Posts/Postmodernism

i think when you are referencing postmodern art, it depends on what artist or what piece you are discussing.  it can be a piece that screams for your attention, pulls you in, and almost orders you to analyze what is going on within the piece.  other times, you might look at a piece and smirk, or even giggle, because you know exactly what the artist is getting at.   you've been there.  you get the joke, or the message the artist is trying to convey.  you just get it.  i think postmodernism is both reactionary and progressive.  the postmodern movement per say, is reacting to society, to an earlier era with different societal notions...  it is progressive in the sense that it is a movement centered around growth, both personal growth and societal growth.  so while postmodernism is reacting to the world around them, it is also growing and moving forward within itself.  

the shoe paintings...

as you can see by looking at these two paintings, vangogh's peasant shoes works with more muted colors.  the piece looks very brown, bland, normal, boring, and/or plain.  it is what one would think of when you might think of a peasant's shoes, because you think of a peasant as being plain, normal, everyday person, bland, or boring...  not so much flashy or exiting.

in warhol's diamond dust shoes, the colors are bright.  they stand out, and want you to notice them.  they are high heels, which also gives them a sense of glamour and femininity.  this looks like a silk screen piece (i'm not sure if it is or not), so the piece looks imperfect and not quite with crisp, clean lines, but with unfinished edges and somewhat muted colors.  yet the colors are not muted and brown like those in vangogh's piece.  i think there is more of a sense of fun and fabulous-ness to this piece...or maybe that's just because i know something about andy warhol.