a.) Postmodern Art is a rejection of the older traditions and beliefs that were carried out before it's time. It's a return to more natural and impulsive art showcasing human nature and less of the academy.  It can also be seen as the fusing of low and higher culture's through pop art or reflections and criticisms on society.

b.)Feminist Art could be looked at as Postmodern Art because it dives deeper into realms of concept and history, that intertwine themselves with social and political views and goals. It doesn't focus only on the once held school of thought aesthetics but explores and ask more of modern society. Also, Feminist Art often is used to solely speak to one gender, to point out the unnoticed and make it obvious, not for the whole viewing audience but the targeted crowd.

c.) Lorna Simpson does black and white photography predominately focusing on the African-American female figure. She also incorporates text and phrases with her works. I believe one reason her work is classified as Postmodern is because she attacks the social and historical roles of both women and blacks. She infuses her personal feelings and leaves the imagery to reflect a view that is full of power and usually is a contradiction to the actual photo. Also the medium she deals in, photography is largely considered PostModern.

d.) Casey Jex Smith. even though or views differentiate on religion I enjoy his pursuit of combining the two.

a.) Formalism is art that is created and viewed solely on the purpose of it's form. Subject matter or conceptual thought or design distract from the piece and degrade it when viewed within the guidelines of formalism.

b.) I believe that Piet Mondrian would best fit my definition of formalism after viewing his works. Even though his medium is 2-D, Mondrian creates purely based on form more so than Kandinsky or Malevich.

c.) I believe that Mondrian's work is very formalistic, focusing on the contour rather than subject matter or conceptual thought. All his work combined even feels like the audience is viewing one form that he then shows differently in scale, from far off, revealing mor or zoomed very close to the object, cropping out that form yet, constantly creating new forms through this artistic and well designed cropping. His work has depth and spreads easily into other aspect of life and art, yet it's simplistic and virtious methods capture purely the form for it's necessary and natural role of formalism.

d.) I chose Michael Klauke, i enjoy his stress and importance he puts on typography. It is something i am currently experimenting with adding to the imagery a form of text taht somehow relates to the image, either directly or absrtactly and personally.