Presented by:
Ashdeep Singh
Agnes Jaise
Origins of Postmodernism
Origins of Postmodernism,
cont.
Another
Jean
Toynbee
Baudrillard
Arnold Toynbee
Jean Baudrillard
Deconstruction
One
Aspects of
Photography
Digital
Photography
Computers
Mass Media and Communication
What Technology Has Done
Photography
George Eastman
George Eastman
Kodak
Mass Production
Brings Cameras into
everyday use
Everyones a Photographer?
Eastman
Digital Photography
Snapshots of anything
Editing Photos
A new outlook on
Photography
Is what you see really
what you see?
Broadens the definition
of art
Photoshop Sunset
Computers
Digital Editing
Digital Spaces
Photoshop
New outlet of
imagination
Radio
Newspaper
(art as communication)
Internet
Commercialization
of Art
Loss of aura as art/anything as art
No longer art for arts sake
Movements and
Artists
Neo-Expressionism
Emerged
1980s
Developed in Europe reaction to
conceptualism and minimalism
Heavily promoted by the media and art
galleries
Characteristics
Recognizable objects
Rough, violent or
abstract interpretation
Vivid colors
Inspired by German
expressionism
Jedd Garet
Curtain of Protection (1980)
Prominent Neo-Expressionist
Artists
George Baselitz
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Julian Schnabel
Francesco Clemente
Keith Haring
Julian Schnabel
Imfluences include
Antoni Gaudi, Cy
Twombly
Plate paintings
Schnabel said he was,
"aiming at an emotional
state, a state that
people can literally walk
into and be engulfed."
Other mediums
Graffiti Art
Graffiti Art
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Graffiti background
SAMO tag
The Radiant Child by
Rene Ricard
Andy Warhol
Art periods
1980-1982
1982-1985
1986-death
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Prayer (1984)
Keith Haring
Grafitti/pop artist
NYC subway chalk
drawings
The Radiant Baby
Andy Warhol
The Keith Haring
Foundation
Francesco Clemente
Combines both
surrealism and
expressionism
Career in the 1970s
Career in the 1980s
Collaborations with
Warhol and Basquiat
Post-Modern Conceptualism
Laurie Anderson
I Hate Television
A
Public Service
Announcement
Matthew Barney
Drawing Restraint 9
(trailer)
The film concerns the theme of self-imposed limitation and continues Matthew Barney's
interest in religious rite, this time focusing on Shinto.
Matthew Barney
Common Criticisms
Questions Raised by
Postmodernism
What
is art?
What
How
What is Art?
How
Andy Warhol
Brillo Boxes, 1964
Robert Gober
1986
Playpen
Commodities as art?
Consumerism
Art
Danto:
Rembrandt
The Sacrifice of Abraham
1635
Oil on Canvas
Lack of Skill?
Roberto Matta
Enerjeros
Charcoal and pastel
1985
Subjectivity of Art
Since