Pop artists

When Andy was a young boy he had contracted Chorea, which he was left in bed for several months because of it. During this time, his mother had given him his first drawing lesson which really helped shape Andy’s career as an artist. Andy’s mother had also bought him a camera shortly after this, when he was nine. Andy had taken up photography at this time. Andy Warhol went to primary schooling and took the free art classes at Carnegie Institute, now called Carnegie Museum of…

Pop art is a visual art movement that emerged in the 1950’s. Pop art came out in Britain and The United States culture. The origin of the name “Pop art” is unknown but it’s often credited to a British art critic named “Lawrence Alloway”. In Lawrence Alloway’s essay titled “The Arts and Mass Media”, even though he would not exactly use the words “Pop” and “Art”, he was one of the high level critics to approve Pop Art as a legitimate art form. Characterized by bold, simple and everyday imagery and…

self-portraits done by women in Europe during the 17th century (one from Northern Europe and the other from Italy), this paper will help discern what it took to become a successful woman artist during the Renaissance and what requirements a self-portrait done by a woman would need to fulfill. The two women artists and the works being looked at include, Artemisia Gentileschi’s Self-Portrait as the Allegory…

mediums; Belerique and Huston-Herterich in instillation, Kang in sculpture, and repurposed the pavilion concept to reflect their own values related to form. While van Eyck’s pavilion was originally designed to host the sculpture work some thirty artists it was meant…

After six years of performing under the name Grimes, Claire Boucher is blasting into the stratosphere of mainstream pop; her intergalactic, out-of-this-world beats and softened sound made more palatable for radio on her fourth studio album, “Art Angels.” Trading her signature dream-pop with thudding, club beats and more confident sounding operatics, the genre-blending album covers a lot of ground in its 14 songs, and features more live instrumentation than ever before, including piano, guitar,…

whether it is through poetic lyrics or throbbing anthems. The artists today are not known for their music, but rather for how extravagant their outfits are and how many times their wealthy relatives can get them out of jail. How much money they have, or the newest relationship they are involved with every other week. Thus, music is lost and meaningless. Pop music is no longer consisting of emotion, but instead themes of money, sex, and fame. Pop performers are well-known for their run-ins with…

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.”…

80's Pop As most of you probably know already, I'm Madonna, a popular singer and actress. This is the 80's, a decade with a different type of music. How many of you listen to pop music? (Wait for audience's reaction) There's been a big change in this decade in music, especially pop. Although it seems more boring than the 1960's or 70's, our music today is still a big part of our culture. Before, most artists made their own music. Folk was a very popular style of music.…

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…

Baltimore where he received his M.F.A. In 1974, he attended a show in Whitney Museum, NY that inspired him to become an artist. “It was then I transferred to school in Chicago, all because of that show”(Koons), it was thereafter that he enrolled at the school of Art Institute of Chicago to pursue his dream. Koons emerged as an artist in the 1980’s where he was influenced by Pop Art , and other appropriations of art. He is well known for having controversial topics in his work as a contemporary…