This week I learned a lot about the art movement of post-modernism and how it was influenced by the individual opinions of normal people, the lack of rules within basic design, and how it came about.
Around this stage I was building up and researching my Project 2 power point which was ‘The pioneers of Post-modernism’. This gave me a good head start of what to expect on this week but I could also use what I learned this week and add it to the power point slide.
The post modern art movement was a response to he ‘Modern’ art movement previous to it. This movement began emerging in the lat 60’s and early 70’s, under the impression of ‘No more Rules’ What I mean by this is the previous movement, Modern art, was a very strict and rule based movement with only a select amount of people keeping with it.
Following the failure of the modern movement. An artist by the name of Wolfgang Weingart who is known to be the ‘GrandFather of Post-Modern art’. Who at this stage was known to be following the ‘Swiss Tyopgraphic style’ seen the flexibility and effects of letterspacing and frequently stretched words until they became almost unintelligible. Thus kickstarting the movement called ‘Post-modern art’.
Experimenting with Type | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Another popular artist within this movement was Jamie Reid who was well known to be the ‘pioneer of the punk style’. His most significant art work created was the album cover for the sex pistols. Jamie Reid would jump on the movement in the late 70’s, when the movement would be at its peak. By 1976 he would create that album cover
Jamie Reid the artist who designed covers for Sex Pistols’ albums dies
In my opinion, I really struggled with fully understanding the Post-Modern movement and how it came about as it was a very subjective. However, there a few key areas of what I learned that could be used in my future projects, especially research. Aside from that I do really like the flexibility and no more rules aspect of the movement as it opens up so many new doors and branches, giving me more access to different features and styles that I could feature in future work.
