The Period in which we now live in is known as the 'Post-Modern'era.
"Postmodernism respects ‘process’ and ‘becoming,’ preferring openness, transparency, and the unbounded." (Witcombe, 2001)
"Postmodernists do not attempt to refine their thoughts about what is right or wrong, true or false, good or evil." (‘Postmodernism –What is Truth?” 2002-11)
Postmodernism can be broken down into the terms post and modernism meaning after the modern period. (Saugstad, 2001)
It is a “rejection of the tenets of modernism; that is to say, a rejection of the doctrine of the supremacy of reason, the notion of truth, the belief in the perfectibility of man and the idea that he could be better, if not perfect in society.” (Witcombe, 2000)
"Postmodernism partakes of certainty, insecurity, doubt and accepts ambiguity." (witcombe, 2001)
"The period in which we now live is often called "postmodernism" (Saugstad, 2001)
"Postmodernism will appear similar to what is also called ‘New Age’ thinking." (Witcombe, 2001
"Postmodernism "seeks to revise Modernism’s premises and traditional concepts" (Witcombe, 2001)
2. Use a quote by Witcombe (2000) to define the Post-Modern artist.
“the post-modern artist is ‘reflective ‘ in that he/she is self-aware and consciously involved in a process of thinking about him/herself and society in a deconstructive manner, ‘damasking’ pretensions, becoming aware of his/her cultural self in history, and accelerating the process of self-consciousness.”
3. Use the grid on pages 42 and 43 to summarize the list of the features of Post-
Modernity.
Looking at the grid, I find that there isnt just one category that gives answers to what post modernity is, I think that there is a vast range of concepts or features . Post-modernity concepts/features seem to have come out of the idea's based around Modernism . The Artists looked to have focused on the experimenting and play on images . Adapting to new technologies . Anyways, Hyper-reality represents power over the 'real' and which can be explored in different ways of media, thought and art . Anything can be considered as art, because of the new concepts or movements that arised from the modernism/ post modernity period.
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 (born 18 May 1957) is a Chinese artist and political activist, who is also active in architecture, curating, photography, film, and social and cultural criticism.[1][2] Ai collaborated with Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron as the artistic consultant on the Beijing National Stadium for the 2008 Olympics.[3] As a political activist, he has been highly and openly critical of the Chinese Government's stance on democracy and human rights. He has investigated government corruption and cover-ups, in particular the Sichuan schools corruption scandal following the collapse of so-called "tofu-skin schools" in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.[4] In 2011, following his arrest at Beijing airport on 3 April, he was held for over two months without any official charges being filed; officials alluded to their allegations of "economic crimes" (tax evasion).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Weiwei
'Han Dynasty Urn with Coca-Cola logo'(1994), Ai Weiwei
Ai Weiwei, Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn, 1995
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.)
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| 'Flower Riot', Banksy |
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| Los Angeles (2008), Banksy |
Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, film director and painter.His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine irreverent dark humour with graffiti done in a distinctive stencilling technique. Such artistic works of political and social commentary have been featured on streets, walls, and bridges of cities throughout the world.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BanksyBanksy is known as an 'undergoround' artist, meaning most of his stenciled, print, airbrush, propaganda artwork was displayed on the streets of bristol. Most of his work included Grafitti. One of his works, "Flower riot" shows his ability in working well with stencils and colour. His ideas though are the more fascinating area. In this work, the subject looks dangerous, associated with crime and violence. created in a throwing stance, almost as if he's ready to throw a brick, molotov, possibly a grenade. Instead banksy has omitted that image from the work and our minds and has replaced it with a bunch of colorful flowers. This is an example of experimenting and playing around with images, that emphasise the philosophical movement, "Post-Modernity". Banksy's work clearly displays features of the Post-Modern era.
The work , "Los Angeles - 2008" is similar to Ai Weiwei's Coca-Cola urn. Bringing takeways to the artwork.It is a mixture of the past and present, displaying a form of history, evolution, how food has evolved very fast and humans are getting there or showing the different media that is present in our lives today.
REFERENCES LIST:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Weiwei
http://www.aiweiwei.com/
http://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2011/05/ai-weiwei.html
https://gordonlyew.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/the-release-of-chinese-human-rights-activists-is-not-good-enough/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksy
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