Pop Art Movement The art movement I have chosen to study is Pop Art‚ before I decided on the movement of my choice I looked at other movements such as Impressionism and Surrealism. Both of these movements had their own unique qualities however‚ I found Pop Art very intriguing and wanted to look further into the movement. I have looked into the background and context‚ the key players and their work‚ the themes and styles associated with Pop Art as well as the reaction to the movement. Pop art
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Two exhibitions‚ both held during October 2012‚ will form the bases of this comparative essay. Chanel’s fashion photography exhibition entitled ‘The Little Black Jacket: Chanel’s Classic Revisited’ held at the Saatchi Gallery 12th October - 4th November 2012‚ and Vermibus’ display of appropriated adverts called ‘Unmasking Kate’ shown at the Moniker Arts Fair 11th -14th October 2012 will be used to explore the links each exhibition has to the themes of advertising and celebrity. ‘The Little Black
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ART HISTORY ASSIGNMENT 8 Part I American abstraction emerged from the background of Regionalism and Social Realism in the middle 1930’s.(1) The development and characteristics of Abstract Expressionism began with the Surrealist phase in which artists took an interest in myths and dream and in effect‚ unconscious creativity. From Expressionism‚ artists gained a passion for the “expressive qualities of paint.”(1) From Surrealism and Expressionism‚ Abstract Expressionism was born
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I thought this was very interesting because I feel like he wanted people to see different emotions and race is his work because it was very important to him. I think it’s very sad how much Basquiat got involved with drugs after he found out about Andy Warhol’s death. He died at such a young age of 27 years old from a heroin overdose on August 12‚ 1988‚ in New York after gaining so much fame and success. In my opinion I think Basquiat brought a lot of good in for the African-American and Latino
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canvases of new work. I wasn’t until he became good friends with Warhol that he took this exploration further. Warhol would silk screen then Basquiat would come in and layer over his works. “Basquiat masterfully remixed his own iconography with that of his mentor‚ a communication if appropriation” (Saggese‚ 95). Arm and Hammer II was painted by Warhol and Basquiat in 1985‚ it is acrylic and silkscreen on canvas. In this piece Warhol has silk screened a very common household cleaning logo twice and
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Artists work from their own experiences‚ imaginings‚ feelings and psychological experiences * Jackson Pollock * Picasso * Jeff Koons The personal experiences of the artists consisting of the subjective and psychological happenings create thoughts and imaginings which are all combined to fuel the art-making process. Artists harness their personal and psychological experiences‚ imaginings and feelings to engender their artwork. Jackson Pollock‚ Picasso and Jeff Koons are artists that
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Historical Colour Palette: Swingin’ Sixties Life in the sixties focused on self-expression and home design was just the place for people to make their individual statements about peace and love. Most of the colors in the era were inspired by nature. The color scheme we chose utilizes the four main colors seen everywhere in the 60’s.These colors included blue‚ orange‚ yellow and red; however we chose to use blue-green‚ yellow-orange‚ red-violet (pink)‚ and yellow-green hues. The colors share
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Appropriation in art is the use of pre-existing objects or images with little or no transformation applied to them. The use of appropriation has played a significant role in the history of the arts . In the visual arts‚ to appropriate means to properly adopt‚ borrow‚ recycle or sample aspects of human-made visual culture. Notable in this respect are the Readymades of Marcel Duchamp. Inherent in our understanding of appropriation is the concept that the new work recontextualizes whatever it borrows
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so – a quality consistent with Rauschenberg’s statements‚ “painting relates to both are and life… (I try to act in that gap between the two). The Pop Art movement and the work of Andy Warhol were arguable prefigured and enabled by the Conceptual Art of Marcel Duchamp. Duchamp observed: ‘What is interesting about Warhol is not the retinal image of the man who paints 50 soup cans‚ but of the man who has the idea to paint 50 soup cans.’ With the ‘Readymades‚’ Duchamp radically destabilised notions of
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Cited: Chilvers‚ I.‚ & Glaves-Smith‚ J. (n.d.). Andy Warhol A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art. Retrieved 3 4‚ 2011‚ from <http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/ENTRY.html?subview=Main&entry=t5.e2880> Christopher L.C.E Carvajal‚ P. (Director). (2006). Popaganda Movie [Motion Picture]. English
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