Modernism

Postmodern

Patricia Johnston

Modernist Concepts

1. Artwork that has been designed utilizing the elements and principals of design.

2. Artwork that uses various mediums, paintings, linocuts, prints, etchings and photographs.

3. An artwork created that reflects an era of experimentation, innovation, invention and increasing social and technological change.

4. Sense of clear boundaries

5. Has hierarchy, order and centralized control.

6. Art as unique object and finished work authenticated by artist and validated by agreed upon standards.

Postmodern Art Concepts1. Art as Cultural Production Reflections of cultural conditions Cultural critiques Cultural symbols2. Temporal and Spatial Flux (time and space) Environmentalism Pastiche (work that imitates the style of pervious work) Eclecticism (selecting or composed of elements drawn form various sources, methods or styles) Recycling and transformation3. A concern of Otherness Issues of power/knowledge Pluralism Popular culture Questioning “good” aesthetics and “good design

Postmodern Art Concepts

4. Acceptance of Conceptual Conflict

Fragmentation

Dissonant beauty

Collage

Deconstruction

5. Multiples “Readings”

Visual/textual interpretation

Issues of representation

Attached meanings

Double-coding

Source

MCA Collection Teacher Resource Book Third Edition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago 2003