MODERNISM / POSTMODERNISM / CONTEMPORARY PRACTICE / HSC QUESTIONS / SURREALISM / LIFE IN GENERAL / ART IS LIFE / ART IS DEATH / NAH JUST KIDDING / ARE YOU ALL EVEN READING THIS / I NEED COFFEE /IF IT’S NOT ON FB THEN IT DIDN’T HAPPEN / YOU’RE NOT ON FB? YOU DIDN’T HAPPEN / I HOPE YOU APPRECIATE THIS IS A TEXT-BASED ARTWORK I’M CREATING HERE / USING THE POSTMODERN FRAME HOW COULD WE DESCRIBE THIS WORK? /JACK I’M TALKING TO YOU / YES THAT JACK/ YOUR TIME STARTS NOW BUT DO REMEMBER A LIFETIME CAN PASS WITHIN AN INSTANT.
Modernism….Postmodernism…Contemporary practice. Umm….. What is Postmodernism again? Tillers, Inherited absolute, 1992, oil and oil stick on 115 canvas boards, nos – 33999, 231 x 228cm David Hockney (b Britain) Pearlblossom Highway th April 1986, #2, 1986, Polaroid prints on paper, 198 x 281cm. Guerilla Girls Poster, 1980s.
Walter Gropius, Bauhaus School building, 1920s. An example of a Modernist building – very simple lines, flat roof, very functional. Frank Gehry, (Canada, b.1929) Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao Spain,1997.
Well that’s all very well. Is Postmodernism relevant now though? You can never go back…..
A wonderful example of contemporary practice. Rosalie (German, n.d.) Flossis, giant resin figures with suction cups on hands and feet; installation Germany Contemporary Practice
Plate 4: Stelarc (b. 1946, Australian) Involuntary body, third hand and Scanning Robot, 1998, performance, Museumsquartier, Vienna Austria. Plate 3: Frank Gehry, (b. 1929, Canadian) Guggenheim Art Museum, on the banks of the Nervion River, Bilbao Spain, 1997,. Steel frame, titanium sheathing, 50 m height Q: With reference to Plates 3, 4 & 5 explain the different ways that these contemporary artists reflect the contemporary world in their artworks. (8 marks, 15 mins.) HSC QUESTION PRACTICE
Plate 5: Masami Teraoka, (b. 1936, Japanese) McDonald’s Hamburgers Invading Japan, 1982, colour screenprint on Arches 88 paper, edition number 41/91, 54.3 x 36.5cm