Group presentation

Presentation Postmodernism and Post structuralism

          Our group has seven people, but only six people give six parts of presentation because Alex Doronin is a special person who begins a discussion, introduces each new section, and closed the presentation.  My presentation was on Modernism, and my part was Lyotard.  I searched information about Lyotard’s modernism theory on several websites and some pictures.  After that, I made power point and send it to Michaela who collected our PowerPoint and put in the same file. Actually, our group had to present on April 26, but we had short time, so we will continue to present our project next week. 

 I was the first person who gave a presentation.  I really did not like to speak in front of people, so giving presentation was the hardest part for me. On the teddy bear picture give me a sense of signifier and signify.  Food produces have shape of animal, but they are not animal.  I could not speak English very well, and my pronunciation was very bad.  I was not confident.  I think I am a lucky person because members in my group are so kind and friendly.  After I finished giving a presentation, I felt so sorry for my group because I was too nervous.  However, people in my group were not angry at me, but also gave me courage. 

Analysis#5

Analysis #5

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Post modernism is an artistic and literary movement that quite obviously rejected the previous modernism movement in an attempt to analyse and reorganize the existing modes of art practice.  Post modern caused a great change among popular style and challenged the term modernism.  The French philosopher Jean-Francois Lyotard focused on the statement “The post-, in the term ‘postmodernist’ is in this case to be understood in the sense of a simple succession, of a diachrony of periods, each of them clearly identifiable.  Something like a conversion, a new direction after the previous one” (1466).  People escaped the complexity to simpleness.  In other word, they got bored of modernism and changed their idea to Postmodernisn.  Many art theories are influenced be postmodernism such as minimalist, surrealism, and expressionism. 

            Frank Stella, Untitled.  What do you see in this picture?

On Frank Stella’s minimalist painting is about line shape textual, and color.  The painting does not tell a story, or even feeling.  The painting is based on fact that only what can be seen.  There is there.  It is really an object.  "What you see is what you get."

                        Maya Lin, Vietnam Veterans Memorial.  What is that?

This piece of art was designed as a minimal sculpture sit below ground and covered with the names of men and women who died during the war.  It has been very controversial.  This is an emotional piece, but she did not express her mood.  It is contemporary public art work, and it is an abstract geometric form of a single natural material.

            Both pieces of art generated a good deal of controversy and discussion about its ideological and artistic merit.  Moreover, both artists skillful combination of found and created objects make their emotion assemblage visual summation of the deeply embedded social ills that were redressed during the time period.   


Work cite
Leitch, Vincent B. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. New York: W. W. Norton &, 2010. Print.