You will develop a reflective review of the convention of modernism and the hybridisation into postmodernity. This explains the title of the article Order vs Chaos as the basis of an investigation of the modernist and postmodernist aesthetic conventions and modes of production. The metaphor of order and chaos will be employed to study the rupture between modernist traditions and postmodernist strategies. The article offers methods in which students can investigate and interrogate visual conventions and come to an illuminated decision about the practices within the two ideologies. This article will examine how historical accounts of events and theories presented by modernism were usurped by the critical structure of postmodern ideology.
Modernism highlights the paradigm shift within visual conventions, codes and signs.
The strategy of stylistic revisionism manifested in manifestoes and the establishment of the avant-garde best articulates the aims and outcomes of Modernity. Emerging visual theories coupled with advances in technology gave rise to new possibilities in the production of art. The speed at which culture reinvented itself through technology in the last quarter of the 19 th century and the first decade of the 20 th century, seems almost preternatural. New objectivity Expressionism Surrealism Abstract Expressionism. Cubism and the multiplicity of vision.