Pop Art
The Pop Art movement began in the 1950’s. It was the art of popular culture. The visual imagery of pop art created a sense of hopefulness during the post war of the 1950’s and the 1960’s. Pop art was a revolt against abstract expressionism. The goal was to bring art back from it’s obscurity of abstraction into the real world again (www.artfactory.com) Andy Warhol was a famous artist of the Pop art movement. He was against the idea of craftsmanship as a way of expressing an artist personality. He wanted to remove craftsmanship and personality from his work. The reason behind this was because he wanted to produce like a machine would. He thought of mass production as a reflection of contemporary American culture. Warhol’s “Marilyn Diptych” piece consisted of two silver canvases with repetitive silkscreened photographs of Marilyn Monroe from the 1953 film Niagara more than fifty times. …show more content…
Her sexually explicit subject matter and her focus of three-dimensional form were rare for women artist. Bourgeois transformed her experiences into a visual language through her art. I was instantly drawn to Bourgeois work because I had never seen anything quite like it, especially from a woman. Her way of creating imagery from such pain and emotion was beautifully well done. One of her most famous works was her 35ft high sculpture of a spider titled “Maman”, which was a tribute to Bourgeois mother despite its horrific appearance. Bourgeois mother was a tapestry maker. She compared her mother to a spider constructing a web as she created her tapestry with thread. Her sculptor of “Maman” is powerful yet elegant. Her art leaves viewers to create their own associations and meaning behind her art through the viewer’s personal experience. There’s something very beautiful about that, leaving her one of my favorite sculptor artist of all
The Pop Art movement began in the 1950’s. It was the art of popular culture. The visual imagery of pop art created a sense of hopefulness during the post war of the 1950’s and the 1960’s. Pop art was a revolt against abstract expressionism. The goal was to bring art back from it’s obscurity of abstraction into the real world again (www.artfactory.com) Andy Warhol was a famous artist of the Pop art movement. He was against the idea of craftsmanship as a way of expressing an artist personality. He wanted to remove craftsmanship and personality from his work. The reason behind this was because he wanted to produce like a machine would. He thought of mass production as a reflection of contemporary American culture. Warhol’s “Marilyn Diptych” piece consisted of two silver canvases with repetitive silkscreened photographs of Marilyn Monroe from the 1953 film Niagara more than fifty times. …show more content…
Her sexually explicit subject matter and her focus of three-dimensional form were rare for women artist. Bourgeois transformed her experiences into a visual language through her art. I was instantly drawn to Bourgeois work because I had never seen anything quite like it, especially from a woman. Her way of creating imagery from such pain and emotion was beautifully well done. One of her most famous works was her 35ft high sculpture of a spider titled “Maman”, which was a tribute to Bourgeois mother despite its horrific appearance. Bourgeois mother was a tapestry maker. She compared her mother to a spider constructing a web as she created her tapestry with thread. Her sculptor of “Maman” is powerful yet elegant. Her art leaves viewers to create their own associations and meaning behind her art through the viewer’s personal experience. There’s something very beautiful about that, leaving her one of my favorite sculptor artist of all