High art & low art hybrids

Some examples

1. High Art & Low Art Hybrids

2. Lesson Objective To comment on high and low art hybrids. How are these postmodern and what do they say about contemporary culture?

3. The distinction There are distinctions between art High art tends to be that which is appreciated by more cultivated tastes like classical music, poetry and ballet While low art is aimed at the masses, is accessible and is easily comprehended. Examples of low art would be cinema and comic books.

4. Something new Cinema is largely considered as mass entertainment and low art, so juxtaposing it with "high" art is seen as a way of producing something new. Postmodern text experiments with existing forms and conventions. artistic and stylistic eclecticism (aesthetic post-modernism) hybridization of forms and genres, combining "high" and "low" cultural forms and sources, mixing styles of different cultures or time periods, dehistoricizing and re-contextualizing styles in architecture, visual arts, literature, film, photography

5. Black Swan(2010 dir. Darren Aronofsky ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jaI1XOB-bs

6. Romeo & Juliet (1996 dir. Baz Luhrmann ) http://www.netflix.com/WiPlayer?movieid=60022807&trkid=50361909&tctx=0,0,1e9710bc-6a9b-411d-a352-04b04ee30675#entityId=Romeo%20&%20Juliet reworking the story by setting it in modern times

7. What are the advantages and disadvantages of high and low art hybrids?