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the enormity of reality crises in modern and contemporary human beings.

Lucian Freud Benefits Supervisor Sleeping - 1995

Compared to Freud's painting, as you can see in the image, you can see people's heads in relation to the scale of the painting, isn't as weighted and out scaled as Saville's. Even the models in these paintings look the same. They both used a mild, soft yellow, white and brown to create the shadowing beneath the loose amount of flesh.

The position these models are in, highlights their body mass and flesh. Saville has captured the woman from below whilst Freud has taken it in a completely different subject by displaying the matron on a sofa. With her legs off the floor and overlapping, whilst one arm is resting on the back of the sofa and the other is clenching underneath the model's right breast, making the stomach and chest the main view point.

Both Saville and Freud accentuate their flesh by not only the paint tones but also what they are wearing or not wearing, and their body language. Saville has captured this woman wearing underwear, I don't really know the answer why, but to me the strap on the underwear underlines the large stomach because it is bulging out. In Freud's piece, as she is lying on her side on the sofa, her stomach overflows her weight down, like gravity, giving you an idea of the amount.

Punk subcultures have responded to postmodern society has involved a quest for authenticity and independence from the culture industry, thus altogether rejecting the existing culture of media, image, and hyper commercialism. Whereas the first response to post modernity appropriates signs, symbols, and style for the purposes of shock and semiotic disruption, and insulate punk subculture from the superficiality of postmodern culture. Punk musicians and fans are in search of realism, they establish local institutions of alternative media outside the culture industry while moving musical production above fashion and appearance as the only sincere basis of creative expression. Within punk subcultures, the process of creating free media and interpersonal networks in resistance to the communal media is referred to as the do it yourself ethic. While both variations of sub cultural practice is evident throughout the history of the punk genre. It is more effective or politically progressive than the other, empowering possibilities and regressive boundaries within each of punk's responses to the condition of post modernity. The culture has allowed some punk performers to enact dramatic refusals and parodies of power, periodically capturing the media spotlight and inspiring further acts of defiance among the young and disaffected. But these gestures of resistance have typically proven to be as brief and temporary as postmodern culture at large. Moreover, punk's spirit of negation lacks a utopian counterpart.

Postmodernism is linked to the term modernism. Post means to come after, postmodern is thought that which comes after or expands from modernistic thought. To begin with, we should firstly identify what modernism is. A general and wide ranging term which is applied to literature, art, philosophy, architecture, fiction, and cultural and literary criticism, among others. Modernism also refers to a certain era of western cultural, artistic and sociological history. This time wraps nineteenth and early twentieth century's. Modernism i