Postmodern

1. Postmodern - Art that goes against the traditional art of earlier eras and rejects the rules that say why art is art. It is a focus by the artist to create art that they like as opposed to what the experts and media like. It is a way for the artist to say whatever they want in a piece of artwork.

2. Feminist art is rather similar to Postmodern art because it addresses many different issues. Feminist art also is an expression of the emotions that the artist is feeling as well as a representation of the events that has happened in the artist's life. Postmodern art is a similar expression and representation.

3. Cindy Sherman's artwork consists of female figures in various poses and outfits. I think that her artwork fits into the Post Modern era because she puts whatever she wants to into the photo and the subject matter is more than likely an expression of how she feels about events or issues that are fairly recent in her life.

4. The artist I chose from the drawing center is Jaanika Peerna. The reason I chose Jaanika is because the marks she makes are very detailed and purposeful.  The concept of her work is similar to mine in the sense that every mark is complete by itself but relies on all the other marks to be individually complete. Each drawing is a part and a complete whole at the same time. I am aware of every single mark that I make and can retrace the ways that I made the mark because of how familiar I grew of it. 

Formalism

a. Formalism - Art for the pure purpose of art. Formalism is more of a process instead of a genre. The subject matter isn't as important as the process of producing a piece of art just to produce a piece of art. 

b. Kandinsky fits my definition of formalism rather well, visually at least. It appears that he just uses whatever colors come to mind and just eventually makes a piece of art out of the marks that they have made.

c. Kandinsky's work appears like he just makes a mark with paint and just continues until the canvas eventually gets full and appears complete to the viewer. His work appears to have minimal planning and he was just doing art to do art. I don't know how many of his pieces could have actually been planned out since the marks and brush strokes are so free and flowing. If the edges of his colors were more crisp and less blended then his work wouldn't have fit into formalism near as well.

d. Katherine Sehr has a process that is very similar to mine in the fact that she wants her works to get a point across by the viewer realizing just how much time was invested in the piece. She used ink on a couple pieces and I am becoming very fond of using ink. She also grew intimate with her works because of the sheer amount of time that she spent on each piece at a rather close level.