LACMA Receives Huge Art Donation

Not Afraid · 12-12-2007, 03:23 PM

"Contemporary" is the term used for art post WWII but within a historical context (ie: modern primitives, outsider artists, etc are excluded).

"Modern" generally starts with Impressionism with the key being that there was a break from realism towards abstraction. Those Impressionists were quite renegades in their day.

Post-Modernism (or PoMo) is more of a general term for architecture, literature and, sometimes art. It describes any social phenomenon that is a reaction to modernism. I think of it as a "bridge" term that will suffice until hindsight allows a better set of terminology to be assigned. Although, it may end up sticking at some point.

12-12-2007, 03:23 PM	#9
Not Afraid HI! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 17,108	"Contemporary" is the term used for art post WWII but within a historical context (ie: modern primitives, outsider artists, etc are excluded). "Modern" generally starts with Impressionism with the key being that there was a break from realism towards abstraction. Those Impressionists were quite renegades in their day. Post-Modernism (or PoMo) is more of a general term for architecture, literature and, sometimes art. It describes any social phenomenon that is a reaction to modernism. I think of it as a "bridge" term that will suffice until hindsight allows a better set of terminology to be assigned. Although, it may end up sticking at some point.
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