For our final lecture class, we finished up Post-War art and then discussed Post-Modern era. Starting off with Pop Art, which often included images taken from mass media and slightly altered. Many works, such as Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe series, commented on the fascination with fame. Others, such as Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans, commented on mass production and the “American Dream”. Sticking with the theme of minimal artist intervention came Minimalism, which served as a counterpart to abstract expressionism. Moving into the Post-Modern era, art left the notion of progress behind. The belief of deconstruction was important in this period, where there essentially is no fixed meaning of art. There was a multitude of different styles and media.
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