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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!
catsarecoolaswatermelon 7th Pd.
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.
M.C. Escher
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.
Selena Gomez 7th
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.
BOB ROSS 3rd
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.
Legolas 3rd
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.
Crystal Shanda-Leer 3rd
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
2ndThing
5th Period
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?
porcifan234 p3
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
Bentley&Scout 7th
"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.
Cyber Surfer 4th:
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.
Kachan 6th
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.
BelugaGray 7th period
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.
the_freckle_face 7th
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.
Anne Teak 4th
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.
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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.
Steve Rogers pd.5
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
lukecombsismyboyfriend 4th
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
Glitterunicornkitty-p.5
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.
3rd period
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.
sally_1 6th period
Snow White
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.
King Midas Period 3rd
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.
Superpurplepoo 5th Period
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.
NikeLover4Life! 2nd Period
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!
PostmodPrincess614 P3
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.
D.J. Libre 4th Period
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.
Bartholomew Javontavious Dingle III 5th Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan
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.
Grape-Vine 4th
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.
Bandit the pug 4th
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.
Mildred 6th
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 🌗
Billyyerd Pd.2
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.
Dark Bloom 2pd
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.
Noah Lott 2nd Period
"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.
Insertfunnyname pd.2
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.
If you are looking to explore more meaningful/hidden messaged artwork, check out this site!-https://fineartamerica.com/art/paintings/meaningful
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 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 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/
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This painting is "Marilyn Diptych" by Andy Warhol.
Marilyn Monroe is an icon. So when I saw this painting, I immediately was attracted to it. The contrasting colors is what makes it interesting to me. He used Monroe to attract people that would immediately recognize her. The artist uses intertextuality of pop culture interwoven into an image that relays a deeper and darker message. The color with the monochrome shows that this pop culture that is presented to us has a lot to do with mass consumption.
Here's a link to learn more:
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/warhol-marilyn-diptych-t03093
This is Rob Gonsalves "The Sun Sets Sail".The artist using a sense of optimism by realizing and looking at the fact that there is an illusion as a way of getting out.He also shows surrealism, by realizing the function of the thought that is expressed by the way the bridge turns into ships. Gonsalves intends the consumer to realize that the though process is real but you can't touch them.This painting is new level of reality, and a new existence for artist like Bob Gonsalves.
Here is the link to the painting: https://www.robgonsalves.live/poster-shop2/sun-sets-sail-1
This image used by Rashi Maheshwari. She uses it to describe magic realism and how it's effects can be used in literature.
The artist of the image uses magic realism in the illusion of the sky as well as maximalism, when the artist depicts the whole scene rather than focusing on one element and fragmentation through the artist's chaotic representation.
Walt Disney World uses a ton of post modernist architecture designs. The Swan Hotel embraces the attributes of a post modernist era and has very abstract details. When you stay at this hotel it feels like you have been put in another era, its magical.
Look at what I did here. I commented on the art by referring to its details, I explained which elements of Postmodernism I found intriguing, I included a picture, and I gave you a hyperlink to follow. Try it!