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MODERNISM

Key works:

Time period:

First half of 20th century

Key characteristics/ conventions :

• form, composition, medium, material, skills, techniques, process
• a desire for originality
• with object rather than subject and form rather than content

Artists associated:

• Ansel Adams
• Hannah Höch (1889-1978)
• Salvatore Dali (1904-1989)
• Man Ray (1890-1976)
• Maurice Tabard
• Claude Cahun (1894-1954)
• Pierre Molinier (1900-76)
• Gary Winogrand (1928-84)
• Andre Kertezh (1894-1985
• Franz Roh (1890-1965)
• Otto Steinart (1915-1978)
• Harry Callahan (1912-99)

Methods/ techniques/ processes:

• Fauvism, Primitivism, Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Dadaism, Suprematism, Constructivism, Neo-Plasticism, Surrealism, Spatialism, Abstract Expressionism, Social Realism, Straight Photography, Formalism

POST-MODERNISM

Key works:

Time period:

1970+

Key characteristics/ conventions :

• References to things outside of art e.g. political, cultural, social, historical, psychological issues
• make people aware of previously hidden agendas
• Works

Artists associated:

• Cindy Sherman
• Tom Hunter
• John Everett Millais
• Sam Taylor-Wood
• Jeff Wall
• Hannah Starkey
• Anna Gaskell
• David LaChapelle
• Thomas Demand
• Anne Hardy
• James Casebere
• Diane Arbus
• Gillian Wearing

Methods/ techniques/ processes:

• eclecticism, intertextuality, collaboration, pastiche, parody, recycling, reconfiguration, bricolage