Pop artists

Artists have developed and used many different kinds of techniques over time, hence why they have similarities and differences when it comes to producing still life artworks. Still life is defined as a painting or drawing of an arrangement of objects, typically including fruits and flowers and objects contrasting with these in texture, such as bowls and glassware. For example, in the Dutch Golden Age period, the Dutch artist Pieter Claesz painted a vanitas still life, oil on canvas artwork…

In the 1960s, Civil rights was an uphill battle. Not only did it affect America and its citizens, but artists as well. Artists quickly jumped on this conflict and started creating arts that showed their beliefs and outlooks on the Civil rights. People were persuaded by these visual arts to stand up for what they believe in and have a voice. A common type of political…

quality and genre adapted to the people 's interests. Some artists decided to go against the grain and change popular music for the better. These five artists- Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, and Mariah Carey- should be classified as a snapshot of industry change due to sales, influence, Billboard chart rankings, and awards. Michael Jackson should be considered one of popular music 's…

Women have suffered to have their voices heard and have fought to reach a sense of equality in the world. Women of the 60’s were expected to follow one path: marriage, childbirth and devoting their lives to the home. In the 1960’s a controversial artist named Allen Jones, stirred up the discussion of women being portrayed sexually. Some feminists were left in confusion and anger when Allen Jones called himself a feminist, while others viewed his artwork as a representation of female sexuality.…

Royals’ by Lorde reflects the divergent cultural values between popular music and the individual. Lorde recognises the accumulating trend for artists to promote a lifestyle of excess consumption. Her themes relate the shift of popular culture to valorise wealth, power and hedonistic behaviour. Effective use of imagery highlights the disparity of the personal experience and the lifestyle expressed in Hip-Hop and Rap. This essay will thus explore how Royals reflects the representation of…

Ed Ruscha is an American artist whose oeuvre joins parts of the dialect and iconography of Pop Art with deft Reasonable execution. With a practice that traverses drawing, painting, photography, film, printmaking, and distributing, Ruscha's experience as a visual creator is obvious in his excellent eye for typography and design. He is maybe best known for his craftsman's books, for example, Twentysix Gas Stations (1963)— a pictorial investigation of the fuel stations he experienced on an…

all time.[1] Houston is one of pop music's best-selling music artists of all-time, with an estimated 170–200 million records sold worldwide.[2][3] She released seven studio albums and two soundtrack albums, all of which have diamond, multi-platinum, platinum or gold certification. Houston's crossover appeal on the popular music charts, as well as her prominence on MTV, starting with her video for "How Will I Know",[4] influenced several African American women artists who follow in her…

Most of the music is recorded on tape and the emerging artists composed mostly in their bedrooms or garage so they recorded a lot on cassettes and exchanged cassettes with other artists. The instruments used were mostly affordable analog synthesizers and drum machines manufactured in the 1970s and 1980. The drums were mostly snappy and basic sequenced patterns and the…

sounds of R&B. To the funky and upbeat sounds of pop and the toe tapping rhythm of country. Music plays a big part in everyone’s life. Everything you see or hear is considered music, because music is life. In the past, women haven’t always been very big in this industry, but today that has officially changed. No matter what genre of music you listen to, women are taking over the music industry. For example, Taylor Swift is considered the pop icon of 2015. Her style transitioned from sweet…

life sized porcelain sculpture titled Michael Jackson and Bubbles he uses appropriation techniques to create a dialogue between the encoded and decoded messages the piece could create as well as the different reading it could elicit. Jeff Koons is an artist who is not a stranger to controversy and people who have different interpretations of his work is part of why he is so successful. His artwork appropriates from "low" art and he turns it into "high"…