Posted by Brandon Barger on July 07, 19102 at 11:13:53:

In Reply to: modernism, post modernism & the bauhaus posted by carly on August 12, 19101 at 22:29:32:

Modrnism refers to mostly the early 20th century and pertains to artists who rejected the ideas of paintings being representatins of images, but that paintings be paintings, and that art could lead the way for the future and change the future, and could be part of a larger connection with one spirit to eventually achieve a perfect state and a perfect world....ex(matisse,gaugin,van gogh,cezanne,kandinsky,pico,etc.) Modernism artists are extremely concerned with form (the painted mark and composition)
Post-Modernism is a follow up when artists and people began to realize that art really couldn't change the future, and that it wouldn't create a perfect world. Modernist artists were seen as superior and were doing wonderful things that were thought to lead the world into perfection, but post-modernism was the realization that the world was advancing but not neccissarily towards perfection (WWII, A-Bomb) and that art wasn't leading the way, just evolving like everything else. This temporarily (to some, and remains to others) crushed many peoples ideology about painting and this is when painting became "dead."
These artists decided to instead of look towards the future, to re-examine the world around us now. Alot wee concerned more conceptually then formally (more about what the painting meant, then how it looked) (because if it meant bad things, it could look bad) ex./andy warhol, david salle, jackson pollock, willem de kooning,etc)
The Bauhaus was an art school in the modernist era, and on the brink of post-modernism, ran by walter gropius, in which many famous german artists taught every media you could imagine at the time (kandinsky, klee, etc.) Their painting department had some of the most famous faculty of all time, but they were extremely popular for the archetecture.

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