Post-Modern Art Movement and Art Today

4. Define the Post -Modern Art Movement- When did it begin? How did it end? Did it end?

The Post Modern Art Movement came to be as a response/reaction to modernism in the early to mid 1970's. It is a Visual Art Movement that strives to blur the lines between popular culture, art, and media. It is unclear to me if this movement has ended-- some believe the end is marked in the late 80's but I think it is a blurry line indeed.

What are the main principles associated with the Post-Modern Art Movement? Who are the main artists/critics associated with it and what is the aesthetic character?

The Post-Modern Art Movement is an art movement that denies any strict adherence to rules about technique or form. Critics Susan Sontag and Ihab Hassan argue that, "the work of postmodernists was deliberately less unified, less obviously 'masterful', more playful or anarchic, more concerned with the processes of our understanding than with the pleasures of artistic finish or unity, less inclined to hold a narrative together, and certainly more resistant to a certain interpretation than much of the art that had preceded it". (Postmodernism- A Very Short Introduction, Christopher Butler, Pg. 5)

Post- Modern Artists
Ellen Gallagher, Roni Horn, Fiona Rae, Shahzia Sikander, Bill Viola, Kara Walker, Annette Messager, David Hockney, Nancy Holt, Cady Noland, Bruce Nauman

Post-Modern Critics
John Haber, Hal Foster, Brian Wallis, Donald Kuspit


5. Define the Art of our time_2010?

What name would you give it? When did it begin? How did it begin? What are the main principles associated with this Movement and who are the main artists/critics associated with it and what is the aesthetic character of the Art of today?

The Art of today is defined through Art movements from the 1990's through the present.
Net Art - using the Internet, interactive- Vuk Cosic, Jodi.org

Massurrealism- a combining of surrealism, mass media, technology and pop art- James Seehafer, Alan King, Ginnie Gardiner, Cecil Touchon

Artefactoria- Latin Anerican Movement that celebrates surrealism, the unconscious and fantasy- Lupe Alvarez

Toyism
Lowbrow
New Leipzig School
Tiki Art
Bitterism
Stuckism

In 2000, Thinkism started in the day after 9/11 2001
and Funism in 2002

It seems to me that the aesthetic character of art in out time is that anything goes. I see the idea of the Radicant Artist by Bourriard is what seems prevalent in our time.

Artists
Jason Rhoades, Kelley Walker, Francis Alys, John Miller, Seth Price,