Post Modernism DBQ 3.

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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 Art

1960s- 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, racialclass-gender supremacy, religion, and other traditional values.)

Characteristics of Post Modernism :

Rejection of traditional ideas (ex. marriage, heterosexuality, racialclass-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, racialclass-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, racialclass-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 averageeveryday non artist.

Characteristics of Post Modernism :

Rejection of traditional ideas (ex. marriage, heterosexuality, racialclass-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 averageeveryday 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, racialclass-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 averageeveryday 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

 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
Chris Burden, Shoot, 1971
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
Chris Burden, Trans-fixed, 1974 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,

1990s

2. Juxtaposition

2. Juxtaposition
The 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.

DArcangelo, Full Moon, 1963

Ramos, 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.

Jenney, Meltdown
Morning, 1975
Kruger, Untitled, 1989

5. Representin

5. Representin

Proclamation of ones identity and culture. The strategy

of using ones artistic voice within ones personal history
or culture of origin.

Shirin Neshat- Rebellious

Silence, 1994

Kehinde Wiley, Napolean Leading the Army

over the Alps, 2005