1. 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.

2. Modernism….Postmodernism…Contemporary practice. Umm….. What is Postmodernism again? Tillers, Inherited absolute, 1992, oil and oil stick on 115 canvas boards, nos. 33885 – 33999, 231 x 228cm David Hockney (b. 1937 Britain) Pearlblossom Highway 11 - 18th April 1986, #2, 1986, Polaroid prints on paper, 198 x 281cm. Guerilla Girls Poster, 1980s.

3. 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.

4. Well that’s all very well. Is Postmodernism relevant now though? You can never go back….. 

5. A wonderful example of contemporary practice. Rosalie (German, n.d.) Flossis, giant resin figures with suction cups on hands and feet; installation Germany 2000. Contemporary Practice

6. 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

7. 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