Modern Art (Post Modernism/Exam#3)

Post Modernism, Post-Truth,

Characteristics of Post-Modernism

• Uncertainty

• Lack of consensus/agreement

  • competing for attention

Philip Johnson (artwork)

‘AT&T Building’

Types of Arts

1) Fine

2) Applied

3) Commercial/Mass

Post-truth

‘truth’ becomes based less on facts, more on emotion or personal beliefs

3 Themes of Post-Modernism

• Originals vs. Copies (copies become a form of originality)

• Major vs. Minor events

• Truth vs. Post-truth

(contradictory/confusing)

Jean Baudrillard

• Simulacra (Simulation)

  • Manifestation (idea before it even exists)

• Representation first, lived reality becomes 2nd

Richard Prince

• social science fiction

  • Artwork of three men looking in the same direction

  • patterns, stereotypes, social ‘cliche’

Jeff Koons

Ballon Dog (Orange balloon dog)

Pastiche

Copying Artwork just to copy

(purpose → just to copy, or referencing → just to reference)