Perspectives: Postmodernism Words 4
Avant-garde - Meaning vanguard in French, avant-garde was a movement in the modernism era that challenged the art world by creating paintings that didn't follow what was expected at the time. Works of art normaly showed scenes from the Bible or other works of literature but with avant-garde it chose to show scenes that didn't have a story.
Nostalgia - Nostalgia is the feeling that we get when we remenber something from our past. It can also be used as a marketing technique when creating a new instalment of a film or rebooting the franchise, people who remenber when the film first film came out will be drawn to the new relate so that they can relive the past again.
Appropriation - This is when artists take from other souces and repurposes it for their own work. This is common in the postmodernism as many artists were looking at different places cultures for ideas that could help to make their work stand out more and also to fight back against what people thought, and said, is ture art.
Pastiche - A pastiche is when something is intentionally made to mimic another style. This can be seen as a way of paying tribute to the original source material.
Parody - A parody is much different from a pastiche as it sets out to make fun of someting. This could be done to make fun of the source material or to be used in another way to mock something else.
Irony - When something that is not meant to be serious is seen as being serious. Irony is a type of sarcasm but the different being that it is a set of events that happen with an often funny out come.
Ideology - When a set of ideas and thoughts come together to help create the base ideas for group of people e.g. political parties. This, when put with postmodernism, is when someone has an idea of how the world should work, almost in a utpoian way, but their vision is often someone else's distopia.
Genre - This is a way of putting different types of media in to different groups based on the themes, sets, style ect. There are also subgenres that link on to the main genre or two genres can be put together to try and create something new.
Nostalgia - Nostalgia is the feeling that we get when we remenber something from our past. It can also be used as a marketing technique when creating a new instalment of a film or rebooting the franchise, people who remenber when the film first film came out will be drawn to the new relate so that they can relive the past again.
Appropriation - This is when artists take from other souces and repurposes it for their own work. This is common in the postmodernism as many artists were looking at different places cultures for ideas that could help to make their work stand out more and also to fight back against what people thought, and said, is ture art.
Pastiche - A pastiche is when something is intentionally made to mimic another style. This can be seen as a way of paying tribute to the original source material.
Parody - A parody is much different from a pastiche as it sets out to make fun of someting. This could be done to make fun of the source material or to be used in another way to mock something else.
Irony - When something that is not meant to be serious is seen as being serious. Irony is a type of sarcasm but the different being that it is a set of events that happen with an often funny out come.
Ideology - When a set of ideas and thoughts come together to help create the base ideas for group of people e.g. political parties. This, when put with postmodernism, is when someone has an idea of how the world should work, almost in a utpoian way, but their vision is often someone else's distopia.
Genre - This is a way of putting different types of media in to different groups based on the themes, sets, style ect. There are also subgenres that link on to the main genre or two genres can be put together to try and create something new.
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