Postmodern art is a body of art movements that sought to contradict some aspects of modernism or to have emerged or developed in its aftermath. In general, movements such as Intermedia, Installation art, Conceptual Art and Multimedia, particularly involving video are described as postmodern. There are several characteristics which lend art to being postmodern; these include bricolage, the use of words prominently as the central artistic element, collage, simplification, appropriation, performance art, the recycling of past styles and themes in a modern-day context, as well as the break-up of the barrier between fine and high arts and low art and popular culture.
Definition:
Postmodernism is a general and wide-ranging term which is applied to many disciplines, including literature, art, economics, philosophy, architecture, fiction, and literary criticism. Postmodernism is largely a reaction to scientific or objective efforts to explain reality. There is no consensus among scholars on the precise definition. In essence, postmodernism is based on the position that reality is not mirrored in human understanding of it, but is rather constructed as the mind tries to understand its own personal reality. Postmodernism is therefore skeptical of explanations that claim to be valid for all groups, cultures, traditions, or races, and instead focuses on the relative truths of each person.
Media:
Postmodernism is also said to reflect modern society's feelings of alienation, insecurity and uncertainties concerning indentity, history, progress and truth, and the break up of those tradition like religion, the family or, perhaps to a lesser extent, class, which helped identify and shape who we are and our place in the world. Artists like Madonna, Michael Jackson and David Bowie are all cited as examples of postmodernism in the ways in which they have created or re created different identities for themselves.
Music Video:
a well known postmodern music vidoe is "I Want To Break Free" by Queen. This is so postmodern because cross dressing is included throughout the music video, and what would normally be stereotypically said to be a females job is being played out by a male. Its a parody of a stereotypical housewives life.
Postmodern architecture began as an turkey style the first examples of which are generally cited as being from the 1950s, but did not become a movement until the late 1970s and continues to influence present-day architecture. Postmodernity in architecture is said to be heralded by the return of "wit, ornament and reference" to architecture in response to the formalism of the International Style of modernism. As with many cultural movements, some of Postmodernism's most pronounced and visible ideas can be seen in architecture. The functional and formalized shapes and spaces of the modernist style are replaced by diverse aesthetics: styles collide, form is adopted for its own sake, and new ways of viewing familiar styles and space abound. Perhaps most obviously, architects rediscovered the expressive and symbolic value of architectural elements and forms that had evolved through centuries of building which had been abandoned by the modern style.
Pastiche: Self-referential, tongue-in-cheek, rehashes of classic pop culture
Flattening of effect: Technology, violence, drugs, and the media lead to detached, emotionless, unauthentic lives
Hyperreality: Technologically created realities are often more authentic or desirable than the real world
Time Bending: Time travel provides another way to shape reality and play "what if" games with society
Altered States: Drugs, mental illness and technology provide a dark, often psychedelic, gateway to new internal realities
More Human than Human: Artificial intelligence, robotics, and cybernetics seek to enhance, or replace, humanity
Pastiche films:
Pulp Fiction
Jackie Brown
Kill Bill, Volume 1
Sream
Scary Movie
Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
This is Spinal Tap
Austine Powers
Flattening of Affect:
2001 - A Space Odyssey
Natural Born Killers
A Clockwork Orange
American Psycho
Rules of Attraction
Less Than Zero
The Stepford Wives
Fight Club
Gattaca
Apocalypse Now
The Deer Hunter
Taxi Driver
Lost in Translation
Hyperreality:
The Matrix Trilogy
The Thirteenth Floor
Total Recall
eXistenZ
The Truman Show
Kick-Ass
Inception
Time Bending:
12 Monkeys
Paycheck
Dark City
Minority Report
Primer
Memento
Donnie Darko
Altered States:
Videodrome
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Naked Lunch
A Scanner Darkly
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
A Beautiful Mind
More Human Than Human:
Bladerunner
Screamers
Artificial Intelligence
Robocop
Wall-E
District 9
Terminator Salvation
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