Once again I find myself rifling through the text searching for some sort of explanation. From what I could grasp, I was most intrigued by the idea of realism. Lyotard offers us the definition of realism as one that intends to avoid the question of reality altogether in art. I took away from this that the true art of realism is that which people cannot understand to be true. In simpler terms, realism is not real at all, but a merely world of fantasy.
There's an artist who took old celebrities of hollywood who have been arrested and put their mugshot face into an old fashioned picture with a completely different location and time period. This is the example that came directly to mind when I thought of art that's so far fetched or out of this world. Now what art is praise worthy? Is it that which paints a beautiful picture of what we already know? Or is it the piece that stops us in thoughts of how could this be?
"The challenge lay essentially in that photographic and cinematographic processes can accomplish better, faster, and with a circulation a hundred thousand times larger than narrative or pictorial realism, the task which academicism had assigned to realism: to preserve various consciousnesses from doubt" (Lyotard 40). This got me thinking of how technology has effected the world of post modernism/ realism. It almost seems as if the author's suggesting that those who do not keep up with the pace and continue to question the rules are not kept in the loop of realism.
Post modernisn is an art, in my opinion, that calls for a much higher creativity in the fact that the artist must create something from nothing. It's like comparing someone who paints family portraits to an artist who draws a dream. There's absolutely no comparison.
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