Post Modernism DBQ 3.1

After reading the documents in your DBQ:• What do you think is Post Modernism?

• What were your views on the artist Jeff Koons and his artwork?

• Would you consider his art pieces high end “art”? (meaning they are worth a lot or belong in a museum?)

Post Modern Art1960’s- Today

What is Post Modern?

What is Post Modern?

1. A movement that arose from the cultural upheaval of the mid to late 20th and 21st century

What is Post Modern?

1. A movement that arose from the cultural upheaval of the mid to late 20th and 21st century

2. Post modern artist embraced consumer culture and mass media so that it could relate to the contemporary urban environment.

What is Post Modern?

1. A movement that arose from the cultural upheaval of the mid to late 20th and 21st century

2. Post modern artist embraced consumer culture and mass media so that it could relate to the contemporary urban environment.

3. Post modern artists want to convey traditional ideas but in a non traditional way so that they could be more accessible and understandable to the average person (not just historians, artists, or higher educated people).

Characteristics of Post Modernism :

Characteristics of Post Modernism :

• Rejection of traditional ideas (ex. marriage, heterosexuality, racial-class-gender supremacy, religion, and other “traditional” values.)

Characteristics of Post Modernism :

• Rejection of traditional ideas (ex. marriage, heterosexuality, racial-class-gender supremacy, religion, and other “traditional” values.)

• Post Modernism arose from civil and feminist movements throughout the mid 20th and early 21st century.

Characteristics of Post Modernism :

• Rejection of traditional ideas (ex. marriage, heterosexuality, racial-class-gender supremacy, religion, and other “traditional” values.)

• Post Modernism arose from civil and feminist movements throughout the mid 20th and early 21st century.

• Art is no longer about the artist (personal reflections) instead about the viewer and their reflections of society.

Characteristics of Post Modernism :

• Rejection of traditional ideas (ex. marriage, heterosexuality, racial-class-gender supremacy, religion, and other “traditional” values.)

• Post Modernism arose from civil and feminist movements throughout the mid 20th and early 21st century.

• Art is no longer about the artist (personal reflections) instead about the viewer and their reflections of society.

• Art is no longer for the artist, critic, or scholar but made for average-everyday non artist.

Characteristics of Post Modernism :

• Rejection of traditional ideas (ex. marriage, heterosexuality, racial-class-gender supremacy, religion, and other “traditional” values.)

• Post Modernism arose from civil and feminist movements throughout the mid 20th and early 21st century.

• Art is no longer about the artist (personal reflections) instead about the viewer and their reflections of society.

• Art is no longer for the artist, critic, or scholar but made for average-everyday non artist.

• The narrative is about glorifying everyday things in life. Taking the banal-simple-everyday and making it extraordinary-bigger than life.

Characteristics of Post Modernism :

• Rejection of traditional ideas (ex. marriage, heterosexuality, racial-class-gender supremacy, religion, and other “traditional” values.)

• Post Modernism arose from civil and feminist movements throughout the mid 20th and early 21st century.

• Art is no longer about the artist (personal reflections) instead about the viewer and their reflections of society.

• Art is no longer for the artist, critic, or scholar but made for average-everyday non artist.

• The narrative is about glorifying everyday things in life. Taking the banal-simple-everyday and making it extraordinary-bigger than life.

• For the Post Modernists: truth is what and how you feel.

Mentality and influences of Post-Modernism:

• Post-Modernism is heavily influenced by the method of Deconstructionism-

Mentality and influences of Post-Modernism:

• Post-Modernism is heavily influenced by the method of Deconstructionism- a way of thinking or philosophy that claims that a piece of writing (language-words) do not have just one meaning but that the meaning of the word depends on the reader.

Mentality and influences of Post-Modernism:

• Post-Modernism is heavily influenced by the method of Deconstructionism- a way of thinking or philosophy that claims that a piece of writing (language-words) do not have just one meaning but that the meaning of the word depends on the reader.

Example:

On your notes, write down examples of the things you love.

Def: LOVE - an intense feeling of deep affection

Chris Burden, Shoot, 1971.

Burden, Shoot, 1971

Chris Burden. Trans-fixed. (Burden has hands nailed to roof of Volkswagon). 1974

Chris Burden, Shoot, 1971

Chris Burden, Trans-fixed, 1974

• Purpose of this is for the experience• Burden questions violence in media

vs. real life acts of violence. Idea: Why do people feel uncomfortable with real life and not depictions in media.

• By experiencing the pain firsthand, you become less mystified and scared about it.

• Volkswagen is the epitome of consumer culture. He crucifies himself to the car to show that mass consumerism is the “cross” to bear.

Andres Serrano. Immersion. 1987

Andres Serrano. Immersion (Piss Christ). 1987• Artist places small statuette in glass filled

with his urine.• Without the title (Piss Christ), audience

associates the amber-rose color with words like radiance, calming, and godliness. With the title, people change perceptions and it becomes disgusting and vulgar because it is urine.

• The idea is that whether it is religion or urine the experience is the same and truthful for each person.

Mel RAMOS. Chiquita. 1964

Mel RAMOS. Chiquita. 1964

Mel RAMOS. Chiquita. 1964• The conflict between symbols and signs.• Signs are used to convey textual

information. By removing the sign “Chiquita” this art becomes a symbolic interpretation.

• Symbols are things that represents or stands for something else

• Therefore, “Chiquita” becomes a symbol for our own interpretations.

• The conflict is what is considered truth?• What we read to obtain knowledge?

or Our own emotions about our interpretation of the world.

RECAP: Deconstruction

a way of thinking or philosophy that claims that a piece of writing (language-words) do not have just one meaning but that the meaning of the word depends on the reader.

How is the concept of deconstructionism shown in Post modern works of art?

5 elements of Deconstruction

1. Appropriation

2. Juxtaposition

3. Recontextualization

4. Interaction of Text and Image

5. Representin’

1. Appropriation

1. Appropriation Taking already made physical objects, images, and ideas and using them over and over again.

Andy Warhol, Marilyn, 1962

Shepard Fairey, Obey, 1990’s

2. Juxtaposition

2. JuxtapositionThe “fact” of two things placing them together to create a contrasting effect.

Man Ray, The Gift, 1921 (replica 1972)

Oppenheim, Object, 1936

3. Recontextualization

3. Recontextualization Taking the meaning of a familiar image, symbol, or text and associating it with the unfamiliar.

D’Arcangelo, Full Moon, 1963Ramos, Chiquita, 1964

4. Interaction of Text and Image

4. Interaction of Text and Image:An interplay between the meaning of a text and the meaning of an image that have no relationship forced together to create meaning.

Kruger, Untitled, 1989

Jenney, Meltdown Morning, 1975

5. Representin’

5. Representin’ Proclamation of one’s identity and culture. The strategy of using one’s artistic voice within one’s personal history or culture of origin.

Shirin Neshat- Rebellious Silence, 1994

Kehinde Wiley, Napolean Leading the Army over the Alps, 2005