Art of Italy

Post-Modern Italian art

Post-Modernism is a highly controversal label which generally refers to a period of time after the project(s) of modernism have ended and in which all time periods and styles are not necessarily separated anymore. Just as paints of different colours can be mixed on a pallette, so all the styles of antiquity, gothic, renaissance, baroque, expressionist, cubist, surrealist etc. can all be merged and produce hybrids which access and are informed by all the knowledge of art history. Nothing is positively forbidden. Even Bad art and Kitsch are part of the vocabulary employed to question the Metanarratives of art (and world) philosophy.

Related Topics:
Post-Modernism - Bad art - Kitsch - Metanarrative

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A good example of Italian Post-Modern painting is that of Carlo Maria Mariani.

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