Egyptian hieroglyphs used picture symbols to represent objects which is really crazy. There wasn’t punctuation, spaces, vowels, and they were written in all directions. There are over 700 hieroglyphic picture symbols in the Egyptian alphabet. But in the 1960s pictures got more groovy. Some of the biggest historical events of the 1960s affected pop art in many ways.
Some of the biggest historical events of the 1960s were Marilyn Monroes death, US sends troops to Vietnam, and the assassinations of JFK and MLK. After midnight August 5th, 1962, Marilyn Monroe was found in her home in LA dues to an overdose of sedative drugs. Due to the Gulf of Tonkin incident of August 2nd and 4th, 1964, President Lydon B Johnson sent US troops to Vietnam. On March …show more content…
Pop art is an art movement that started in the late 1950s, and uses imagery from popular culture. Television influenced the way people viewed the world became the subject matter for pop artists. Detaching images from the media from any time or place, then became interchangeable parts that made up the new reality. Pop artists developed commercial art techniques to cultivate impersonality, and make a feeling of mass-production. As in photoscreening, billboards, and printing flat colored areas in dots. Two famous pop artist were Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. Warhol wanted nothing more than fame and wealth, while Lichtenstein wanted his art to look impersonal based on the impersonality of mass culture.
Nevertheless the biggest events of the 1960s affected pop art in many ways. Such as Marilyn Monroes death affected Andy Warhols series “Marilyns”, by the repetition of her portrait robbing her of any existence beneath the paper-thin image. Also the US sending troops affected a silkscreen from the “Car Crash” series, which constitute languages of art and mass media. The assassination of JFK resulted in Rosenquist repainting “President Elect”.
1960s pop art was affected in many ways by big historical events. Art has drastically changed over the centuries. Historical events have made a huge impact on
Some of the biggest historical events of the 1960s were Marilyn Monroes death, US sends troops to Vietnam, and the assassinations of JFK and MLK. After midnight August 5th, 1962, Marilyn Monroe was found in her home in LA dues to an overdose of sedative drugs. Due to the Gulf of Tonkin incident of August 2nd and 4th, 1964, President Lydon B Johnson sent US troops to Vietnam. On March …show more content…
Pop art is an art movement that started in the late 1950s, and uses imagery from popular culture. Television influenced the way people viewed the world became the subject matter for pop artists. Detaching images from the media from any time or place, then became interchangeable parts that made up the new reality. Pop artists developed commercial art techniques to cultivate impersonality, and make a feeling of mass-production. As in photoscreening, billboards, and printing flat colored areas in dots. Two famous pop artist were Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. Warhol wanted nothing more than fame and wealth, while Lichtenstein wanted his art to look impersonal based on the impersonality of mass culture.
Nevertheless the biggest events of the 1960s affected pop art in many ways. Such as Marilyn Monroes death affected Andy Warhols series “Marilyns”, by the repetition of her portrait robbing her of any existence beneath the paper-thin image. Also the US sending troops affected a silkscreen from the “Car Crash” series, which constitute languages of art and mass media. The assassination of JFK resulted in Rosenquist repainting “President Elect”.
1960s pop art was affected in many ways by big historical events. Art has drastically changed over the centuries. Historical events have made a huge impact on