Post-Modernism did not kill art or the possibility of future art movements—but it did make them smaller, looser, and harder to name with a straight face. Apparently, the historians and critics, intent…
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Short answer? No.More accurate answer? Post-Modernism was the end of believing there was a single road at all. Post-Modernism didn’t kill art—it detonated the map. Modernism still trusted progress: each movement reacting…
Postmodernism (roughly 1960s/70s–1990s) reacted against modernism’s faith in progress, universal truths, originality, and “grand narratives” (e.g., art constantly advancing toward pure form or social utopia). It embraced irony, pastiche, appropriation, the…
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These are some Bauhaus designs made with Kittl for one of their recent design challenges. It is always fun and rewarding to do anything with a Bauhaus influence. Thanks for…
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Dada was an international, avant-garde art and literary movement that flourished between 1915 and 1922. The Dadaists’ declared purpose was to protest the senseless violence of World War I, which…
A golden section is a line segment that has been divided into two parts in such a way that the ratio of the longer part (a) to the shorter part…
“In Les Mots et Les Images, René Magritte notes that ‘everything tends to make us think that there is very little connection between an object and what represents it’ and that ‘an object never fulfills…
By Eric Hatheway We tried to see when we did not know what we looked like. We were longing for landscapes which had long been destroyed. We saw ourselves as…
There is history. There is drunk history. And then, there is drunk art history. Cheers!
Ska is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae music. Ska skillfully combined the elements of traditional Caribbean mento and calypso with…
A parallel revolt against the traditional modes of expression took place in poetry under the leadership of the Symbolists, who strove for direct poetic experience unspoiled by intellectual elements. They…