The concept of classical art has long been based on the principles of harmony, ideal beauty, and aesthetic universality. The artist reflects objective reality, and values such as authorship and originality serve as fundamental criteria for evaluating artworks. Postmodernism, emerging in the mid-20th century, introduced a new perspective to classical aesthetics, critiqued metanarratives, and promoted principles such as aesthetic pluralism, irony, and deconstruction. In postmodern art, classical motifs are reinterpreted, boundaries between form and content are blurred, authorship is decentralized, and audiences actively participate in interpretation. Consequently, there is no antagonism between classical and postmodern art; rather, a dialogue and mutual enrichment emerge. Classical heritage is reevaluated through postmodernism and acquires more complex, intertextual forms in contemporary art. The main conclusion is that postmodernism does not reject classical art but rather recontextualizes it, allowing it to continue evolving in the modern era.
Cavid İsmayilov (Thu,) studied this question.