Graffiti
Banksy
Unverified identity, but most likely from Bristol.
He combines dark humour with graffiti.
His work mainly focuses on political and social issues.
The work showed five grey pigeons holding up signs including one stating “go back to Africa” towards a more colourful migratory swallow.
Blek Le Rat
Blek was one of the first graffiti artists in Paris and started the craze for stencil wall art.
He started doing his work because he wanted to stand out and free himself from feeling like a nobody in a big city.
Tango Dancer
Swoon
Street artist who specialises in life size wheat-paste prints and paper cut outs.
She pastes her art in uninhibited places like abandoned buildings and under bridges.
Her work is inspired by historical sources and folk stories.
Michael Tracy
Tracy 168 started a style called Wild Style in the graffiti era.
She is probably most famous for her work 'Purple Haze'.
Purple Haze
When it moves from tagging to having a purpose such as a memorial then it moves closer to being a piece of art.
Keith Haring
Started to use NY as his canvas, drawing and painting in underground stations.
His work is everywhere from murals to night clubs and even in galleries.
Photography
From the seventies onwards photojournalism and documentary has become much more inward looking. Removing the glamour maybe of being a voyeur and focusing on the bare roots of what life is actually like.
Diane Arbus
Diane Arbus was an American photographer. Although Arbus's most famous subjects were outsiders such as transgender people, strippers, carnival performers, nudists, dwarves, and other marginalized people, she was equally drawn to subjects as ordinary as children, mothers, couples, old people, and middle-class families.
Martin Parr
Martin Parr is a British documentary photographer, photojournalist and photobook collector. He is known for his photographic projects that take an intimate, satirical and anthropological look at aspects of life.
Sally Mann
Sally Mann is an American photographer, widely known for her large-format, black-and-white photographs—at first of her young children, then later of landscapes suggesting decay and death.
Candy Cigarette
Vivian Maier
Vivian Dorothy Maier was an American street photographer. Maier worked for about forty years as a nanny, mostly in Chicago's North Shore, pursuing photography during her spare time.
What is Post Modernism?
PM is more of a teerm than a movement. It embraces a way of thinking or an attitude towards creativity rathe rthan a specific style. It is defined mre by what it isn't than what it is.
It can be:
Classical art being re-interpreted, such as the last super being remade. For example, the battle star galactica cast doing a cast shot in the stye or it remade with a skin head scene
Damien Hurst and Harry Anderson - Found objects etc.
Robert Rauschenberg using found pieces to add to his paintings and works.
Really found its feet in the 70's and 80's.
No distinction between high and low art.
It can be a combination of all different types of art.
Might be something totally new and revolutionary, that hasn't been seen before.
Its all Post Modernism is all about personal opinion. Some things you won't like or get, but others will be the complete opposite.
Graphic Design
Jonathan Barnbrook
April Greiman
Odermatt & Tissi
Switzerland's most well know design consultancy
Wolfgang Weingart
German designer famous for typography
Pentagram
Worlds largest independent design consultancy. Owned and run by 21 partners - all of whom are world leaders in their field.
Post Modernist Photography
Maxim Ksuta
Russian born collage creator. Portraits formed from a multitude of other, smaller, images.
Sandy Skoglund
Sandy Skoglund is an American photographer and installation artist. Skoglund creates surrealist images by building elaborate sets or tableaux, furnishing them with carefully selected colored furniture and other objects, a process of which takes her months to complete.
Fox Games
Cindy Sherman
Cynthia Morris Sherman is an American photographer and film director, best known for her conceptual portraits. She is best known for "Complete Untitled Film Stills," a series of 70 black-and-white photographs which were meant to subvert the stereotypes of women in media.
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References:
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/oct/01/banksy-mural-clacton-racist
http://www.triumph-gallery.ru/en/artists/ksuta.html
http://www.cerclemagazine.com/en/magazine/articles-magazine/sandy-skoglund-surreal-worlds/
http://www.vivianmaier.com/
https://www.artsper.com/en/contemporary-artworks/photography/173896/girl-in-a-swimming-cap
https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/event/martin-parr-early-work/
https://www.artbasel.com/catalog/artwork/59948/Sally-Mann-Candy-Cigarette