Pop Art is an abbreviation of Popular Art, the images used in Pop Art were taken from popular or "pop" culture. ... This was the birth of Popular culture. ... It was to reflect the novelty and excitement of the high speed modern world but was also a reflection of the materialism and vulgarity of modern mass culture.# The Pop Art movement began as a reaction against the Abstract Expressionist Movement of the 1940's and 1950's. ... The subject matter and images of Pop Art, taken from mass culture, were familiar and included such things as beer bottles, soup cans, comic strips, ro...

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Pop Art was a 20th century art movement that utilized the imagery and techniques of consumerism and popular culture as well as mass media and advertising, often in an ironic way. ... Pop Art brought art back to materiality and popular culture as it eliminated the difference between good and bad taste, and fine art and commercial art techniques. ... This piece, and all of Pollock's work post war, represented dark and anger filled thoughts, and were considered attempts to separate himself from popular American culture. ... Pop Art was the answer. ... In 1962, he produced his silkscreen p...

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"Pop art" was a 20th century art movement that utilized consumerism and popular culture. ... Pop art brought art back to the material realization of everyday life, to popular culture in which ordinary people derived most of their visual language in what perceived to be the real world of shopping, movie stars, and car advertisements. ... (Russell, 54) The "myths of everyday life" which has surfaced in consumer culture, especially in mass media, express the belief in progress, but also a fear of disaster. ... One particular pop artist, Andy Warhol, was often recognized as the father of pop art. ...

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Avant-garde artists, the style and feeling of the art, and the culture of the art are three of the many attributes that structure the evolution of pop art. ... Pop art culture was indeed different then art of the era before, and partially because it was influenced by the world in the new era. ... The culture was in change because within the years 1859-1952 (pop art era), things that were very expensive became popular but people paid for them. ... You can see as the pop art culture was changing and how it had been changed through time. ... Avant-garde artists, the style and feeling, the cultur...

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Pop Art Pop art was a movement that wasn't so much a style, as a shared viewpoint about the artist's modern environment. ... But the art is deeper than simply a rebellion; it allows a new perspective on culture. ... Many European painters had been in New York at this point participating in the New York art scene, so when they returned home, many to England where simultaneously another independent pop art movement had started, there was a newfound reverence for American art, and culture. ... Nearly everything the ad-mass, commercialized, culture already was. ... He embraced t...

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Pop Art Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein were both important pop exponents during the Pop Art movement. Both their styles where very different but encapsulated the point of Pop Art and its look on pop culture and consumerism. ... Pop artists to come out of this time. ... He was interested in the objects of mass culture and consumerism of a post-war United States. ... His images often showed images from cartoons but he also made pieces from pop culture. ...

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What is "pop" culture? Pop culture means many different things for each decade. ... This was the "pop" culture of the time. ... It is not necessarily part of our pop culture, but it is still somewhat part of our culture. ... Still there are other new forms of television shows that are truly the "pop" in pop culture. ...

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Pop Culture and Andy Warhol Twenty-Five Marilyn's The famous pop culture artist, Andy Warhol, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1928. ... As a pop culture artist, Warhol thrived throughout the 50's and 60's when pop culture was just beginning to emerge into American society. ... I like this painting because it is perfectly symbolic of the American mind during the pop culture era. ... The generation after them rebelled against such boring conformity and this is how pop culture came about. Although pop culture was a result of a rebellion, those who participated so he...

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It expresses a large number of references to other pop culture in horror and other categories as well. Frankenstein has stood the test of time and has become prevalent in pop culture due to it's strong use of romantic and gothic elements. ... In Frankenweenie , many of these transformations are pop culture references to famous horror monsters. ... A pop culture reference is the way that lightning is used to animate the creatures in Frankenweenie. ... Frankenstein has managed to stay relevant in pop culture due to its strong literary elements in Gothicism and romanticism. ...

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About Pop Culture It is amazing how in someway we all have prejudices against the so called "modern age". ... Calling the pop art movement art is a blasphemy Thinking that in the nineteenth century people were more educated than today is a huge mistake, because having access to culture back then was a privilege of the nobility only. Today, however, people are very much exposed to culture despite of their social class. ... It's not that pop music is losing quality, but there are people who will buy and like a certain kind of pop music. Therefore pop music is nothing but a formula that ...

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Beowulf's warrior code is portrayed today through society's pop culture and media. In today's society fame is gained through the media and in pop culture while people in Beowulf received their fame by protecting their people and fighting monsters. ... Britney Spears is a pop culture icon, who tries to gain as much fame as she can. ... The conquest of commercials, pop stars and of the ordinary person is to make the most money possible. ...

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The Cold War and American Pop-Culture The influence of the Cold War on American popular culture in the 1950s is very clear. ... This is a good indication of the influence that the Cold War had on American popular culture. ... This demonstrates how scared America was of communism, and how the Cold War altered American pop-culture. ... For example Chuck Berry, as well as other African Americans began to dominate the white pop-charts. ... The influence of the cold war on American popular culture in the 1950s is very obvious. ...

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Pop culture had its peak in Europe in the 90s when ladies sensation group, Spice Girls came out. Ever since Spice Girls started the pop culture in Europe it has become an unstoppable trend. ... Probably the biggest competition pop culture has, is rap culture. ... Man that are into the pop culture dress, with ripped pants, faded shirts and old caps. ... In the 1990s the Spice Girls introduced a shoe that still describes pop culture in days. ...

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Mass culture is the same as pop culture as it is called today, but in my early days in "intro" classes at a community college I have learned it to be mass culture. ... Forms of popular culture include television, comics and magazines, pop music and the cinema. ... Constantly evolving mass/pop culture reduces so far away from high culture as to appear quite disconnected from it. ... The easy access to all mass/pop culture (and all forms of mass/pop culture) means that children are subjected to the worst kind of capitalism. ... This makes mass/pop culture a form of political domination, as Euro...

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The conflict between pop culture and religious values is an extremely popular and often overlooked bicultural bind. ... Many girls that are raised in Christian homes are not exposed to true pop culture until they reach high school. ... It is also not necessary for a woman to dress extremely conservative in pop culture. Female college student show a lot of skin and this is acceptable in pop culture. ... It is very hard to leave your family or deny what pop culture tells us. ...

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"In the same way pop art uses images from the mass media and popular culture, Postmodernism in a cannibalistic fashion uses art history imagery as its resource." ... Both pop art and post modernism have guidelines for their movements. ... Pop art used these images from the mass media and popular culture and completely changed their meaning and perception. ... At the same time Roy Lichtenstein, a well-known pop artist, extended the range of pop art with his oil paintings that appropriated enlarged frames of comic strips. ... Pop art appropriating both the subject matter of mass culture and t...

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Question: Pop Art: Social Commentary or mere Show Off? Is Pop Art a social commentary or just a show off? ... Pop art described the growing culture of which ordinary people derived most of their visual pleasure in the mass media, like television, comics, advertisements and magazines. ... Warhol had expressed it as "a culture overburdened by disturbance that seems to be recreated and repeated". ... He grew up in a time where street culture was growing and he wanted to annex the energy of that culture to the society. ...

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Pop Art was the imagery of middle-class culture repurposed. ... They viewed the alluring imagery of American popular culture and its consumerist lifestyle with a sense of irony and a little bit of envy ("Pop Art - The Art of Popular Culture.") ... Pop Artists used popular culture to their creative advantage. ... What artists in this era did was appreciate pop culture's dynamic effect on society and on our daily perception of life. ... It is both "sensual and cerebral - an art about art and the way we relate to it" (Pop Art - The Art of Popular Culture). ...

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POP ART In the late 1950's Pop Art emerged, influenced by the wealthy boom of popular culture. ... Stimulated by commercial products, advertisements, newspaper clippings, comic books, and mass culture Pop Artists aimed to take traditional art off its formal pedestal. ... Physically untouched by the war, the United States of America was booming in consumer culture and material wealth. ... The colours, style and theme reflect the bright, glossy nature of Popular Culture. ... Art that followed the 1960's was influenced almost immediately by the Pop Art movement. ...

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Experimentation and Antidesign 1950s-1970s Pop art took over the culture of the 1960s and became intertwined with the lifestyle of its time more than any other aesthetic movement of the 20th century. ... Pop Art first emerged in Britain as part of the general Pop movement. In 1963 the Beatles had three number one hits in Britain and their American tour the following year would establish Britain as the dominant world leader of youth culture. ... From British and American pop music and the commercial adoption of the hippie movement came the language and culture of "flower Power" which, all to...

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Andy Warhol and His Twenty Marilyns Andy Warhol is one of the most recognized American Pop artists. ... Warhol worked during the period when Pop Art reigned supreme. Pop Art makes use of the imagery of consumerism and mass culture (e.g. comic strips, pin-ups and packaging), with a finely balanced mixture of irony and celebration. Pop Art began in the 1950s because people became curious of the nature of urban popular culture. ... Andy Warhol was a very successful Pop artist in that he really seems to have gotten his point across. ...

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The chapter concludes with a brief outline of the dissertation's content and structure. 1.1 PSY's Accidental Success Due to his self-made backstory and run-ins with the law, PSY is not a representative of the culture-manufacturing machine that is the K-pop industry. ... This dissertation examines the expectations of a K-pop idol and what they are trained to represent in both the South Korean and international landscape of celebrity culture. ... - How does the Frankfurt School theory of culture industry apply to K-pop? ... 1.3 Theoretical Framework This dissertation will primaril...

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Andy Warhol is known to many people as the "Father of Pop Art". ... The style in which these values were portrayed varied depending on the culture and the artist. ... Warhol's timing was perfect in introducing pop. ... For many, Warhol was a work of art himself, reflecting back the basic desires of a consumerist American culture. ... In his life, he certainly stretched the boundaries of pop art. ...

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