Postmodern artists

Famous tattoo artist and tattoo parlour owner, Kat Von D once said: "I am a canvas of my experiences, my story is etched in lines and shading, and you can read it on my arms, my legs, my shoulders, and my stomach." I admire the fact that she is courageous enough to display the story of her life on her body for everyone to see. However, what do you think would happen if this famous entrepreneur and say a woman of the same age, with the same amount of experience and the same qualifications were…

David the act of becoming an artist is dreary and can only happen if it flows from his positions within social and religious orders. Ultimately, David Copperfield, through its message and connection to Dickens 's own life, works as a kuntslerroman because it is a bildungsroman. Placing fiction as an aspect of moral and life and development allows Dickens to counter ideas of solo scriptura and use the novel as a form to demonstrate development. It is this view of the artists as a type of moral…

Lauryn Hill is a famous songwriter and poet whose work is balanced between sacred and secular. Even though all of her songs and poems are not about religion they still have strong meanings. In 2002 Lauryn Hill released a song called “The Mystery of Iniquity.” Through this song Ms. Hill expresses how the government attempts to hide the their unfair treatment. During the Era of slavery the unfair and brutal treatment of blacks was obvious, but in modern times the government is now hiding the their…

Sophie Mitchell Some words that might be needed when understanding appropriation in art are convention, postmodern and appropriation. Appropriation means to take an image from the past and put in new context so that it changes it’s meaning. The meaning of convention is the rules and standards in art. Postmodern is new, different, experimental art that questions the conventions of art. Postmodern artist challenge the conventions of art by using different and unusual materials and doing things…

Three Artists: Throughout this mass world of dance, there are many extraordinary choreographers, dancers, artists, and innovators that impact young artists. Sometimes we tend to forget the different eras of dance. For example, the early to mid twentieth century, 1960s-1980s, and of course the twenty-first century. It is important to understand the evolution of how modern dance evolved. It provides us a history and background, so we can grasp a better understanding on what it is we are learning…

Both Banksy and Jill Orr are created in the postmodern framework with the unconventional messages and use of materials, symbolism and signs. Graffiti artist Banksy and performance, photography and video artist Jill Orr each portrays and demonstrate different focuses in unique and distinct creative practices. Banksy can be classified as a postmodern graffiti artist from the early 1990’s with a distinct style in the street art genre. He is…

Postmodernism/ Modernism Modernist artists can be viewed as a new way of thinking that started in the 1860’s and ended in the 1970’s that sought to view art thru fresh eyes. Modern art focused on actual items in nature but sought to abstract it. Post-Modernism is almost the anti-modernism. It went to go against anything modernism stood for. Asking more questions than it answered postmodern artists sought to simplify and recreate past styles and converge low and high art into one. In this essay…

text. On the other hand, in Postmodern literature authors present “Intertextuality” and “fragmentation”: dispersing themes, imagery, plot and characters through out the novel. Both “Intertextuality” and “Fragmentation” are completely different from the patterns found in Modernist literature which focusses on “Pessimism” and examining literature from mundane perspective. Ultimately through dissecting the writing styles in books created in modernist era and postmodern era scholars would be able…

Scott Fitzgerald. Bret Easton Elis brought out the themes of postmodernist art in his novels as well. All of these artists embody all that these artistic…

and last until around the middle of the 20th century. Some of the important artists of this time were Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, and Salvador Dalí. Postmodernism began in the 1960s, however the term was not predominantly applied to the movement until the 1970’s mainly with architecture, but when it comes to paintings and other such art the term did not come to fruition until the mid 1980s. Some of the important artists of this movement were Jasper Johns, Francis Bacon, and Nam June Paik.…