A Swiss architect, Max Bill, once said, “Even in modern art, artist have used methods based on calculation, in as much as these elements, alongside those of a more personal and emotional nature, give balance and harmony to any work of art.” In this report, I will be mentioning Barbara Kruger’s artwork called Untitled (Your Body Is a Battleground) and Andy Warhol’s, Two Marlins. I will be talking a little about the history of each artwork, while comparing and contrasting them.
Barbara Kruger has images from the surge of what’s happening in the world of mass media. Utilizing media effects and tactics, Kruger creates her own sensual, common, and political messages, while confronting the ways the public influences the people’s thoughts and ideas …show more content…
Warhol has made a huge impression on every part and element of the world of art. Alongside with Warhol, artists Roy Lichtenstein and James Rosenquist, brought the visuals and practices of mass commercialism into beautiful pieces of art. Warhol made unique styles of abstract expressionist painting in the late 60’s. While Lichtenstein used the methods of hand-painted cartoons to develop a connection between art and prevalent philosophy, Warhol focused on the art of his photography, silk screening, and films to achieve his new goals. Warhol’s personality led to a modern style art compared to other artists. Warhol had a studio named The Factory, which became really popular in the 1960s. It was regularly visited by by celebrities and big artists such as Bob Dylan and the Beat poets. A lot of people in the art scene, in New York, frequently visited the store. In the 1960’s, Warhol’s silk screening was the most popular forms of art at the time. Illustrating on subjects such as popular figures, the silkscreens are seen as symbols for American culture in a capitalist culture. Warhol began silk screening Marilyn Monroe’s face onto canvases just a couple weeks right after she passed away. Using a picture of her taken from a publicity still, he cropped right around the edges of her head with a grease pencil. Warhol learned the method of silk screening a couple months before doing this, but already …show more content…
With Kruger’s picture, it consist of photographic silkscreen on vinyl similar to Warhol’s picture not only using silkscreen, as well as acrylic and pencil on linen. Both pictures also have a light side and a dark side. Meaning, the first Marilyn isn’t as darken out as the the second Marilyn’s face that’s sort of a symbol of Marilyn is fading. As with Kruger’s, Your Body is a Battleground, where half of the woman’s face is light and the other one is negative. However, the artwork of Kruger stands out more for what she thinks is right like for women’s rights. Warhol is more of a pop art cutler. He puts his art around with what is in the present and what’s popular, but making it in a interesting
Barbara Kruger has images from the surge of what’s happening in the world of mass media. Utilizing media effects and tactics, Kruger creates her own sensual, common, and political messages, while confronting the ways the public influences the people’s thoughts and ideas …show more content…
Warhol has made a huge impression on every part and element of the world of art. Alongside with Warhol, artists Roy Lichtenstein and James Rosenquist, brought the visuals and practices of mass commercialism into beautiful pieces of art. Warhol made unique styles of abstract expressionist painting in the late 60’s. While Lichtenstein used the methods of hand-painted cartoons to develop a connection between art and prevalent philosophy, Warhol focused on the art of his photography, silk screening, and films to achieve his new goals. Warhol’s personality led to a modern style art compared to other artists. Warhol had a studio named The Factory, which became really popular in the 1960s. It was regularly visited by by celebrities and big artists such as Bob Dylan and the Beat poets. A lot of people in the art scene, in New York, frequently visited the store. In the 1960’s, Warhol’s silk screening was the most popular forms of art at the time. Illustrating on subjects such as popular figures, the silkscreens are seen as symbols for American culture in a capitalist culture. Warhol began silk screening Marilyn Monroe’s face onto canvases just a couple weeks right after she passed away. Using a picture of her taken from a publicity still, he cropped right around the edges of her head with a grease pencil. Warhol learned the method of silk screening a couple months before doing this, but already …show more content…
With Kruger’s picture, it consist of photographic silkscreen on vinyl similar to Warhol’s picture not only using silkscreen, as well as acrylic and pencil on linen. Both pictures also have a light side and a dark side. Meaning, the first Marilyn isn’t as darken out as the the second Marilyn’s face that’s sort of a symbol of Marilyn is fading. As with Kruger’s, Your Body is a Battleground, where half of the woman’s face is light and the other one is negative. However, the artwork of Kruger stands out more for what she thinks is right like for women’s rights. Warhol is more of a pop art cutler. He puts his art around with what is in the present and what’s popular, but making it in a interesting