Discuss the significance of irony and humour to Postmodern practice Irony and humour is used in many post-modern artworks to reflect upon the issue it is addressing. The integration of irony and humour often signifies the artist’s reaction to the modernising world. In Ursus Wehrli’s best-seller, ‘Tidying Up Art’, he has attempted to bring order and structure to many famous artworks. For example, in his rendition of Van Gogh’s artwork ‘Bedroom’, Wehrli has decided to clean up the mess in the room and transform it into a tidy space. This idea was brought to life through his own experiences of immaculate hotel room service and his wonder as to how Van Gogh’s cluttered ‘Bedroom’ would look like if it too, had undergone the room service present today.
Allison proved the art is subjective. She loves a mural of Jesus painting at the Jordan River done on the wall. She could not take her eyes off the Jesus painting. “I took the notion that art should surprise astonish, and hopefully make you think something you had not thought until you saw it.” (42) The example clearly express about the Author’s personal opinion about art, she thinks art should be always impress people. She saw an ad in all the magazines that a small child from high in the air dropping toward the upraised arm, and she felt so horrible about the ad.
The painting triumphed greatly at the Salon of 1864, this was a time when the contemporary society had preference on realism over history and mythical painting. History painting was being ignored and was falling to disuse, Moreau did not agree with this. Moreau was in support for idealism , as an artist he wanted to dedicate his time as an artist forsaking his other life as a human being. The painting’s symbolic intentions, the use of the mythological subject (Sphinx), and the authoritative severity in the style gave an impression of the original grand art. Moreau was though of by many as the saviour of the grand at a time when realism had taken over the paintings at the Salon.
While at an initial glance it may seem so, there may be ulterior meanings to this piece of art. Critics have commented that this painting was influenced by the fin-de-siècle spirit of the times, with its ironic juxtaposition of wealth and decadence, either moral or cultural. It has also been said that “The Kiss” shows Klimt’s fascination with eroticism, which had earned him a bad reputation with his previous works. “Short Story on a Painting of Gustav Klimt” was written in 1976. As is commonly known, this particular stretch of time is characterised as the era of radical change, with the emergence of many liberation movements, including feminism.
Marcel Duchamp was associated with the Dada surrealism movement due to his “anti-art” approach. He sought to fight against art and its meaning which created new roles for people within the artistic world. He did not
This indicates that Paul’s happiness is just what he thinks: a fairy tale, imaginary, a dream, an illusion, something that is not real. Another example of Paul’s addiction to art appears on page 128. “What he wanted was to see, to be in the atmosphere, float on a wave of it, to be carried out, blue league after blue league, away from everything” (Willa 128) Paul is using music to escape his everyday life and to fill himself with this fake “happiness”. He does not feel accepted in reality. So Paul has to create a reality where he consumes himself with art and where he feels accepted.
I. painted beautifully when he had his color vision, but when he lost it his work only became better. Why? Because anyone with talent and with color vision could paint the way he did, but with Mr. I.’s lost came a personal gain. His new paintings, while lacking in color of course stood out because it was different, you could now see the world through his eyes. Mr.
Avante – Garde Art Postmodern art is a body of art movements that sought to contradict some aspects of modernism or to have emerged or developed in its aftermath. In general, movements such as Intermedia, Installation art, Conceptual Art and Multimedia, particularly involving video are described as postmodern. There are several characteristics which lend art to being postmodern; these include bricolage, the use of words prominentlay as the central artistic element, collage, simplification, appropriation, performance art, the recycling of past styles and themes in a modern-day context, as well as the break-up of the barrier between fine and high arts and low art and popular culture. ------------------------------------------------- The predominant term for art produced since the 1950s is "contemporary art". 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.
Regardless of artist intent, the significance of any artwork is created by the audience, who is influenced by the views of their world and personal experience. The French artist Edouard Manet, who worked primarily in the 1860’s, and contemporary Australian artist Bill Henson both employ the subject matter of the female nude in their art, but with different outcomes due to the influence of their separate contexts. It can be seen that particular art critics from different contexts interpret these artists’ works differently, due to the changing attitudes to the human figure over time. Their artworks are interpreted according to the audience’s social, cultural and historical circumstances, with critical opinion having influence over audience perceptions
You start to realize that they are not exactly as they seem. You start to see their strengths and their flaws, their reds, their blues, their fears and what the love and cherish. Only then can you truly see who they are as a person and an individual. To me, everyone’s life is like a painting, a beautiful, unique piece of art. The more you get to know someone, the more intricacy and detail you start to see upon their canvas.