Big Nerd's Favorite Postmodernist Artists

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Andy Warhol was a talented American artist, film producer, and director who was considered a leader of the Pop Art movement in the Postmodern Era. One of his most famous artworks is the one of Marilyn Monroe, it is a vibrant piece of artwork with many different versions - including Marilyn Diptych and Shot Marilyns. He would print black and white photographs on to different color canvases, this would create the PopArt that gave him more fame.

This PopArt was a turning point in the Postmodern era, it is eye-catching and interesting to think about the different varieties of the same photo.

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M.C. Escher is a Dutch artist and is well known for his surrealist artwork and optical illusions. Escher tends to combine multiple objects and merge them together to create an illusion so it’s almost as if there are 2 different things you’re looking at. Metamorphosis is a perfect example of one of his famous pieces.

Here is the link to his other artwork if you are interested, trust me, you will be.

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John Smith, 7th says: This Digital Image created by Frederik Heyman for Arca is one of the most beautiful art pieces I've ever seen. This artwork was used for Arca's cover of her album KicK iii. KicK iii is one of the third albums in her KiCk cycle, a compilation of 5 albums based on Doña Arca, a persona created by transgender non-binary artist, Alejandra Gharsi, from Venezuela. Doña Arca is a symbol of empowerment, sexuality, self expression, and identity. In the image below, Doña Arca stands above these creatures with double heads. Arca herself has two heads, symbolizing the face we put for others, and the face we put for ourselves. It's a beautiful and stunning image and will forever be one of my favorites.

Hero Brine 7th

The painting is called "Grandfather Clock Digging Grave," and it's by pawel kuczynski. It is a great depiction of time and death. It has a scary look to it and is symbolism that death is inevitable. It has an element of paranoia and irony because as the clock ticks its digging the hole deeper and deeper.

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This is a painting by @poorteffy on instagram called "RAW DEAL". He uses many postmodern elements in his art. At first glance you see the hyperrealism with the distorted face and hands but also the black humor with the title and the greedy appearing hands.

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I couldn't find a piece of postmodern, like a portrait, painting, or some kind of architecture. So, I decided to talk about "JoJo's Bizzare Adventure" which is an anime about family generations that fights a guy named Dio or other evil people. The lore and storyline of this anime is wild, so I'm mostly gonna talk about the art style and the overall vibe of the show. So it has tons of maximalism because the show design mocks other anime styles. The design and character design are insanly over the top, such as the hyper-masculine male characters kinda makes fun of certain mangas. Plus the finishing fight moves of some of the JoJos are really crazy with tons of colors, noise, and fast moving parts which maximalizes the fight scenes in the show, Plus, there's

magical realism elements such as world-building. The creator of the anime created this concept of a magical version of people that has superpower (yes, that doesn't make sense but pretend that you understand. It also has some historiographic metafiction elements like it includes World War II but it has some details changed because they

were supernatural beings walking around. I could write a lot more because it's a weird show but I definitely recommend it!!

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In "Pride" Florian Krewer in my opinion takes us on a journey of what the 20th century has become with his contemporary art. He uses surreal elements like a man sitting on the corner and birds flying around him, but at the same time it gives you a feeling of being in a surreal dimension. My interpretation is that the man is pondering all that he has endured in the last couple of years. With covid it could include a loss of a job or family hinse why he is all alone in the image. While he he sits their though he lets all of his anger and grief consuming him from the inside out which has now swarmed him clearing all judgement. It gives us A overall uneasy feeling with raging colors and his black eyes staring directly at you makes this piece defiantly speak to you in many different ways.

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Lego Bridge Painted by Martin Heuwold

Image taken by Morty CC BY-SA 3.0

This is the Lego-Brücke (translated to Lego Bridge) in Wuppertal Germany. I mean it kind of in the name, plus playing with Lego bricks was like the coolest thing you could do back then. I don’t really like looking at painted art, but I really enjoy Art in the sense that it is a representation of culture. I think this Lego Bridge does that sort of thing since it mixes a nostalgic look to a rather bare object. There is a form of fabulation or intertextuality since it brings what is a tiny thing to us into a larger form which you can actually walk on. Its a little child’s dream come true.

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This artwork is called Surrel by Marcus Jansen. Marcus Jansen is an Urban artist which is a genre of postmodern art. urban artists tend to travel from city to city and create works of art that represent the culture and movement they see throughout the city. I just think everyone of those are beautiful

Yayoi Kusama, Narcissus Garden

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Let me paint a picture. 1,500+ reflective silver balls, $2 each, tightly arranged, your reflection staring back at you as you look at it. I love the idea! Essentially buying your narcissism, the viewer is now forced to confront their own ego. The reflection purely depends on your perspective (how high you hold it, how far away it is from your face, etc.), and that perfectly reflects the fluidity of how one views their own vanity. This pastiche and parody of artistic norms is prime Postmodernism.

This woman is funky, I love it. Kusama primarily works with instillations that push the boundaries of art. Her use of repetition in her art work mimics her struggles with mental illness. What I find so interesting is some might find the continuity of a pattern comforting, while others might find it anxiety-inducing. Super cool amiright?

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Balance - Sabir Haque

Balance by Sabir Haque is a very simple art style, practicing the postmodern element of minimalism. Minimalism is shown here as this painting is very simplistic and does not have a lot of focus points. The main thing is the rocks balancing and there is nothing else in the painting that might want to catch the viewer's eyes. What I find so incredible about this painting is the message it sends. Nothing is impossible if you try hard enough, and I think we all need to be reminded of this when we get too hard on ourselves.

Check out more of Sabir Haque's paintings here: Sabir Haque Paintings | Fine Art America

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Marilyn Diptych

The painting "Marilyn Diptych" by the artist, Andy Warhol is a postmodern painting of Marilyn Monroe. The separation of the contrasting colors in this painting grabbed my interest to it. Intertextuality and pastiche are used to include modern day colors to the black and white coloring they had in pictures when Marilyn Monroe was alive. This painting was also created right after Marilyn Monroe died. The color part represents her life, while the black and white morns her death. The repeated images of her face also represent her importance and presence on the media.

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This postmodern art, "Surreal" by Marcus Jansen, caught my attention because of the scene it creates. It includes fabulation as it seemingly creates a new world that we are somehow a part of. The street art also heavily plays on the element of maximalism. The different colors and characters help create a complex reality that mimics street/urban life.

To learn more about this art style you can visit https://www.widewalls.ch/magazine/why-is-urban-art-inherently-postmodern

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I chose Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam. I chose this because of the beautiful simplicity of it. The minimalism is definitely postmodern, along with the hyperrealism. I live all of the details in this painting and I love looking at old artists' work because I fell like they were so ahead of their time. This is definitely an example I would say was ahead of it's time.

the link: https://historylists.org/art/20-of-the-world%E2%80%99s-most-famous-art-pieces.html

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"Comedian" by Maurizio Cattelan

This art piece screams minimalism. It seems so simple because it's very plain with just two different items presented. The banana and the duck tape look like an actual picture being taken which can represent pastiche because of the mix of two different things.

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Heavenly Highway of Aunt Fränzi (1974-1975) by Lubo Kristek

This painting, done by Lubo Kristek, screams magical realism. The main focal points of this piece are painted smoothly and clearly defined. A woman's head and neck lay on a white pillar, and she frowns at the observer. Roads leading to the sky intersect at the end of the mountains and go through the clouds. The sky is grey, but the setting sun creates red accents that hit the clouds. A single live rose is at the forefront of the image, while a row of dead flowers lead up the mountain. All of these characteristics are far fetched, dream-like, and surreal. The painting could even be perceived as a horror based upon the tone, colors, and expression of the lady.

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Painted based on the Nazi Germany bombing of the Basque town of Guernica, Spain, in April 1937, Pablo Picasso's "Guernica" shows the misery of the destroyed town through the indiscriminate killings of hundredths of women and children. The element of Maximalism is evident within the enormous canvas painting as it is filled with captivating abstract work which depicts the reality of the day the bombing happened. The reality in which people were caught up and killed. I'd like to think that the size and chaos shown in the picture are based on the gravity of the issue.

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Jeff Koons is the artist behind "Balloon Dog" structures. Koons is known for making millions off of his pop culture structures of random objects. He does have his reasonings for the objects he choses to create. They symbolized good times, from birthdays and parties with the shiny texture. He also said it symbolized life in the way it represents a balloon. He uses the postmodernism element of maximalism in the extremity of the size and cost of the minimal amount of structures.

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This painting is called "Under the full Moon" By Randi Matushevitz. This painting uses intertextuality and a focus on exteriority to portray the concept that everyone has a dark side. Everyone has something about them that no one else sees or knows about. It links to the idea that the crazy people come out when the moon is full, connecting back, our wild side won't come out until the right moment, either when everyone is expecting it too or when no one is ready for it.

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Artist Bill Freeza created and painted this beautiful picture that describes the attack of western civilization. I absolutely love how freeza was able to execute the element of minimalism through the simple shapes and colors to get his point across. Using such simple shapes to discuss a major topic, really reveals the post modernism characteristics, because he was able to inform the audience using non-complex visual pieces to look at.

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This is Andy Warhol's Marilyn Diptych piece is one of many postmodernist art pieces and it is several images of Marilyn Monroe. This was taken from one of her films Niagara that was reproduced through color. It has postmodernist details of mass production and has the intertextuality of popular modern art along with society components. This also undermines the authors authority by the repetitiveness of her face in many different shades.

More pieces can be found here

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Jeff Koons is a well known postmodern artist recognized for his artwork depicting everyday objects such as balloon animals in stainless steel with a shiny finish. it represents the minimalist aspect of postmodernism due to each piece of art having only one or two main centerpieces. The pastiche he uses for taking inspiration from other art has sometimes gotten him in trouble; he has been accused of plagiarism many times. Popular culture of children's toys are very common in his art style.

He has created so many pieces, here are some more to check out! http://www.jeffkoons.com/artwork/celebration/pink-bow

I love this sculpture, Puppy by Jeff Koons because it is huge. I love all the pretty flowers creating this sculpture of a dog. The artist uses pastiche to paste together different elements and materials into one thing, a puppy. Wish I could see this sculpture in real life it looks absolutely gorgeous. It kinda reminds me of the sculptures they make in Epcot at Disney World in April for the flower festival. The little details they focus on make one character come to life with plants.

This post-modern artwork, Marilyn in the Sky by James Gill is very vibrant. It shows the idea of pop art with its painting of Marilyn Monroe. This painting shows the post-modernist element, hyperreality because it is showing the new reality that existed. At the time society found it difficult to differentiate between fact and fiction. It also shows fragmentation and pastiche through pasting different elements in fragments on the painting.

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This rug was created by Seyid Yahya Bakuvi (Shirvani). The shape and form of this piece was what intrigued me the most. It’s how the rug “liquifies” as it hits the floor and transitions from a boxy-rectangles to a melted pool of fabric. The artist takes on a minimalistic approach with a simple color scheme, however uses maximalism by showing us, through the streaked fabric, that the rug is in fact melting away.

Check out these "melting rugs" by other postmodern: artists:https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/nov/13/magic-carpet-art-faig-ahmed-rugs-azerbaijan

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This piece of art is by Beeple aka Mike Winkelmann. He is a digital artist who has created and posted new digital pictures everyday for 15 years since 2007. This image shows an emoji made out of wood being built by people from the old world. The people are dressed in clothes not of this time, and their building method is older to. This displays temporal distortion and historiographic metafiction because the first emoji was not invented until 1998, and these people are not from 1998. This does not make sense timely or historically. There is also intertextuality/pastiche because the artist is incorporating new traditions of speaking/communicating with old traditions of buildings and clothing style/practices. I love that the wood that is making up the emoji is colored yellow, red, white and black and not just the color of wood.

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The art piece, "Driving the World to Deconstruction" by Judy Chicago really caught my eye. Judy is known for critiquing her subjects instead of glorifying them, which I find really interesting. Her art piece demonstrates a seemingly strong man attempting to destroy the world. It’s hard to say what the true meaning behind this art piece is, but I think, based on Judys' intentions, it’s meant to highlight the idea that we as humans think we hold more power than we truly do. The art work contains minimalism as it focuses on the surface description. At first glance, the art just looks like a guy surrounded by thermal energy attempting to hold onto a wheel of some sort. When you understand the artists intentions, the true meaning behind the man is shown.

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This is Paul Bond's "The Girl Who Circumnavigated the World in a Dream of Her Own Making." This postmodern piece was created in 2012. Paul Bonds's work is a great connection to Magic Realism because his works lie in the middle between dreaming and reality. It is juxtaposing people who look at life with uplifting and positive thoughts that aren't being realistic. I think that it is a beautiful work because everyone is supposed to look at life in a different light, it's what gives the world variety. Life would be boring if everyone followed the same rulebook.

I even found a cool website where I could put it on my own wall! ft- Kenziebear

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The piece of artwork I chose was "Marilyn Diptych" by Andy Warhol. Warhol made this masterpiece following Marilyns death to juxtapose the cult of celebrity and death itself. Warhol uses the postmodernist elements of pastiche and fragmentation. He uses pastiche by mixing in the colorful beauty of Marilyns life and then he contrasts it with a darker element of her death. He uses fragmentation mixing elements of mass media and pop culture and then combines them on the opposing side of the downfall of such things.

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this is “Saturn Devouring His Son” by Francisco Goya created in order to depict Greek myth of the Titan, who fears that he would be overthrown by one of his children, so he ate each one of his children upon their birth.

this painting illustrates postmodern element of magical realism and paranoia through the action illustrated in the painting. the thought of his children overcoming him has led him to such extremes that he's resorted to eating his own son out of fear.

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Andy Warhol's Shot Marilyns have always piqued my interested because the piece is very minimalist in that it is simply four copies of the same image in different colors, but I like the simplicity because it looks like a color study. I've mimicked this piece before with a painting of my friend but instead of just switching color I added in changes of my own such as different style of shading or making one of the drawings look thermal. The Shot Marilyn's are very vibrant, but the repetition in the piece is calming.

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Paul Bonds "Big Push"

I chose this because I really liked the minimalistic idea of just a woman on a swing mixed with the magical realism affect of her flying through the air with the doves. I researched this photo and found that Paul Bond took inspiration from one of his models on a swing at a park. I think from this photo it's evident that the model is flying high off the ground and looks almost angelic surrounded by the pastel colors of the sky and the clouds behind her. I can definitely tell she is "joyful" as Bond describes her and her confidence backs the idea that she is magical and isn't afraid of being so high.

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David Salle is a painter and photographer from the United States. Most of his paintings include overlapping images in a collage like form. This painting is very interesting to me because it is showing our world morphing into the future, which is an example of the postmodern trait, technoculture. While this painting has so much going on, at the same time it doesn't, the main point is our world is evolving and taking us with it.

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Banksy's work near Port Talbot has several elements of Postmodernism, namely irony and dark humor. The irony of the child doing such a peaceful, youthful, and pleasant activity while standing in front of a literal dumpster fire is obvious, but that also represents the element of dark humor, or humor that is edgy, socially unaccepted, and makes jokes about death, tragedy, and other serious topics. The serious nature of a dumpster fire stands in contrast to the image of a child licking snowflakes and represents a blind ignorance about the state of the world.

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Big Nerd's Favorite Postmodernist Artists

Keith Haring is my choice for a postmodern artist. His use of extreme color and movement combined with minimalist shapes and a lack of realism screams modernist, yet the art can't scream because it's art... and it's not alive. Regardless, this artwork is a classic that everyone should recognize, even if they have no knowledge of art history. Clothing brands have revitalized his art in recent years, and it is now being worn as streetwear. Most of his work includes a political message, but I wanted to focus on why his visual art is postmodern rather than how he incorporates culture into his work.

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Over the Moon, painted by Rob Gonsalves, exhibits the postmodernist elements of fragmentation and magical realism. The objects shown in the image, like the moon, the sky, trees, planets, a child, etc, don't necessarily exist in the same places, but are fragments of the same world. And in this painting, they are all put together into one picture. It also shows the idea of magical realism, since these objects could not exist this close to each other without some magical element.

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This picture is from the Postmodern artist Paul Bond. I think Paul Bond has some of the most amazing pieces of artwork and styles that I see when looking for postmodern art. He provides such a unique outlook on life and and nature that provides a new perspective that what is usually seen. This photo specifically is my favorite from his work. The historiographic metafiction of this artwork comparing this woman to the Statue of Liberty was interesting to look at. We see the Statue of Liberty representing freedom but this represents a freedom and love for nature and mother earth. Standing on the ocean and holding a tree, this picture feels very powerful and has a lot to unpack. The little flourishes of birds perched on the leaves and the flower crown add more of that natural aspect. The tree being split into two different branches almost represents a wish bone in which when pulled, one side is bigger than the other. This all together can show the magical realism in the world and how we as humans fantasize about how the earth looks on an artistic level.

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Union of Sea and Sky by Rob Gonsalves

This particular work stood out to me because of the magic behind it. Rob Gonsalves is a Canadian artist who mainly focuses on magical realism. From this particular work, the painting depicts what looks to be underwater but also on land all at the same time- The beluga whales look as if they are swimming in the sky and the snorkelers as if they are floating around between the sea floor and the ocean top. It really shows a complete and chaotic idea

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This is a piece made by Paul Bond. This art is so real, yet so far from real. Notice the hyper-realistic man, grass, and birds. All of these elements are combined with very not-real rocks floating in the sky. Rocks don't float, but Paul Bond's do.

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The artist Rob Gonsalves painted his work “Arboreal Office” in order to show a fear of transformation. This art resembles technoculture in its rising industry. It shows how forests are being ruined in order to compensate for humanities expansion. Gonsalves paints a picture of paranoia with a man looking up into the night sky, in fear of trees becoming skyscrapers and mankind industrially overcoming the world.

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This is Andy Warhol’s 1962 Silkscreen Marilyn Diptych. (The painting was actually a reference to a Christian painting.) YEAH, who would have thought that right? Look how he uses photographic imagery (the light reflections on her face) but also a repetition element through intertextuality, you know, the same picture of Marilyn shown over and over again…waves the viewer with a little bit of confusion. But, it represents the repetition in which the culture he lived. That's pretty smooth.

Do you want to see more postmodern art like Andy Warhol’s? Check out https://www.theartstory.org/definition/postmodernism/artworks/ and have fun little postmodern Nerds!

This is "A Primary Picture" by David Flavin. It is a minimalistic art piece that only uses the three primary colors. It is only a frame and bring against a white background makes the colors pop. The art piece is the frame so there is nothing inside it. I believe this is intended to make the viewer imagine whatever they want to be inside the frame. It makes this piece unique for everyone as everyone will see different things inside the minimalistic frame.

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The artist, Fokenzary, uses black and white with a pop of color on the ape's face and the headphones in their painting "Cool Ape Listening Music With Headphone." It looks as if the ape is just enjoying some music while he waits for something. It is a very human thing to do which is kinda trippy since his expression is one you often see on people around you. It shows how while humans are more advanced than most mammals it doesn't mean that were the only one's with the that level of intelligence.

You can see or purchase Fokenzary's other work on amazon.

Damien Hirst, "The Physical Impossibility Of Death In The Mind Of Someone Living," shows postmodernism through the meaning of the overall piece of art. I believe that there is both minimalism and maximalism shown because you clearly only see this motionless shark, surrounded by formaldehyde, but the deeper meaning it portrays is so elaborate and prominent through many individuals who fear sharks in general. This artwork pulls out the idea of being faced with death because we obviously know that sharks are SCARY and DEADLY, but when we are faced with a shark in his artwork piece, there is nothing to be scared of happening. I think that Hirst is challenging his audience to comprehend death and the feeling it might make us feel. Many people only see sharks on television or maybe in an aquarium, so his work allows individuals to see this creature in safe surroundings and allow them to face their abstract fears. I feel like this artwork piece is so powerful and it allows us to understand that we as living beings cannot truly grasp the meaning of death until we are faced with it.

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Down below is "Blazing Sky" by Donray who is known for metaphorical paintings exploring the dimensions of life and nature. This image is just absolutely breathtaking to look it. Donray uses maximalistic, vibrant colors to bring his painting to life. Yet at the same time, there is a surreal and magical element to fire which is a recurring theme in Donray's work. The purpose of this image is to symbolize the conflict that occurred when Native Americans were kicked out of their homes by white settlers.

You can go to these links to know a little bit more about Donray and this work of art.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/blazing-sky-by-donray-acrylic-on-masonite-48x60black-periodit-is-a-western-landscape-prairie-with-a-fiery-sky-an--614600680374377978/

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List of famous Postmodernism artists, with images, bios, and information about their notable works. All the greatest artists associated with the Postmodernism movement are included here, along with clickable names for more details on that particular painter or sculptor. These notable Postmodernism...

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This piece is done by Barbara Kruger and the reason I picked this out was its simplicity, yet almost a sense of urgency with this piece. The juxtaposition of the aggressive slogan with the image of mass media communication assists in getting the message across that what you buy not your inner life makes you who you are.

This an image that puts into perspective what it means to be a parent and sacrificing for others. Uses the element of minimalism as it provides a singular simple image and lets your mind run with it. I've seen this image multiple times and every time I try to picture the sacrifice that my dad has gone through for our family just for us to feel complete. He has given up money, time, experiences, and his personal goals so that ours could be fulfill our goals.

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Disclaimer: I have no clue what this work's origin is. Google images directed me to Tumblr when I clicked on it, and the page won't load, so I'm winging it here.

What I find interesting about this painting is the types of distortion at the top and bottom. It's fitting for a postmodern painting; nothing makes sense and everything is fragmented, although it's in a strange way here. The bottom half represents the body as puzzle pieces of different sizes that look like they came from different sets. The top half, on the other hand, appears to be dirt so dry that it cracked and split apart. The only parts that aren't obscured by fragmentation are the nose and mouth, the two most necessary body parts for speech. I believe it means to say that regardless of how much the world around you may try to break you down, or fail to bring you up, you still have your voice, and no one can tarnish it.

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My artwork chosen is Ilya Repin's, Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan. This piece is just soooooo emotional in my opinion and represents a very dreadful and ironically sad story. The artwork reflects the scene of Ivan the Terrible right after he had fatally bashed his own son's head in after a fit of anger. Ironically, Ivan the terrible is crying, not because he regrets killing his own son, but because he is worried about the social repercussions of his actions. The art pushes a sad scene with supposedly understandable circumstances, but the ironic reality of the piece makes me enjoy it even more with a postmodernist lens.

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This is Claes Oldenburg’s Shuttlecocks. Oldenburg is known as a pop art sculptor who focuses on contemporary criticism and multimedia performances.

Check out the hyperrealism from the detailing in the feathers and the overall accuracy of the parts of a badminton shuttlecock (just blown out of proportion of course-I mean, imagine trying to block THAT from hitting your face with a tiny racket). It makes the viewer take a step back and simply go “WOW, impressive!” This is a rejection of normal art styles, creating something new and distinct.

I think this also reminds me of the movie "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" where the food is GIANT sized, just like this object. Super intriguing to me and it makes me laugh!

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This is Paul Bond’s The Girl Who Circumnavigated The World In A Dream Of Her Own Making. His artwork is focused on the element of magical realism, especially in this specific piece. The girl is in a very detailed basic environment, but in that environment she is floating in the air holding an umbrella with leaves wrapping around her. She actually resembles a mixture of Pocahontas and Mary Poppins in a little girl. This piece also resembles a girl lost in the simplicity of the world. There are bunnies all around her and her outfit is very simple representing the childlike quality of such a complex piece of art.

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I found this painting enlightening to the illusions of the world. It demonstrates the differences in perspectives. This reminds me of Disney World's use of peacefulness juxtaposed with intensity and abstraction. This picture demonstrate magical realism, because there are characters popping out of the bushes. Both the painting and the image appear to be normal until they are gazed at closer, demonstrating perspectives and magical realism.

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Mateusz Urbanowiczs, famous painting of “City In Paint” is a great example of postmodernism because it represents fragmentation because the whole series of the Scenes of Japan follow the same pattern. Each of the paintings is painted with different techniques which makes them have different tones and messages. He makes peaceful paintings that represent the beauty of Japan through empty streets. A key detail in this painting is the fact that the normally, crowded streets of Japan, are quiet and empty. I chose this painting because it looked very realistic and like somewhere I wanted to go. He tried to bend the reality and make the paintings as he saw them. He tried to paint everyday scenes from such a place without making them too nostalgic and unotainable.

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I ended up choosing an art piece by Paul Bond because I checked his magical realism art and wow!!

Compassionate Gardner By: Paul Bond

He tells his viewers of a time he traveled to Asia and visited many temples and gardens tended by monks. Bond observed the compassionate and peaceful nature towards their zen gardens. He tried to implement these feelings into his art. I think this piece shows a heavy amount of magical realism. The scene is tranquil and somewhat familiar but the details are mystical. Either the tree stump is huge or the man. He is caring for his zen garden upon the stump. This piece of art provides an immense amount of comfort to me. It's serene 🌗

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This is a very famous painting by Pablo Picasso called Guernica, made in 1937. It is his personal representation of the history of the bombing of the city Guernica. Picasso shows the pain and despair as he uses historiographic metafiction to describe in the death of these innocent people. Although the people depicted in this painting are not real, they represent the lives and loss of lives after this event.

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This picture represents the on how modern artists like to redo old paintings. How the new can redo the old. This is by Andy Warhol, who is a post modernist artist. It shows how sometimes we can take away the value from the old things that hold the value.

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This artwork is called "Disillusionment is Cool" and was created by Andy Warhol. He is a very famous artist who is known most famously for his pop art of Campbell soups. He adds splashes of postmodernist elements into his artwork and creates an experience for the viewers. He describes postmodernism as “playing and experimenting with nonsense.” This piece is playing with the balance of playfulness and realism.

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"The Son of Man" by René Magritte was made in 1964 as a self portrait. He famously used the green apple as a running motif in his works. It's an example of intertextuality and possibly even pastiche. The artist himself said that his goal with this piece was to get people to understand that everything is hiding something, and even when you find that hidden item, something else could be hidden inside. We as humans crave to find out what we do not know, even if we aren't supposed to know at all.

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This artwork created by Mushroom Dreams Visionary Art, Is named “I Am What I think.” Now that you know the name, doesn’t the artwork seem to make more sense? As I study this artwork, magical realism stands out as the image portrays a nonrealistic, magical looking lady, surrounded and made up of other animals and plants, all full of bright colors. The more I look at this picture I start to realize that you truly are who you think you are, and if you can’t help yourself be who you want to be, no one else can either.

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The Waterhouse by Paul Bond

I like this Piece of postmodernist art because it has this forced perspective. You would think that when you are looking at a fire place, it would stop because it is part of a wall, but it keeps going into the outside and then the outside also comes into the house. It just shows the nature is not bound to where man has tried to keep it, it just keeps flowing freely where it wants to go. It also has that bit of irony because water is flowing through a FIREplace...

Kaylee Allen 3rd period

The Nittany Lion Shrine dedicated to the Pennsylvania State University Campus in 1942 appears so minimalistic yet holds so much meaning to many current, future, and past PSU students. Throughout many years the shrine is visited all throughout the year and so many people take pictures with him. The sculpture is so simple looking but holds much meaning.

M&M P.2

Modernism is all about reason while postmodernism is about skepticism. A neo-expressionist artist, David Salle, created this art in a way that rejects reason, making this a postmodernist image. I could stare at this image for hours because there are so many layers to it.

These are the covers of Kenshi Yonezu's albums Diorama and Stray Sheep, and they're wonderful examples of postmodern art due to his use of magical realism and fragmentation, which tend to be strong themes in his music itself as well!

Both covers manage to be minimalistic and maximalist at the same time, with large areas of empty, calm space, followed by a heavy concentration of action and detail in one area. Diorama is extremely full of magical realism, as it portrays what would be an otherwise fairly normal town...built on top of a giant flying catfish. These albums came out in 2012 and 2020 respectively, and I find it extremely interesting how Yonezu chose to incorporate several shades of muted colors and an ombre effect with vivacious patches of bright, vibrant colors in Stray Sheep, yet Diorama is in black and white, as is most of his other art from that era (pale tan is an exception). Diorama was produced during an extremely dark time for Yonezu, and I think that's probably a very heavy influence on his choice of color in his earlier album (every song on there is a different mental breakdown and it takes a few listens to adjust because it's very different from his later music).

Stray Sheep is also a prime example of fragmentation and fabulism, as the inner areas of the mask are kaleidoscopic shards of glass that seem to reflect the person beneath, and the main figure's outfit as a whole feels like it's straight out of a post-apocalyptic novel!

Fun fact- he not only writes his lyrics, plays the instruments, illustrates his own album covers, and dances in his live-action videos, but he occasionally animates his songs as well! "Vivi" is from Diorama and is one of the less insane songs on there, and "Eine Kleine" is from his Yankee (2014) album, and the latter is where you can see the bridge between the two art styles above start to form!

The style of pop art is a postmodernism art technique, I believe that this quality kind of resembles magical realism. Here are some examples

The bright colors highlight the parts of the pictures that are center stage and important to the message of the pictures. I like this style because it reminds me of the 50-60s diners and drive ins that were colorful and bright. However I personally think that the colors can be somewhat obnoxious.

The most interesting post-modern artwork, in my opinion, is actually a sculpture in Chicago named, The Bean. The Bean was created by Anish Kapoor, a British artist who welded this sculpture with 168 steel plates. The Bean has an extremely shiny exterior that reflects the people around the park and the atmosphere. There is a post-modern element literally called "self-reflexivity", which I think where I am going with this is quite self-explanatory when it comes to this gigantic reflective bean.

Here is a link to other Anish Kapoor sculpture:

https://www.galeriemagazine.com/5-major-works-from-anish-kapoor/

This is Maggie Taylor's "Cloud Sisters." Maggie Tylor likes to create what she calls "dreamlike worlds inhibited by everyday objects." This picture gives across a feeling of peace and happiness, even though its covered in rain, kind of like you can find the happiness sadness almost. Its not easy to find that middle line of both happiness and sadness so this feeling the pictures is giving across is dreamlike.

The Rainbow Pickett fence by Judy Chicago holds minimalistic postmodern elements by its simple but powerful colors and its simple shapes as they are all the same shape just different colors and sizes. Judy Chicago created her piece as a minimalism style which then created a hallmark image to her minimalist work.

To read more of the success Judy Chicago and the Rainbow Pickett and its history click here.

This is "Untitled #228," a photographic artwork by Cindy Sherman. It shows postmodernism through its intertextuality(it spins off of a Bible Story and one that has been depicted in art, Judith and Holofernes) and metafiction as it is a picture of herself and uses tacky makeup and props. Her art was made to both reimagine art as photography and to inspire young women/aspiring artists.

Rob Gonsalves' is an artist born in Toronto, Canada and his work is often categorized as Surrealism because he likes to merge scenes with one another to give each piece an outlandish feeling. His Ideas are largely generated by the external world and recognizable human activities. The name of this painting is, "Stardust". This painting shows a never ending staircase that eventually leads into a star. It really gives the optical illusion of spinning because the staircase is in a never ending spiral into space. SUPER COOL RIGHT?!

This is "Shards 1" by Frank Stella. "Shards 1" is a Lithograph that was made in 1982. This piece by Stella demonstrates the Postmodernist aspect of a minimalistic abstract approach.The piece is very minimal when it comes to the colors used and certain objects pictured but also ties in abstract lines that seem as if the lines are popping out towards you.

Heres the link to this piece plus hundreds of others! ⬇️

https://www.artsy.net/artwork/frank-stella-shards-1

Jasper John is a famous postmodernist artist known for his depictions of the American flag and other US-related topics like the map he created in 1961. He is an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker whose work is associated with abstract expressionism, Neo-Dada, and pop art. John's "Map" gives off an image that is seen and not looked at nor is it examined. He preserves the proportions of the country and some of the shapes of the states. John's usage of energetic application of the paint invites people to come closer and inspect the painting due to its content being both imaginary and familiar.

This painting by Rob Gonsalves is a great example of the postmodernism element of Magical Realism. His painting, "Over the Moon" represents magical realism because we can see planet Earth off in the distance and it is taking place in the nighttime meaning that the little girl is in a dream. She is on a swing in her sleep alongside the moon and a few surrounding planets.

A great example of magical realism is @qinniart 's "Life, ever-flowing, over-growing". The painting represents the spread of a medical condition, for the artist herself battled with tons of heart diseases and even cancer in her heart; for he spread of infection is like a weed that cannot stop growing.

Sadly her condition worsened and she later died because of it. Most of her works represent her struggle with these medical problems she has and it helps relate to others that face these certain conditions as well.

A great example of a postmodernist artist is an artist named Roy Lichtenstein. His painting called "Whaam!" from 1963 used speech bubbles and onomatopoeia to express itself in the painting. Lichtenstein's work was known to break down and analyze the difference between pop culture and high culture. He heavily uses the ties to postmodernism and intertextuality with the different styles of culture to reflect onto the war and its effects onto society.

"Whaam!" (1963) Roy Lichenstein

This is a photograph taken by Cindy Sherman, called Untitled Film Still #21, who played with the idea of identity fragmentation in most of her art pieces, which shows prominently in this piece by her appearance as the subject and the photographer. Her work also incorporates small amounts of Pastiche by taking the style of a past time period and making it prominent in her appearance in her work.

This art piece is by Robert Rauschenburg called "Signs" that demonstrates the events that occurred in the 1960's. This includes import deaths of the decade including Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and many more. Also, the Vietnam War is displayed as well as violence that happened around the time period. This ties to postmodernism to reflect the chaos of the time period as well as enhance people's vision for a better future.

Hers the link to a website explaining the meaning to lots of Rauschenburg's art pieces. https://www.theartstory.org/artist/rauschenberg-robert/artworks/

Rob Gonsalves is a Canadian artist known for his mind-bending paintings. The name of this painting is “Water Dancers”. This painting in particular shows surrealism expressed by the way the waterfall turns into dancers in white clothing. It really makes you do a double-take because one quick glance and you could go the rest of your life thinking it was just a painting of a waterfall.

When I was in San Francisco, I was walking on an off street and found a bunch of giant faceless babies. When I did some research, I found the artist's name; David Černý. His creation of gigantic babies that use the same material as the building near them, but create a whole new environment, incorporate both minimalism and hyperrealism (giving the babies no faces as well as giving extreme detail to the bodies).