Post-Modernism and 20th Century Art

Adolf Hitler

The second most destructive person in the art. He hated Dada and the new movements of art, calling them ‘degenerate art’. So he set up an exhibit of the art, only to destroy them with spray paint and hammering them.

Tachisme (Art Informal)

Art that returns to the meaning and feeling found in abstraction, as a direct response to the Fascism and Nazism that hated abstraction.​

Rene Magritte,The Treachery of Images

The work explores the relationship between the representation and the meaning. It highlights the absurdity of paintings expressing realism, provoking emotions feelings of emotion which could be used as propaganda. 

This image resemble’s a pipe. But the text says its not a pipe in french. Context applys the idea while it looks like a pipe, it cannot be used like one.

Abstract Expressionism

A quite contentious movement emerging from the New York School of Art. Some people under this group is Jackson Pollock, Barnet Newman, Mark Rothko, and Joan Mitchel.

United States and The Museum of Modern Art

What came after the world war was the cold war, in which there was a fight between ideologies of  Communist vs Capitalism. With many propaganda set by the USSR that have turn countries in europe to communism, The US has called to many artist to create something uniquely american; something thing that expresses freedom, which made Abstract Expressionism the ideal art for this propaganda.

Action Painting

Made famous by Jackson Pollock, a technique used by splattering paint over the canvas. It’s a very liberating process which expresses the idea of freedom within art. Though it should be noted that this taken from a Navajo sand-painting

Navajo Sand Painting

A type of art expressed by Indigenous people. Usually made in home that is used like a talisman for someone sick, The artist would create pieces of art in sand and destroy them by tossing the sand around.

Happenings

Scripted events that happen over a predetermined time, and often use the body in the real world to create the event​

Pop Art

A movement that challenged the traditions of fine art by including imagery of popular and mass culture​

Conceptual Art

Art for which the idea (or concept) behind the work is more important than the finished art object

Postmodernism

emmerged in the 1970s and the 1980s, which was provoked by a decade of political and social turmoil. It aims to reconnect art to social context. Its uses many artistic practices.

Its key themes are fragmentation, cynicism, skepticism and irony. Using Pastiche and Bricolage

Feminist Art

Art that emerges in the context of the Women’s Liberation Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and challenged the dominance of men.​ 

They usually explore the themes beauty standard, the stereotype they face against, and the fragmented perception of themselves

Pastiche

a style of plagiarizing, quoting, and borrowing from a mix of previous styles with no reference to history or a sense of rules​

Bricolage

creating something from a diverse range of available things​