Extra Credit
This is Paul Bond's Lao Tzu's Dream. (Do you know what Lao Tzu's name means? Old Teacher. ) Yeah, I'm a total STAN. Look at how he uses hyper-realism (the stones' texture) but utterly surreal elements...you know, the tree & such...knock the viewer a little off balance. Plus, it's a little mockery of the whole hipster cairn-building fad. He's good.
Do you want to see a few more? Check out Magical Realism Art by Paul Bond and enjoy!
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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!