Portfolio Task 4: Postmodernism

barbara kruger 'I shop therefore I am' 1987 http://www.tate.org.uk/magazine/issue3/consume_image2.htm

This image is postmodernist as it is a clear step away from the clean cut feel of modernist work, it is also socially challenging with the message it is trying to tell. It also incoporates typography, colour and photography together, which postmodernist work does-a combination of different mediums. Furthermore, it is playing on the quote 'I think therefore I am', which is about being human, therefore this is stating that all we do in this consumer world is shop and that is all we are.

Marcel Duchamp, 'Fountain' 1917 http://www.installationart.net/Chapter1Introduction/introduction01.html

This piece is postmodernist as it is most definitely not clean cut, it too is socially challenging with the symbolism of the object. Again more so than Barbara Krugers work, it uses a real combination of mediums-sculpture and typography together.

Andy Warhol, ‘A Shot of Marilyn Monroe‘ http://www.marilynmonroeart.net/marilyn-monroe-painting/andy-warhols-marilyn-monroe-art

This piece of graphic design by Andy Warhol can be considered postmodernism as it does not follow the modernism feel of form over function as it is more about looking attractive and socially challenging than actually purposefully being designed cleanly to create , furthermore, the graphics used is rough and not clean. Therefore this demonstrates postmodernism.

David Carson http://darmano.typepad.com/logic_emotion/2006/09/art_design.html

This piece of graphic design can be considered post modern as it rejects the modernist idea of form over function, this is due to the fact that there is alot of type on the design yet hardly any of it can actually be read.

Rick Poyner, 'No more Rules Graphic Design'Postmodernism"http://static.letsbuyit.com/filer/images/uk/products/original/62/52/no-more-rules-graphic-design-and-postmodernism.jpeg

This piece of graphic design by Rick Poyner- the cover for 'no more rules graphic design and post modernism' can be described as post modernism, this is due to the fact that the typography runs off the page and onto the next line without the line word being finished. Furthermore, the blue colour of the typography makes those words difficult to read, however it does make the book cover attractive and eye catching, which to post modernist work is the most important thing, not the function.