Postmodern Painting in the Mirror of Modernism. How Jonathan Lasker reflects the legacy of Modern Abstraction

Essay from the year 2017 in the subject Art - Visual artists language: English abstract: This essay concerns itself with the conceptual painting of New York artist Jonathan Lasker and establishes an understanding of his pictorial language as a postmodern position. The text examines the socio-political context underlying Modernism and how that shaped its artistic values and ideals in order to understand the problems and challenges facing the postmodern generation. Lasker's painting Hidden Identity is looked at as an example in order to arrive at a precise and nuanced understanding of his artistic statement.