Knowing Your Isms

 

This is one of Gerhard Richter's overpainted photographs. Apparently, he's done thousands of these, which are sometimes interesting, sometimes not. But I think they're interesting as metamodernist works, which superimpose (appropriate) traditional art forms with postmodern treatments– in his case, combining his “scrape” and “squeegee” works with traditional photography.  You can view it as “destroying” the photographs, but I think it's an interesting overlay that I'm attempting to use in music by composing traditional orchestral music, and then adding electronic treatments and other contextualizations like field recordings or found sounds. I'm at the point where I'm unsatisfied with just working with traditional methods without some kind of postmodern framing.

It's useful to know all the isms pre-modernism, modernism, postmodernism, and now metamodernism.
An audio analysis of all the isms, drawn from posts in this blog:

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LLM: Discuss how pre-modernism, modernism, postmodernism, and metamodernism can be used in the creative process.

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Renoir’s Dance at Bougival superimposed with some scanner art I made several years ago, where I scanned brush strokes made on transparencies and moved them across the glass during the scan, which is obviously postmodernist.