Introduction
In this essay document I will discuss the use of vernacular imagery and their particular contexts, function, relevance and the artistic intent that gave birth to these examples.
According to merriam-webster.com dictionary, the word ‘vernacular’ means to relate to the shared style of a specific time, place, or group (Merriam-webster.com, 2014).
1. Dada
Dada was an Artistic and literary movement that started in Zurich in 1916. The Dadaists guided their disgust at World War I into a charge of the nationalist and materialist standards that had brought it about. They were combined not by a shared style but by a rejection of norms in art and thought, seeking through their unconventional techniques, performances …show more content…
Mae west the sex symbol of the time (Sanchez, 2008).
Salvador Dali made a sofa to be a look a like of Mae West’s lips. Dali had a fascination with Mae West. He made a collage of west’s face. He used pictures of her eye to look like they are frames hanging on the wall, her hair are used as curtains and the sofa, Salvador Dali made, as her lips (Sanchez, 2008).
Figure 4: Watts, J. (n.d.). Mae West from the cover of Mae West: An Icon in Black and White. [image] Available at: http://www.jahsonic.com/MaeWest.jpg
2.2 Similarities and differences between the Surrealist Movement and Pop Art
Surrealism started in the early 1920’s and Pop Art started in the 1950’s. Surrealist communicated the emotional component of the artist’s perspective and Pop art is generally shown through items of current interest of the time, taking objects/headshots/comic books and translating them to a piece of communication with the artist’s point of view. Pop art artists created images using many kinds of bright colors and filters such as the headshot of Marilyn Monroe (Visual Communication, …show more content…
3.2 Similarities and differences between Pop Art and Dada
Dada started in 1914 and was a rejection of art and artists used visual puns, humor and everyday objects (Visual Communication, 2013). Pop Art started in the1950’s and used current items of interest of the time like, objects, comic books and headshots (Visual Communication, 2013).
Dada is a cultural movement that began during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1920. The movement mainly involved visual arts, literature, theatre, and graphic design, and focused its anti war politic through a rejection of the usual standards in art through anti-art cultural works. Pop Art is a direct offspring of Dadaism in the way it taunts the traditional art world by taking images from the street, the supermarket, the mass media, and shows it as art in itself (Answerbag,
In this essay document I will discuss the use of vernacular imagery and their particular contexts, function, relevance and the artistic intent that gave birth to these examples.
According to merriam-webster.com dictionary, the word ‘vernacular’ means to relate to the shared style of a specific time, place, or group (Merriam-webster.com, 2014).
1. Dada
Dada was an Artistic and literary movement that started in Zurich in 1916. The Dadaists guided their disgust at World War I into a charge of the nationalist and materialist standards that had brought it about. They were combined not by a shared style but by a rejection of norms in art and thought, seeking through their unconventional techniques, performances …show more content…
Mae west the sex symbol of the time (Sanchez, 2008).
Salvador Dali made a sofa to be a look a like of Mae West’s lips. Dali had a fascination with Mae West. He made a collage of west’s face. He used pictures of her eye to look like they are frames hanging on the wall, her hair are used as curtains and the sofa, Salvador Dali made, as her lips (Sanchez, 2008).
Figure 4: Watts, J. (n.d.). Mae West from the cover of Mae West: An Icon in Black and White. [image] Available at: http://www.jahsonic.com/MaeWest.jpg
2.2 Similarities and differences between the Surrealist Movement and Pop Art
Surrealism started in the early 1920’s and Pop Art started in the 1950’s. Surrealist communicated the emotional component of the artist’s perspective and Pop art is generally shown through items of current interest of the time, taking objects/headshots/comic books and translating them to a piece of communication with the artist’s point of view. Pop art artists created images using many kinds of bright colors and filters such as the headshot of Marilyn Monroe (Visual Communication, …show more content…
3.2 Similarities and differences between Pop Art and Dada
Dada started in 1914 and was a rejection of art and artists used visual puns, humor and everyday objects (Visual Communication, 2013). Pop Art started in the1950’s and used current items of interest of the time like, objects, comic books and headshots (Visual Communication, 2013).
Dada is a cultural movement that began during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1920. The movement mainly involved visual arts, literature, theatre, and graphic design, and focused its anti war politic through a rejection of the usual standards in art through anti-art cultural works. Pop Art is a direct offspring of Dadaism in the way it taunts the traditional art world by taking images from the street, the supermarket, the mass media, and shows it as art in itself (Answerbag,