New words

New words
Nihilism: total rejection of social mores. Belief that nothing is worth while, disbelief in objective truth, belief in destruction of authority.
Proliferate: increase greatly, reproduce rapidly
Mimesis: Arts imitation of life
Epistemological: theory of knowledge
Impetus: push or force.

Words used to describe Post-Modernist art
Playful, exuberant, democratic, surfiction, metafiction, self-reflexive, nonlinear, alienation effect, eclecticism, pastiche, parody, warning of effect, colness, blankness, apathy, formalism, ambiguity, a critique of realism, implosive and dedifferentiating, multiperspectival, puns and parody, innovativeness, detachment, distance, mass produced, politics, culture, everyday life, illusionistic, theatrical, decorative, literary.
Appropriation, hybridization, eclecticism,
Ludic Postmodernism
In literature, the ludic postmodernists were primarily concerned with the form and play of language, and adoptive sportive, ironic, self-reflective, “metafunctional” techniques that flaunt artifice and emphasize the act of writing over the word.
The ludic post modernists added every day objects into their works of art, and also returned to representation and historical images and references. Post modernists wanted to create a new world of art by using what had already been used. They wanted to create three-dimensional surfaces. They used bizarre shapes and forms and worked with violent colours.
Here the artist is just as important as the viewer, there is a powerful connection between the artist and the viewer, the artwork changes as soon as there is a different person looking at the artwork.
Collages were made with pieces of everyday items, scraps lying around, newspapers, found objects and images of traditional art. And all thrown together a seemingly random and disorganised fashion, anything could be put into an artwork, it was what the artwork meant, the message the artwork is saying that was most important, not what it appeared to look like.
Post modernists created different mixed media artworks, and there was no singular personal genre in the artworks, the artists would mix all the different genres together in on artwork, and the audience became participants of the artwork.
Artists used commercial objects, and the faces of famous people, ie Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley, political figures, they were representations of representations. Art was about the consumer of society, mass production played a big part, Warhol said he could create wore works of art in one day then Picasso could make in his entire life. Technology also had a huge influence on the art world. Art itself was a question of images. Much post modern painting replicates this ludic play with existing capitalist and media culture.
Post modern artists intend to show how all meanings are socially and historically constructed post modern was about sound and sight.
Postmodernism of resistance
This acknowledges it’s self –referential status but also seeks to engage political issues and to change the existing society.
Artists used their works as a sign f rebellion against traditional academic and classical format, put new subject matter and forms into heir works. They thought that the artist was a hero and that the artist was a genius and a hero and all that mattered when it came to the painting.
Collages’ materials were so organised and carefully put together so that they looked so pretty and well put together, they wanted a sense of harmony to be shown in their artworks.
Artists wanted to show a variation in all the different mediums of art, and each singular artwork had it’s own personal autonomous meaning behind it, and they had different genres the different works of art.