Metamodern Meta-modern Meta-modernism and the new sincerity Metamodernism: after reconstruction & deconstruction

I could do this all day. Last spring I saw the Ukrainian Modernism exhibit at Madrid's Thyssen-Bornemisza - all works that had been saved from Ukraine in the first days of the Russian attack. Powerful enough. Next day, I went to Reina Sofia as soon as it opened to see Guernica. We don't learn.

Georgia O'Keeffe⚜️ #art#georgiaokeeffe#modernism

I won’t pretend to understand how this place and the feeds work, but something isn’t working. Yday, on the ‘Modernism’ feed there were posts about BDSM, and the ‘Art’ feed hasn’t been showing art for a while (& I don’t mean snobbish categorising of ‘art’)

Poor old Saussure, rendered redundant by Post Modernism.

Honestly no idea how much modernism is directly informed by ancient forms, but huh.

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A Cycladic idol, 2500-2000BC. During the Early Bronze Age figurines were made from marble on the Cyclades, islands in the Aegean Sea. The most common are female figurines with folded arms. Most of them were found in graves.The intended purpose of these figurines remains unknown. 🏺 AncientBluesky

#OTD 3 October 1867 Pierre Bonnard was born. He became a founding member of the Post-Impressionist group of avant-garde painters Les Nabis & was a leading figure in the transition from Impressionism to Modernism

Oscar Niemeyer designed the University of Science and Technology in Constantine, Algeria. This stunning campus, completed in 1974, showcases Niemeyer’s signature modernist style, blending bold curves and innovative structures. architectural genius! #Architecture#OscarNiemeyer#Modernism#Design

Sally Rooney doing quasi stream-of-consciousness narrative? Modernism is BACK, baby!

Is there also something about dated modernism in fiction?