133 POST MODERNISM

• the term "____ ____" refers to a wide category of contemporary art created from about 1970s onwards

  postmodernist art
• the hallmark of postmodernist art

  its rejection of the aesthetics upon which its predecessor, "modern art", was based
• coinciding with a raft of new technological developments, postmodernism had led to almost 5 decades of artistic experimentation with new media and new artforms including (5):

  conceptual art, performance art, installation art, deconstructivism, projection art
• how was post modern design considered "neo-dadaism" in a way?

  it used photo collage, broke text, splattered colors, black and white photos with color splashes of text, use of bright colors and dramatic layouts
• the whole principle of post modern design

  an idea and an object with a satirical quote of photograph used to depict said subject with the use of typography and collage together
• the whole idea of post-modernism is basically ____ ____ going against ____ ____, no grids just messy design

  geometric shapes going against traditional conventions
• various influences of post-modernism art (4)

  cubism, pop art, comic art, dadaism
• artistic movement in modern art that started around world war 1

  dadaism
• the purpose of dadaism

  to ridicule the meaninglessness of the modern world
• dadaism influenced ____, ____, and ____ ____

  surrealism, pop art, punk rock
• 3 followers of dadaism

  antonin artaud, max ernst, salvador dali
• a later version of dadaism which rose in the 1960s


  neo-dada
• art education: the idea of working for four years to master the necessary skills of traditional fine arts was considered ____

  retrogressive
• new image-based technologies (5)

  television, video, screenprinting, computers, internet
• creates primitive-style paintings of obese figures

  fernando botero
• paints upside down figures

  georg baselitz
• combined camera art and painting in his photopaintings of the 1970s

  gerhard richter
• combined consumerist imagery (balloon shapes_ whith highly finished sculptural techniques to create his balloon dog pop-sculptures

  jeff koons
• postmodernists have preferred to focus on ____ and ____, often using advertising materials and techniques for maximum impact

  style, spectacle
• the approach to focus on spectacle is exemplified by the _____ _____ _____, _____ _____, and _____ _____

  commercial printing methods, billboard-style imagery, primary colours
• a key objective of postmodernism

  instant recognition
• who created "fountain" in 1917, a famous example of an ordinary object being made into a work of art

  marcel duchamp
• a lot of postmodernist art are known as ____ ____ or ____

  conceptual art or conceptualism
• who made fine art from banal, mass produced imagery

  andy warhol
• what style of art was championed by andy warhol

  pop art
• the definitive postmodernist idiom. never mind the finished product, it's the underlying idea that counts

  conceptual art
• the first and greatest conceptual artist who founded the nouveau realisme

  yves klein
• this genre became a new way to present art to the masses

  performance art and happenings
• who pioneered performance art and happenings (2)

  john cage, allan kaprow
• a new way to draw spectators into the artwork or assemblage

  installation art
• leading contributor to installation art

  joseph beuys
• one of the most versatile mediums available

  video art
• a piece of video film can be (4):

  work of art itself,

  a record of how the work of art is made,

  one element in an installation,

  part of a multiple-video arrangement
• whatever its precise role, ____ makes art more dynamic, more absorbing, more exciting

  video
• the ybas were just one of several postmodernist groups to champion the use of camera art. in fact, works by the greatest photographers soon passed the $1 million mark at auction

  photography
• what does post modernism look like?

  there is a use of aggressive collages, colorso, experimental photography
• what idea is an important facet of postmodern design theory?

  the idea of anti-humanism
• explains that a universal principle cannot possibly be shared by all human beings, and insists that any principles must be determined historically and culturally

  anti-humanism
• postmodernism favors ____ ____ and a _____ _____ _____ _____

  expressive designs, rebellion against strict constraints