Post Modernism and Post Mondernity notes

• Modernism roughly from 1860 -1960
  With Post Modernism being from 1960 to today, though it is interpreted that Post Modernism is actually over already. 
• Post Modernism is coined with architecture first, which hold minimalistic properties and a function.
  - It starts off as a reaction from Modernism, the only rule being there aren't any rules and it celebrates what might be considered Kitsch. ( Kitsch is another word for tacky or cheap looking)
• Robert Venturi - his book 'Learning from Las Vegas' 1972 - His ideas developed with the aid of Charles Jencks, in which they both ended up creating a piece of architectural landscapes with Prince Charles.

• Modernism - simplified aesthetic utopia ideals - truth to materials and form allows function
• Post Modernism - Complexity - lies with its materials, tries to look like something else - Laced with humour and irony - Questions comments especially those set out by modernism - can be seen as tasteless.
• Post Modernism aesthetic has a multiplicity of style as it approaches themes of 'double coding' 'borrowing' and quoting from a number of historical styles.
  
  
  "I like elements which are hybrid rather than "pure", compromising rather than "clean", distorted rather than "straight-forward", ambiguous rather than "articulated", perverse as well as impersonal...'
  - Robert Venturi

•  Philp Johnson - Sony Plaza - the top of the building looks as if it has taken the top of a wardrobe and the bottom being from an art deco themed structure.
  
• Archigram, group of students from the 1960s - 'Walking in New York' - the work never was realised. 
• Pompidou Centre in Paris 1972, everything is colour coded, anything you would normally find inside, for example the escalator. It reminds me of an entanglement of wires through the different array of colours and shapes. 
• James Stirling - Stuttgart, Germany 1977 - 1983. Its structure plays on the heritage, as it tries to trick the viewer that the museum is aged when it is actually new and made from cheap materials and disguised to look old. 
• Product design - Kettle for Alessi 1985 by Michael Graves - takes the functionality of a normal camping kettle and refines, selling it for an expensive price, becomes a luxury item.
  
  
  
  
  
• Philippe Starck, Juciy Salif - 1990, Form is arguably functional but more regarded for its aesthetics. 
• Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein - both use models or public icons and create art with the use of dots. Can be linked to Pop Art.
• Jake and Dinos Chapman, Works from the Chapman family collection 2002. Meant to appear like traditional tribal statues, makes a parody out of culture.
• Chris Ofili, first black artist to be recognised as one of the first young artists in Britain. He uses elephant dung to set up his work and incorporates it into his work. 'No women, No cry' was a piece that incorporated a murder victim Stephen Lawrence who was murdered with the police called racist for mishandling the case, his photo is seen in the tears of the woman portrayed on the canvas. 
• Jean Michel Basquiat - untitled - one of the first black artists to be recognised 1981 - He looks at what it means to be a black american, trying to establish in Art society with a simplistic style that resembles one of a childs. It reminds me of Cy Twomlys work through how it uses colour, the space, the jaggedness of the line and how it looks as if it has been drawn on plaster.