At first I would agree that one improtant factor of postmoderism is that many of the art works are made from "ready-made" stuffs, with digital approaches such as photoshop. And this is what we did to make the sketch with photoshop. However, "copy and paste" is not all for postmoderism and making artworks in this kind of ways will not lose the creativity and originality of artwroks.
The first thing is not all "ready-made" sources in a work are from works of other people. Like what's shown in our sketch, we use the map of west bank UMN to be the backgroud, that's just taken form some ready-made sources. Other elements we used in the work are some pictures we taken at westbank, like pictures of flowers and trees, thoes are also ready-made things, but that's also our own works and we did not just take it from elsewhere. This is a common situation in postmodernism artwrok, thus the author can make some works to be the raw materials for the final work, and he/she can use photoshop to work further on these materials. So actually photoshop is just one last step in the whole process of making artwork and everything in this kind of artwork can be original.
Another thing is using photoshop is not just "copy and paste" kind of work. In our work, we did that because we only know little about photoshop, so we can only do very primery kind of operation to the materials we used to bulid the final work, such as copy and paste, and filters. But even in this kind of process we can have some creativity. Just like the famous pope art picture of Marilyn Monroe, the process of making that kind of work can be really simple, but it can also be considered to be a great artwork with great creativity. So the key is not your raw materials are original, but the way you bulid the work. If you put your own throught into your work and ket people realize it through your work, then people will appreciate your work just like those traditional art works. This is also what we did when we creating our sketch, we used some pictures taken and some form internet, but we combine and arrange them in our own way. If you look at our work you can figure out our thought when we creating this, and the thought while creating your own work is creativity. The traditional art works can be created form nothing, just like a paint, but postmodernism atrworks may be created from ready-made materials. Nevertheless, a postmodernism artwork can show same kind of creativity as a traditional artwork, because both of them can make audiance see the author's thought while creating it.
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