Post Modernism

What is Post Modernism?

Cont.

Examples

Post Modernism is when you:

• Take the traditional and change elements within it
• Change the forms- art to cartoon
• Make something more humorous
• Playing around with politics
• Mixing the past with the present
• Reinvent
• Play with views of reality

Mona Lisa with a Mustache

People now days use the older forms of art to create new ones because their audiences are familiar with the originals and they find it more amusing to see something that has been re-invented.

Intertextuality

Example Cont.

Intertextuality is when an artist is influenced by other peoples work and uses elements or references in their own work. Intertextuality is used a lot in post modern work.

Salvador Dali's Melting Clocks- Simpsons edition

If the experimental stage of genre attempts

to establish trends

And the cannon stage works within those trends to fix them into our cultural understanding

Then post modernism looks at those trends, laughs at them, pokes them with a big stick and adds something new

Post Modernism