Erin Hicks
Professor Daniel Quiles
Art history 1002
20 April 2018
On Number One and Little Race Riot
Andy Warhol is notoriously well known as one of the pioneers of pop art. His legacy continues to live on today for his ability to de-symbolize well known objects and strip them of their meaning or purpose. “He exposed and exploited a new way of being in a world of commodity-images where frame is often subsumed by celebrity, newsworthiness by notoriety, aura by glamor, and charisma by hype: a narrative informat who always kept his Polaroid tape recorder, film and video cameras switched on, Warhol had a look of blank indifference, but an eye for killer images” (Art Since 1900, page 562). Warhol remains well praised decades after his accomplishments …show more content…
Iconic for it’s representation of the effects of mass media on the individual. Showing a lack of deep empathy for the event and those involved by stylistic choices such as bright colors and the repetition of the image. Exposing the strong emotional separation from an individual's physical distance from the current event. Brutal events become normalized to an individual when they begin to frequently occur and do not affect the individual. Little Race Riot has remained relevant decades later for its subtle creative commentary on social norms. Little Race Riot is rich in potential interpretations, however; we know little today on Warhol’s reasoning behind providing little information for his artistic choices. Warhol quickly became well known for creating pieces of little to no known meaning. This individual aspect helped revolutionize the art world forever. Meaningless art has been highly scrutinized by art critiques for …show more content…
Warhol’s mass production of the ordinary in artwork, was indeed art for the masses. His work was not meant to stimulate those with selective taste, instead he appealed to the the everyday working class citizen. By making recognizable imagery he was able to illustrate the familiar in the artworld. Warhol’s work was originally critiqued for being low art and in many ways it still is.
The definition of high and low art has greatly changed over the most recent decades. Artwork from Andy Warhol can now seen be classified as high art for it’s iconic standing and high price tag. While works from Jackson Pollock are still deemed as high art, aspects of mass reproduction of the image in the form of everyday objects such as prints, t-shirts, totes and coffee mugs demain the work by making it available to the masses for a relatively cheap price.
Number 1 (Lavender Mist), 1948 by Jackson Pollock is one of the classic art pieces that can be defined as high art. The paintings dimension is 269.5 x 530.8
Professor Daniel Quiles
Art history 1002
20 April 2018
On Number One and Little Race Riot
Andy Warhol is notoriously well known as one of the pioneers of pop art. His legacy continues to live on today for his ability to de-symbolize well known objects and strip them of their meaning or purpose. “He exposed and exploited a new way of being in a world of commodity-images where frame is often subsumed by celebrity, newsworthiness by notoriety, aura by glamor, and charisma by hype: a narrative informat who always kept his Polaroid tape recorder, film and video cameras switched on, Warhol had a look of blank indifference, but an eye for killer images” (Art Since 1900, page 562). Warhol remains well praised decades after his accomplishments …show more content…
Iconic for it’s representation of the effects of mass media on the individual. Showing a lack of deep empathy for the event and those involved by stylistic choices such as bright colors and the repetition of the image. Exposing the strong emotional separation from an individual's physical distance from the current event. Brutal events become normalized to an individual when they begin to frequently occur and do not affect the individual. Little Race Riot has remained relevant decades later for its subtle creative commentary on social norms. Little Race Riot is rich in potential interpretations, however; we know little today on Warhol’s reasoning behind providing little information for his artistic choices. Warhol quickly became well known for creating pieces of little to no known meaning. This individual aspect helped revolutionize the art world forever. Meaningless art has been highly scrutinized by art critiques for …show more content…
Warhol’s mass production of the ordinary in artwork, was indeed art for the masses. His work was not meant to stimulate those with selective taste, instead he appealed to the the everyday working class citizen. By making recognizable imagery he was able to illustrate the familiar in the artworld. Warhol’s work was originally critiqued for being low art and in many ways it still is.
The definition of high and low art has greatly changed over the most recent decades. Artwork from Andy Warhol can now seen be classified as high art for it’s iconic standing and high price tag. While works from Jackson Pollock are still deemed as high art, aspects of mass reproduction of the image in the form of everyday objects such as prints, t-shirts, totes and coffee mugs demain the work by making it available to the masses for a relatively cheap price.
Number 1 (Lavender Mist), 1948 by Jackson Pollock is one of the classic art pieces that can be defined as high art. The paintings dimension is 269.5 x 530.8