Post-Modernismby James

What is Post Modernism?

● A late 21st and 20th century art style

● A mix of of different types of art

● Represents the departure from modernism

● A response to modernism

What does Post Modernism include?● Lots of bright colours

● Irregular shapes

● Symmetry

● Hardly any straight lines, more curves and

zigzags

● A twist to conventional design

● The use of pop surrealism in a high brow contextPost Modern Conventional

Modernism Postmodernism

How is it different from modernism?

● Based on logical rational thinking

● Most of the modernist masters where

European

● All about new ideas

● Art could be anything

● Irrational thinking

● No new ideas; no new art forms

● Artists borrowed, combined, imitated on old art

● Were open to difference

gender and race

Deconstruction● Deconstruction - To look at a piece of art/writing a different way

● A postmodernist concern

● Developed by Jacques Derrida

● A piece of writing does not have only one meaning

● The meaning depends on the reader

An example of deconstruction

WE can

mean that

we are the

ones in

charge; we

make all the

decisions

Although we haven’t met

you, we still love you.

Therefore, to us, we love

for the sake of loving..

Welcome, We love you!

How and when did it start?● Post Modernism started in 1979 by French a philosopher Jean-François

Lyotard

● Technology was starting to advance at that time

● The design of technology also has a part in post modernism

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