“The subject matter of Pop Art is rooted in everyday life; it mirrors contemporary reality and provokes and reflects upon cultural change.” (Osterwold, n.d.) Pop Art continues to have relevance today. The movement is widespread partially because of its nostalgia and also because of its fascinating aesthetics (Kordic, 2015). Contemporary day artist, Jeff Coons, is …
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Considered an avant-garde novelty, the De Stijl movement was at first treated as outrageous and meaningless (Piper, n.d.). The movement was defined by straight lines, right angles, and color was limited to red, yellow, blue, neutrals, white, black, and grey. “But in the minds at least of the artists concerned these stark essentials were radiant …
Several years ago, I was visiting the Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA) and saw this art display or one very similar to it. Let me set the scene. A tour of foreign, non English speaking tourists gathered around this bicycle wheel attached to a stool gripping their audio listening devices staring perplexed at …
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Reading about Das Plakat, a journal championing the collecting of European art posters in the early 1900’s (Eskilson, Schplakat, & Dada, n.d.) instantaneously reminded me of an art poster that used to hang in my room as a teen. Das Plakat was a collectors group covering the poster scene and exploring cultural aesthetic and legal …
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Released in 2008, the band Coldplay’s album cover displayed the scene of a vintage French battleground similar to those depicted in art of the Romantic Period. The movement, stemming from the term meaning “romance like”, characterized revolt and self-expression (Gardner, Kleiner, & Wadsworth, n.d.). As literary taste and art changed in France and Germany by …
The shapes and forms of Roman serifs defied mathematical analysis or geometrical construction (Alphabets, n.d.). This thought certainly drew me to a piece of art that sits in my own home. With the texture of paper mache and shiplap, this piece is what in today’s world we consider modern art; however, it contains elements that …
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