Describe and Explain State of Fashion and Haute Couture in the 1960s By the 1960s the ‘Golden Age of Couture’ was over‚ Christian Dior (1905-57) never lived to see the demise of haute couture and the rise of ready-to-wear fashion. Cristobel Balenciaga (1895-1972)‚ however‚ did and he did not survive the transition‚ just one of the couturiers who‚ in failing to adapt to the new fashion atmosphere‚ therefore failed financially. During the 1950s the Parisian couturiers were the dictators of fashion
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for its 30 years tradition of the company’s creative collaborations‚ Absolut Vodka also decided to fund an art annual award from 2010 in the world wide. In fact‚ Absolut Vodka launches the limited edition annually since the famous POP arts guru Andy Warhol volunteered him self in Absolut’s arts campaigns 1980’s (Absolut‚ 2009). Despite Absolut’s unique brand personality of fashionable and Arts-favourite‚ Absolute Vodka was also famous from its quality and its original distilling technique. Absolut
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so-called “mammy” as Aunt Jemima‚ the happy African American woman confined to one of the only roles allowed to her and asked from her‚ which is a household servant. Saar also play on the roles of repetition‚ just like a lot of the work of Andy Warhol‚ Saar dehumanizes the image of Aunt Jemima even further‚ reducing her to pure facsimile which brings about questions of the relationship between image and true reality. There is also a “Mammy” doll that is placed in the foreground of the assemblage
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Pop Art movement was marked by a fascination with popular culture reflecting the affluence in post-war (WWII) society in the 1950’s and 1960’s. It was most prominent in American art but was understood to have commenced in Britain. Pop Art coincided with the globalization of pop music and youth culture. It was brash‚ young‚ fun and hostile to the artistic establishment. The movement was led by activists‚ thinkers‚ and artists who sought to rethink and even overturn what was widely interpreted as a
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Some History: What Is Android? Android was originally created by Andy Rubin as an operating system for mobile phones‚ around the dawn of this twenty-first century. In 2005‚ Google acquired Android Inc.‚ and made Andy Rubin the Director of Mobile Platforms for Google. Many think the acquisition was largely in response to the emergence of the Apple iPhone around that time; however‚ there were enough other large players‚ such as Nokia Symbian and Microsoft Windows Mobile‚ that it seemed like a
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Reviewing current art‚ both locally and globally‚ it appears that much of it has or purports to have a political content. One reason for this focus is that technological advances encourage snatching digitized fragments from reality that document the persistent global nightmare of human inhumanity. This process thus duplicates in art the same nightmare we see every day on TV or the Internet. Very little of this work‚ whose apology is that it is “consciousness raising‚” amounts to more than superficial
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image and/or the intentions of the photographer that produced it. This may require an understanding of the mindset of the photographer and familiarity with their other work - for example‚ knowing that photography was one of several mediums in which Andy Warhol worked and that he often manipulated photographs for artistic effect. Understanding original context in some images may also require a wider understanding of art or photography. Criticising Photography uses the example of Sherrie Levine’s copies
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“In the future‚ everyone will be world famous for 15 minutes” (Andy Warhol). This is exactly what happened to Chip Gaines and Norm Abram‚ Neither chip nor Norm expected to be famous but that is what ended up happening. They both got their 15 minutes of fame and that ended up being their gateway to stardom with their own TV shows. I believe Chip and Norm Abram are two of the best carpenter/designers of their era. Norm and Chip both learned their carpentry skills in different ways. Norm first
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Addiction of Celebrity-Watching “Everyone will have his fifteen minutes of fame‚” says Andy Warhol. As today‚ the definition of the word “celebrity” is no longer associates with the original meaning form the dictionary. Daniel Boors tin‚ the author of the “Or‚ What Happened to the American Dream‚” restates the definition of the “celebrity” in his book which is “celebrity is a person who is well known for his well-knowingness.” No a doubt‚ benefited by the modern high-tech media of the celebrities-watching
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Chris Radley (458656) Superflat Graphic Design BA(Hons): Part Time CCS200 ● 1800 Word Essay January 2010 “Any engagement with Murakami’s catalogues more profound than a rapid skim is liable to leave the Western art consumer (at least one old enough to be unaffected by the current Western youth fad for all things otaku) floundering in a sea of unfamiliar signifiers‚ feeling hooked‚ intrigued yet vaguely ill-at-ease‚ not unlike Bill Murray’s character in Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation
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