21 Facts About Postmodern art

Postmodern art is a body of art movements that sought to contradict some aspects of modernism or some aspects that emerged or developed in its aftermath.

Not all art labeled as contemporary art is postmodern, and the broader term encompasses both artists who continue to work in modernist and late modernist traditions, as well as artists who reject postmodernism for other reasons.

Postmodern art makes the point these debates go on all the time with respect to art movements and periods, which is not to say they are not important.

The close of the period of postmodern art has been dated to the end of the 1980s, when the word postmodernism lost much of its critical resonance, and art practices began to address the impact of globalization and new media.

Jean Baudrillard has had a significant influence on postmodern-inspired art and emphasised the possibilities of new forms of creativity.

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Manet's various violations of representational Postmodern art brought to prominence the supposed mutual exclusiveness of reality and representation, design and representation, abstraction and reality, and so on.

One characteristic of postmodern art is its conflation of high and low culture through the use of industrial materials and pop culture imagery.

Postmodern art is noted for the way in which it blurs the distinctions between what is perceived as fine or high art and what is generally seen as low or kitsch art.

Postmodern art holds all stances are unstable and insincere, and therefore irony, parody, and humor are the only positions critique or revision cannot overturn.

Postmodern art's point was to have people look at the urinal as if it were a work of art just because he said it was a work of art.

The work of Robert Rauschenberg, whose "combines" in the 1950s were forerunners of Pop Art and Installation Postmodern art, and made use of the assemblage of large physical objects, including stuffed animals, birds and commercial photography, exemplified this Postmodern art trend.

Lawrence Alloway used the term "Pop Postmodern art" to describe paintings celebrating consumerism of the post World War II era.

One way Pop art is postmodern is it breaks down what Andreas Huyssen calls the "Great Divide" between high art and popular culture.

Robert Pincus-Witten coined the term Post-minimalism in 1977 to describe minimalist derived Postmodern art which had content and contextual overtones minimalism rejected.

Conceptual art is sometimes labelled as postmodern because it is expressly involved in deconstruction of what makes a work of art, "art".

Many conceptual works take the position that Postmodern art is created by the viewer viewing an object or act as Postmodern art, not from the intrinsic qualities of the work itself.

An important series of movements in art which have consistently been described as postmodern involved installation art and creation of artifacts that are conceptual in nature.

One example being the signs of Jenny Holzer which use the devices of Postmodern art to convey specific messages, such as "Protect Me From What I Want".

One of the most common forms of "multi-media Postmodern art" is the use of video-tape and CRT monitors, termed Video Postmodern art.

Telematic Postmodern art is a descriptive of Postmodern art projects using computer mediated telecommunications networks as their medium.

Critiques on the institutions of Postmodern art are made in the work of Michael Asher, Marcel Broodthaers, Daniel Buren and Hans Haacke.