Realism through the Postmodern Era

Running Head : REALISM THROUGH THE POSTMODERN ERA

Realism Through the Postmodern Era

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Realism Through the Postmodern Era

Contemporary arts are bodies of art works and objects that break away from the tradition of modern art . It is the movement that is personally referred , art of the present ' Mark Bradford , one of the contemporary artists of the period , reveals his skills into the diverse spaces of South California where he puts up his installations and collages made up of materials from the streets

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Bradford was a native of Los Angeles . He was born in the year 1961 He obtained his degree in Fine Arts and Masters in Fine Arts in California Institute of Arts in Valencia during 1995 and 1997 respectively . He has already received several awards such as Bucksbaum Award (2006 , Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (2003 ) and Joan Mitchell Foundation (2002 . He has also been included in major exhibitions in 2006 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Public Broadcasting Service , 2007 . Some of the group exhibitions that he has joined were put up at Italy , Santa Monica and New York . From 1998 to 2005 , he has already managed to have his solo exhibitions in different places in the United States namely , Pittsburg , San Francisco and New York (Saatchi Gallery , 2009

Bradford 's works focuses on the ephemera and imagery of his surroundings . He pairs an assessment and examination of formal debates on abstraction and figuration with the sociological questions concerning the systems...