Introduction
This essay will discuss paintings by Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. The pieces it will discuss are: name and date the pieces, list any key theories or research….
·Pop Art – background
Who, where, when, what before and after, what happening at the time (context),
Pop Art started in the 1950s when the Independent Group started to reference popular culture in their artwork. The term Pop Art didn’t appear until 1958 in an article by Lawrence Alloway. It moved to America in the 1960s. 1950s Britain was optimistic after the end of role War 2 and the rationing that went with it. It was also a time where youth culture and pop music became more major parts of society.
Pop Art referenced popular culture such as: ‘billboards, comic strips, magazines, advertisements and supermarket products.’(artlex.com).
It wanted to make art appeal to a different audience by making art “less academic” (artchive.com).
It tried to reflect the “urban, consumer, modern experience” (artchive.com).
The main people associated with the movement include: Richard Hamilton, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenerg and Claes Oldenburg.
Warhol had a studio called “The Factory”. Instead of traditional one-off pieces, the name of his studio makes it sound as if he is producing lots of final pieces. There were mixed reviews when Pop Art was first shown. Some people said it was anti-art or non-art because it used “low culture”. ‘Others took it to be a new type of American Scene Painting or Social Realism’ (Dempsey, 2002 p219)
The Essay on Chapter One Art and Visual Culture Summary
Visual art can be a used as means to an end, or a tool used within our visual culture to manipulate through propaganda and subliminal messages. It also serves as a reflection of or commentary on society by individual artists. Visual art and visual culture cannot exist separately. Visual art today in our prevalent culture is largely a means of personal expression of the individual artist. It can ...
This piece is by Roy Lichtenstein. It is called Drowning Girl. It was painted in 1963. It is oil and synthetic polymer paint on canvas.
The colours used are limited. They are mostly different shades and tints of primary blue. It uses cool colours to mirror the emotions of the piece: sadness. The only other colour used is pink. It uses a mixture of thickness of line which are all curved in some way. The lines are loose to show the movement of the water which seems to be rough. The skin tone is what stands out most in the painting.
It looks as if she is drowning in her tears. Lichtenstein found this image from a comic book called ‘Run for Love’ which was published by DC Comics in 1962. He changed the image by cropping it showing the girl alone instead of including the drowning girl’s boyfriend in the background, like the original. He also changed the caption from ‘I don’t care if I have cramp!’ to ‘I don’t care!’ This changes the meaning and makes her seem lonelier and does not seem to care that her boyfriend is not there.
He has used the same style as the comic book inspiration, using a speech bubble, thick lines and outlines as well as block colours. Being inspired by comic books makes it Pop Art because the inspiration comes from a popular style of magazine and the use of strong lines, little detail and bold colours. Litchenstein often painted Benday dots in his paintings which were ‘used in the mechanical reproduction of images’, the mass production of images. (Museum of Modern Art, 2011, Date Accessed: 31.1.2013)
·Piece 2
Andy Warhol – Marilyn 1962
silk screen ink on synthetic polymer on canvas, Museum of Modern Art, New York
There is a lot of colours used on this piece the colours are bright, bold and they stand out , especially the yellow hair its the brightest colour that is used and it pulls the hole picture together and shows who it is. the make up is bright and bold and shows popular culture and the way that the style is. it doesnt really use much linear detail
The Essay on Disruption Of Order In King Lear And The Causes
ter> Disorder in the Court "Order from disorder sprung." (Paradise Lost) A [kingdom] without order is a [kingdom] in chaos (Bartelby.com). In Shakespeare's tragic play, King Lear, the audience witnesses to the devastation of a great kingdom. Disorder engulfs the land once Lear transfers his power to his daughters, but as the great American writer, A.C. Bradley said, The ultimate power in the ...
·Not much linear detail / detail in general – the portrait is simplified ·Bold
·Celebrity – famous actress – relates to Pop Art / popular culture ·Silk screen printing was a way of reproducing images quickly and a way of making lots of copies of the same image. This is a technique of mass producing images that relates to the name of his studio, where artwork was ‘mass produced.’
·Comparison of styles
·Similar to Lichenstein a strong skin tone is used, but the skin tone in Marylin is brighter ·Both use black for shading / tones which is done in a block style
Conclusion
This essay has discussed…
Bibliography
Artlex.com
Artchive.com
Dempsey, A. (2002).Styles, Schools and Movements. Thames and Hudson: London
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The Essay on Education Reinforces The Inequalities That Exist In The Social Order
H2>Education becomes the medium which simply reinforces the inequalities that exist in the social order Everybody knows that school teaches you hordes of useful things and that the people who stay there and get educated are further along the path to freedom than those who dont right? Or maybe, as Quintin Hoare wrote: British education is from a rational point of view grotesque, from a moral one ...
Run for Love DC Comics 1964
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