Explain using relevant artists and examples of their work.

Pop art ridiculed many aspects of the modern world, with mass produced objects as the main subject for their collages, sculptures, prints and paintings. Post modernism is an artistic and literary movement that quite obviously rejected the previous, modernism, movement in an attempt to analyse and reorganize the existing modes of art practice. Both pop art and post modernism have guidelines for their movements. Similarly, they rejected art or themes particular to the context. For pop art, in taking images from mass media and representing them in a different way, new meanings and ideas are being revealed. Art history imagery is used in postmodernism, often in the form of appropriation, and very much relies on the reaction and interpretation by the audience.

Essentially, postmodernism uses art history imagery as its resource in a cannibalistic fashion, in a “way” that challenged art’s audience, perception, themes, techniques and art in general. Pop art, in a dada-istic anti-art fashion, used commercial

Pop art was an art movement that emerged during the 1950’s in England and America. It involved using the popular imagery of the time as subject a matter for art. The movement was contemptuous and mocked many aspects of the modern world, such as comic strips, consumer products, advertising and celebrities. Pop art used these images from the mass media and popular culture and completely changed their meaning and perception. It was something for the masses rather than just for the higher class of society.

Both postmodernism and pop art appropriate either previous works or context into their artworks. Pop art used its surrounding, economically growing context as its subject. Postmodernism analyses the meaning behind previous, original artworks and feeds off the meaning, artistic techniques and subject of them, whether appropriating or not, to make a statement about the role of art, “what is good art” or anything the artists feels has been misrepresented..

Postmodernism essentially feeds off previous artworks (hence “cannibalistic”). Yasumasa Morimura appropriates previous paintings using computer technology. He, like Sherman, places himself in the artwork. “Daughter of Art History Theatre A,” a copy of Eduard Manet’s famous painting, quite obviously raises the question “What is good art?”

The “cannibalistic fashion” of postmodernism refers to how art in this movement can attempt to degrade itself. For e

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