Post-Modernism

Post Modernism was the movement that followed Modernism, it came to surface in the 1960's and brought with it new ideas attacking those of the modernist movement (http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/feb/28/postmodernism-retrospective-london-v-and-a)
Post Modernism put back in the character and decoration that was stripped from most of the arts world by the 'form follows function' idea and simplistic style of Modernism. It kept many of the elements used in modernism but mixed them back in with tradition to create something new all together (http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/elab/hfl0242.html). I feel the Best way to describe Post Modernity is by using a piece by Alexander McQueen as an example. 

(http://unpolished-sapphire.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/introduction-into-postmodern-fashion-at.html) 

In this piece taken from the 'Highland Rape' collection in 1995, McQueen has taken the traditional tartan, part of Scottish heritage and used it in a modern and contemporary way. So it has taken the past and made it modern instead of dismissing the past and tradition altogether as the modernism movement had done. "The result of this was an ironic brick-a-brack or collage approach to construction that combines several traditional styles into one structure. As collage, meaning is found in combinations of already created patterns." (http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/elab/hfl0242.html).

Not only did post modernism effect fashion but also architecture, philosophy, art, critical theory, literature, history, culture and media. (http://www.coursework.info/University/Social_studies/Anthropology/What_is_Postmodernism__Fashion_in_Postmo_L135151.html).

Jackson Pollock is known for being a post modern artist. 

Number 8, 1949. (http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/pollock/).

"Instead of using the traditional easel he affixed his canvas to the floor or the wall and poured and dripped his paint from a can; instead of using brushes he manipulated it with `sticks, trowels or knives'"(http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/pollock/). He has painted/ used paint as artists have for centuries however instead of using a paintbrush he has his own methods of `drip and splash' (http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/pollock/), which I interpret as being post modern. 




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References:
-http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/feb/28/postmodernism-retrospective-london-v-and-a
-http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/elab/hfl0242.html
-http://unpolished-sapphire.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/introduction-into-postmodern-fashion-at.html
-http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/elab/hfl0242.html
-http://www.coursework.info/University/Social_studies/Anthropology/What_is_Postmodernism__Fashion_in_Postmo_L135151.html
-http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/pollock/