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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
This was not the sex that was seen in the pornography of the time, but a more erotic and advante-garde style. Sometimes, only bared flesh was seen, and other times, it was full blown intercourse. Homoeroticism was another strong theme in these movies. It wasn't just man with man or woman with woman, that would be too simple. Many of the scenes featured men as women, drag queens and a-sexual. This only added to the weirdness and eroticism. His four most famous movies revolved around sexual themes: Sleep, Blow Job, My Hustler and Flesh Bondo, 1998 . Medium Warhol's art career began with commercial art, in where he created illustrations using a blotedline technique. This imagery atrracts the eye, and speeds up the work creating his admass effect Bourdon, 1989, 206 The shape of many of the images in his most popular works had a rounded, aerodynamic look to them. The values did not posses lots of detail either. This was to give them a fake look. He was quoted as saying that these resembled club life, plastic clothes, plastic jewellery, plastic surgery, plastic feelings. Kakulani, New York Times Magazine, 1996 The centre of interest on a Warhol image is the image itself. The objects were not meant to be storytellers , as did the more classic artworks. The Warhol image was intended to tackle the audience with boredom as an issue itself by making the images superficial. Usually, the objects were surrounded with space rather than pattern, extenuating this centre of interest idea Bondo, 1998 . Warhol used a separate style, in which little emotional involvement or identification is created. By use of this method, a statement is made, but does not affect the audience on a personal level. manipulate people with the use of advertising and create mass markets. Many of his famous works, such as Car Crashes, Race Riots, Electric Chair, Suicides and Tuna Fish Disasters were gruesome in nature Bourdon, 1989, 109 Another subject that seemed to permeate his work, especially his movies was sex.
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