Post Modernism lecture 9/17/10

It's hard to come up with a summary of this lecture, mostly because it is just relaying facts about what went on in history.

I'm going to start from the sort of middle about Modernism before going into Post Modernism.

MODERNISM
Modernism was a huge shock of new styles in art and progressed rapidly, started in 1979
 -transgressive:opposition to mainstream society
It was a rejection of the past; decline of what was ordinary. Artists started painting everyday life and focusing on color.

Art became progressive as ideas changed and wasn't focused on expressing emotion.

Post Modernism and Post Impressionism
 "Art consists of inventing, not copying" -Ferdinand Leger

-pluralism of viewpoints

-shifted from dialogue taking place in person to a mediated dialogue through art forms

 

Basically the journey through Modernism and Post Modernism is all about change obviously and bringing in the new world through a new vision.