Postmodern Art's Appeal

I thought that one of the most interesting things noted by Donald Kuspit was that postmodern art had the advantage in that it was more accessible or more appealing somehow, and that the modern avant-garde art that had preceded it had a limited appeal. In wanting to understand what Kuspit had framed a little more thoroughly, I found a chart by Ihab Hassan, a writer, that helped to explain the essential split.

This is one way to visualize all that postmodernism rejects about modernism:

Bart Simpson's cameo in a reproduction of an iconic Nirvana album cover can definitely be seen as postmodern. Does this have a certain appeal that modern art lacks as Kuspit theorized?

Although he acknowledges that postmodern art is clever for 'juggling' different subtexts, he still feels it lacks any innovation.

Kuspit says that "pop art doesn't require depth interpretation to grasp, but rather sociological understanding and behaviorism". This is true, because one would have to have an understanding of both the television show The Simpsons and the grunge band Nirvana for it to make any sense.

And another album cover art example (just by chance)

This is of course Kanye West's Graduation Album with the cover art done by Murakami

The above installation by Jeff Koons shows that although his work is considered to fit into the postmodern category, he still draws from the modern era, especially in the areas of surrealism, minimalism, and Duchamp's Dada works (which Hassan considered to be sort of the gap or line in between modern and postmodern).