Postmodern which came into use shortly after World War II, it is the era that follows Modernism, and designates the cultural condition of the late twentieth century. Postmodern primarily occurred in the West, artist offered alternatives to the high seriousness and introversion of Modernist expression. Postmodernism is also self consciously populist even to the point of inviting the active participation of the beholder. Postmodern artist bring wry skepticism to the creative act, less preoccupied than Modernist. Postmodernist also acknowledged art as an information system and a commodity shaped by the electronic media, they are more designed than authorial, postmodernist are pluralistic. The visual arts of the Information Age have not assumed any single, unifying style. Rather they are diverse and electric reflecting the postmodern preoccupation with the media shaped
Postmodern which came into use shortly after World War II, it is the era that follows Modernism, and designates the cultural condition of the late twentieth century. Postmodern primarily occurred in the West, artist offered alternatives to the high seriousness and introversion of Modernist expression. Postmodernism is also self consciously populist even to the point of inviting the active participation of the beholder. Postmodern artist bring wry skepticism to the creative act, less preoccupied than Modernist. Postmodernist also acknowledged art as an information system and a commodity shaped by the electronic media, they are more designed than authorial, postmodernist are pluralistic. The visual arts of the Information Age have not assumed any single, unifying style. Rather they are diverse and electric reflecting the postmodern preoccupation with the media shaped