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.