Post modernism (by David)

Post modernism was an art movement that emerged in the late twentieths century, around 1976 and up. It was made in retaliation of the “Modernist preoccupation with purity of form and technique”. The movement strove to ignore the boundaries between different genres and embrace new ideas, forms and medias to promote comedy and irony. The movement was not limited to art but also effected architecture music, writing and film. Many groups of diverse artist emerged from post modernism. Gerhard Richter and Sherrie Levine were successful artist during the 1970s-80s while Michael Graves and Robert Venturi were pioneers in architecture. Others include novelists David Lode and Thomas Pynchon.

Postmondernism (Sean)

The term "postmodernism" is a term that is used when one is speaking about art that has come after the modernist movement. Installation art, multimedia, and conceptual art are all thought of as being postmodern art. Contemporary art is used to describe art since the 1950's, but not all postmodern art is contemporary; even some artists who still work in the modern or late-modern styles are considered to be postmodernists now. The term in and of itself is difficult to pin-down with definition. It can be said, however, that postmodern art is art that has arisen out of and/or rejects ideas in modernism.






Cai Guo-Qiang

PostModernism by (Dani)

Post Modernism is art, architecture, music, film, sociology, fashion, communications, technology or literature that goes against the modern principles by using techniques before like traditional or classical elements of style. It is a set of ideas that rebel against Modernism and the styles that go with Modernism. It is a difficult era to define because there is no specific time it started or ended if it even has ended.

Awesome Hands Artist Unknown

Untitled by Artist Unknown

The Hearst Tower in Manhattan

postmodernism (what I found) - abi

Postmodernism is best known as "20th century art." As opposed to the modernist movement where all historical influence is ignored, postmodernist embrace a lot of styles of historical art and apply them to modern forms. They created a whole new spin on art by using different forms such as video, intermedia, installation, and multimedia. Some examples of postmodern artists I found are Gerhard Ritcher:
Lawrence Weiner:
and Stelarc (performance art)

Neo-Expressionism ( by David)

Neo-Expressionism was an art movement that emerged in the nineteen-seventies and lasted well through the eighties. It was made in retaliation to minimalism and conceptual art. Young painters sick of the highly abstract art of the seventies brought back more traditional methods of painting such as easal painting. The painting style was intense and harsh, most of the time they were distorted figures or other recognizable objects but often overwhelmed by surface activity, most works had a very intense, erotic or violent appearance.

Neo-Expressionism was very popular in Europe and the US during the early to mid-eighties. Through out its course the style took on many different names including Punk art and new fauvism in America, Transavantgarde ( beyond the avant-garde) in Italy and Neue Wilden (new wild ones) in Germany.

Pablo Picasso's later works greatly influence Neo-Expressionism with his hurried visible brush work and distorted sexual figures. The new style also used ancient mythology, historic depictions and even novel covers as sources for their work.

German painters, Georg Baseline and Anselm Kiefer are considered the greatest contributers to Neo-Expressionism followed closely by Julian Schnabel, a very successful American painter. Other notable artist include Jean-Michel Basquiat, Arnold Mesches and Susan Rothenbuerg.


Georg Baseline

Anselm Kiefer

Julian Schnabel

Pop n' Op

Pop Art

Pop art was a movement that started in the 1950's. It started in Britain and moved to the United States. Pop art in the U.S was made up of popular cultural images and revolved around the ideas of consumerism and mass production. It related to the viewer much more than previous art movements had such as abstract expressionism art had because Pop art used imagery that the audience was very familiar with and saw on a day-to-day basis. Pop art can also be seen in graphic novels and comic books. Some of the artists that made Pop art were Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol. Pop art is relevant because it asks us to make the distinction between fine art and commercial art.

Op Art
Op art or optical art is an art movement that makes use of optical illusions. It is commonly referred to as geometric abstraction or hard-edge abstraction. It was first coined Op art in 1964 when Times Magazine labeled it in an article. Victor Vasarely was thought to have pioneered Op art with his painting Zebras. M.C Escher is another artist who is sometimes considered an Op artist. I personally believe that Op art came about in the U.S largely due to the mass amounts of psychedelics being ingested during the 1960's and 1970's. Does anyone else think that?

Maya Lin (By: Heidi G.)

Maya Lin was born in Athens, Ohio in 1959. Lin's father was a ceramist and the former dean at the Ohio College of Fine Arts. Her mother was a former professor at Ohio University. Maya Lin's aunt is Lin Huiyin who is said to be the first woman architect in China. Lin did a lot of studying at Yale University and Yale conferred upon Lin an Honorary Doctorate Degree in Fine Arts. At age 21 Lin won a public design competition for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. The memorial is v-shaped with one end pointing to the Lincoln Memorial and the other pointing to the Washington Monument. Lin's main goal in designing the monument was to create an opening or wound to symbolize the gravity of the loss of American soldiers to the Vietnam War. When making her architectural structures Lin wants to include the individual within the landscape she is creating. Maya Lin gets inspiration for her projects from many different diverse cultures. She finds great interest in Hopewell Indian earthen mounds, Japanese Gardens, and from American earthwork artists form the 1960's and 1970's. Ohio University commissioned Lin to make a punch card park, a park that the University actually wanted to resemble a punch card. The park at first was criticized because it seemed uninviting to most. It was an open park with mounds that lacked trees to shade students who would study in the park. Since the creation of the park some trees have been planted but from an aerial view the park still resembles a punch card. Maya Lin is one of the most well achieved woman architects and sculptors in America today. Lin now lives and makes art in New York and Colorado.
(www.pbs.org/art21)
(www.gagosian.com)

Minimalism (by Dani)

Minimalism is a movement that started in the 1950s and continued on through the 70s. The style of minimalism is to be very simple with little variation of colors, shapes and lines. The aim of this movement was to allow a viewer to experience the pieces of work more intensely and vigorously without distractions of the composition. The artist wanted no personal attributes displayed in their work. Is sometimes considered ABC art. Minimalism is considered very successful and has been influential to the developement of art in the 20th century.

Francois Morellet

Ellsworth Kelly

Ellsworth Kelly

Dan Flavin

Referenses

www.artlex.com

www.artmovements.co.uk/minimalism.htm