Woman by the window by pablo picasso 1936 pablo picasso

Modernism & Post - Modernism

  • This Is Just To Say

    This Is Just To Say
    This poem was written by William Carlos Williams and is a short poem. It's about the man eating a plum from the icebox and asking forgiveness from his roommate. This poem is Modernist because a icebox is the same thing of our today's freezers.
  • Yellow Islands

    Yellow Islands
    Yellow Island is a piece of art from Jackson Pollock. Him and a few other artists developed a new approach to painting by marking random marks. This is modernism because they used abstract art and wasn't like the other classical art styles.
  • Mr. Sandman - The Chordettes

    Mr. Sandman - The Chordettes
    This song is about them asking "Mr. Sandman" to give them a handsome man in their dreams. Mr. Sandman is known for giving people dreams. They were known for using ONLY their voices to create a melody. LISTEN
  • Campbell Soup Can

    Campbell Soup Can
    Andy Warhol makes art that looks like it came out of a comic book. He uses print making and prints the same image over and over again. It is a post modern piece.
  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

    Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
    This Novel was written by Philip K. Dick. It's about a bounty hunter named Rick Deckard. His job was to retire renegade androids that had escaped the outer colonies. The setting is earth after WWT (World War Terminus) This is a modernist novel because they were writing about the future.
  • Grenade - Bruno Mars

    Grenade - Bruno Mars
    Bruno Mars is a pop singer. This song is about him doing whatever for his love that didn't appreciate that love. LISTEN