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The Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition Program Pop Art: A Brief Analysis continued generally speaking, Pop Art works can be defined in style by the use of simplified imagery and the use of bright colours. Keith Haring (1958-1990) Keith Haring Button Roy Lichtenstien (1923-1997) Drowning Girl, 1963 Museum of Modern Art, New York Andy Warhol (1928-1987) Campbells Soup, 1968 AFA Travelling Exhibition Program, Edmonton, AB. Ph: 780.428.3830 Fax: 780.421.0479 youraga.ca
The Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition Program Post Modernism: A Brief Analysis The paintings of Jason Carter in the exhibition Urban Animals are most clearly influenced by the art movements of abstraction/modernism and pop art. The simplification and emphasis on the flatness of the picture plane, seen in many of his works, speak to modernism while the use of bold flat colours are a hall-mark of pop art. In all of his works, however, he also demonstrates clear influences from the territory of Postmodernism in the arts. Postmodern Art is a term used to describe art movements which both arise from, and react against or reject, trends in modernism. The traits associated with the use of the term postmodern in art include bricolage, the use of words prominently as the central artistic element, collage, simplification, appropriation, depiction of consumer or popular culture and Performance Art. Al McWilliams Appearances, 1986 Photograph on board Collection of the Art Gallery of Alberta In painting postmodernism reintroduced representation and traditional techniques to art making. Postmodernism rejects modernism’s grand narratives of artistic direction, removes the boundaries between high and low forms of art, and disrupts genre’s conventions with collision, collage, and fragmentation. Specific trends of modernism generally cited are formal purity, medium specificity, art for art’s sake, authenticity, universality, originality and revolutionary or reactionary tendencies, ie. the avant-garde. Many institutions argue that being visionary, forward-looking, cutting-edge, and progressive are crucial to the mission of art. Postmodernism, on the other hand, rejects the notion of advancement or progress in art per se, and thus aims to overturn the ‘myth of the avant-garde’. It also rejects modernism’s grand narratives of artistic direction, eradicating the boundaries between high and low forms of art, and disrupting genre’s conventions with collision, collage, and fragmentation. Irony, parody and humor are important ingredients in postmodern works. Many movements and trends in art throughout the 20th century are seen as precursors to postmodernism. With the introduction of the use of industrial artifacts in art and techniques such as collage, avant-garde movements such as Cubism, Dada and Surrealism questioned the nature and value of art. These movements in turn were influenced by new artforms such as cinema and the rise of reproduction as a means of creating artworks. Other modern movements influential to postmodern art are Pop Art, Minimalism, conceptual art and the use of techniques such as assemblage, montage, and appropriation. Unlike modern art, with its constant reinvention, postmodern art has a number of movements within it. One of these is a return to classical painting and sculpture. A second movement is termed Conceptual art. Conceptual art is sometimes labelled postmodern because it is expressly involved in deconstruction of what makes a work of art ‘art’. Because it is often AFA Travelling Exhibition Program, Edmonton, AB. Ph: 780.428.3830 Fax: 780.421.0479 youraga.ca
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