While modernism was based on idealism and reason, postmodernism was born of scepticism and a suspicion of reason. It challenged the notion that there are universal certainties or truths. Postmodern art drew on philosophy of the mid to late twentieth century, and advocated that individual experience and interpretation of our experience was more concrete than abstract principles. While the modernists championed clarity and simplicity; postmodernism embraced complex and often contradictory layers of meaning.

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A quote by Mark Rothko (with translation in Latvian) – Daugavpils-born American artist (1903-1970), one of the founders of abstract expressionism – from the Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre (my photo)

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