POSTMODERNISM
Postmodernism is a late 20th-century movement characterized by its huge skepticism, irony, and philosophical critiques of the concepts of universal truths and objective reality, as it also focused on its fashion and design. Postmodernism is a reaction from the ideas and art of modernism. While modernism was based on idealism and reason, Postmodernism advocated that individual experience and interpretation of our experience was more concrete than abstract principles as it sought for universal truths. Postmodernism championed complex and contradictory meanings. Such movements, in general, like intermedia, installation art, conceptual art, and multimedia are described as postmodern.
Exhaling PearlsArtist: Joseph Havel
Date: 1993 Medium: Sculpture: Patinated bronze Dimensions: w139.7 x h330.2 x d83.8 cm Current Location: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Postmodernism art can be truly seen in sculptures. Havel created the sculpture as to look as a cast from a rope and two paper lanterns. Many friends and art associations have called the work an "improbable hybrid", as it rises " up in a playfully gallant affirmation of life and creation". The sculpture drives the onlookers questions and skepticism due to its unusual and symmetrical[to an extent] shape. |
Moon, June, Spoon
Artist: Joseph Havel
Date: 1987 - 1989 Dimensions: w63.5 x h260.4 x d63.5 cm (overall) Medium: Sculpture: Bronze Current Location: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Another fine piece of Joseph Havel is Moon, June, Spoon. The simplicity but odd name as well as the sculpture itself, since it looks like everyday trash, gives onlookers a question in their heads. The fashion choice that Havel used is unique to the modern world and stands out from other modern sculptures thanks to its rigid odd look. |