The AGO exhibition for the Super Real: Pop Art from the AGO collection presented a variety of artwork from large silkscreen image to a cardboard burger sculpture sitting in the middle of the space. The exhibition has a small collection but has iconic pieces that are central to the story of the pop art movement of the 1960s. The works that stood out the most is the Andy Warhol’s 1963 Elvis I and II silkscreen painting. It showed 2 Elvis’ on one side with colour, then another 2 Elvis’ on one side featured in black and white. He is in a cowboy outfit while standing in a gunslinger pose on both sides of the painting. Each panel is 82 x 82 inches and is created with silkscreen ink, spray paint and acrylic paint. A thin and shiny golden frame surrounds
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Dine’s artwork consists of a white china basin sink attached to a white canvas and around the white sink is black oil paint layered on the canvas. Below is the title of the work written by the artist himself. The work is probably the most interesting out of the collection and fits in with the theme of using everyday object in art are common to pop art of the 1960s. The 3 artworks by different artist in the same 60s pop art movement offer a glance at the themes of the exhibition. These works are being shown together because they challenge the status quo of fine art and what is it to bring mass media culture to a space like this. In comparison, the 3 artist works used popular images or objects to critique the post war high, imaged based culture, as a result they mixed low and high culture to infer society obsession with consuming and using without regarding what is actually means. Furthermore, the artists’ works was shown together because they all repurpose the simple, bland everyday things with no intrinsic value or meaning to ironical acknowledge human’s social morals and environment in 1960s. Although there weren’t many artworks shown in the exhibition, it was a large space that had simple white walls …show more content…
All in all, the sense of understanding that the exhibition expressed was based on the information seen on the wall text and made for an appreciation of the exhibition’s ability to related current issues of today with the past. There was no technology component in the physical exhibition, however the AGO carries a phone app that has more information on this exhibition, detailing the works shown. It was organized as small interactive part of the space because this allows for the audience to get more details about this exhibition. As a result, the phone app guided the audience towards what the space is trying to achieve, which is to be conscious of the media culture that society has created through images. In this case, the app can assist in describing the artwork in a historical context that addresses the historical significance of the artwork in context to the time period and place. Furthermore, the gallery lacked any technology in the exhibition itself, but by using the phone app gave a complete experience that can direct the viewer towards a
Dine’s artwork consists of a white china basin sink attached to a white canvas and around the white sink is black oil paint layered on the canvas. Below is the title of the work written by the artist himself. The work is probably the most interesting out of the collection and fits in with the theme of using everyday object in art are common to pop art of the 1960s. The 3 artworks by different artist in the same 60s pop art movement offer a glance at the themes of the exhibition. These works are being shown together because they challenge the status quo of fine art and what is it to bring mass media culture to a space like this. In comparison, the 3 artist works used popular images or objects to critique the post war high, imaged based culture, as a result they mixed low and high culture to infer society obsession with consuming and using without regarding what is actually means. Furthermore, the artists’ works was shown together because they all repurpose the simple, bland everyday things with no intrinsic value or meaning to ironical acknowledge human’s social morals and environment in 1960s. Although there weren’t many artworks shown in the exhibition, it was a large space that had simple white walls …show more content…
All in all, the sense of understanding that the exhibition expressed was based on the information seen on the wall text and made for an appreciation of the exhibition’s ability to related current issues of today with the past. There was no technology component in the physical exhibition, however the AGO carries a phone app that has more information on this exhibition, detailing the works shown. It was organized as small interactive part of the space because this allows for the audience to get more details about this exhibition. As a result, the phone app guided the audience towards what the space is trying to achieve, which is to be conscious of the media culture that society has created through images. In this case, the app can assist in describing the artwork in a historical context that addresses the historical significance of the artwork in context to the time period and place. Furthermore, the gallery lacked any technology in the exhibition itself, but by using the phone app gave a complete experience that can direct the viewer towards a