Post-Modern art

What The Post-Modern Frame

“Rejection of the Modernist movement”

The post-modern movement was in its peak during the mid 20th century.

Post-modern art is a reaction the the art and culture from the era before it.(Modernism) This movement ranges in ideas, challenging and rejecting traditional art, ideas and values. Post-modern art often mimics other art or uses it in an artwork to create or reinforce a new idea.

- This includes the rejection of “high culture” and beginning of mass producing everyday objects as art.

- This is seen in Andy Warhols Campbell soup cans (1962)

THE POST-MODERN FRAME

The post-modern frame is a tool that helps provide context and meaning to a post-modern painting.

This frame looks at how an artwork is a reaction to previous cultural ideas.

Important key words for this frame are -

• Appropriation, Non-traditional, Pop culture, Mass media, Irony, parody, intertextuality.

Important questions to ask when answering questions on this frame are -

• What is this artist challenging?
• How does this art reflect cultural ideas?
• What intertextual references are informing context? What is this saying to the art?
• What role does the audience play when interpreting the artwork?
• What voices or perspective are being included/excluded

Key art movements and are-

Pop Art

Pop art focuses on the mass production of everyday objects, popular culture and celebrity consumerism.

Popart is:

• Bold
• Repetitive
• “Simple” everyday objects
• Colourful

Pop art challenges the distinction between “high art” and “low culture”. As well as Artistic Authorship, challenging the traditional concept of one sole creator of an artwork. Pop art lets artists express their work outside of galleries and museums.

Colour Field

Colourfield is an abstract style that focuses on large areas of solid colour.

Colourfeild is:

• Flat
• Uniform
• Minimal

Colourfeild artists aim to evoke emotional responses through colour and challenge traditional ideas on emphasising subject matter, instead prioritising colour and emotional response.

Neo-Expressionism

Neo-expressionism is characterised by its intense emotional art making.

Neo-expressionism is:

• Bold and colourful
• Rough and aggressive
• Full
• Contrasting

Neo-expressionism challenges minimal art and revives subjectivity and expression and rejects the idea that art should be detached from personal emotions and experiences.

Performance art

Performance art combines elements of theatre, visual art and live action. Performance art encompasses a wide range of activities like body movements, gestures, spoken word, music and audience participation.

Performance art:

• is Live or on video
• Uses body movements and gestures.

Performance art challenges traditional forms of art like paintings in a museum by creating and presenting an artwork through a performance.

Environmental art

Environmental art is a practice of art that uses the natural environment to create art. Artworks are made using natural materials found in the environment.

Environmental art:

• Addresses environmental issues
• Site-Specific
• Sculptural
• Natural

Environmental art aims to explore the relationship between humans and the environment. Environmental art challenges materialism and over-consumerism and raises the audiences awareness of environmental issues.