Postmodern artPostmodern art is a body of art movements that sought to contradict some aspects of modernism or some aspects that emerged or developed in its aftermath. In general, movements such as intermedia, installation art, conceptual art and multimedia, particularly involving video are described as postmodern. There are several characteristics which lend art to being postmodern; these include bricolage, the use of text prominently as the central artistic element, collage, simplification, appropriation, performance art, the recycling of past styles and themes in a modern-day context, as well as the break-up of the barrier between fine and high arts and low art and popular culture.
PainterlinessPainterliness is a concept based on malerisch ('painterly'), a word popularized by Swiss art historian Heinrich Wölfflin (1864–1945) to help focus, enrich and standardize the terms being used by art historians of his time to characterize works of art. A painting is said to be painterly when there are visible brushstrokes in the final work – the result of applying paint in a manner that is not entirely controlled, generally without closely following carefully drawn lines. Any painting media – oils, acrylics, watercolors, gouache, etc.
Joan MitchellJoan Mitchell, née le à Chicago et morte le à Paris, est une artiste peintre et graveuse américaine faisant partie du mouvement de l'expressionnisme abstrait américain, même si elle a vécu en France une grande partie de sa carrière. Elle développe une œuvre à la fois abstraite et expressionniste très puissante. Ses œuvres sont exposées dans les plus grands musées d'art moderne à travers le monde. Joan Mitchell est une des rares femmes peintres de son époque à être acclamée par la critique et le public.
Land artLe land art est une tendance de l'art contemporain utilisant le cadre et les matériaux de la nature (bois, terre, pierre, sable, eau, rocher, etc.). Le plus souvent, les œuvres sont en extérieur, exposées aux éléments et soumises à l'érosion naturelle ; ainsi, certaines œuvres ont disparu et il ne reste que leur souvenir photographique et des vidéos. Les premières œuvres ont été réalisées dans les paysages désertiques de l'Ouest américain à la fin des années 1960.
Late modernismIn the visual arts, late modernism encompasses the overall production of most recent art made between the aftermath of World War II and the early years of the 21st century. The terminology often points to similarities between late modernism and post-modernism although there are differences. The predominant term for art produced since the 1950s is contemporary art. Not all art labelled as contemporary art is modernist or post-modern, and the broader term encompasses both artists who continue to work in modern and late modernist traditions, as well as artists who reject modernism for post-modernism or other reasons.
