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Art Deco
Pop Art
Andy Warhol |
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| Art Deco is a popular art and design movement born in 1920 in France mixing all styles of the early 20th century: Modernism, Bauhaus, Cubism, Futurism, and Art Nouveau. This elegant, functional, and decorative style influenced architecture, interior design, and industrial design between the 2 wars from aviation, to skyscrapers. The principles of Art Deco were formed in 1900 when, after the Universal Exposition held in Paris, France, most French artists decided to open "La Société des artistes décorateurs” to demonstrate the French leadership in decorative arts. The name Art Deco come from the International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Art organized in 1925 in French. |
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| The intense use of new materials to celebrates the industrial age such as glass, aluminum, and stainless steel and the opulent style, in reaction to the austerity after the first world war, characterize Art Deco architecture, see the Chrysler Building (1930), the Radio City Music Hall in New York, and the Golden Gate Bridge. |
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| Also the shape of all objects from light to refrigerators. was influenced by aerodynamic principles design, necessary for high speed vehicles. |
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| To name just a few Art Deco painters: Santiago Martinez Delgado, Tamara de Lempicka (see photo), and the famous industrial designer Louis François Cartier (clocks and jewelry). Art Deco disappeared after reaching mass production, loosing the image of luxury during the 2nd war. We can find several surviving examples of Art Deco architecture in Havana, Cuba. |
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| Pop Art |
| Pop Art is one of the major art movements of the 20th century, born in the mid 1950s in England and 2 years later, with separate origin from British Pop Art, in the United States. The term Pop Art was given by an art critic Lawrence Alloway to indicate a popular art and culture. Pop Art like pop music were art for the mass in contrast to the elitaire culture. Pop Art was a response to abstract expressionism, and like minimalism is at the beginning of the postmodern art. |
| Andy Warhol |
| Andrew Warhola (1928-1987), known as Andy Warhol, is the most influential artist in the Pop Art movement of the 20th century. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from a Catholic family of emigrants, and studied commercial art at the School of Fine Arts in Pittsburgh University. After graduating in 1949, he moved to New York to work as commercial illustrator, but became famous as a painter, author, and producer. Thanks to Warhol, advertising and cinema moved into art. In the 1960s Warhol reproduced popular American products and movie stars such as Campbell Soup, Coca-Cola, and Marilyn Monroe. His studio in New York was a mecca for most writers, musicians and movie celebrities. We can see his affection for popular culture reading what he thought about Coca Cola: if you see Coca Cola ad campaign on TV or magazines, you see that the President drinks Coca Cola, celebrities drink Coca Cola, and you also can drink Coca Cola. Coca cola is the same for everyone, rich, famous and you. America is a great country because rich buy the same goods as poor consumers. Warhol scandalized critics because he changed the culture of the art rethinking the relationship between commercial work and art. |
| In 1964, in an art gallery in the Upper East Side, took place a show that sold art as a supermarket such as posters created by 6 pop artists representing canned goods, (famous Warhol's painting of a can of Campbell's soup), meat, soup etc. opening the art culture to general public. |
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| In the 1970s Warhol spend most of his time in painting celebriety portraits: including Diana Ross, Liza Minnelli, Brigitte Bardot, Mick Jagger, John Lennon, and Mao Zedong. Warhol realized both serious and comic works, from painting a soup can to "Death and Disaster" using the same techniques. In 1973 Warhol published "The Philosophy of Andy Warhol", his motto was: Making money is art, and working is art and good business is the best art. |
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