PHENOMENON OF ECLECTICISM IN THE POST-MODERN PERIOD AND DAVID SALLE
POSTMODERN SÜREÇTE EKLEKTİSİZM OLGUSU VE DAVID SALLE

Author : Gökçen Şahmaran CAN
Number of pages : 239-248

Abstract

The modern-day art having survived with the rooted changes in the establishment period of the capitalist bourgeois society in the course of the history beginning from the first quarter of the 19th Century until today re-emerges in 1950s in the aftermath of the World War II. In this regard, the thought perceptions formed after the World War II have influenced all artists and movements and escalated the devastation of tradition by means of violating the most significant features of the European art and including a revolt. The artists started to cultivate the bad consequences of the bourgeois revolution in their artistic works with a new world vision and with a fact of riot. Cultural formation of the late capitalism has created a post-modern society against the oppressive and totalitarian attitude of the modernism, a society who does not believe the existence of high values and where irony, pluralism, and eclecticism have become the dialect. Post-modern artistic setting, in this context, has come against the aesthetics based classic artistic approach with a nihilist attitude and dignified a reaction oriented expression. It has showed an “eclectic” approach which couples the pieces together without considering the structure of the whole, instead of a fictional system hierarchy in the formation of the works. With the effects of the industrial age depressions to the end of the twentieth century, mostly in USA, the fact that “modernist oppressions caused the human’s ego forgotten” took effect in USA also in a short time. Among the artists focusing on belief end existence problematic, the Neo-expressionist David Salle has become an outstanding character of the post-modern panting with his eclectic works at the beginning of the 1970s.

Keywords

Post-Modernism, Eclecticism, Art

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