Post-Modernism
This week's ALVC tutorial covers Post-Modernism. Use the ALVC texts and definitions from the internet to define the term and answer the following questions;
1. Define Post-Modernism using 8-10 bullet points that include short quotes.
This week's ALVC tutorial covers Post-Modernism. Use the ALVC texts and definitions from the internet to define the term and answer the following questions;
1. Define Post-Modernism using 8-10 bullet points that include short quotes.
l The word postmodernism is defined in many different ways, the term can be used in philosophy, literature, social sciences. Many people have different opinions on the meaning of postmodernism.
l This word is compos in 2 parts. “Post” is recognized as a Latin word “after” and “modernism” refers to the modern period.
l It was a movement in architecture and art. ( away from modernism )
l Postmodernism don’t attempt to refine thoughts on what’s right or wrong, true or false, good or evil. What they believed is that there aren’t any absolute truths.
l The postmodernism started in the 1975
l “It deconstructs the ideas and values of modernism to reveal what composes them and shows that such modernist ideas as equality and liberty are not natural to humankind or true to human nature but are ideals, intellectual construction” said Witcombe,C
l It is associated with relativism.
l Were claims to be the successor to the 17th century enlightenment.
2. Use a quote by Witcombe (2000) to define the Post-Modern artist.
“The post modern artist is “reflexive” in that he/ she is self aware and consciously involved in a process of thinking about him/ herself and society in a deconstructive manner, “demasking” pretensions , becoming aware of his/ her culture self in history, and acceleration the process of self-consciousness”
3. Use the grid on pages 42 and 43 to summarize the list of the features of Post-
Modernity.
The time has passed through these years, and the world is changing, in the cultural paradigms, the postmodernism are basically showing the difference between the postmodernism and the modernism. In the postmodernism world, people are explore more ways to create artwork, and discovered more new materials. In the modernism age, people counted the realistic painting as the best, but the distinction between postmodernism and modernism, people are now devising more ideas, not just painting but also many different type of art work are as good as the painting now days.
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' is a artist who does sculpture and photograph works. The 'Han Dynasty Urn with Coca-Cola logo' designed in 1994. The main idea was two ideas combined and presented as a post modernism work. The kettle is very traditionally object, in the olden days people in china are obsess with distinct kettle, and Chinese people treated this kettle as their treasure, and the artist have presented the kettle with the coca cola logo around. Coca cola was invented in the 1886, but the kettle were even earlier, we still see coca cola around these days, because the company keep producing the drinks and develop more through these years, which shows the postmodernism theory. As my own idea I think because of the logo which gives people the impression that this kettle is produce by the company.
6. Research British artist Banksy's street art, and analyze the following two works by the artist
to discuss how each work can be defined at Post-Modern.(Use your list from point 6.)
to discuss how each work can be defined at Post-Modern.(Use your list from point 6.)
Banksy does lots of political activist ,film director and painting. As my own opinion I think people called him as a postmodernism artist is because, the place where he paint his artwork is different the others, in the modernism time, people painted on the canvas, but he painted on the street wall, which makes a difference, in the era people don’t paint artwork on wall.
Another point, is that the things that these two person in the painting are holding. The first one is very unique, and second one is a Neanderthal holding MC, this brings the modern world to this painting.
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