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Pop art
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This article is about the art movement. For other uses, see Pop art (disambiguation).
Richard Hamilton's collage Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing? (
1956) is one of the earliest works to be considered "pop art".
Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid-1950s in
Britain and in the late
1950s in the United States.[1] Pop art presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular culture such as advertising, news, etc. In pop art, material is sometimes visually removed from its known context, isolated, and/or combined with unrelated material.[
1][2] The concept of pop art refers not as much to the art itself as to the attitudes that led to it.[2]
Pop art employs aspects of mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural objects. It is widely interpreted as a reaction to the then-dominant ideas of abstract expressionism, as well as an expansion upon them.[
3] And due to its utilization of found objects and images it is similar to
Dada. Pop art is aimed to employ images of popular as opposed to elitist culture in art, emphasizing the banal or kitschy elements of any given culture, most often through the use of irony.[2] It is also associated with the artists' use of mechanical means of reproduction or rendering techniques.
Pop art and minimalism are considered to be art movements that precede postmodern art, or are some of the earliest examples of Post-modern
Art themselves.[4]
Pop art often takes as its imagery that which is currently in use in advertising.
Product labeling and logos figure prominently in the imagery chosen by pop artists, like in the
Campbell's Soup Cans labels, by
Andy Warhol. Even the labeling on the shipping box containing retail items has been used as subject matter in pop art, for example in
Warhol's
Campbell's Tomato Juice Box 1964, (pictured below), or his
Brillo Soap Box sculptures.
UK garage (also known as
UKG) is a genre of electronic music originating from
England in the early
1990s. The genre usually features a distinctive syncopated
4/4 percussive rhythm with 'shuffling' hi-hats and beat-skipping kick drums.
Garage tracks also commonly feature 'chopped up' and time-shifted or pitch-shifted vocal samples complementing the underlying rhythmic structure at a tempo usually around 130
BPM. UK garage was largely subsumed into other styles of music and production in the mid-2000s, including dubstep, bassline and grime. The decline of UK garage during the mid-2000s saw the birth of UK funky, which is closely related.
The Doors of Perception is a short book by
Aldous Huxley, first published in 1954, detailing his experiences when taking mescaline. The book takes the form of
Huxley's recollection of a mescaline trip that took place over the course of an afternoon, and takes its title from a phrase in
William Blake's 1793 poem
The Marriage of
Heaven and Hell. Huxley recalls the insights he experienced, which range from the "purely aesthetic" to "sacramental vision".[1] He also incorporates later reflections on the experience and its meaning for art and religion.
In mythology[edit]
A pithos from
Crete, c. 675 BC.
Louvre
Main article:
Pandora
In classical
Greek mythology, Pandora was the first woman on
Earth.
Zeus ordered
Hephaestus to create her. So he did, using water and earth.[4] The gods endowed her with many gifts:
Athena clothed her,
Aphrodite gave her beauty,
Apollo gave her musical ability, and
Hermes gave her speech.[5]
When
Prometheus stole fire from heaven, Zeus took vengeance by presenting Pandora to Prometheus' brother Epimetheus. Pandora was given a wedding gift of a beautiful jar, with instructions to not open it under any circumstance. Impelled by her curiosity (given to her by the gods), Pandora opened it and all evil contained therein escaped and spread over the earth. She hastened to close the container, but the whole contents had escaped; Apate and all the others, except for one thing that lay at the bottom – the
Spirit of
Hope, named Elpis.[6] Pandora, deeply saddened by what she had done, feared she would have to face Zeus' wrath, since she had failed her duty. However, Zeus did not punish Pandora because he knew this would happen.
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