Art Movement Modernism and Postmodernism
Postmodernism is understood to have taken hold in the early 1970s. Features of modernism differ from the characteristics of postmodernism. Self-consciousness and irony are two notable features of modernism. The use of irony in literature, painting, poem, and building rejected the ideology of realism that existed before modernism. The realistic depiction of life was a major social factor that led to modernism. The coming of the war of 1914-1918 was the political factor that led to the modernism. People were concerned about developing new machine technologies that would enable them to be advantageous in the coming war. Millions had died due to fight over scraps, and people had doubts about the institutions, which led to modernism. Also, modernism was characterized by a dramatic change in thought to improve the way of living. Act up-silence=death is an artwork associated with modernism. The art was driven by a dramatic shift in human thinking, which is a crucial feature of modernism.
Postmodernism is self-conceptualization, unlike modernism, which is self-conscious. The postmodernism uses the scientific method that relies on opinions rather than the embrace facts. Also, postmodernism does not believe in universal truth, unlike modernism, that believes in search of abstract truth. Postmodernism generally began after the second world war. After the second world war, people had migrated to different places from their own countries, and there was a need for scientific methods and technologies to facilitate the integration of people from different races. The sunflower seeds art is an artwork that is associated with postmodernism. In the art, the seeds in the sunflower represent people. The use of the sun to represent the king and seeds to represent people depicts the self-conceptualization feature of postmodernism.