Case study
Argue a case that Postmodern art challenges conventions (socially accepted, norm, mainstream), referring to the work of Penny Byrne and Fiona Hall. Use artist quotes and artwork descriptions to support your answer.
Penney Byrne and Fiona Hall are both artists that push the boundaries to the art world. They are a range of mix media artist who mainly focus on sculpture pieces. They mostly focus on social and political messages through their artworks concerning today’s issues that create an impact to the audience, by challenging and provoking them. The focus on using everyday ordinary objects that we see day to day and turning them to become something that shocks and makes the audience question and rethink the significance of what the art work it trying to portray through the postmodern art style.
Penney Byrnes artwork style is more taking and antique mainly a ceramic porcelain sculpture and creating this everyday common object and turning it into a strong political/social message. Though Penny Byrne artworks are too be believed as destroying these eighteenth-centaury plastid figurines, though Penny believes that she is re-creating these sculptures of beauty and releasing darker understanding of their meaning when created. Penney Byrne is a perfect example of het postmodern art and how it challenges the convections in art. “Humor, satire, and parody are essential ingredients in my work. Even though a title might sound flippant it is never meant to be, it is meant to make people think about the particular issue, or educate them about a particular issue as well as to entertain them”. She does this by the way she creates her pieces of art, of how she takes everyday objects and changes it onto another piece; therefore her art making practise is a great example of the way she pushes the boundaries in art and the post modern frame. Her art challenges the convections of postmodern frame by her concept she brings in her art and how it shows a deeper meaning of
Penney Byrne and Fiona Hall are both artists that push the boundaries to the art world. They are a range of mix media artist who mainly focus on sculpture pieces. They mostly focus on social and political messages through their artworks concerning today’s issues that create an impact to the audience, by challenging and provoking them. The focus on using everyday ordinary objects that we see day to day and turning them to become something that shocks and makes the audience question and rethink the significance of what the art work it trying to portray through the postmodern art style.
Penney Byrnes artwork style is more taking and antique mainly a ceramic porcelain sculpture and creating this everyday common object and turning it into a strong political/social message. Though Penny Byrne artworks are too be believed as destroying these eighteenth-centaury plastid figurines, though Penny believes that she is re-creating these sculptures of beauty and releasing darker understanding of their meaning when created. Penney Byrne is a perfect example of het postmodern art and how it challenges the convections in art. “Humor, satire, and parody are essential ingredients in my work. Even though a title might sound flippant it is never meant to be, it is meant to make people think about the particular issue, or educate them about a particular issue as well as to entertain them”. She does this by the way she creates her pieces of art, of how she takes everyday objects and changes it onto another piece; therefore her art making practise is a great example of the way she pushes the boundaries in art and the post modern frame. Her art challenges the convections of postmodern frame by her concept she brings in her art and how it shows a deeper meaning of