In art, Modernism is a term generally used to describe the deliberate attempt of the 20th century to break with the artistic traditions of the 19th century, based on the forms and the exploration of the techniques in contrast with the content and narration. In visual arts, figurative art is replaced by abstract art. Postmodernism develops itself in reaction to modernism, and has to compete with the new fashion modernists divergent.
Postmodernism would be so a reaction to modernism.
Throughout these decades, the implicit or explicit reference to postmodern has been recurrent, although the term Postmodern does not refer to a movement nor a current of aesthetic but to a historical crisis of philosophies or theologies. In a few words Postmodernity is a posture of resignation, loss of modernist illusions in favor of individuality and "freedom to choose our criteria of truth."
For Art, Postmodernity rejects modern standards such as novelty or originality, the artistic criticism is descriptive and not evaluative anymore. Art must integrate itself to the economic world and consumption.
Art since 1960 has become hybrid, heterogeneous, and it is surely the identifiable "style" (personal or national) that denies postmodern art. Quotation, irony, parody, pastiche, imitation all of these are artistic procedures used by postmodern artists. Everything becomes relative, but it would be pointless to see only anti-modernism, nowadays postmodern art is also the desire to redefine categories as subject, object, copy, work.
Reading and viewing:
Visual and cultural studies : http://homepage.newschool.edu/~quigleyt/vcs/postmodernism.pdf
Postmodernism: http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/postmodernism.htm
Art since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism by Hal Foster
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