Saturday 22 May 2010

Modernism/Postmodernism


Modernism is generally used as a way of referring to an aesthetic approach
dominant in European and American art and literature in the Twentieth Century
The Modernity can be explained as the development of science, philosophy, and art.
The Artistic culture is moved forward by source of contradiction or critique.
The Postmodernism is best understood as part of cultural shifts in science, philosophy and art, characterized as a critique of Modernism.
It is Postmodernism where the object drops out of the structuralist analysis and we are left with the signs and its two remaining aspects: Signifier (the physical form) and Signified (what it refers to). The relationship between Signifier and Signified creates meaning in the art form (Semiotics) .


Comparing the two Modernism and Postmodernism in the meaning of art, I see modernism as the period more a producer of art objects than in postmodernism where the art becomes a manipulation of signs.
In the image above, Marcel Duchamp produced the art in the form of sculpture from urinal, and signed it under the name of Richard Mutt the name he was using as alias. Duchamp turned this art work called fountain into a test for the society.
In postmodern photography the fundamental part is perspective and interpretation. There is no measuring stick for things like beauty and horror, and if something is beautiful to one person and hideous to another, neither person is wrong in his or her interpretation.

http://english.illinoisstate.edu/strickland/495/modpomo.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL8MhYq9owo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_(Duchamp)



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