Art Imitating Life Imitating Art
The late 1950s saw a new movement in the art world this became known as "pop art" due to the fact that the artists in this movement with this movement manly Andy Warhol and Roy Lichensten of the unites states as well as David Hockney and Derek Boshier of Great Britain, used elements of popular culture as main sources of their work. A good example of this is Warhole's screen prints of Marilyn Manroe, where he took a famous icon of the time and used a mass production technique to make her into a work of art.Lichenstine looked at a different element of popular culture / youth culture- comic books. He used this style of painting and drawing to create a comic strip image. For example "Wham", although looks screen-printed it was infact panted by hand dot by dot. Hockney was influenced by graffiti a part overlooked by his contemporaries, he used it in the form of messages scrawled across the background of his paintings . Hockney said that he did this in order to make it clear to the viewer what the picture was about. Derek Boshier painted a series of pieces based on ideas he got from a toothpaste commercial. "identi-kit man" was his way of suggesting how easy it was for companies to manipulat
that he co-produced with John Wilcock, then editor of an underground newspaper called Other Scenes. The magazine featured text and edited interviews from cassette tapes. As America exited from World War II and entered the Baby Boom era, the culture had become decidedly sanitized. Some of this could be attributed to the Cold War and fear of the enemy. The flight to suburbia, mass production, conservative family values, and development of new social standards also played a major role in this Leave-it-to-Beavering of the nation. This was also the period of time where admass culture had its beginnings. Warhol played off the irony of these issues in such works as Campbell's Soup Cans (fig1) and his famous Brillo Boxes Bourdon, 1989, 34 During the 1960's, the nation began to see rapid changes. Fig 1 Fig 2 he multiplied car accident pictures many times.
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