POSTMODERN ART 
POSTDERNISM 
• The 20th century art, which is known as modern art is 
characterized by purity of form and technique. 
• Modern/traditional era see the world as fixed and determined ; 
postmodern thinking sees the world as a complex and uncertain 
place. 
• The postmodern movement emerged with the aim of 
eliminating the bounaries between high (elite or serious art) 
popular culture, and the media. 
• Postmodern is describes as mod rather than as discipline. 
This is an attempt to find a new and more truthful version of the 
world. 
• Art and Philosophy are closely linked and related in terms of 
the message and the ideology of an artist.
POSTMODE ART 
• It is the term used to describe an art movement which was thought 
to be in contradiction to some aspect of modernism, or to have 
emergherd or developed in it's aftermath.
Reasons for the Decline of Modern Art: 
1. Increasing naturalism of the nineteenth century led, for 
those who had not shaken off their religous heritage, to a 
feeling of being alone and without guidance in a vast, 
empty universe. 
2. The rise of philophical theories of Skepticism and 
irrationalism led many to distrust their cognitive faculties 
or perception and reason. 
3. Th development of scientific theories such as evolution 
and entrophy brought with the pessimistic accounts of 
human nature and the destiny of the world.
MOVEMENTS IN POSTMODERN ART: 
1. Minimalism- describes movements in various forms of 
art and design, especially visual art and music, where 
the work is stripped down to it's most fundamental 
features. 
2. Post-minimalism- the term was used by Robert Pincuss 
Witten in 1977 to described minimalist derived art, 
which had content and contextual overtones that 
minimalism rejected. 
3. New-classism- The central movement of this art is 
reinvention and return to classical painting and 
sculptures. This movement is often referred to as 
classical realism.
FORMS OF POSTMODERN ART 
RELATIONAL ART 
- Relational art (relationalism) as defined by Nicolas Bourriaud, is a set of 
artistic practices which take as their theoritical and practical point of departure the 
whole of human relations and their social context, rather than an independent. 
CONCEPTUAL ART 
- This form of art is involved in deconstructionism movement. It deconstructs 
what makes a work of art ''ART''. 
INSTALLATION ART 
- Installation art includes creation of artifacts which are conceptual in nature. 
LOWBROW ART 
- Lowbrow art is a widespread populist art movement which traces it's origin in 
the underground world, punk music, hot-rod, street culture, and other California 
subcultures. It is often known as Pop surrealism . This movement is the highlight of 
postmodernism which replaced the traditional ''high'' and ''low''. 
POP ART 
- Pop art is generally multi-colored and using repetitive images.
Postmodernism, first applied to architecture, is also used to refer to 
developments in other art forms that are characterized by several 
approaches to styles, medium and interpretation; and a rejection of 
modernism. 
Th works of Postmedernism are characterized by their subjectivism, 
regional character, interest in social and political issues and their 
electric character. 
Modern paintings could be summed ups as being reduced to 
essence and the act of painting in paint and canvas.
POSTMODERN ARCHITECTURE 
• It is generally thought to be heralded by the 
return of ''wit, ornament and reference'' to 
architecture inresponse to be formalism of the 
International Style of modernism.
POSTMODERN MUSIC 
• It is a music that follows the postmodernist 
ideology. 
Postmederm music is mostly defined in 
opposition to modernist music, and a work can 
either be modernist or postmodernist but not 
both.
POSTMODERN DANCE 
• It is a 20th century concert dance form. 
A reaction to the compositional and 
presentation of constraints of modern dance, 
postmodern dance hailed the use of everyday 
movement as valid performance art and 
advocated novel methods of dance composition.
POSTMODERN FILM 
• This describes the articulation of ideas of 
postmodernism through the cinematic 
medium. Postmedernist film upsets the 
mainstream conventions of narative structure 
and characterization and destroys (or, at 
least, toys with) the audience's suspension of 
disbelief to create a work in which a 
less-recognizable internal logic forms the 
film's means of expression.
POSTMODERN THEATER 
This is a recent phenomenon in a world theater, 
coming as it does out of the postmodern 
philosophy that originated in Europe in the 1960's. 
Postmodern theater emergherd as a reaction 
against modernist theater.
POSTMODERN LITERATURE 
It describes the tendecies in post- World War II 
literature.
CHARACTERISTICS OF POSTMODERNISM 
1. THERE IS NO ABSOLUTE TRUTH. 
2. TRUTH AND ERROR ARE SYNONYMOUS. 
3. SELF-CONCEPTUALIZATION AND 
RATIONALIZATION. 
4. TRADITIONAL AUTHORITY IS FALSE AND 
CORRUPT. 
5.OWNERSHIP. 
6. DISSULUSIONMENT WITH MODERNISM. 
7.MORALITY IS PERSONAL. 
8. GLOBALIZATION. 
9. ALL REGIONS ARE VALID. 
10. LIBERAL ETHICS. 
11. PRO-ENVIRONMENTALISM.
GROUP 8 
ANJELIQUE PASANA 
KATE AGUILING 
STEPHANIE HUGO 
PAUL VICTOR VASQUEZ

Humanities presentation pdf

  • 1.
    POSTMODERN ART POSTDERNISM • The 20th century art, which is known as modern art is characterized by purity of form and technique. • Modern/traditional era see the world as fixed and determined ; postmodern thinking sees the world as a complex and uncertain place. • The postmodern movement emerged with the aim of eliminating the bounaries between high (elite or serious art) popular culture, and the media. • Postmodern is describes as mod rather than as discipline. This is an attempt to find a new and more truthful version of the world. • Art and Philosophy are closely linked and related in terms of the message and the ideology of an artist.
  • 2.
    POSTMODE ART •It is the term used to describe an art movement which was thought to be in contradiction to some aspect of modernism, or to have emergherd or developed in it's aftermath.
  • 3.
    Reasons for theDecline of Modern Art: 1. Increasing naturalism of the nineteenth century led, for those who had not shaken off their religous heritage, to a feeling of being alone and without guidance in a vast, empty universe. 2. The rise of philophical theories of Skepticism and irrationalism led many to distrust their cognitive faculties or perception and reason. 3. Th development of scientific theories such as evolution and entrophy brought with the pessimistic accounts of human nature and the destiny of the world.
  • 4.
    MOVEMENTS IN POSTMODERNART: 1. Minimalism- describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is stripped down to it's most fundamental features. 2. Post-minimalism- the term was used by Robert Pincuss Witten in 1977 to described minimalist derived art, which had content and contextual overtones that minimalism rejected. 3. New-classism- The central movement of this art is reinvention and return to classical painting and sculptures. This movement is often referred to as classical realism.
  • 5.
    FORMS OF POSTMODERNART RELATIONAL ART - Relational art (relationalism) as defined by Nicolas Bourriaud, is a set of artistic practices which take as their theoritical and practical point of departure the whole of human relations and their social context, rather than an independent. CONCEPTUAL ART - This form of art is involved in deconstructionism movement. It deconstructs what makes a work of art ''ART''. INSTALLATION ART - Installation art includes creation of artifacts which are conceptual in nature. LOWBROW ART - Lowbrow art is a widespread populist art movement which traces it's origin in the underground world, punk music, hot-rod, street culture, and other California subcultures. It is often known as Pop surrealism . This movement is the highlight of postmodernism which replaced the traditional ''high'' and ''low''. POP ART - Pop art is generally multi-colored and using repetitive images.
  • 6.
    Postmodernism, first appliedto architecture, is also used to refer to developments in other art forms that are characterized by several approaches to styles, medium and interpretation; and a rejection of modernism. Th works of Postmedernism are characterized by their subjectivism, regional character, interest in social and political issues and their electric character. Modern paintings could be summed ups as being reduced to essence and the act of painting in paint and canvas.
  • 7.
    POSTMODERN ARCHITECTURE •It is generally thought to be heralded by the return of ''wit, ornament and reference'' to architecture inresponse to be formalism of the International Style of modernism.
  • 8.
    POSTMODERN MUSIC •It is a music that follows the postmodernist ideology. Postmederm music is mostly defined in opposition to modernist music, and a work can either be modernist or postmodernist but not both.
  • 9.
    POSTMODERN DANCE •It is a 20th century concert dance form. A reaction to the compositional and presentation of constraints of modern dance, postmodern dance hailed the use of everyday movement as valid performance art and advocated novel methods of dance composition.
  • 10.
    POSTMODERN FILM •This describes the articulation of ideas of postmodernism through the cinematic medium. Postmedernist film upsets the mainstream conventions of narative structure and characterization and destroys (or, at least, toys with) the audience's suspension of disbelief to create a work in which a less-recognizable internal logic forms the film's means of expression.
  • 11.
    POSTMODERN THEATER Thisis a recent phenomenon in a world theater, coming as it does out of the postmodern philosophy that originated in Europe in the 1960's. Postmodern theater emergherd as a reaction against modernist theater.
  • 12.
    POSTMODERN LITERATURE Itdescribes the tendecies in post- World War II literature.
  • 13.
    CHARACTERISTICS OF POSTMODERNISM 1. THERE IS NO ABSOLUTE TRUTH. 2. TRUTH AND ERROR ARE SYNONYMOUS. 3. SELF-CONCEPTUALIZATION AND RATIONALIZATION. 4. TRADITIONAL AUTHORITY IS FALSE AND CORRUPT. 5.OWNERSHIP. 6. DISSULUSIONMENT WITH MODERNISM. 7.MORALITY IS PERSONAL. 8. GLOBALIZATION. 9. ALL REGIONS ARE VALID. 10. LIBERAL ETHICS. 11. PRO-ENVIRONMENTALISM.
  • 14.
    GROUP 8 ANJELIQUEPASANA KATE AGUILING STEPHANIE HUGO PAUL VICTOR VASQUEZ