Postmodernism

They are changing the principles! And it is for the better?

I feel that if not in the last post, then definitely in this one, you may be thinking that I'm stuck in the past.  This is not so.

It is absolutely necessary for them to updated, so that they are relevant to the artwork being made today, which happens to be very different from the work of 'x amount of hundred years ago' when they first felt it necessary to talk about artwork...  because thats what the elements and principles are- a vocabulary for people to talk about art.  It is important to realize that back then, the art was a scene or portrait that relied on content, whereas modernism and postmodern, as these new principles of design are coined after, artwork becomes more conceptual.

But, I think that as important as it is to update words like line, shape, color and value with ones like hybridity, gazing, text and image interaction, recontextualization, juxtaposition and appropriation... its important to remember that the first set has informed us as artists and art critics, and is an important scaffold to talk about the latter.  There are some instances where line will still be very important to a painting or drawing (in fact, these days it might be the only thing in the page) so don't forget the original principles we all know (and love?).