Modernism

Well the definition of modernism is a modern thought, practice, or character. The modernist movement in the world of art hit the western society in the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries. Some people in this day and age have defined modernism to be a progressive trend within society that provokes the power of humans to create, improve and reshape the environment they live in with the help of science, practical experiments and technology. Here is a link of Jackson Pollock’s tribute website: http://www.jacksonpollock.com/ (©2003–present JacksonPollock.com, 2003). He's work was seen as modernist art because of his abstract work, which challenged conventions.

Post modernism is rather difficult to define as it doesn’t really have an established meaning as a whole. A person can believe in their own way of what post modernism is for example in this video I got the impression of this person believing in this about post modernism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ehh1b6kNWA this video is called modernism/postmodernism? (jacktheripper29, 2011). Not a means of doing philosophy, but rather a way of approaching traditional ideas and practices, (modernist ideas and practices) in non-traditional ways that derives from already established modes.

References:

·         ©2003–present JacksonPollock.com (2003) Available at: http://www.jacksonpollock.com/ (accessed: 13^th April 2012).

·        jacktheripper29 (2011) what is modernism/postmodernism? Available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ehh1b6kNWA (accessed: 13^th April 2012).