postmodernism such as Jean Boudrillard and Marshall McLuhan to understand the history of where postmodernism originated from and how it has changed the way art and culture has been looked upon‚ I will be mentioning the works of William Eggleston‚ Andy Warhol and Cindy Sherman to clearly define some of the postmodern artists who are still very well-known today as much as they were known back in the 60s and 70s onwards. I will be explaining how postmodernism has changed and what is happening in today
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Wire‚ Wood Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa Oil on poplar c. 1503 Claude Monet Impression‚ Sunrise Oil on canvas 1872 Andy Warhol Superman Screen print 1961 The Great Nanjing Massacre‚ Zi Jian Li‚ 1992 Christian Lacroix Tim Burton Jean Giraud (Mœbius) Ron Mueck Quentin Blake John Howe Shepard Fairey Keith Haring Andy Warhol What is the purpose of art? • • • • • • • • • • The creative impulse‚ Representation of external
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I wanted to do something very different from the gesture of making an image with one silk-screen squeegee stroke‚ and I certainly didn’t want to make movie stars. He rally nailed all that down. But Warhol was extremely important for me in terms of building an image that was also a painting… Certainly his life in the art world was different than mine and remained different from mine because he was surrounded by a huge cast of characters who helped him
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at the time was a very unconventional medium and method for portraiture in particular. Warhol also intentionally allowed for ’mistakes’ in his final prints. The colours were wrong‚ oversized and the register was often not lined up correctly at all. This aspect of his work reiterates his stance about consumerist‚ material values. In many senses Warhol denatured the subjects. Ironically‚ as so often happens‚ Warhol eventually became the convention and system which he was so boldly commenting on. *By
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soon as her parents let her take the train by herself‚ she took every opportunity she could to go back to the city and most of all to Central Park. Susan grew up‚ but Central Park kept on being a huge part of her life. She describes how she heard Andy Warhol say that it is best to live in the city‚ because here you could also find a little bit of country‚ and she couldn’t have said it better herself. Central Park had always been her “little bit of country”. In the end of the essay she writes about her
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Timeline Byzantine 350 -450 Medieval 400-500 AD Surrealism 1920-1930 Beginning in the mid-1920s‚ Surrealist captured the Modern imagination. In essence‚ Surrealism began as a direct spillover from the Dada movement in art and culture. The Surrealists wanted to explore through poetry and prose the psychic dimension of the human mind. A huge source of inspiration was the groundbreaking work of Sigmund Freud. Continued Surrealism 1920-1930 What is important to understand is
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My Little Bit of Country Every person has a special connection to the place he or she grew up. In addition‚ all people are wonderfully different‚ so everyone has different opinions about where they would rather grow up. For Susan Cheever‚ this was in New York near Central Park. “My Little Bit of Country” is an essay from 2012 written by Susan Cheever‚ where she writes about her life from her childhood until she had kids herself who also grew up. In western culture‚ industrialization was the main
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Realism versus Pop Art In this life‚ there are many forms of art or art “movements” to speak of. How we interpret art is a very subjective thing. What a person sees and feels when looking at art greatly depends on their upbringing‚ their values‚ and even their mood at the time of viewing. Could something dark and lacking color be art? What about a comic strip in the newspaper or the billboard down the street? Again‚ interpretation and taste in art is individual. I elected to explore into the two
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During the late 1950’s through the 1960’s‚ pop art included techniques that were different that the traditional methods of producing art and issues of ownership. Sampling became a technique that was used by artists and Andy Warhol’s artworks impacted popular music. Music sampling was a technique that was used to produce new music and the turntable was used to mix music. Over the years‚ technology has allowed existing sounds to be transferred from one song to the next with a sampler. In today’s music
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References: Andy Warhol ’s Marilyn Prints. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.webexhibits.org/colorart/marilyns.html Askart (2011) Black American artist. Retrieved from http://www.askart.com/askart/interest/black_american_artists_1.aspx?id=33 Defining Popular Culture. (n
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