PostModern vs. Modern

Modern:
roughly 1860s to around 1970s
associated with art in which the traditions of the past have been thrown aside in a spirit of experimentation.
new ways of seeing and fresh ideas about form and materials and function of art
tendency towards abstraction
Popular modern artists:
Van Gogh
Chagall
Cezanne
Picasso
Matisse
Braque
Derain
Gaugin
Duchamp

Postmodern: 
"Of or relating to art, architecture, or literature that reacts against earlier modernist principles, as by reintroducing traditional or classical elements of style or by carrying modernist styles or practices to extremes."
""Postmodern and contemporary artists often adopt, borrow, steal, recycle and/or sample from earlier modern and classical works. They combine or alter these images to create new, contemporary pieces. And many fill their works with a strong sense of self-awareness.” They also work with and combine artistic, scientific, technological, media and digital/Internet tools."
sought to contradict different aspects of modernism
-intermedia
-installations
-Conceptual art

appropriation, Pop art, collage, simplification, performance art