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Postmodernism and Contemporary Art (Picture Generations (Guerilla Girls:…
Postmodernism and Contemporary Art
Feminist Art
Explore how women are presented through the media and art
Yayoi Kusama, Naked Eve, New York Stock Exchange, 1968
Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party, 1974-1979
Many women felt it was too polite
Picture Generations
Critical analysis of the media
Originality is no longer possible
Work with second hand images and create new art from them
Picture generation refers to the large amount of art created until this moment
Interest in photography = pictures can only represent true reality
Guerilla Girls: Do women have to be naked to get into the met museum? 1989
Stand up for female artists and those of colour
Started poster campaigns for museums as they felt they were responsible for the lack of female artists
Combine humour with bold graphics
Engage in social and political events + the past = interested in postmodern thinking/philospohy
Cindy Sherman:
Reenacts scenes from B listed movies
Series of photographs
Schizophrenia= the Id that women have multiple identities they have to play within one role e.g cleaning, cooking, careers
Graffiti Art
Originated in New York
Range from bright graphic style to monochrome texts
Pre concerned with the same ID's as picture generation
Banksy
Keith Harring
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Neo Pop Art
Artists influenced by Pop Art
Damien Hirst
: The Golden Calf
The ambiguous relationship between art and money
Installations are a combination of different elements which do not necessarily fit together (postmodernism technique)
Makes the viewer question why it is art
Focused on:
Race
Sexuality
Violence
Tenderness
Architecture: International Style (Modernism)
Functionalism: Form follows function
Rectilinear and Clean
No decoration
No organic Shapes
No reference to architectural tradition
Architecture: Post Modernism Style
Leaves behind functionality and minimalism
Leaves behind features of ~International Style
Eclectic Style
The experience of the building = Central, reality as a simulation
Combines the past using irony
Music
Beginning of 20th Century Classical music went through an experimental stage
Atonality
Minimalism
Looks for a mix between classical music and and other genres popular among society
What the audience wants is of importance again
Blurred lines between high and low art
Stylistic impurity
Mixing music e.g Jazz, Indian, Pop = Use the form of music NOT the context