Post-Modern Era Synthesis Asher P.3 T.1

Sigmund Freud is known as one of the greatest influential individuals of the 1900s and the Post-Modern Era, especially regarding his theories on the subconscious mind. He founded the psychotherapeutic school of thought known as psychoanalysis, which is based on the observation that many factors that a person may be unaware of can contribute to emotions and behavior. He also founded the principle of id, ego, and superego that drives the personality through aspects such as instinct, morality, and ethics. During the Post-Modern Era, the zeitgeist was led by subjective views rather than objective, and the interpretive views became different depending on each individual. Freud's work became very prominent in interpreting these views according to his theories on the subconscience and the mind's emotions. His theories influence many psychologists, writers, and artists, some of which include Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol.

Jackson Pollock is most notably famous for his abstract paintings and was once called "Jack the Dripper" by Time magazine due to his drip-and-splash style of painting. His paintings were very surrealistic due to the fact that they were composed of simply the dripping of brush strokes and pouring of paint in a non-comprehensible manner for many people. Freud's theories of the subconscious had a great impact on his works; his art was shaped by his own personal feelings of struggle and history of alcoholism. As he underwent psychotherapy to treat his alcoholism, he eventually founded the way for future abstract expressionist painters. Because his artwork lacks any direct shape or form for a person to interpret objectively, one must look deeper and interpret it based on his or her own subjective views and desires. Whether knowingly or unknowingly, Pollock had employed Freud's theories in a visual manner.

Andy Warhol was another artist who had displayed Freud's influences on the subconscious mind. Unlike Pollock's abstract impressionistic style, Warhol became an icon for pop art during the 1950s. His style included silk-screening in order to give an "assembly-line" effect on his works, which represented the mass media of celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe and the mass production of everyday items such as soup cans. He would draw these figures and repeatedly produce them again, but in a different color scheme to induce a new perspective and perception of the object of the painting. Freud's theory of psychoanalysis comes into play here by connecting Warhol's own subconscious feelings with his artwork that became so well known during the pop art culture of the Post-Modern Era.

Freud's theories had a significant impact not only on these two artists, but changed the way society views the conscious and subconscious mind. These views are reflected in not only art, but also in writing and other aspects of everyday life as well.

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Post Modern Era Synthesis

Sigmund Freud, one of greatest psychologists in the twentieth century, had a great impact upon the post-modern writers and artists. Freud focused his study on science of the mind, also known as subconscious. He defined and discovered multiple theories, one of them being what we know today as Superego, Ego, and Id. Freud also helped shape our views of childhood, memories, personalities, as well as sexuality through those three "mindsets" he came up with. Freud's theories influence d multiple writers and artists in the post -modern era, for example, artists Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol applied Freud's conscious mindset and reflected on their artworks.

Pollock, an artist of the time, closely related to Freud's theories and the influences were shown on his artwork. According to Freud's Id theory, it is driven by the pleasure of the person, which strives for immediate gratification of all desires, wants, and needs. If these needs aren't satisfied immediately, the result could possibly lead to extreme anxiety or tension. As an alcoholic, Pollock was not able to satisfy his desire in his life, thou, he suffered extremely anxiety. The doctor told him to release his anxiety issues through drawing and printing, most of his artwork reflected his thoughts and conclusions. Through the concept of Freud's Id theory, it had greatly influenced Pollock's artwork.

Another artist influenced by Freud was Andy Warhol. Warhol was known for his artwork regarding advertisements and celebrities in Hollywood. The colorful artwork brought out the personalities of each celebrities, it was part of influence of Freud because the color Warhol used weren't chosen at random. It reflects the emotions and feelings Warhol felt about each celebrities, and it was one of the mindset theories from Freud.

Freud's great influence upon the artist of the era truly brought the color into this world. They followed their own subconscious and created something unique and different from the previous eras.

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Post-Modern Era Synthesis Question

Sigmund Freud was a great thinker during the 1900’s. He is most famous for coming up with ways to access the subconscious. Though most of his work went into analyzing the subconscious, he highly admired artists for their ability to merely access their subconscious through their art. Freud left a legacy of deep thinking and deeper meaning. His observations regarding art caused people to view art through a different lens; splotches of paint were not merely that, they could represent how that artist views the world, how he expresses his emotions, or how he connects himself to the world. Without knowing it, Freud had left an unbounded influence upon artists and their observers.

One artist that was influenced by Freud was Jackson Pollock. Pollock is known for his abstract art, oftentimes only painting what appear to be paint splotches. Freud would say that these so-called paint splotches are expressions of Pollock’s emotion, possibly conveying his anger towards someone or something. Most of Pollock’s work consists of paintings of people, but painted with a mixture of curves, colors, and textures. The abstractness of his paintings of these people may represent how Pollock feels about each of the individuals he came across; perhaps a dark colored eye representing an inner darkness within this person, or a jagged edge representing a harsher perception of this person. In one of his paintings, “The She-Wolf”, the true message of his painting is reflected through the darkness of colors used, the rugged lines, and the vague images of humans mixed throughout the painting.

Another artist influenced by Freud was Andy Warhol. Warhol was famous for his art regarding advertisements and celebrities. He painted famous celebrities in an assortment of colors. One of his most famous paintings was one of Marilyn Monroe-her skin a deep pink and eye shadow an electric blue. Freud influenced Warhol because he gave meaning to the different colors. The colors were not just chosen at random, each color represented how Warhol saw this person. The colors could represent Warhol’s perception of the person, the person’s emotions, or even represent a historic event. The meaning behind Warhol’s paintings is far deeper than bright popping colors.

Freud’s true influence was not only among psychoanalysis, or writers, but also among artists. He showed the world that the colors, the textures, and the lines artists create are no coincidence. The meaning behind these seemingly unconscious actions are actually a bridge to the artist’s subconscious.

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Sigmund Freud was a well-known and highly acclaimed Austrian neurologist, who discovered the basic ideals of psychoanalysis. Freud’s desire to discover and need of knowledge led him to actively pursue an education of microscopic neuro-anatomy. Freud’s research on the subconscious mind and repressions directly influenced the era of the time – The Post-Modern. This people of this era lived in constant apprehension, worry and discontent. Society has just witnessed World War II, and believed that another outbreak would likely occur. Because of this, the general mindset of this era was of indifference; that there was no crucial reason to live life. These nihilist-like ideals combined with Freud’s realistic disposition, spurred many feelings and influential notions in minds of writer James Joyce, Pollack, as well as Warhol. James Joyce’s writing style was predominantly of a stream of consciousness. He embodied textured symbolism throughout his novels and essays, all the while incorporating one key central theme throughout: the stages of one’s life through maturity, and the way in which each stage represents and affects’ one’s own identity. Artist Pollack painted depictions which represented his true emotions. He was well-known for his artistic style, identified as drip painting. This is type of painting is open to a plethora of interpretation; it is simply a scattering of paint onto an empty canvas. Freud was an advocator of open representation; Pollack embodied what Freud believed in. Pollack was also known to suffer from a severe mental illness, which further intensified his drip paintings. In “Eyes in the Heat,” Pollack infuses soft, pastel colors with sharp black tones to create a melodramatic ambiance. This cluttered painting is mostly in soft colors, with hints of black peaking underneath. This can depict how Pollack expressed his inner most thoughts, which he generally hid from the public, into his paintings. Andy Warhol, on the other hand, portrayed objects in a larger than life manner. His work is known to explore the relationship between self-expression, celebrity culture as well as advertisement. In his painting of the iconic Marilyn Monroe, he strategically created four boxes in which her face was painted and shaded a different color. He does this in a means of making an iconic woman appear nothing but ordinary. We as people are made the same; if we see an image many times - it becomes instilled, engrained into our minds. Similarly Freud believes that that which we see multiple times becomes engrained into our minds. Our association with that particular image then serves as a comforting method, to which we can always relate to.

Jessie Yen, Ruhi Sharma, Sidney Gerst, Rachel Clauss. TEAM.8.

Post-Modern Synthesis Question Wylie Team 6 Period 5

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Post-Modern Era Synthesis Question

Sigmund Freud was a notable psychoanalyst who lived during the post-modern era. His contributions to science included several aspects of the subconscious, one of these being the discovery of Id, ego, and Superego. By describing the human’s unconscious wants and desires, Freud was able to establish a balance between the cravings and strict regulations in people’s lives. Similarly, artists Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol wanted to find a balance between their struggles and/or desires as well.

Andy Warhol was known for his contributions to pop art. As one of his staples, Warhol was constantly incorporating different celebrities in his artwork due to his fascination with Hollywood glamour. His infatuation was so great that he said, “I love Hollywood… Everything’s plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.” Tying in with Freud’s definitions, Warhol realized his Id and his desire to roam through life as a “plastic” Hollywood star. However, he realized it was irrational. Through his artwork, he was influenced by his subconscious Id to portray aspects of life that he found beautiful and desirable.

With Jackson Pollock, the influences of Freud were directly related to his behavior. As an alcoholic, Pollock underwent psychotherapy, and his doctor later encouraged Pollock to draw and make art as a way of release. Many of these theories and practices that Pollock’s doctor used derived from Freud’s original thoughts and conclusions. Due to this, Freud influenced Pollock, and many of Freud’s concepts were revealed in his art.

Both Warhol and Pollock were able to grasp Freud’s ideas towards the subconscious and fittingly, subconsciously incorporated these beliefs in their art. Warhol’s art emphasized the “Id” factor as he played upon his desires while Pollock’s art emphasized the release of his bottled emotions as he was trying to suppress his own “Id,” which was alcoholism.

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Sigmund Freud, a psychoanalyst of the post-modern era, studied the science of the mind, and more specifically—the subconscious. He defined what we know today as the Id, ego and Superego and how we subconsciously influence our behavior and which of the three “mindsets” we’re in, constantly. His theories have influenced many people of the era, who began exploring and trying to understand their minds and reflect what goes on in them almost too realistically. For example, artist James Pollack’s works look like he randomly splashed paint upon the canvas with no real purpose. However, his “paintings” were really just his inner frustrations splashed on a canvas. He suffered from mental problems and used his art as a sort of “self-therapy”. In his “Guardian’s of the Secret”, he has a mess of green pastel and other colors that are sort of in a tangled jumble, almost like Pollack is expressing how he has so many “secrets” that are so ugly and tangled that the “guardian” is having difficulty holding them back. Freud also influenced Andy Warhol, who took ordinary artifacts and events and gave them new meaning, sort of like what our mind does. In his work, “Green Burning Car”, he repeats the same image of a burning car six times, so as to make the horrific image seem less impactful and ordinary. This is what our minds do. Sometimes when we see so much horror, like soldier’s do in war, it becomes to envelope not only our alert mind, but the subconscious as well, and as a result appears in our dreams. Freud wrote about how soldier’s who experienced such horrific images sometimes relived those moments in their minds as a source of almost comfort—it has become their reality and taken root in their subconscious mind. Warhol tried to reflect the horrific images of death and hell, to relate the reality of what we not only experience, but what we think about.

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Lillie Moffett, Lauren Wakabayashi, Sooji Hong, Nicole Lussier

Period 6 - Wylie T3

The modern era was characterized by many bright achievements as well as many dark moments. Artists such as Rembrandt and Picasso made social statements through their work which people can still understand today. Rembrandt favored existentialism, promoting messages of individuality in his works while Picasso favored Nihilism, as characterized by his mysterious works of art.
Most of Rembrandt’s work, containing elements of both light and dark, can be described as mysterious and thought-provoking. By using mostly contrasting colors, Rembrandt’s thoughts could be easily portrayed and therefore understood by people. Figures in the foreground, such as people doing daily activities were in the “spotlight” of his paintings. They were characterized by light colors and were heavily emphasized and accented. Meanwhile, things in the background were given darker colors, used to help bring out the importance of the figures in the foreground. The implied meaning of these portraits was the importance of existentialism, or individuality. The lighter colors of the individuals in the painting captured the attentions of viewers, possibly hinting at the potential people have in themselves.
On the other hand, we have Picasso, who created portraits characterized by abstract elements. Many portraits were broken down into their component parts, only to be put back together in a way people would never have imagined. His portraits possibly suggested that the nihilistic viewpoint, stating that people are simple parts strewn together with no real aim or meaning. There was no real connection between people and their environment, resulting in a sort of apathetic view on life.

Jenny Zhan, Dylan Mulcahy, Caleb Ong, James Jin, Amber Austin.