Hypermodernism (art)
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Hypermodernism refers to a cultural, artistic, literary and architectural movement distinguished from Modernism
and Postmodernism
chiefly by its extreme and antithetical approach. Although the term is sometimes erroneously used to describe modernists such as Le Corbusier
, it has come to have some aspects of modernism filtered through the latest technological materials and approaches to design or composition. References to magic and an underlying flexible self-identity often coupled with a strong irony of statement categorize the movement. Some theorists view hypermodernism as a form of resistance to standard modernism; others see it as late romanticism
in modernist trappings.
Modernism
Modernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes the modernist movement, its set of cultural tendencies and array of associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western society...
and Postmodernism
Postmodernism
Postmodernism is a philosophical movement evolved in reaction to modernism, the tendency in contemporary culture to accept only objective truth and to be inherently suspicious towards a global cultural narrative or meta-narrative. Postmodernist thought is an intentional departure from the...
chiefly by its extreme and antithetical approach. Although the term is sometimes erroneously used to describe modernists such as Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier , was a Swiss-born French architect, designer, urbanist, writer and painter, famous for being one of the pioneers of what now is called modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in 1930...
, it has come to have some aspects of modernism filtered through the latest technological materials and approaches to design or composition. References to magic and an underlying flexible self-identity often coupled with a strong irony of statement categorize the movement. Some theorists view hypermodernism as a form of resistance to standard modernism; others see it as late romanticism
Romanticism
Romanticism was an artistic, literary and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Europe, and gained strength in reaction to the Industrial Revolution...
in modernist trappings.
Artists
- Crudo http://www.albertcrudo.com
- Eva Rorandelli
- Pete Ippel http://www.hypermodern.nethttp://www.peteippel.com
- Max Held http://maxheld.com
- Martin Levitt
- Gala Vadim http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist_profile//101783.html
- Martin SjardijnMartin SjardijnMartin Sjardijn is a painter, sculptor, digital artist and conceptual artist, who has created the Weightless Sculpture Project.-Life and work:...
http://www.sjardijn.com - FriendsWithYou
- Djan SilvebergDjan SilvebergDjan Silveberg is a French visual artist, born 1969 in Chambery .He uses various forms of artistic expressions in a playful and humoristic approach for his works, mixed with an underlying recurring ‘narrative poetry’....