The 1980s

1980s Postmoderism.

1980s:

• Ronald Reagan was elected president, November 4th, 1980.
• John Lennon Assassinated, December 8th, 1980.
• Anwar Sadat Assassinated, October 6th, 1981.
• Argentina invades the Falkland Islands, April 2nd, 1982.
• Back To the Future Opens, 1985.
• The Challenger Disaster, January 28th, 1986.
• The Fall of the Berlin Wall, November 9th, 1989.

Postmodernism was the end of Modernism. Postmodernists believed that Modernism had failed and that the art work produced was boring and monotonous. 

The postmodern age was about individualism, consumption and the break with the past/tradition. It was about the lack of structure. Postmodernists were encouraged to create who they wanted to be. 

Neo-expressionism.

Neo-expressionism acted as a major revival of painting in a expressionist manner in the 1980s and it occurred internationally.

Fashion in the 1980s.

The nineteen-eighties fashion has always been commended for its creativity. The early eighties were somewhat simple in colour, with a lot of browns, tans and oranges. Blocked shapes were all the rage and dressing like a sports person was very common.

 By the mid 1980s, pop music stars were encouraging an entirely new style, one that most people associate with the decade now a days. 

Bright coloured accessories like sunglasses, hoop earrings and bracelets were must have fashion pieces. Teased hair, loud make up and neon were an important part of this style and this was the style that was extremely popular with the youth of the decade. 

By the late eighties, Nike had grown into one of the most profitable companies in the world. Like Coke vs. Pepsi, Reebok vs. Nike was the athletic battle of the decade. However, with help from Michael Jordan, Nike won the battle. By 1988, every child had a pair of Nike Air Jordans. 

 

Post-postmodernism.

Post-postmodernism is a wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory, philosophy, architecture, art, literature, and culture which are emerging from and reacting to postmodernism. Another similar recent term is metamodernism.