Eli5: What is modernism and post-modernism?
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They’re both *edit: also* an art and literature style. It’s all meant to make you think about humanity, I guess.
Modernism: Dreary and sad art because everyone lives in industrial era cities and many are unhappily unfaithful in love. Sometimes it’s that and sometimes it’s just art that shows humans how they really are with their flaws and everything.
Modernism is easier to understand if you contrast it with previous eras of art where people would be depicted with honor, glory, romance, or when they cared about the golden ratio, a art theory where if you mathematically measure out where they put the painting’s focus in this pattern it will look really good.
Post-modernism: Art that is random, disturbing, weird, abstract, or subverts your expectations from the way previous eras would, for example make paintings of people but give them a glow-up or tell a coherent story with a hero, a villain, a climax, and everything.
A post-modernist painting might for example make the person look like a potato instead of focusing on trying to make them look pretty and a post-modernist writer might write you a story where there is no hero/villain/climax, everyone is grey, or everyone is crazy, and the story just suddenly ends on a dull note.
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