An Artistic Trend: Pop Art
An artistic Trend: Pop Art
There are many different types of trends that have changed the world. Cultural trends such as art have created different movements in other areas and it could be possible that cultural trends have changed the attitude of some people too. The trend I choose is the pop art.
To understand why pop art is a trend that changed the world in my perspective we should now what is exactly. Pop art is a visual art movement that started in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art challenged tradition by asserting that an artist 's use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of fine art. Pop removes the material from its context and isolates the object, or combines it with other objects, for contemplation. The concept of pop art refers not as much to the art itself as to the attitudes that led to it.
The origins of pop art in North America, China and Great Britain developed slightly differently. In America, it marked a return to hard-edged composition and representational art as a response by artists using impersonal, mundane reality, irony and parody to defuse the personal symbolism and "painterly looseness" of Abstract Expressionism. By contrast, the origin in post-War Britain, while employing irony and parody, was more academic with a focus on the dynamic and paradoxical imagery of American popular culture as powerful, manipulative symbolic devices that were affecting whole patterns of life, while improving prosperity of a society. Early pop art in Britain was a matter of ideas fueled by American popular culture viewed from afar, while the American artists were inspired by the experiences of living within that culture. However, pop art also was a continuation of certain aspects of Abstract Expressionism, such as a belief in the possibilities for art, especially for large-scale artwork. Similarly, pop art was both an extension and a repudiation of
There are many different types of trends that have changed the world. Cultural trends such as art have created different movements in other areas and it could be possible that cultural trends have changed the attitude of some people too. The trend I choose is the pop art.
To understand why pop art is a trend that changed the world in my perspective we should now what is exactly. Pop art is a visual art movement that started in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art challenged tradition by asserting that an artist 's use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of fine art. Pop removes the material from its context and isolates the object, or combines it with other objects, for contemplation. The concept of pop art refers not as much to the art itself as to the attitudes that led to it.
The origins of pop art in North America, China and Great Britain developed slightly differently. In America, it marked a return to hard-edged composition and representational art as a response by artists using impersonal, mundane reality, irony and parody to defuse the personal symbolism and "painterly looseness" of Abstract Expressionism. By contrast, the origin in post-War Britain, while employing irony and parody, was more academic with a focus on the dynamic and paradoxical imagery of American popular culture as powerful, manipulative symbolic devices that were affecting whole patterns of life, while improving prosperity of a society. Early pop art in Britain was a matter of ideas fueled by American popular culture viewed from afar, while the American artists were inspired by the experiences of living within that culture. However, pop art also was a continuation of certain aspects of Abstract Expressionism, such as a belief in the possibilities for art, especially for large-scale artwork. Similarly, pop art was both an extension and a repudiation of
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