Originality and POP Art Discussion
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Pop Art as a Commentary on Modern Culture: Pop art was an artistic movement that incorporated contemporary popular culture and mass media images to criticize traditional fine art principles. Techniques used in this movement included mechanical reproduction, material isolation, and the juxtaposition of unconnected objects. It flourished in the prosperous post-war consumption era of the 1950s and 1960s, coincident with the international spread of pop music and young culture. Pop artists brought ordinary, daily imagery into the world of fine art while challenging artistic norms with bright colors, sharp edges, and techniques related to commercial design.
Pop art did challenge preconceived notions about uniqueness, challenging conventional notions of originality. Andy Warhol and other artists modified preexisting images like the Marilyn Diptych and gave them new interpretations. Their work showed that originality could be attained by reinterpreting, repurposing, and recreating what already existed rather than creating something wholly new through altering and re-contextualization of preexisting imagery.
Uniqueness Through Appropriation: Pop art’s idea of uniqueness is nuanced. While the movement’s signature practice of appropriating existing imagery, it is through artistic interpretation and reworking those pictures that new meanings and messages are created. Legal copyright issues must be taken into account. However, from an artistic perspective, originality can result from the way a creator reframes, alters, or merges well-known imagery to produce something that has a distinctive resonance.
Example of Pop Art from the Textbook
As Pop art frequently engages with identifiable subjects, the painting “Boy Playing the Flute” by Judith Leyster (1630-1635) might be regarded as an example of Pop art due to its capacity to capture a specific moment of human experience and emotion. Due to its historical setting, this work is not typically categorized as Pop art. However, it does have certain characteristics in common with the movement, such as its emphasis on relatable images and its capacity to elicit an immediate emotional response.
Modern Pop Art: In today’s society, digitally altered photographs, comic book artwork, and graffiti art can all be considered forms of Pop art. As seen in the examples, graffiti frequently recycles preexisting iconography in public places to convey messages. The use of tools by digital artists to remix and remake well-known images raises issues about originality and authorship in the modern world. These artistic mediums carry on the Pop art trend of interacting with popular culture and challenging accepted aesthetic norms.
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- Pop art is art based on modern popular culture and the mass media, especially as a critical or ironic comment on traditional fine art values.It is also associated with the artists’ use of mechanical means of reproduction or rendering techniques. In pop art, material is sometimes visually removed from its known context, isolated, or combined with unrelated material.
- It was the visual art movement that characterized a sense of optimism during the post war consumer boom of the 1950’s and 1960’s. It coincided with the globalization of pop music and youth culture, personified by Elvis and the Beatles.
- As Pop artists incorporated popular culture images of advertising, commodities and media in their work, they not only brought back representation in art, but opened it up to the public at large with recognizable subject matter. By using machine reproduction, image appropriation and repetition in their work, Pop artists took a stand against the Abstract Expressionist authentic gesture while calling into question the role of the artist and original intent. Stylistically, Pop artists challenged cherished artistic notions by utilizing bold, flat colors and hard edges, employing techniques more akin to commercial design than fine art. Affronting critics by bringing banal and low-brow images and techniques into the world of fine art, Pop artists were also seen as turning art into the commodities they were representing
- I consider this picture from textbook as a Pop Art.
5.In today’s society, I personally consider those pictures as Pop Art.
- What is Pop art?
According to (Lazzari, 2011), Pop art is basically a type of art movement which started the late 1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom. This type of art entails an introduction of imagery to find and traditional art. These images are usually bold and they represent physical things that we usually see in our daily lives including soup cans, celebrities, types of food like hotdogs, animals, comic strips, and other things including consumer product seals and labels, as well as brightly painted colors among others. Pop art has always been seen as a type of art which copies what others have done or what is already existing. Three major characteristics of pop art include satire, humor, and irony, bright colors, and recognizable imagery.
2. How do you think that Pop Art challenge conventional ideas about originality?
I think Pop art challenged conventional ideas about originality because it was all about copying something that is already existing and making it better. For instance, Andy Warhol, in the year 1962 produced a detailed and fine art from an image of a woman called Marilyn Diptych. Here, Andy Warhol did not think of an image and pointed it, instead, he manipulated or rather ‘edited’ the image of Marilyn Diptych and came up with fourteen different images of her. This is considered Pop art. This is because the artwork passed across a meaning as opposed to when it is just a picture. Therefore, Pop art challenged the idea of originality, in that, the artists did not think of something that original but rather took something that already existed and changed it. The new artwork would, therefore, pass across a message.
3. Is it original if it’s taken from already existing imagery?
There is no black and white answer to this question. However, personally, I would say yes provided the new artwork is not exactly the same as the original imagery. I believe that ‘most pop objects represents an obvious appropriation of the artist’s work. Nevertheless, this appropriation may occur without infringement if the copying is done from the model used by the artist, the original product, instead of from the art itself’ (Sneirson, 1968). Legally speaking, “while copyright was designed to promote the arts through the granting of exclusive rights, new art forms may lack this protection because the developed rules have failed to consider the possible ramifications of future artistic developments. Pop art presents perhaps the most blatant example of this problem” (Sneirson, 1968). Because of this, I, therefore, believe that even if the artwork was taken from an already existing imagery, it is still an original.
4. Provide an example that YOU would consider Pop Art, from the textbook.
The best example that I consider Pop art from the textbook it the painting by Judith Leyster’s Boy Playing the Flute painted between the years of 1630 and 1635 in the Netherlands. The Judith “captures the pride and the enthusiasm of the young musician as he glances at his audience, likely looking for their approval” (Lazzari, 2011).
Judith Leyster, Boy Playing the Flute, 1630-1635, Netherlands
5. In today’s world, what kinds of images would be considered POP ART?
I believe Graffiti images would be considered Pop art in today’s world. This is because most of the Graffiti images always involve copying what it already exists and use it to pass across a message. Graffiti images are also used in comic books which are still considered Pop art. Graffiti is not only painted on the streets but are also used in adverts. Consider the following four examples of graffiti images which represent Pop art of today:
References
Lazzari, M., & Schlesier, D. (2011). Exploring art: A global, thematic approach. Cengage
Learning. Chapter 12.
Sneirson, W. B. (1968). Some Copyright Aspects of New Art: Pop Goes the Easel.
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