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What is Postmodernism?
An Oxymoron? An overused and meaningless term? A response (or, responses) to modernism.

Art without a central artistic element that involves 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.

Why Postmodernism ?
Had Modernism fulfilled its promise?

Modernism's universality and higher spiritual autonomy suffered a gradual crisis of confidence after 1945. Science, technology, reason, and the central state showed a nightmarish side in the highly organized, state-sponsored murder of six million Jews in Nazi Germany. International Style architecture continued into the 1980s and responded to a new critique of its impersonality mounted after World War II

Gerard Ritcher

Louvre Pyramid (1989) I.M. Pei

Defining Postmodern art

Post modernism was a late 20th century movements. It opposed the Modernist preoccupation with purity of form and technique. It aimed to eradicate the divisions between art, popular culture and the media. Postmodern artist employed influences from an array of past movements , applying them to modern forms.

 Postmodernist embraced diversity.

They rejected the distinction between high and low art. Ignoring genre boundaries , the movements encourages the mix of ideas , medias and forms to promote parody ,humor and irony.

Love & Art, Francis Berry (2007) Watercolour

Movements in Postmodern Art

Installation art Performance art Conceptual art New Classicism Lowbrow art Inter media and multi-media Appropriation art and neo-conceptual art Neo-expressionism and painting Institutional critique

Installation Art

Christo, Wrapped Tree

The gates, Christo

Umbrella ,1984-91, Christo

Conceptual art

John Le Kay, 1991 ladder and wheelchair

Joseph Kosuth, One and Three Chairs

Performance Art

Yellow period, Yves Klein

Chris Burden during the performance of his 1974 piece Trans-fixed where he was nailed to the back of a Volkswagen

Zaha Hadid
Zaha Hadid (born 31 October 1950) is an Iraqi-British architect & winner of the Pritzker Architecture Award in 2004. Her work experiments with spatial quality extending and intensifying landscape. Best known for her seminal built works (Vitra Fire Station, Land Fomation-One and the Strasbourg Tram Station).

Vitra Fire Station

It was not designed as an isolated object, but developed as the outer edge of the garden. Defining the space rather than occupying space.

The entire building is freezing motion. This expresses the tension of being on the alert, and the potential to explode into action at any time.

 The walls seem to glide past each other, while large sliding doors are like a moving wall.

Land Formation One

The project was designed to serve as an event and exhibition space for the garden festival in Weil am Rhein 1999. The suggested structure does not sit in the landscape as an isolated object, but emerges from the fluid geometry of the surrounding network of paths.

Deconstructivism
Started in1980s

About Deconstructivism
Started in the 1980s and still going on today. Deconstructivism is an approach to building design that attempts to view architecture in bits and pieces. Deconstructivist buildings may seem to have no visual logic Ideas were borrowed from the French philosopher, Jacques Derrida. Buildings may appear to be made up of abstract forms.

Contemporary art
Two strains of modern art, minimalisn and cubism , have had an influence on deconstructivism. A synchronicity of disjoined space is evident in many of the works of Frank Gehry and Bernard Tschumi.

Frank Gehry
Frank Owen Gehry, is an architect based in Los Angeles, California. His buildings, including his private residence, have become tourist attractions. Gehry's best-known works are as follows

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

It is very curvy, has a spider sculpture outside of it, a lot of shapes put together. This is a museum of modern and contemporary art. This building has been hailed as a "signal moment in the architectural culture. The museum is clad in glass, titanium, and limestone

The Frederick R. Weisman art Museum

Made in 1993 in Minneapolis, Minnesota by Frank Gehry. A teaching museum for the university since 1934. Curvy frame, round shapes and very angular.

Gehry House
Frank Gehry made this house at Santa Monica, California in 1978. It has a light wood frame and is an unnatural shape for a house. Made up of lots of shapes that are different sizes. It makes use of unconventional materials, such as chain link fence and corrugated steel.

Stata Center
Academic complex designed for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It has a pointy frame with square and triangle shapes.

Several MIT classes held here.

Dancing house

The very non-traditional design was controversial at the time. Czech president ,Vaclav Havel who lived for decades next to the site, had supported it, hoping that the building would become a center of cultural activity. The dancing shape is supported by 99 concrete panels, each a different shape and dimension. Windows of dancing structure.

The monorail, built for Seattle's 1962 Worlds Fair

This museum, focussed on pop music and is dedicated to Jimi Hendrix. This building seems more confusing than most of Gehry's buildings. This large sculptural building (140,000square-feet).

Some artworks