Post Modernism

1975 - Postmodernism (abbreviated as PoMo, Pomo or Po-Mo) is a term used in a variety of contexts to describe social conditions, movements in the arts, economic and social conditions and scholarship in reaction to modernism.Postmodern art is a term used to describe art which is thought to be after or in contradiction to some aspect of modernism. In general movements such as Intermedia, Installation art, Conceptual Art and Multimedia, particularly involving video are described as post-modern. The traits associated with the use of the term post-modern in art include bricolage, use of words prominently as the central artistic element, collage, simplification, depiction of consumer or popular culture and Performance art. REPRESENTATIVE ARTISTS: Jasper Johns Frank Stella Donald Judd Bridget Riley (Op Art) Joseph Beuys