Postmodernism has influenced many cultural fields, including literacy criticism, sociology, linguistics, architecture, anthropolgy, visual arts and music.
Post-modernism is open, unbounded, and concerned with process and becoming.
Literary critic Fredric Jameson describes postmodernism as the "dominant cultural logic of late capitalism."
It further developed from the “modernistic thought.”
It involves the belief that many, if not all, apparent realities are only social constructs, as they are subject to change inherent to time and place.
Postmodernism" is used in critical theory to refer to a point of departure for works of literature, drama, architecture, cinema, journalism, and design.
“the post-modern artist is ‘reflective ‘ in that he/she is self-aware and consciously involved in a process of thinking about him/herself and society in a deconstructive manner, ‘damasking’ pretensions, becoming aware of his/her cultural self in history, and accelerating the process of self-consciousness.”
-Witcombe (2000)
From my understandings of the grid, post modernity has many possibilities. Artists pay attention to the surface of works and images they are of. They took advantage of new technologies and mediums society has accepted and gotten used to and used in their art. Post modern works include advertising which was powerful to audiences in the newly technological world and hyper-reality making things more than life. Art is freer and more open, with limitless boundaries and many things that can be considered art.
Decorating One With The Coca Cola Logo show the ideas of post modernism through the ideas such as the importance and value of the urn he is destroying from their natural forms. Urns are normally cherished for their importance. This crushed China's normal traditions due to him smashing a 2000 year old dynasty urn and writing the coca cola logo onto it making matters worse towards all chinese traditions. The fact that it is a sculpture makes it post modern. He would attract alot of attention from his own people and others who find this situation very interesting. He goes against his own culture. He also includes advertising in his work and commonly known and recognised icons such as the coca cola logo incorporating the new media driven world we live in with things seen every day from this decade on things seen rarely from many decades ago. He plays with cultures mixing and questioning ethics and values.This truly shows post modern ideals and aspects towards his work.
Banksy is a household name in the UK, perhaps best known for his compelling stencil graffiti. He embodies post modern ideas in his works and explains that in art “there aren’t supposed to be any rules” This means his graffiti art can count as art rather than vandalism and which his two works show. His stencils make statements about war, politics, government oppression and environmental concerns. His work flower riot is interesting in that it portrays a person who seems violent and as if they are going to cause harm when in fact they are holding flowers rather than a Molotov cocktail as would usually be seen in a rioting image of someone such as this.
Some people may see his works as vandalism but I see it as post-modern art which is to be admired. They see him to be a “a troublemaker, but he never gets caught” just like Ai. His work “Los Angeles”, Banksy mixes historical time periods saying that it is possible for a caveman to exist in the 21st century not being limited to the modernist views. He is also using advertising of fast food restaurants that are typically seen every day in our contemporary society. You would also never see a monkey walking around holding food on a tray, we see alot of these concepts in post modern art. He also tends to make things humourous instead of being so serious and makes it quite fadcinating to be viewed.
References:
ALVC Workbook
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_modernism
http://www.allaboutphilosophy.org/postmodernism.htm
http://www.boredpanda.com/80-beautiful-street-crimes-done-by-banksy/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2007860/Banksy-uses-tag-jailed-graffiti-artist-Tox--Daniel-Halpin--latest-artwork-appears-London-street.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/8432272/China-breaks-silence-on-Ai-Weiweis-detention.html
i LOVE Ai Weiwei works specially his works involving the Urn it depicts both the artists history culture with today's society with the Coca Cola label which makes his work seem very cool and appalling to young audiences. i also agree how you say that Banksy's work relates to both War and and beauty and becomes one also the techniques he uses of stenciling is very intresting.
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