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Post modernism: a late 20th-century style and concept in the arts, architecture, and criticism, which represents a departure from modernism and is characterised by the self-conscious use of earlier styles and conventions, a mixing of different artistic styles and media, and a general distrust of theories.
Gorillaz are a British virtual band created in 1998 by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett.
The band consists of four animated members: Murdoc Niccals, 2D, Noodle and Russel Hobbs (pictured above). The Gorillaz virtual identities compared with reality, along with the bands electric mix of hip-hop, punk and dub reggae, are prime characteristics of post modernism. Such representations serve playfully to question the concept of reality, as the cartoons become more fully rounded characters than those depicted using photographic realism.
The Gorillaz simply cut up and rearranged pieces of established styles and genres, to create something entirely original. This was a technique commonly known in post modernism as 'bricolage'.
Bricolage: construction or creation from a diverse range of available thin
