlich, Eugene. Oxford American Dictionary. New York: Oxford UP, 1980. Print.
"Leonardo Da Vinci." Leonardo Summary. N.p., n.d. Web. 02 Apr. 2013.
"Max Bill." - Mashpedia, the Real-Time Encyclopedia. Mashpedia, n.d. Web. 02 Apr. 2013.
Nylander, Paul. " ." Paul Nylander. N.p., n.d. Web. 02 Apr. 2013.
"Sol LeWitt Facts, Information, Pictures." Encyclopedia.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 2 Apr. 2013.
Bibliography
Images
Bearden, Romare. The Calabash. 1970. Photograph. Library of Congress
Eggleston, William. Greenwood, Mississippi.1973 Photograph. Greenwood, Mississippi
Eggleston, William. Memphis. 1968. Photograph.
Eggleston, William. The Morals of Vision. 1978. Photograph.
Hamilton, Richard. Ust What Is It That Makes Today's Homes so Different, so Appealing? 1956. Photograph. Kunsthalle Tübingen,
Tübingen, Germany.
Matisse, Henri. Blue Nude II. 1952. Photograph. Pompidou Centre, Paris.
Redemann, Wilhelm. Merzbau. 1933. Photograph. The Sprengel Museum in Hannover, Hannover, Germany.
Reid, Jamie. God Save the Queen. 1977. Album Cover Art. N.p.
Schoeller, Martin. TIME's 2010 Person of the Year
Tsevis, Charis. Steve Jobs for Fortune Magazine. 2008. Photograph. Cupertino, California, US. Flickr. Yahoo!, 5 Mar. 2008. Web. 28 Mar.
2013.
Vagone, Frank. Photograph. Crane Art Center, Philadelphia, PA. Wikipedia. 2 June 2011. Web. 29 Mar. 2013.
Wesselmann, Tom. Still Life #20. 1962. Photograph. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York.
Book
Woods, Tim. Beginning Postmodernism. Second Edition. Manchester, UK: Manchester
University Press, 2009. Print.
Bibliography
Warhol, Andy. Marilyn Monroe. Digital image. Saatchi_gallery : Happy Birthday to Marilyn Monroe Born Today in 1926. Here She
Is in Warhol's Work Made Shortly after Her Death in 1962. Http://t.co/D41Z5hii. Searchles, Inc., n.d. Web. 02 Apr. 2013.
Durant, Daniel. An Exploration into Postmodern Resistance. Digital image. An Exploration into Postmodern Resistance. N.p., 5
Nov. 2012. Web. 02 Apr. 2013.
April Greiman with Jayme Odgers, Wet magazine cover, 1979. Source: Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Woods, Tim. Beginning Postmodernism. Second Edition. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2009. Print.
Beuys, Joseph. Fat Chair. 1964. National Galleries of Scotland, Scotland.