The themes of postmodern principles became more important and influential over time to me in this class. I became to realize that they what every artists does, to a certain extent and in different ways. Also, that these themes are used commonly in High School and College. We were to read two articles: Approaches to postmodern Art-Making by Terry Barrett and Principles of Possibility: Considerations for a 21st-century Art & Culture Curriculum by Olivia Gude.
Barrett talks about how postmodern artist seek to collapse boundaries that are important to modernists and how they believe art is "high art" and above the things experienced in "low culture". Also how postmodern artist work collaborative. He also talks about Appropriating, Jouissance, Stimulating, Hybridizing, Mix Media, layering, mixing codes, re-contextualization, confronting the gaze, facing the abject, constructing identities, using narratives, creating metaphors and finally irony, parody and dissonance.
Gude's article was interesting. She talks about playing, forming self, investigating community themes, encountering difference, attentive living, empowered experiencing and making, deconstructing culture, and reconstructing social space.
She says to consider structuring general art-making courses to introduce six areas of art-making:
1. expressionism
2. mimesis
3. formalism
4.applied design
5. craft
6. postmodern principles.
...( from the principles he talks about, we are to pick a postmodern theme to present to the class that I will talk about in later posts)
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