Postmodern Art - a movement in Western art, spanning from the late 1970s until the present, rejects the key ideas of modernism. The traits associated with the use of the term postmodern in art include bricolage, use of text as the central artistic element, collage, appropriation, a return to traditional themes and techniques as a rejection of modernism, and depictions of consumer or popular culture.
Pastiche - a literary, artistic, musical, or architectural work that imitates the style of previous work or an artistic composition made up of selections from different works.
Bricolage - the construction or creation of a work of art from a diverse range of things which happen to be available.
Graffiti - images or lettering scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner on property. Generally regarded as vandalism, the postmodern era has recognized it as a legitimate artform.
Pluralism - a postmodern movement in art that assumes the cultural context of art should be all encompassing in its respect for the art of the world's wide variety of cultures and artistic styles, and that diverse cultural and stylistic influences can coexist in a work of art.
Appropriation - an artistic concept in which an artist uses an image already in existence and places it in a new context in order to give it new meanings.
