SVA – BFA Photography Thesis Exhibition: Formal Reception Invititation
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Me sleazing it up with my overpriced photos at the Mentor Show –
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‘High (F)art’
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I don’t know if modernism ever ended – postmodernism may have just been a natural (though drawn-out) extension. Whats wrong with jarring the past with the present – isn’t that still creating ‘the new’?
Are these thoughts naive?
To me, postmodernism (as a critically separate state) feels more optimistic than the critical blanket of pessimism spread across the artistic understanding of culture since the 1970′s. To recognize the past seems far less pretentious than to disregard it. Though every moment is typically thought of as new, every idea isn’t. To productively combine the old with the new is to honestly and/or consciously recognize the source. There will always be reductive models of ‘high art’ making (and terms like ‘modernism’ and ‘postmodernism’ signify, if not denote ‘high art’), but ‘postmodernism’ as it stands in my mind as a 22-year-old art student about to graduate doesn’t seem so. Monday is always Monday, but Monday doesn’t always feel like Monday.
A song always sounds different depending on the mood you’re in.
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Retrieved
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A Study of Perspective (After Ai Weiwei) : Chatroulette, 2011
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