Modern Post Assignment

#2 Post-Minimalism - late 1960s-1970s
Post-painterly Abstraction - 1964-Present
Post-Modernism - 1970s-mid 1980s
Post-Pop
Post- Punk
Post- Expressionism

#3
Modernism is a reaction to the developments in technology and science of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Artists began to react to new inventions which dramatically and rapidly changed their world. The advent of the airplane, telecommunication, radio, television, photography, motion pictures, radar, the assembly line and mass production the solid fuel rocket, internal combustion engines, jet engines, vaccines and modern surgery and anesthetics created a world that is much smaller than the world of the l9th century. Artists could no longer get by with a formal recording and representation of the world at hand. Artists needed to catch up and react to a pace that was accelerating past them. Consumerism for the the masses was changing the way we looked at art and the way in which it was created.

Modernism ended with the explosion of the first hydrogen bomb at the end of WWII.

Critics
Clement Greenberg
Thomas B Hess
Fry Bell
Roger Clive
Peggy Guggenheim


#4
The Post Modern movement began in the early 1960's
Post Modernism is and expression of the idea that nothing is real that everything is a simulation. God is destroyed and therefore nothing can be created or destroyed.
Post Modernism is alive and well.
Anything goes therefore there is no enveloping aesthetic but rather an anti aesthetic.
Prominent artist include Paul McCarthy, Eva Hesse, Damian Hirst, Damian Ortega, Rachel Whiteread, Tara Donnovan, Peta Coine.

#5 The art movement of 2010 could be considered a Neo Renaissance or a new modern era. The digital world and an ever shrinking global community and a global community which is increasingly combining it's cultural and biological DNA defines the paths which we are taking.
New forms of media and simulated human interaction are the aesthetic principle on which our art will be made. The use of digital design and rapid prototyping, desktop or web publishing will open the doors to many more creative practices.