PostModernism

MODERNISM:

According to Malpas this era in our dear planets history was all about the artist submersing themselves into form. Using specific characteristics of art to put on display specific characteristics of society. In a way it was the purpose of the Avant Garde to educate the masses… but to bad the masses have always been asses so they just didn’t get the joke. In a way art in a sense moved in a direction which removed the artist and just left the ART!

POSTMODERNISM:

(according to WordPress this is not one word… but i think it would be very post modern of me to make it one word!)

This is the stage in which form takes on objectivity. Spawned from the aftermath of Modernism this movement appears to me to take no definite form but works with many definite forms. And this collaboration of old and new it works to comment on a more contemporary society, while pushing mainstream into Museums, and the Avant Garde into vintage wallpaper. Everything is mass produced, and symbols are being re-used and redefined.

If my mother had actually bore me in the right time period I think that I would be right on the cusp of Modernism and Post Modernism. I have deep respect for the anal retentiveness of art FORM in its uses to reveal society and its flaws. However I do see great need in the collaboration of FORMS; paring them and using them against each other to maybe reveal new things about society. Maybe this is the Postmodern take on collage, in which artists are cutting and pasting with some sort of artistic agenda; revealing to many through the old the new and the used.