Modernism

Modernism rejects the lingering certainty of enlightenment thinking. not all modernist reject religion or faith. Modernism is about questioning the times of the previous age. Modernist believe the times before of how art, architecture, literature, social organisation and daily life were becoming outdated in the new economic, social and political conditions. to be self conscious is to be a modernist. the term "modern art" is often used to decribe the succestion of movements that follwed realism and abstract art.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

I had to do a post on probably the artist who first inspired me to even pick up a pencil and draw. Jean-Micheal Basquiat was born December 22 1960 and died august 12 1988, was by all accounts the first artist of African descent to become an international art star. life started out as a graffiti writer in New York, and then came the 1980's where he began to produce Neo-expressionist paintings.



for the short life he had, Basquiat achieved a great deal more than many artist before and after him. in the short years leading up to his overdose he was appearing regularly Annina Nosei gallery in Soho. that same year of 1982 he met Andy Warhol, with whom he collaborated with two years later. by the mid 1880's he had left the Annina Nosei gallery and was showing his work in the famous Mary Boone gallery in Soho. Even though he was very successful at this time the increasing drug use began to interfere with his aspirations.
for someone so talented to have blown up like that, only to die in a way never fitting of such a talented being, its a real shame.

Semiotics

Semiotics is the study of sign processes or signification and communication. it is usually divided into three branches.
Semantics: which is the relation between signs and the things to which they refer.
Syntactics: which is the relationship among signs in a formal structure.
Pragmatics: which is the relation between signs, and thier effects on those people.

As pictured above semiotics to me can get most in a pickle. The basis of semiotics is someone maybe looking at exactly the same image or symbol as someone else, but the image can be interpreted in many ways. The first semiotic definition of "Sign" came from Ferdinand de Saussurein his Course on General Linguistics (1915).

I conclude that based on who you are, where your from, and how you think, everyone has the possibility of misreading or over thinking signs symbols and images. their appears to be no definite answer to semiotics.