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