Postmodernity!!! (1 Viewer)

[irnie]

omg.... im stressing out trying to define postmodernism!! there can be no clear definitions.... but is there like, certain things you should mention?

 

[lislabella]

Irony - an outcome of events contrary to what was or might have been expected
- its use is designed to ridicule or be playful

Parody - a humerous or satirical immitation of a serious piece of literature or writing
- vital component of the post modern frame

Appropriation - to incorporate imagery from an existing artwork

Pastiche - to create an artwork where you incorporate the style/technique of another artwork

Recontextualisation - to alter the understanding by adding another layer of meaning

Juxtaposition - placing things/images side by side or close together to create meaning

this doesnt really define postmodernism, but if anything it will help deconstruct an artwork through the postmodern frame

 

[xox_eMz_xox]

woah... want to do that for every frame for me? lol

 

[Not-That-Bright]

Postmodernism - there is no objective truth.
Reality/Modernism - there is an objective truth.

 

[xox_eMz_xox]

Postmodernism - there is no objective truth.
Reality/Modernism - there is an objective truth.

im confused..

 

[lislabella]

woah... want to do that for every frame for me? lol

sure why not



Through the conceptual framework, students learn about:
• the role of the artist — the who, what, how, and why. The concept of the artist
encompasses practitioners such as artists, craftspeople, designers and architects.
The artist can be thought of as an individual or as a group, school, movement, etc.
• the role and value of the audience as a body of critical consumers. The concept of
the audience includes art critics and art historians as well as teachers, students,
entrepreneurs, patrons and other members of the public. Audiences for works
change over time and bring different meanings to artworks, artists and interpretations
of the world.
• artworks as real objects, as material, physical and virtual objects. The concept of
artworks includes art, craft and design as two- and three-dimensional works
(including architecture), and four-dimensional and time-based works. Artworks also
exist as representations of ideas that reflect such things as personal responses,
cultural views, symbolic interpretations and critical reinterpretations of other ideas.

Through the frames, students learn how art may represent:
• the subjective frame — personal and psychological experience. Through this
frame, art may be thought to be about and represent deeply felt and sensory
experience, human consciousness, intuition, imagination, originality, creative
expression, and the aesthetic response. Meaning is understood in relation to the
intersubjective experiences afforded to the maker and viewer.
In artmaking, students can explore their own deeply felt experiences, investigating
their own and others’ feelings and responses to the world around them. This may
influence their selection of subject matter such as friends, family, self-image or
things of personal significance from their own environment. It may lead to the
imaginative investigation of subject matter and the exploration of techniques that
capture their personal interests.
In art criticism and art history students can develop personal responses to artists
and artworks that are highly significant to them. They can explore artworks as
expressive and unique objects, develop notions of individual styles, and interpret the
work and the influence of those artists who are of great personal interest to them.

• the cultural frame — cultural and social meaning. Through this frame art may be
thought to be about and represent the collective interests of cultural groups, ideology,
class, politics, gender, and the celebration of spiritual and secular beliefs, events
and objects. From this view, meaning is understood in relation to the social
perspective of the community from which it grows.
In artmaking, students can explore cultural values and social meanings. This may
influence how they represent subject matter of a broad social significance and lead
them to explore the cultural meanings of the expressive forms they work in.
In art criticism and art history, students can consider how notions of cultural identity
can inform the production of artworks. Students may study differing cultural attitudes
towards the visual arts and the effects of scientific and technological innovation,
politics and economics. They may study concepts of social and cultural identity (eg
gender, Indigenous, regional, national, modern, contemporary etc) on artistic
practices in particular places at a certain time and over time.

• the structural frame — communication and the systems of signs. Through this
frame, art may be thought to be about and represent a visual language as a symbolic
system: a system of relationships between signs and symbols that are read and
understood by artists and audiences who are able to decode texts. From this view,
meaning is understood in terms of the relationships of symbols that are used to refer
to the world. Through this system ideas are circulated and exchanged.
In artmaking, students can explore the communicative value of their work in the use
of conventions and in the selection of symbols. This may affect their adoption of
certain conventions and lead them to consider how codes and symbols are read by
themselves and audiences, as well as how particular expressive forms convey
certain meanings. It may lead them to pay close attention to the formal organisation
and placement of parts within their own works.
In art criticism and art history, students can consider how artworks can be read and
their meaning understood in terms of how specific symbols refer to the world.
Students may study how visual information is transmitted in artworks, how the formal
and organisational relationships in a work mean certain things and how the visual
arts can operate as a visual language at a certain time and over time.

• the postmodern frame — ideas which challenge mainstream values of histories
and ideas. Through this frame, art may be thought to be about and represent ‘texts’
that reconfigure and question previous texts and current narratives. These are woven
together through such things as irony, parody, quotation. From this view, meaning is
attained through critique that exposes the patterns of authority and the assumptions
of mainstream values in the visual arts to reveal inconsistencies, uncertainties and
ironies.
In artmaking, students can recontextualise artworks and critique definitions of what
art is. Students may modify, reinterpret or appropriate images from a variety of
sources in the artworks they make. They may investigate the potential of newer
technologies where challenges are made to the unique, singular, precious object as
art.
In art criticism and art history, students can question practice in art and the generally
accepted classifications of artists, artworks, movements and styles. They can identify
inconsistencies in what is written.They can re-evaluate notions of the artistic genius
and the masterpiece, and study influences and chronologies to reveal power
relations, disjunctions and hidden assumptions.

^^ BOS Visual Arts Sylabus
Artist
-year born/died
-country born and died
-living conditions
-world politics and state of country affairs at time of painting
-general genre style of works

Citation
-artwork, English translation or vice versa if necessary
-year painted
-dimensions
-media used, used on
-where it resides

Frames:
Subjective - personal psychological experience
-what is my first impression?
-what do I see, hear…?
-what am I reminded of, recall?
-what intuition/imaginings do I have?
-do I like it/ positive/negative MUST REINFORCE WHY!

Cultural -cultural and social meanings
-what cultural group, race, place, identity
-what ideas, concepts, manifestoes, shared beliefs?
-what social class, gender?
-what political stance? -dissent or support, propaganda or protest?
-what significant events?
-what meanings?
-what signs and symbols reveal these meanings?
-how do these cultural an social meanings affect the art practices?

Structural -communication, system of signs
-describe the visual language -lines, shapes, colours, textures, tones and direction
-discuss perspective, focal point, composition, 3D, space
-discuss materials and processes
-what found objects from another use?
-what do the symbolic value of each of the above convey?
-what are the relationship of these symbols, signs.
-what style, or period, or art movement?
-what formal conventions of western at are used?
-what cultural conventions are used?
-why were the above symbols, signs selected?
-how do they refer to the world now and over time?

Post Modern - ideas that challenge the mainstream
- is it mainstream? Is it outside of the mainstream?
-what is appropriated, quoted from another source? Explain the source, what meaning is added?
-does this produce humour, irony, parody, wit, playfulness?
-what is omitted, disregarded?
-what is reconfigured, reinterpreted?
-what is challenged - in social cultural values, beliefs spiritual/secular, power authorities?
-what is challenged in art practices - classifications, conventions, art movements/styles?

Artists Practice
-artists working methods
-the development of his/her style
-what the artist is influenced by
-what the artists intention is in his/her art making
-the frames in which the artist works

Conceptual Frame
-World
~art world and greater world play a significant role in the practice of artists
~an artwork is generally an interpretation of his or her world
~art world is part of the world at large and is constantly changing and evolving due to technology and science
~collective experiences
~today’s world-many interpretations and layers can exist
-Artwork
~artworks belong within the confines of the artists world
~artworks reflect conceptuality and physical interests, ideas, and technology of the artist and the world
-Audience
~this includes critics and historians as well as students, teachers, patrons and other members of the public
~personal experiences of an individual have an effect on how they read work
~contemporary audiences differ hugely from the past, medieval audiences were largely illiterate and imagery was often a narrative
~mass communications today bombard the literate audience but perhaps not the critical consumers
-Artist
~the artists own circumstances will differ hugely and determine artistic practice
~constraint may be in the form of ideologies, i.e. feminism, or religion
~patronage gives opportunity as well as sometimes constraining the individual creativity

^^my notes from our school year ten profile for deconstructing artworks, its still really helpful

 

[xox_eMz_xox]

omg your a champ! where on earth do you find the time..

 

[lislabella]

lol at the end of last year when i was all... wooo study time gotta get good marks... yeah im only JUST passing english atm

 

[rightie]

WOW your notes rok!!! i cant believe you did that for art and your nearly failing english!! wat did you do for your bow?

 

[lislabella]

drawings of my poppy... there is a link to one of them in the 2005 major works thread

 

[soso]

WOW great notes thanks for sharing

 

[phatchance]

omg.... im stressing out trying to define postmodernism!! there can be no clear definitions.... but is there like, certain things you should mention?

you are post modern