Postmodernism

Postmodernism 


          First came the age of Realism, the era that attempted to make art and literature resemble the real characteristics of life. Preceding realism came modernism in the early 19th-20th century. Modernism was a philosophical art movement that was bent in all directions due to the new and upcoming westernized culture. Finally Postmodernism rose. Where "postmodern cultural forms reflect the dislocation and fragmentation of communities-splintered into small groups"(Postmodernism). Each group had its own private language, style, culture, isolating from the normalities humans previously scene. I interpret it as a clique, for example Off-White and Anti-Social  Social-Club (clothing brands) develop there own interpretation of art and bring it forth into a lifestyle around clothing. Depending on the city, habits, or persona of an individual, it boils down to who they are wearing which develops a shape of that individual. Postmodern artist are weird, according to the norm. These modern day artist are meant to be weird and different. Style and art cannot be created from nothing. It is those who "plunge into the unknown and represent it" that are the pioneers in the colorful world that encompasses us today. Unfortunately it can get extravagant and unnecessary from many outside influences. Practicality is commonly lost in the westernized world where the average human lives as though a king would several centuries ago. It is finding and innovating something never scene before and having the motives to bring it fourth to life that surround the theme of postmodernism.

Colors

Are the colors we see tricks of the imagination? 
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         Humans see seven colors of the rainbow, with an infinite number of shades. At age 23, Issac Newton began pondering the question of where colors come from, an internal light inside of the head? or if they exist in the external world?. To test this observation, Newton poked a pin in his eye. This lead to no conclusion but without question his next observation involving a prism is world famous. He called it a colored image of the sun. At the time people believed white light was a holy pure candid color given by god. The prism essential generated the colors form the white light-adding impurities to the light. He further tested his observation with a second prism and found nothing happened. The first prism divided light having white light constituted of all colors, putting us on the road to discovery that colors are wavelengths of energy.


       Whether color is a physical thing in the physical world or simply created in our mind, I believe these are questions only the gods know. Scientists believe colors are an objective reality, but humans perception of colors are truly tricks of the imagination because there are no perfectly objective view of colors. Furthermore, the color black humans observe when the sun goes down has been recently claimed to be an actual substance that we simply cannot see. Dark Matter is a force that repels gravity known as Dark Energy. A thought to ponder when the discussion of color arises.

Whitescape

Whitescape

                                                    

   The image scene on the left has a more orange-red tone, the image on the right has more of a blue-gray tone. In the photo in the left the inconvenient adaptable apple product looks more white contrast to the note card in the right photo which has a whiter tone. 

 

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