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You excel at working independently and need little guidance when completing projects. Managers love that you are able to take a set of project guidelines and hit the ground running with little input from other team members. Like other introverts, you prefer working in a private space to spending time in a conference room or other group environment. Working alone gives you the energy to power through tough assignments and get things done quickly, making you a valuable asset to any employer. E-mail is your preferred method of communication, as it lets you think about what you are going to say before you send a message.

Your approach to problem-solving allows you to thrive in careers that require creativity and imagination. Rather than filling your mind with statistics and facts, you prefer to rely on your own imagination to come up with solutions and innovative ideas for new products or services. While some people prefer a step-by-step approach to problem-solving, you prefer to make imaginative leaps from one point to another. Your colleagues benefit from this approach, as it helps you come to conclusions that step-by-step thinkers would not come up with on their own. Managers especially appreciate your ability to come up with unique ways to solve problems.

As a rational thinker, you prefer to rely on concrete information rather than emotions or instinct. Colleagues value your logical approach to problem-solving, especially when critical decisions need to be made. Managers rely on your use of logic to solve complex problems, so you are a valued team member in any environment. Although you prefer to use logic when making decisions, you still have the ability to "go with your gut" when necessary. The ability to use logic even under the toughest of circumstances will help you succeed in careers involving technology and scientific processes.

Having an opportunity to move around during the workday isn't something that is important to you. Instead, you love to spend time sitting at your desk and powering through everything from routine tasks to unexpected challenges. As someone who prefers a stationary career, a desk job will actually cause you less stress than a job that has you moving constantly. Spending a lot of time at your desk also gives you the time you need to think about your work and make good decisions. Managers appreciate that you are usually available for impromptu meetings or telephone calls.

When it comes to interacting with colleagues, supervisors, and clients, you prefer e-mail and telephone conversations to actual face time. You thrive when you are able to work off-site, especially if you are able to make your own schedule. Freelance jobs and non-traditional jobs appeal to you because they give you the freedom to set your own hours and work when you are at your peak performance. Clients and managers don't mind giving you a lot of flexibility, as you achieve the best results when you are allowed to set your own pace and decide when and where you will work.

You excel in careers that require a great deal of concentration, especially when you are able to work in a quiet environment that does not have a lot of distractions. Colleagues and supervisors rely on you to buckle down and focus on the details, as your personality makes it easy for you to get through marathon work sessions that would get the best of other employees. Your ideal work environment is one that has very little foot traffic, as you do not like to be disturbed by visitors or people who have to walk past your work area to get to other parts of the office.

You are somewhat of a perfectionist when it comes to your work methods. Rather than use the same process for every task, you love to explore new ways of doing things. Increasing efficiency and improving the quality of your work are always at the front of your mind. You excel in careers that give you plenty of opportunities for finding new ways to solve problems or perfect processes. What works for others may not work for you, so colleagues and supervisors think of you as an innovative person who will settle for nothing less than the best when it comes to getting things done.

Because you are naturally averse to taking financial risks, you prefer to receive a fixed salary or hourly wage. You shy away from positions that involve incentive plans or commissions, as they do not offer you the financial stability you desire. Receiving a fixed income helps you budget for expenses and determine how much money you need to save to meet your financial goals. If you have family members who rely on you for their basic needs, choosing a guaranteed salary over a base salary plus performance-based commissions helps you meet your obligations and put away money for the future.

Artist Statement of Jacob D Hostetler

Artist Statement of Jacob D Hostetler

            Art is a word that conjures up many theories that fill the imagination with possibilities of conceptual ideas, and brings them into reality. As an artist I don’t know what art is or should be. I just know what drives me to make it. The challenge of combining colors and shape to create a work that moves people when they view it is just as good as nailing that handed down recipe for a classic dish.

            I’m currently working on my Masters in Fine Art at the Academy of Art University, where my work has been improved ten fold in a traditional program; and yet find myself working towards abstraction in concept and practice. My shows and exhibits thus far have been of expressionism concepts that fall within the realm of contemporary thinking. As my time here at The Academy progresses I plan on working out my creative ideas on illustration board with pen and ink or marker and watercolor, with a hint of colored pencil to fulfill my thesis project and final review. After being rewarded a Masters in Fine Art degree from the Academy of Art University, along with having the intentions of going after my teacher certification and then going after the terminal degree of PhD in Interdisciplinary Arts from Ohio University. As a man, and veteran, and contemporary artist I leave you with this: “The Images I create are my curse, my love, and my destiny that keeps me sane, in this insane world”

Post Modernism by Jacob D Hostetler

“ What is Post Modernism?”

                        Post Modernism is art movement that has not happened yet. Just in this statement alone raises the argument of what is Post Modernism. Before argument can be settled of what are Post Modernism and what it stand for, standards of what Modernism is must be address first. Between the timeline of 1850 to 1950 Modernism was felt but not fully realized, it was more Pre or Early Modernistic periods. It was this that gave birth too, the Modernism concept. It is not these high Fine Art Society groups, such as art critic, art dealers, art historian; which illustrates that Post Modernism started around 1968-present.  By removing the high prestige of double talk, that Fine Art Society declares is right. One can see the conceptual idea of Modernism coming in to play, with works by European Impressionists such as Claude Monet as early as 1870s, even the Post Impressionist like Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, and Wassily Kandinsky. Artist ran away from traditional ideas of making realistic representations of their subjects, more towards the stylistic use of bold colors and expressive brushwork, Artist where set free to explore their feeling on canvas unlike in past, artists let them selves see their subject feelings and the own feelings come out in the work to almost have a narrative of emotion of their subjects (Barbour 16-17).

            Is Post Modernism just another art movement, or is it something more personal? The majority of art students have an “ I don’t care approach” towards the meaning of Post Modernism. The reasoning behind this belief is that; artists make the artwork, not the over educated pencil pusher that defines the art world. The high Fine Art Society is a world on to it self. Even with this word of Post Modernism they find them selves arguing over the meaning, and when the realization of Post Modernism come in to play as an art movement. A few artists and scholar’s of the art world believe that Post Modernism has not arrived yet. Fine Art Society should not even be using this term to describe anything that defines art. To go from Neo-classicalism, and that of Romanticism to Modernism was too big of leap.  The high Society of Fine Art presents that Modernism starts around 1850. Which is totally false, the feeling more around the 1950s And 60s, when Abstract art and Pop art was coming into the spotlight. With this, time frame one can find the true meaning of the word Modernism as an art period (Butcher 334-335). Scott Barbour editor of  “American Modernism” quotes a writer, and poet Alan Shucard, along with his colleagues, about Impressionists paintings. Barbour goes on to explain that Shucard conveys: “the previously static and orthodox landscape is shattered into a fluid array of dots, colors and vigorous brush strokes that create a sense of the transitory and shifting environment of the modern world” (qtd.16). This word of Modernism transcends all boundaries including that that of literature and to where even writer are putting in their two cents. In early or pre – Modernism, two exhibits are often coined as key moments in Modernism array of historic facts. The first was in Paris around 1905 at the Autumn Salon. The show featured works from Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, and Vincent Van Gogh; also Henri Matisse headed the show. The show was coined  “Les Fauves” from an art critic visiting the show. The meaning behind les fauves is that of wild beasts (16).

            The second exhibit was a show in New York 1913; this show was more significant, for one it was coined the Armory show, for it was in old building that once was the Sixty-ninth Regiment armory. This show also brought out the biggest and brightest of Europe to American soil. Show had a significant liberation and relief from tradition, conventional, and representational art. Barbour states that the Amory show had a most profound effect on all artists, be it a painter, sculptor, or poet. Poet William Carlos Williams, who was seen the Armory show, had this to say; after seeing the work of Duchamp’s Nude Descending the stairs:  “I laugh out loud when I first saw it, happily, with relief” (17). This exhibit artist of any medium where set free to explore new avenues of thinking, in return set the ground work for the characteristic of Modernism. Following the Armory show exhibit in 1913, a kind of revolt happened towards the prevailing styles, which one can see Modernism with its explosive rage towards high Society of Fine Art traditions. Its best illustrated by Irving Howe a well known literary critic and author of “ the Characteristics of Modernism” which is in fact chapter one of Barbour’s book “ American Modernism” articulates that, “ but modernism does not establish a prevalent style of its own; or if it does, it denies itself, there by ceasing to be modern”(29). Which helps point out Post Modernism in the way of timeline, if Modernism is having a hard time to finding it self, an argument can be made that, one can not find himself in a Post Modernism time period. If they cannot even define Modernism, with this information Post Modernism is just idea.

             Lets explain further by moving on towards Late Modernism, which over laps Modernism, as early as 1923, when Mark Rothko comes to New York. Rothko’s style transformed slowly over the next 20 years. Rothko been noted for start the groundwork for what became Abstract Expressionism.  He has been quoted saying: “obstacles between the painter and the idea and between the idea and the observer” (Fitzpatrick 19). By the 1947 Rothko style had become completely Abstract about the same time of Rothko there were artists making their mark as well one of them is an artist named

 Willem De Kooning (1904-97). De Kooning bold, abstract black and white painting drew great reviews from critics; DE Kooning went on to paint women in abstract way. During the time of Rothko and De Kooning emerged another artist that made Abstract expressionism an international movement his name was Jackson Pollock. He died in 1956 (Fitzpatrick 19). But his name over shadows that of Rothko or De Kooning. Abstract expressionism was art movement that give birth to many styles of artic expression. The best way to illustrate this is by have a chronological outline of Modernism.

	° 1780-1900    Pre - Modernism c.1780 -           Neo Classicism 1820-1050       Romanticism 1850-1870       Realism / Naturalism 1870-1880       Impressionism 1880-1900       Post Impressionism

 

           

 

            For this is also, the best way to show why Post Modernism is so hard to define. It has not happed yet or is just starting to with advent of the twentieth first century. The evolution in the world of art is forever moving in multiple directions, giving birth to contemporarism, and that of digitalism. The author of “ Art Fundamentals” Phillip A. Butcher admits that “ throughout history new generations of artist become dissatisfied with the route taken by their predecessors and therefore, struck out in new directions”(39) with this statement one can see why we find ourselves in a contemporary conceptualism though of being. Why do artist and critic find it a must to define Post Modernism?  The reasoning being that, artist and critic feel the presents of all four Modernistic periods. Even though Contemporarism is in the forefront of this postmodern age. Reminds me of abstract, in a book called Art 21(art in the twenty- first century) by Marybeth Sollins editor: “ contemporary art speaks directly to the important questions of our time, as well as to the changing landscape of American identity” (1).

            With this statement one can conclude that contemporarism and that of Post Modernism are inter change able terms but. They should not be thought of in this way. Same way as if we where looking at modernity vs. modernism. Let me explain further by pulling some words from Dr Mary Klages and her website page on Post Modernism: “What's the difference? ‘Modernism’ generally refers to the broad aesthetic movements of the twentieth century; ‘modernity’ refers to a set of philosophical, political, and ethical ideas, which provide the basis for the aesthetic aspect of modernism” (Klages). Lost! Ok, let me put it, this way; “What's the difference? ‘[Post] Modernism’ generally refers to the broad aesthetic movements of the twentieth [first] century; ‘[contemporarism]’ refers to a set of philosophical, political, and ethical ideas which provide the basis for the aesthetic aspect of [the modern age.] “(Klages). Dr Klages goes on to say: “Postmodernism is a complicated term, or set of ideas, one that has only emerged as an area of academic study since the mid-1980s. Postmodernism is hard to define, because it is a concept that appears in a wide variety of disciplines or areas of study, including art, architecture, music, film, literature, sociology, communications, fashion, and technology. It's hard to locate it temporally or historically, because it's not clear exactly when postmodernism begins” (Klages).

            Post Modernism as an aesthetic movement that will always be changing and forever forbidding man to be able to label it.  Artist Jon Mattox asserts, “Ask 5 people what post-modernism means and you'll likely get five different reactions or none at all. It's one of those elusive academic terms applied to many different fields of study. Everyone appears to understand what it means individually, but few agree collectively.” (Mattox). Dr Klages acknowledges that: “Postmodernism, like modernism, follows most of these same ideas, rejecting boundaries between high and low forms of art, rejecting rigid genre distinctions, emphasizing pastiche, parody, bricolage, irony, and playfulness. Postmodern art (and thought) favors reflexivity and self-consciousness, fragmentation and discontinuity (especially in narrative structures),    subject”(Klages). By the summery from Mattox is interesting to say the least; “Lastly, there has been further debates on whether this period after modernism should be considered ‘Late Modernism’ with its commitment to the 'tradition of the new', its integrity of invention & usage or ‘Post Modernism’ with its complex relation to modernism and art history, its 'pluralism', it's ongoing redefining of itself etc.” (Mattox). With this statement from Mattox one can be open minded to what Butcher said on Post modernism: “Certain aspects of American culture unconnected directly to the arts affected the rise of Post modernist art. The growing desire to  ‘clean the slate and start over again’ in the arts has been discernable from about the 1960s but was accompanied by the feeling that society seems to have become exhausted and bled of new ideas and/ or that society appears unable to solve its own problems” (Butcher 319)

            From the start of this paper, the argument that Post Modernism is not here yet as an art movement or period. Answered a few ideas of what art is, and that it is so open to new ideas. But still have not answered what Post Modernism is as an art movement. Reasoning behind this is very simple; you cannot define an idea of thought that gives birth towards the next artistic movement. By put boundaries on Post Modernism and define its meaning then artists have lost the very thing Fine Art Society are trying to define. If Society groups ever do define Post Modernism that would be like telling all the artists that there’s will be no more; to define Post Modernism is to say; artists are finished with art, and they is nothing more to say. Artists will never give in too the state of mind that the show over. But that’s what Fine Art Societies groups are doing, if these Society groups try to define Post Modernism and to set boundaries on this movement, with out the artists consent or voice; the show is over. So artists make your voice heard, with the power of your work, to tell the Fine Art Societies groups that Post Modernism is not here and won’t be for very long time. Because Artist still have a lot more to say. 

 

  

Thesis

            Post Modernism is an art movement that has not happened yet. Just in this statement alone raises the argument of what is post modernism; numbingly what does it mean. Before we can say what Post Modernism stands for, we must set the standards of what is Modernism.

Annotated Bibliography

Answers, Corporation. "Dictionary". Answer.com. 25 Feb.2007      <http://www.answer.com/directory>words> dictionary/postmodernism/>.

            This webpage offers 8 different definitions on the meaning of Post Modernism. Useful by in the     way, of having multiple sources of its meaning, and thus likely to have holes in my argument.

Barbour, Scott, and Howe Irving. American Modernism. San Diego, California: Greenhaven Press,           Inc,             2000.28-36.

            Modernists sought to overturn the literary and artistic styles and cultural beliefs. Also,         outline the beginnings of American modernism and how its shape the art world. very good to   make my argument.

Burke, Barry. "Post Modernism and Post Modernity." Infed (the informal education homepage). 25           Feb.2007 <http://www.infed.org/biblio/b-postmd.htm/>.

            Focusing on defining Post Modernism and asking the question of what is Post Modernism.

            Realizing that .org site aren’t always reliable.

Butcher, Phillip A. Art Fundamentals. New York, New York: McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.,        2002.   (319), 334-335.

            Art Fundamentals with its Chronological outline of western art and a brief reverence to post             Modernism and who coined this term. Will be a great help with me outline my time in my    arugment.

H.H. Arnason, Peter Kalb. History Of Modern Art. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall,          Inc, 2003.

            Given the History of American Modernism, from how it come to be and how it shape the art           world we now to day. This book has a good base source of what Modernism is was and could           be.

Klages, Dr. Mary. "Post Modernism.” University Of Colorado. 25 Feb.2007             <http://www.colorado.edu/english/courses/ENGL2012kages/>.

            This site exploring the meaning behind Post Modernism, from when and where it was coined.        On towards future meaning of this concept.

Fitzpatrick, Anne. Late Modernism. Mankato, Minnesota: Creative Education, 1978,2006. (19-20)

            Increment of artist from the time period of reference towards my argument that gives incite towards my meaning.

Fred S. Kleiner, Christine J. Mamiya. Gardner's Art through the Ages. Belmont, CA:          Wadswoth/Thomson Learning, 2005. (853-901), 1031-1059.

            I will focus on two chapters in this book they are 29 and 34. Chapter 29 the rise of Modernism       and chapter 34 from Modernism to Post Modernism And Beyond.

Mattox, John. "Post Modernism or Post- Post Modern". Bright Orange Studio. 25 Feb.2007             <http://www.jonmattox.com>.

            This is an overview of what Post Modernism is with a list of characteristics of Post             Modernism.

Owen, Charlyce Jones. Understanding Art. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, Inc,    1995.   (2-30), 372-468

            This book will compare and contrast the meaning, purposes, and styles of what art are. From          modern to contemporary art

Sollins, Marybeth. Art: 21. New York, New York: Harry N. Adams, 2003.

            Art21 is a discussion of contemporary artist and their works, how they come to be and how            the feel towards the market today.

Wiedemmann, Ed.julius. Illustration Now. Köln, Taschen, 2005.

            Illustration Now is a book composed of 150 artists (illustrators) who practice in all artistic   movements but for commercial use.

Work citied

Barbour, Scott. American Modernism. San Diego, California: Greenhaven Press, Inc, 2000 (28-36).

Barbour, Scott. A History and Overview of American Modernism. The Influence of the Visual Arts.          Ed. Barbour. American Modernism. San Diego, California: Greenhaven Press, Inc, 2000 (16 -  17).

Butcher, Phillip A. Art Fundamentals. New York, New York: McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2002.          (319),             334-335.

Fitzpatrick, Anne. Late Modernism. Mankato, Minnesota: Creative Education, 1978,2006. (19-20).

Howe, Irving. “Defining American Modernism”. American Modernism. Ed. Scott Barbour. San Diego,     California: Greenhaven Press, Inc,           2000. (16-17).

Klages, Dr. Mary. "Post Modernism". University Of Colorado. 25 Feb.2007             <http://www.colorado.edu/english/courses/ENGL2012kages/>.

Mattox, John. "Post Modernism or Post- Post Modern". Bright Orange Studio. 25 Feb.2007             <http://www.jonmattox.com>.

Sollins, Marybeth. Art: 21. New York, New York: Harry N. Adams, 2003 (1).