postmodern art

Postmodern art is visual art from roughly the 1960s onward that rejects modernism's emphasis on originality, purity, and progress.

It embraces irony, appropriation, and mixing of styles and media.

Where modernists sought universal truths, postmodern artists question whether such truths exist, often blurring boundaries between high art and popular culture: The exhibit featured postmodern art that combined Renaissance imagery with advertising logos.

The category is contested—some see it as a meaningful movement, others as a vague catchall for contemporary work that resists classification.