Monday, November 7, 2011

Chapter 22 - From Modern to Postmodern

Andy Warhol, Gold Marilyn Monroe


Roy Lichtenstein. Masterpiece


Both pieces are works of pop art also known as American culture art. Andy Warhol is an artist that uses celebrity icons in his work as a form of mass media art and advertising.  Marilyn Monroe, a troubled film star was his inspiration and devoted his works towards her. Lichtenstein based his imagery on comic books, his works are larger frames of comic strips that are gear towards newspaper reproduction.




Gas Zappers, Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung

Louis Bourgeois, Untitled 1996



Hung's piece is a form of digital art that depicts a series of online video games about climate change. The polar bear encounters a series of threatening environmental scenarios that he must get through. In Bourgeois work confronts aging with unpairing honesty. Her clothes from decades gone by are used to evoke  the passing of time.

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