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.