Postmodernism
Postmodernism
began after Modernism didn’t quite live up to everyone’s expectations.
Postmodernists wanted to challenge the audience and make them ask questions.
Postmodernist style is about collage, mixing styles, mixing high and low art
and critiquing basic assumptions about life. Postmodernist art is often
political or satirical, playing on recent events of the time.
Self-referencing
seems to be a big part of Postmodernism. A few examples of self-referential
pieces include M. C. Escher’s ‘Drawing Hands’, 1948, where his drawing is of
two hands both drawing the other as they are being drawn. ‘The Treachery of Images’
by René
Magritte, 1929, is also an excellent example of self-referencing, as it refers
to itself in the phrase “Ceci n’est pas une pipe”, explaining to the audience
it is not a pipe, simply a drawing of one. Anthony Burrill’s ‘I like it, what
is it?’ poster is also self-referential as it makes the audience question what
it is like the piece itself asks you to. It also refers to a very common reaction
to a lot of art where the audience sees a piece and thinks it is visually
pleasing in some way but doesn’t necessarily know what it is or what the artist
is saying they just know they like it.
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