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Define the Modern Art Movement:
The post modern art movement occurred approximately from the 1860s to the 1970s. While the industrial revolution began in the second part of the 1800s, new art styles and movements appeared reflecting the growing changes in society. Some of the modern art movements that emerged were Impressionism, Expressionism, Fauvism, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Cubism, Surrealism, Pop-Art, OP-Art, and Abstract art.The ideas that led to modern art can be traced back to the 17th and 18th centuries during the Enlightenment. A controversial aspect of the modern movement was its rejection of tradition. Modernism stresses freedom of expression, experimentation, radicalism, while primitivism disregards conventional expectations. An important modern art critic was Clement Greenberg, who named Immanuel Kant "the first real Modernist." Greenberg (1909-1994) was known for promoting the abstract expressionist movement and was one of the first to praise the work of painter Jackson Pollock. One of the most prominent critics of abstract expressionism was New York Times art critic John Canaday, who started his career at the Times in 1959. Important artists of the modern art movement are Pablo Picasso, Henry Moore, Salvador Dali, Henri Matisse, and Jackson Pollock.
Henri Matisse, The Red Studio (1911)
Jackson Pollock, One: No 31 (1950)
Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907)
Henry Moore, Reclining Figure (1929)
Marcel Duchamp, Fountain (1917)
Define the Post Modern Art Movement:
The shift from modern to post modern may have possibly started in Europe in 1914, and in the 1960s in the United States. Postmodernism describes movements that can arise from, react against, or reject aspects of modernism. By rejecting sovereign autonomous individuals, it puts an emphasis upon an anarchic collective and anonymous experience. Collage, diversity, the mystically unrepresentable, Dionysian passion are the focus of attention. There is also the dissolution of distinctions by the merging of subject and object, and the self and other. Critics include Jean Baudrillard, Helene Cixous who wrote "The Laugh of the Medusa," and Hal Foster who is author of books on post-modernism in art. Movements characterized as postmodern include Conceptual Art, Installation Art, Minimalism, Performance Art, Electronic Art, Computer Art, and Multimedia Art. Artists include: Andy Warhol, Yoko Ono, Jane Frank, Mel Chin, Judy Chicago, and Jeff Koons.
Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe Hot Pink (1967)
Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party (1975-79)
Yoko Ono, Exit (2008)
Jeff Koons, Ballon Dog Magenta, (1994-2000)
Jane Frank, Plum Point (1964)
Define the Art of this time: Neo-Decline
Everything is slowly crumbling. The ice caps are melting, 9/11, global warming, ocean trash islands, the recession, Heidi Montag gets plastic surgery at age 23. Nobody can afford art. But you can afford that $.99 mp3 minus the now archaic album cover art. What about music videos replaced with reality shows? Emp-tv. Artists flood academic art programs to escape the recession. We all are required to make blogs. We read art theory and criticism, and mill over old and recent ideas while trying to create new ones that don't resemble someone elses....even though we all know, "It has been done before." There is us, the arrogant educated art-speakers and the DYI, ETSYers who we try to separate from. All the great art movements are over, so we have to pick through the muddy waters of today to try to salvage something to make new. But who cares about you or me anyway, there are billions of people out there, many of whom born this very second, who want to become artists. Do we have enough room on our walls and shelves for more junk? Artists/critics include you, me, John Stewart, Al Gore, Michael Moore, Sasha Baron Cohen, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Pollan, and Pixar. Characteristics include heavy editing and airbrushing of celebrities in magazines, more plastic surgery and botox, 3-D movies and TV, text messaging and blogs for everyone.
