Postmodernism

Postmodernism is a late 20th Century movement in the arts, architecture, and criticism that was departured from modernism. 

Postmodernism includes skeptical interpretations of culture, literature, art, philosophy, history, economics, architecture, fiction, and literary criticism. 

1. Anti- authoritarianism - opposed to authoritarianism. 

2. Collapses boundaries between high culture and the mass culture. 

Jeff Koons

Jeff Koons is an American artist most known for his reproductions of banal objects such as balloon animals produced in stainless steel with a mirror finish surface. 

Jeff Koons rose to prominence in the mid-1980s as part of a generation of artists who explored the meaning of art in a media-saturated era. He gained recognition in the 1980s and subsequently set up a factory-like studio in a SoHo loft on the corner of Houston Street and Broadway in New York. 

His main influences include Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali. 

Grayson Perry

Grayson Perry is an English artist, known mainly for his ceramic vases and cross dressing. Perry's vases have classical forms and are decorated in bright colours, depicting subjects at odds with their attractive appearance.

Perry's work refers to several ceramic traditions, including Greek pottery and folk art. 

In his work Perry reflects upon his upbringing as a boy, his stepfather's anger and the absence of proper guidance about male conduct.Perry's understanding of the roles in his family is portrayed in Using My Family, from 1998, where a teddy bear provides affection, and the contemporaneous The Guardians, which depicts his mother and stepfather.

Much of Perry's work contains sexually explicit content. Some of his sexual imagery has been described as "obscene sadomasochistic sex scenes".He also has a reputation for depicting child abuse and yet there are no works depicting sexual child abuse although We've Found the Body of your Child, 2000 hints at emotional child abuse and child neglect.  In other work he juxtaposes decorative clichés like flowers with weapons and war. Perry combines various techniques as a "guerrilla tactic", using the approachable medium of pottery to provoke thought.