Andy Warhol

Lichtenstein. I love pop art and, in particular, his works, because they are so visually appealing to me. Sadly, the museum did not have his most famous work Drowning Girl on display because it was out on loan like several other works I wanted to see (Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans, Salvador Dali’s The Persistence of Memory, etc.). But, they did have one of Lichtenstein’s pieces known as Interior with Mobile. I could have looked at this artwork all day. It was a massive piece depicting a…

considered one of David Bowie’s best albums and an extremely influential work for contemporary music and culture. The album is styled in an almost constructed conversation that creates a direct link to Bowies influences. Songs on the album such as Andy Warhol and Song for Bob Dylan lyrically reference Bowies influences as well as musically referencing (when applicable) the style of music his influence creates. This calling out of inspiration is its own way is a theme of loneliness, as it…

1. Modernism: Comparison Europe/Australia Europe was the frontier for Modernism in the art world, with the movement emerging mid nineteenth century from artists like 19th century painter Gustave Courbet . Modernism began during the Industrial Revolution, a period of rapid change in technology which profoundly affected social, economic and cultural life in Europe. Impressionism was most prominent around this time. Impressionism in Europe often depicted the beautiful architecture and used…

swelling, or just a darn large icebag. This work is of the Pop art genre simply in that Pop art can cover a multitude of replicated tools of daily life. More than a few Pop artists either repeat the subject in a photo in different colors like Andy Warhol or paint a large soup can. Pop culture is anything that comes from the lives we live and is important or recognizable to that society at the time. Pop art is ever changing, what is Pop art today, most likely won’t be…

The modernist era of art began in the late 19th century and last until around the middle of the 20th century. Some of the important artists of this time were Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, and Salvador Dalí. Postmodernism began in the 1960s, however the term was not predominantly applied to the movement until the 1970’s mainly with architecture, but when it comes to paintings and other such art the term did not come to fruition until the mid 1980s. Some of the important artists of this movement…

Being a pioneer in the minimalism and the feminist art movement, Yayoi Kusama is constantly pushing boundaries in the realm of culture and art. Every element in Kusama’s artwork, such as repetition, pattern and accumulation, questions the viewers to rethink social and political norms of society in the hopes that it would inspire change to gender equality. Her installation, Walking Piece, serves as an exemplary example of dissolving boundaries between humanity, art and environment. Dressed in a…

What did McLuhan mean when he said that ‘the medium is the message’? Is this idea any use in understanding contemporary mass media? When McLuhan said ‘the medium is the message’, he meant that the “message” of any medium or technology is the change of scale or pace or pattern that it introduces into human affairs (McLuhan, 1964), insisting that when trying to understand the influence of media on human senses, people should focus on the properties of media rather than the messages they carry…

(1948-1960) In the tracing of the social and historical connections of the genre many authors consider “Candid Camera” as the first reality show. Emerging as a Radio show , in 1948 this show gets its TV version followed by great popularity. The show illustrates situations in which ordinary people are found in unordinary situations with comic outcomes (E.g. Woman asks help for her car, when passersby learns that the car has no engine). The hidden cameras from many angles follow the actions, and…

American artist, Andy Warhol, once said, “they always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” Many see that one must take action before they get anywhere. Artist feel the need to express themselves in various ways in order to prove that rather than looking at the value of the work itself, society should focus on taking matters into their own hands for the betterment of the nation. Artist of the early 1900’s constructs themselves into society so that a change can…

Innovative and Iconic Cipe Pineles During the worst depression this country has ever known, a 20-year- artist named Cipe Pineles walked around New York trying to sell her paintings of sandwiches and Coca-Cola bottles. Little did Cipe know that this adventurous year would get her a job with Contempora and she would become the first art director of a mass-market American publication. These accomplishments did not come easy for Cipe and here is how it all began. Austrian-born Cipe Pineles…