Ed Ruscha's Influence On Contemporary Art

A famous artist to one country may be unknown to another but, their works still play a huge role in that society’s art movement. However, those artists may later gained international popularity because of their unique style, lasting influence and beliefs. This is the case for both Andy Warhol and Affandi. Andy Warhol, an American artist who led the pop art movement, rose to fame through his outstanding art works that are still admired today. Affandi, an Indonesian modern artist, earned himself international recognition through his realistic paintings.

When we eat a slice of pizza we tend to wash it down with a bottle of Coke when we 're feeling sick we tend to have some Campbell 's chicken noodle soup when we think of rock 'n ' roll the name Elvis Presley comes to mind and for America 's sweetheart and movie actress there is none other than Marilyn Monroe. These for iconic objects and figures all have one thing in common they have stood the test of time and continue to be a part of American culture. Today I 'm going to talk about one man who took these ideas and started a new movement in the early 1960s it movement coined pop art where everyday recognizable images that have stood the test of time and continue to influence and be a part of American culture. This man goes by the name of Andy Warhol.

He was most succesful and highly paid commercial illustrator in New York even before he began making art destined for gallerys. Nevertheless,

Edvard Munch is regarded as the pioneer of the Expressionist movement in modern painting. At an early stage Munch was recognised in Germany and central Europe as one of the creators of a new and different movement of art, that helped artists to express their feelings about all the social change that was happening around them.

Every artist has his or her own style of painting. Each painting tells some sort of story or has some type of personal meaning to the artist. One of the most important figures in modern art is Pablo Picasso. Not only was Pablo Picasso a genius in the field of abstract art, but he also experimented with sculpting and ceramics. Pablo Picasso has taken the world to many places with his unique style of work which is why I believe he is considered to be a genius of the 20th century.

After being a drill sergeant in Alaska for twenty years he was inspired by the landscape and wanted to start painting what he saw. At first he started painting on pots and stuff like that and sell them for money. But later on he started painting on canvases. PBS saw what potential he had and gave him a show. He also gave lessons and sold art supplies.

Pablo Picasso was one of the brightest artist for his time and he has been credited with influencing many of the different directions that art went in the twentieth century. Picasso was said to influence styles of art like surrealism and co-invent cubism and not unlike artists before him, he drew inspiration from the great people of the time such as Freud or artists like Cézanne. Picasso was unique in the fact that his paintings represented what he wanted them to represent and through the freedom of interpretation, Picasso was able to influence those who saw his works. Picasso was such a different painter in his time because instead of focusing on the details and trying to make things perfectly realistic, he painted with a sort of freedom

Picasso is an abstract artist, and therefore is thought of as “unskilled,” by the way he accentuates parts of the human figure. Picasso’s art had the most impact on the twentieth century. Even though he suggests going against what he had learned academically, it is important to know that he had started at a very young age. His father was a drawing teacher and a conservator at a small museum. Soon after his father became a professor at the art academy in Barcelona, the young Picasso completed the entrance examinations and was accepted to the school’s upper-level program. Picasso went to Paris determined to work through the avant-gardes’ techniques and subjects to better understand such art.

Luiseno Native artist James Luna’s performance of, The Artifact Piece (1987) confronts anthropological museums in their post-colonial precepts of the Indian “other”. In the performance of The Artifact Piece, Luna shares with the viewer that he himself is a living human artifact. Bringing into question why institutions as such continue to perpetuate and objectify Native Indigenous people as extinct artifacts, compared to dinosaur bones. His performance clearly created a crack into Eurocentric ideologies of early American Indians as separate and distant, to that of present day Native American Indians. In La Nostalgia: The Artifact, another performance by Luna. He explains “They have our stuff.” and “It’s all about the past, as if we don’t live in the present. Until they saw me…”.” In this performance he tells the viewer’s “Take a picture with a real Indian.” Sometimes Luna is in Native dress and sometimes he is in contemporary clothing. This then gives the audience a visual evidence that he is a living Indian of this space and time. As Jean Fisher put it in a 1992 Art Journal article, Luna’s work did not simply threaten to return a controlling gaze: rather, she wrote, the presence “of the undead Indian of colonialism . . . and the possibility that he may indeed be watching and listening disarms the voyeuristic gaze and

As a profound influence on the twentieth century pop art movement, Andy Warhol ascended to become a cornerstone in the modern art world. After taking cues from society in the mid-twentieth century, as well as conversing with Muriel Latow, Warhol did what many artists strived to do but failed. Andy also extracted many of his ideas from other artists and built on them. He put a culture on canvas and revolutionized pop art for a life time.

His early paintings had an unconventional, unique, and unfinished look about them. The images were known to everyone in everyday life.

This series is immensely personal for not only Rothko, but also for the viewer. These murals explore identity as these paintings are an exploration of raw emotion felt by such a deeply depressed man who committed suicide in 1970. These paintings can be seen as a discovery of Rothko’s self and also a form of emotional release due to the unsettling colours he has adopted (black on maroon and dark red on maroon); these paintings are a clear reflection of emotional instability. According to Rothko, these paintings were “concerned with the most profound questions of existence.” That statement could possibly mean that he was thinking about his mortality at this time as he had been suffering from depression and had also been diagnosed with a mild

Andy Warhol was the revolutionaire who led America and the rest of the world into an era of pop art with his iconic style. “For many his ascent echoes one of pop art's ambitions, to bring popular styles and subjects into the exclusive salons of high art. His crowning achievement was the elevation of his own persona to the level of a popular icon, representing a new kind of fame and celebrity for a fine artist”(The Art Story). Although very famous in later life, he had a simple childhood; he was often sickly and he would spend time at home. Since he had a lot of time to himself he would start to use that time to learn about pop culture, and this is when he began to have an interest in art. He commenced his career by drawing shoe advertisements,

Edvard Munch is regarded as a pioneer in the Expressionist movement in modern painting. At an early stage Munch was recognized in Germany and central Europe as one of the creators of a new movement in art. Munch and many artists of the time needed to express their feelings about all the change that was happening around.

of art as a finished product, signed by the artist and authenticated by the art market,