Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Modern and Postmodern


Modern: Universal, form-focused, transcendent, purity, idealistic, original, shock of the new, finalized art object, minimalism, abstraction, aesthetic quality, subject matter is incidental

Donald Judd, Untitled, 1990














Postmodern: Ambiguous, appropriation, kitsch, debased, mix of new and old, collage, shock of recognition, denial of originality or invention, multi-media, graphic/cinematic, emphasis on subject matter and specificity

David Salle, Mingus in Mexico, 1990

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