Know The Difference Between Post Modern Art And Pre Modern Art

Here we have introduced concepts for your better understanding of post modern art as well as pre modern art.

Post Modern Art

The term post modern art or post-modernity generally designate a large number of artistic, cultural, literary and philosophical movements of the twentieth century, defined in various degrees and ways by their position or overcoming the modern. Postmodern art is the term used to designate the wide range of cultural, artistic, philosophical and literary movements that emerged in the last century, more precisely before the decade from the seventies and eighties with the clear objective of opposing the prevailing.

The Modernity

The concept of modernity designated, in principle, a certain chronological period that covers the last five years. However, the presumption that, throughout these centuries, certain traits can be maintained as permanent, would indicate the assumption of non- strictly chronological criteria in view of their definition and, therefore, the use of content and type characters historic.

Romanesque Art- Post Modern Art

• Of an eminently religious nature, almost all Romanesque postmodern art was aimed at the exaltation and dissemination of Christianity. In the Romanesque, the various styles produced by the Pre-Romanesque culminated, while denoting the oriental influence of Byzantine art.

Its general characteristics in the Romanesque postmodern art style: the solidity of the construction, great width of walls to be able to resist the strengths and tensions of the structure. This also included use of the semicircular arch and half-barrel vault, shortage of openings, a tendency towards horizontality versus verticality Gothic, the combination of architectural forms of great balance and elegance, given its simplicity, sense of symmetry and order and the use of sculpture of strange beauty, far removed from the classical canons.

Gothic Art

It developed between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, a time of great economic and cultural development. In fact, the Gothic style found its great means of expression in architecture.

In contrast to Romanesque art, the Gothic architecture used the pointed arch, needles, spiders, and gables, reinforcing the ascending sense that the building intends to transmit, wide openings with openwork traceries to achieve maximum luminosity and structures reduced to a minimum.

Pre-Modern Art

From the fifth century to the fifteenth century, which corresponds to the Middle Ages, includes main movements and different periods.

The medieval artistic object has a basically functional character.

Moreover, they are classified, among others, in:

Paleochristian Art

Paleochristian art is the link between two major stages of culture and Western art. Better said to Classical Antiquity and the Christian Middle Ages. Generally, two artistic manifestations of the importance of the basilical temple and the narrative and symbolic iconography of Christianity are going to take shape.

It has in the mosaics and the funerary sculpture of the graves two of its most important artistic manifestations.

Pre-Romanesque Art

• They are all those works carried out during the 6th, 9th and 10th centuries in the stylistic, ostrogodo art, Goths, Carolingian, Ottonian, etc., is represented in Spain by:
• Visigoth art
• Asturian art
• Mozarabic art
• Restocking Art