The Collector- Finalist for the November Writing Challenge
Pop Art and Culture
The enduring influence
Art influences society’s culture by introducing new opinions and translating experiences across space and time. Art is considering to be a repository of society’s collective memories. It lets people from different cultures to communicate with each other through images, music, and stories. Pop art is a topic that will discuss.
Pop Art
Pop art is a style of art based on elementary items. Soup cans are an example of this art painted in bright colors. Pop art is art made from cultural icons such as labels of products, movie stars, and advertisements. This type of art is determined to be fun. It began when young artists felt that what they taught at art school did not have anything to do with their lives or the things they saw around them every day. Instead, they turned to sources such as advertising, Hollywood movies, packing of the product, pop music, and comic books for their imagery.
Pop art movement named by the art critic Lawrence Alloway. Its meaning is understood as “art about popular culture” rather than “the art of popular culture,” as he had suggested. This movement emerged in the United Kingdom and the United States during the mid to late 1950; one of its objectives is to use images of popular culture in art.
In 1963, Roy Lichtenstein made Whaam!. On the left side of the painting, there is an American fighter plane shooting a missile. The pilot is saying: “I pressed the fire control… and ahead of me rockets blazed through the sky…” and on the right side is the word ‘Whaam!.’ It became his famous work and the main sign in American Art.
Acrylic paint and oil paint on canvas
68 × 160 in
172.7 × 406.4 cm
Famous Pop Artists and Their Works
I mentioned previously two famous pop artists, Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, with their works, Campbell’s Soup Cans paintings, and Whaam!. Andy explored the communication between artistic expression, celebrity culture, and advertisement that was popular through 1950–1960. On the other hand, Lichtenstein’s works were influenced mainly by comic books and advertisements.
Another famous pop art artist was Eraclis Artistidou and his popular work burger and chips, Using cooking shows and celebrity food advertising as a muse.
Artist Paula Vaughan has used the image of iconic actress Audrey Hepburn as her muse.
How Pop Art influences The World
Pop art was the first movement mentioned that advertising and commercial were forms of art. After this movement, trends and fashions become subsumed into an all-encompassing phenomenon that seeks to merge the whole cultural attempts into a singular beautiful style.
As the art world shifted from art objects to installations throughout the 1970s, Pop Art became less popular, until mass media-obsessed artists such as Jeff Koons and Takashi Murakami lead the way with a renaissance movement that would be named Neo-Pop. Neo-Pop Art consists of a revised form of Pop Art, a rebirth of recognizable objects and celebrities from popular culture with icons and symbols of the present times.
Porcelain; 42 x 70 1⁄2 x 32 1⁄2 in. (106.7 x 179.1 x 82.6 cm)
The worlds of art and fashion have conflicted regularly in the decades since Pop art began. Yves Saint Laurent co-founder Pierre Bergé once offered the following: “fashion is not art, but it needs an artist to create it”, and the two disciplines have frequently bled into one another.
Conclusion
Pop art assists communication between culture and society. It represents thoughts in a way that easily reaches all people.
Arts, in general, keeps history; through art, you can see the past and present of a culture. It is a great way to teach history through art.
“According to Thelma Golden, images can change the way we think about cultures and ourselves. They can create a new story, a new narrative in art history, and the world. She thinks that the Power of images is to raise the question of how people understand themselves and each other.” How Art Gives Shape toCultural Change
