The Art Of Pop Art : Femme DAlger

The first generation of feminists tried to reevaluate and praise the value of feminine attributes, especially the female body, differentiated from masculine attributes and feminine experiences with an essentialist attitude. Kahlo was praised as a legendary feminist artist, as the women inside her self-portraits are not passive objects for men’s visual satisfaction but active observers who look closely into their minds. As mentioned above as well, the female artists’ dilemma is that they are not only the subject of painting but also the object being observed. Amid art history, established and dominated by men, instead of depicting men as her competitors, Kahlo visualized the introspection of herself in her paintings. She did not limit her role to competing with men, but she unfolded her sad personal history in her unique way. Among them, the image of women depicted in Self Portrait with Curly Hair (1935) (Figure 25) and Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair (1940) (Figure 2) are not at all passive. It is in line with the effort made by feminists involved in the early feminist art movement, which was to change the passive and negative female image created by men. Kahlo is a true feminist artist as she delivered truth observed through women’s eyes in the period in which only truth seen through men’s eyes was accepted. She painted pondering women amid her suffering. She had a special ability to connect femininity and masculinity, and this ability appeared in her painting (Bakewell Lisa,

This painting is a portrait of an old woman who is sitting on a chair while facing to the left. She is wearing a yellow flower dress with a beige jacket while sitting in an empty room. Her beauty is illustrated by her curly, gray hair and also her wrinkled face, neck, and hands. These details is what makes her look real and pure. I like how detailed it is because it reminds me of my grandmothers.

“Reverie” was almost imitating the way a machine might print out an image. Lichtenstein’s art style used the style of comic strips which included bright colours, single scenes, dialogue balloons, and Ben Day dots. He depicted a world of prepackaged emotions, which is parallel to the mass produced, prepackaged consumer products that were also main subjects of Pop Art artworks. Lichtenstein has very careful technique when creating his paintings to create the message it conveys. Lichtenstein has very careful technique when creating his paintings. When Lichtenstein works from a photograph or a cartoon, he draws a picture small enough to fit his opaque projector in order to project the picture he drew on his canvas before he paints. Even though when he’s working from other people’s works, he draws the picture to recompose it instead of to just reproduce it. Sometimes he works with more than one cartoon and combines them, either completely copying the style or making it up, depending on the projects and plays around with he drawing until he’s satisfied. He stencils the dots that’s his artworks are known for first for technical reasons, then starts colouring from lightest colours to darkest which are the thick bold outlines. He will keep erasing, redrawing, and re-dotting his artwork until he is satisfied. He tends to make a lot of changes in the process of paining so he uses in Magna colours which is soluble in turpentine so

Knowing the sex of the artist introduces the preconceived notion of how the artist may view the opposite sex. In this painting, because I know the artist is a male when viewing the subjects of the painting I understand why they are painted in the way they are. His gender influences my

The focus of the painting is a woman in bright yellow. This woman stands above the crowd, showing only her back and a hunched figure. Her posture suggests that she is shy, self conscious and is afraid of the spotlight that she suddenly finds herself in. Her head is bowed which hides her face and deters us from seeing her identity. She looks as if she carries a great burden on her shoulders. She shares her pedestal with another woman in red who is smirking and confidently showing herself off. She, unlike the other woman, displays herself to be seen by all. She leans against the building behind her, her arm thrown to the side, which opens up her posture. Her confidence is worn as easily as her revealing

This is rectangular piece, the size of 65.1 x 54.9 cm. Looking from a distance, painting has a uniform color spectrum. Artist uses mostly warm earth tone palette: beige, grey, yellow and burnt umber, with black for creating outline of the forms, and occasional multicolored patches for additional accents. There is no visible source of light, however lighter areas of the painting are focused in the center, while more contrast and darker areas tend to be around the middle section. From a distance, brushstrokes look more unified, but when looking up closer, we can notice that artist, while blending colors, uses distinctive strokes. So even blended, colors create some visual texture. There is no noticeable degree of perspective or depth, painting looks rather flat.

The “bag piece” (See figure 2) is another artwork in the corner of the whole exhibition. It is composed by a low platform, which is white; and a large black bag on the top of it. The visitors are allowed to crawl into the bag and do some movement in it, like roll on the ground of do some postures. Most of the people feel that they enjoy doing something in it and in front of many viewers because they are covered. Also, when someone is in the bag, they can see through the bag a little bit, but the viewers cannot see anything from the outside. The bag is very soft and cozy, witch makes people feel comfort and do not want to come out.[footnoteRef:11] [11: Blake Gopnik, “Art Critic Gets Trapped in Bag at MoMA’s Yoko Ono Gala”, may 15, 2015, Accessed

Pop art was a movement that was used in the 1950’s in Britain, but in the late 1950’s in the United States. Pop art is still seen today in cartoons around the world. Andy Warhol, Rich Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, Eduardo Paolozzi, Richard Hamilton, and Larry Rivers helped to shape the pop art movement. Pop arts’ imagery affected modernism heavily. Pop art artists would celebrate commonplace and people of everyday by doing this they could elevate popular culture.

2. Analysis of Form: The sitting woman is the center of interest with other components of the painting surrounding her. The painting is naturalistic. Asymmetry is used with the guitar in the upper right hand corner and the jug-like object in the lower left hand corner, cards, and the lamp. The colors surrounding the woman are warm with soft hues, but the dress she is wearing is a cool blue. It has a split complementary color harmony. The shadows casted on not only parts of the room, but also her face establish a defeated or exhausted mood. The woman is the focal point of the painting, which is emphasized by the contrast of the colors

Lichtenstein created this piece in 1978. This art piece was created using oil and magna on canvas. I found this painting interesting because the art piece is very colorful and has many dots and lines giving it the pop art/comic book look. The figures in this art piece don’t stand out a lot. The lines and dots in my opinion make the painting really pop out to the viewer. The painting is has overall happy mood, there aren’t any dark colors showing otherwise. Figures with Sunset is a cubist painting and its genre is abstract art. Figures with Sunset is a very large piece of artwork, almost taking up an entire wall in the museum, at 107 x 167

Pop art was a very popular form of art in the mid 1950’s in Britain and the late 1950’s in the United States. Pop art was mainly used in advertising and in comics. Artists that formed pop art were Eduardo Paolozzi and Richard Hamilton in Britain ,and in the US were Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. Pop art also includes aspects of mass culture. Pop art was also very popular in many other countries as well.

The first thing that I noticed about the painting was the paleness of the colors. The artist mostly used lighter shades of colors in order to give a feeling of relaxation while also creating a sad and depressed environment. The colors are not mixed with each other, instead of mixing the colors

Art from 1950-1960, more specifically pop art was aimed at making fun of contemporary art, by taking common objects and putting them in the spot light as regal and significant possessions. “The subject matter became far from traditional “high art” themes of morality, mythology, and classic history; rather, Pop artists celebrated commonplace objects and people of everyday life[…]” (Wolf 2015). Artists during this time were also influenced by many things, including the industrial revolution, recent wars and capitalism: two famous artists from this era were Roy Lichtenstein and Keith Haring. Both of these artists had different styles that can be compared and contrasted. Pop art was created with the intention of mocking contemporary art and was

The portrait is displayed horizontally with a gold trimmed frame. The subject is a female that looks to be in her early 20’s sitting upright on a large brown chair. If the viewer travels up the painting the first indication of the woman’s class is her satin, blue dress. The saturated blue shines and falls in the light like water. Paired with the dress are her exceptionally detailed endings to her sleeves. The lace is even painted as though it is translucent, allowing a little of the blue dress to show through the sleeve. Flowers throughout history have symbolized innocence of a woman and her virginity. The repeating theme of flowers, in the sleeve cuffs and ribbon) in the woman’s attired suggests her purity or innocent nature. Another very details section of the painting includes the corset/torso details. The sewing suggests texture in the torso with small beading in between. Towards the top of the chest in the center, the female seems to bear an extravagant, ribbon piece with a tear drop bead in the center. The light pink

As Murphie & Potts said, “Pop Art is significant for at least two reasons: it represented a break from the artistic principle of modernism, and it related directly to the image- making technology of mass culture” (52). In addition, from what I read, for Walker. “Pop Art’s significance was its concentration on the artificial world of signs and images, at the expense of nature or the inner depths of the psyche” (Murphie & Potts 53). In other words they were more focus on signs and images that weren’t real maybe some like spirit. Furthermore, Murphie & Potts said, “Pop Art reflected a ‘media-saturated environment,’ a ‘humanly constructed world of building, interiors, roads, traffic, signs, poster, newspapers, radio and television broadcasting” (53). With that being said I do believe that Pop Art break from the norms expectation of other styles of