Korean Pop Essay

From my understanding, everyone has something that, under any circumstance, can cheer them up. In my life, that one thing is music. More specifically, I love the sounds of 5SOS. They amaze me with their perfect blend of rock culture and modern pop. They even mix in some punk vibes. I stand behind this band because we share a common goal of bringing instruments back into the “Top 40.” 5SOS got their platform on a tour with One Direction. Ever since, they have been labeled by many as a “boy band.”…

the most successful artists of the 20th century, Andy Warhol was truly transcendent. His early works of commercial art and magazine spreads changed the way the world viewed magazines and newspapers. Andy Warhol has made a long lasting impact on the pop culture with his abstract paintings? Born Andrew Warhola on August 6, 1928, in Oakland in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Andy Warhol's parents were Slovakian immigrants. His father, Ondrej Warhola, was…

known as “pop art”. Warhol’s "Campbell's Soup Cans" and "Gold Marilyn Monroe" made him famous worldwide, and his studio,known as "The Factory," became a magnet for artists of the 60s counterculture. Andy Warhol was the most successful and highly paid artist and photographer in New York. Although he’s best known for his iconic paintings of soup cans and celebrities, Pop artist Andy Warhol was also an avid photographer and filmmaker. The nature of photography lent itself perfectly to Warhol's Pop…

Pop art originated from Britain in the 1950s. This genre of art has become one of the most influential genres. It has originated from Britain in the 1950s but gained the majority of its popularity in America in the 1960s. It had continued to gains its popularity until it was considered a dead genre in the 1970s. Despite this fact pop art is used for advertising in the current period of time. Pop art is most commonly referred to with the major artist of its peak such as Andy Warhol, Roy…

In the starting years of MTV, the majority of bands that used the new medium were British. British bands had already been experimenting with the style and fashion, “experimenting with the emergent medium for some time and arrived with stylish videos in hand” (Cateforis 54). Unlike American bands, these British bands had already adapted to a style suitable for television. After punk music, British bands kept the electronic instruments and “distinctions between automated and human performance were…

in the 60s towards the end of his career Warhol capitalized on that fact and brought him to life in Eight Elvises. In regards to the ‘Eight Elvises,’ Warhol is quoted as saying: “I always have to laugh, though, when I think of how Hollywood called Pop Art a put-on! Hollywood? I mean when you look at the kind of movies they were making then those were supposed to be real? This quote is very revealing, and offers clues as to Warhol’s intent in the Elvis series. Warhol has talked about this period…

Introduction Norman Rockwell was an American painter and an illustrator who is famously known for his contribution to the reflection of the past American culture. The painter was born on 1894, in New York City and died in the year 1978 ('Norman Rockwell: A Life'). Most of his popular artistic works were published in the Saturday Evening Post magazine for a period of more than fifty years. Norman’s early life indicated a desire in artwork, as he left high school at the age of fourteen to join the…

#2 Do you ever wonder how all the different types of music came to exist? It’s a question I often ask myself. If we go back to the 1920s through the 1930s we can see that it was a time when new music was gaining popularity. That form of music was known as Tin Pan Alley and it was becoming a success with their different form of writing. Tin Pan Alley songs were based on romance and privacy which was very rare during those times. During that period of time many individuals faced racism and…

Pop art’s influences on American culture post World War II acted as a “cultural revolution” led by innovative artists, like Warhol, who used their art to influence the development of society. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s commentary of this piece stated, “What made these works significant was Warhol's co-opting of universally recognizable imagery, such as a Campbell's soup can, Mickey Mouse, or the face of Marilyn Monroe, and depicting it as a mass-produced item, but within a fine art…

It was the day before Christmas, It was cold, snowy, windy, and rainy, and Bay had just received a very important call, a devastating call, He was gone. The date and the year was December 5, 2000, In Kansas City. Bay Is in a little twist with her friend Emmet. Emmet is deaf, and he goes to a deaf school, he also really loves photography and art,and will do anything for anyone no matter what they do to him or other people. Bay and her brother Jackson live in a rich environment. Bay…