2. WHAT IS MODERNISM?
Modern character or quality of thought,
expression, or technique.
Also it's along with cultural trends and
changes, arose from wide-scale and far-
reaching transformations
Modernism was in the late 19th and early
20th centuries.
Modernism is about new ideas, new ideas
all the time.
3. WHAT IS MODERNISM?
Modernism is also rejected the certainty of Enlightenment
thinking, and many modernists rejected religious belief.
Some commentators define Modernism as a socially progressive
trend of thought that affirms the power of human beings to create,
improve and reshape their environment with the aid of practical
experimentation, scientific knowledge, or technology.
The dominant trends of industrial Victorian England, were also
opposed, from about 1850, by the English poets and painters
because of their "opposition to technical skill without inspiration
4. WHAT IS
POSTMODERNISM?
Postmodernism suggests that
the popular culture and media
texts dominate our sense of
reality
The way we define ourselves
and the world is influenced by
the media
'Media Saturated'- This is the
idea that we pick and mix our
styles/ identities as their is so
much choice.
5. WHAT IS
POSTMODERNISM?
It is argued that the
distinctions between media
and reality
This is because we live in a
world of images and
representations
Often defined as 'simulated'
and 'hyper reality'
6. WHAT IS
POSTMODERNISM?
Simulation or Hyper reality?
Baudrillard's Theory: media creates such
idealistic representations of reality
Hyper reality- not sure whether it's real
or artificial
Simulation- is when the media
represents reality in a more visual and
interactive way
Due to the distinctions between media
and reality collapsing
However- negative effect
The audience is left feeling
depressed as their own life doesn't
live up to this artificial reality
7. WHAT IS
POSTMODERNISM ?
Bricolage - Something made or
put together using whatever
materials happen to be
available.
So for example with films when
there is hybridity such as
RomCom that's bricolage
because it's putting two things
together that already exist.
8. EXAMPLES OF
POSTMODERNISM?
Blade Runner 1982
Pulp Fiction 1994
It's Pomo
because:
It demonstrates a
mixture of
cultures,
boundaries and
style in art
Films Music
It's Pomo
because:
It fractures time
by the use of
asynchronous
time lines
Genres
It's Pomo
because:
There's a variety
of music that the
media allows
society to access
We can pick and
mix out
identities.
9. EXAMPLES OF
MODERNISM?
Manet you see his way of painting In titian painting you see nudes
This shows the change over time and how people see
things differently. Which is modernism because new
trends over time and new ideas
Paintings
10. HOW DOES POMO DIFFER
FROM MODERNISM?
Modernism is all about new
trends, changes and ideas
coming from our minds and
not being influenced by
anything. So it's about being
creative. Whereas
postmodernism is everything
is changing and judge by the
media so it's being less
creative and everything is
defined by the media.
