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    North Korea And South Korea

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    having a Samsung phone to eating Korean barbeque at a Korean restaurant. North Americans tend to think that North and South Korea share the same traditions and customs, when in fact they are complete opposites. Going back thousands of years in Korean culture, North Korea and South were just a part of the country Korea. Fast forwarding to the 1950’s the northern part of Korea started to become a communist country. America swooped in and started to shape the southern part of Korea as an ally for the United

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    Andy warhol created the concept of pop art in 1961. Pop art mainly focused on mass-produced commercial goods, in 1962 Warhol had released his now-iconic painting Campbell's Soup. This new rush of popularity pulled both Warhol and pop art into the national spotlight for the first time. This 3D campbell's tomato soup can painting was created from synthetic polymer paint, It is very simple and works with a basic colour scheme. Consisting of white,red,brown and cream colores. The texture of the painting

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    Andy Warhol Pop Art

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    Pop art is a 20th century art movement. Pop Art got its name because of its deiversary imagery taken from popular culture. It first started to move away from Abstract Expressionism, which was a really popular style in the 50’s because of its color, shape, forms, emotion, ideas etc. But many young artists of that generation didn’t like abstract expressionism. So It first began in the 1950’s in Europe when the European avant garde started getting to approach diverse art after the world War II. According

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    The Pop Art movement was an international phenomenon that began in the 1950’s in which artists like Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol sought to initiate fresh thinking in art. The term Pop Art is credited to the British art critic Lawrence Alloway and is short for “popular art” which referred to the popular mass culture and familiar imagery of the contemporary urban environment. This movement was a comment and expansion on the then popular ideas of the Abstract Impressionism movement. Fred S. Kleiner

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    Part One: Introduction to Pop Art The Pop Art movement “uses elements of popular culture, such as magazines, movies, … and even [brand name] bottles and cans” to convey a message about the artist’s views on society. Using bold coloured paintings, soft sculptures, and printmaking, artists would create facsimiles, similar reproductions of popular merchandise and collages. The purpose was to emphasize the banality of any given mass culture. This was a response the post-war conservative society which

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    Alloway Pop Art Movement

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    The term pop art can be defined as a new type of art that became popular in the 1950’s and specifically grew in large cities such as New York and London. The pop art movement was pioneered by a British curator called Lawrence Alloway in the year 1955. This new type of movement was characterized by portraying images of consuming popular and common goods. This type of art had its biggest fame until the late 1960’s. Among Alloway, the main pop artists that represented this modernist movement were names

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    Imagery In Pop Art

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    Pop artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and James Rosenquist celebrated commonplace objects as a way of seeking to elevate popular culture to the level of fine art. With the increasing influence of television and mass media outlets, Americans were constantly bombarded with popular culture imagery. These three artists replicate and elevate this imagery to create something more than the sum of its parts. By using high-style treatment of commercial imagery, repetition in series paintings

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    hairbrush. This is the pleasure principal of pop music. Whether accredited to innocence or ignorance, a unreconciled naivety has survived this culture since its inception. They’re everywhere. We cannot escape the wrath of teen pop bands, you can love ‘em or hate ‘em, but they are a representation of an ever changing culture.

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    Music Culture among Hong Kong, Japan and Korea Introduction Nowadays, music becomes a part of our life. People are listening music to every day. There is no age, languages and geographical boundary limitation. Interestingly, people not only listening music in their country but also others. Focus on the Asian, the music influence among Hong Kong, Japan and Korea. At first, Hong Kong music is the most famous until Japan and Korea music grow up and Korea music becomes dominates others. Now, Korea music

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    period. He had a unique style in his artwork that many people found attractive and new. Andy loved to do screen printed images of famous celebrities and different objects which were one of his greatest types of art he did. This new trend became known as pop art, which many people across the country found very interesting. Everyone was drawn to Andy Warhol because he found the human to be more inspiring than other artists. Almost all his pieces of artworks were centered on a human being which certainly

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