This art essay I will be writing is about the differences between two of the world’s most famous artists; Rene Magritte and Roy Lichtenstein. There are many different art types across the whole world. But the main two I will be discussing in this essay is the surrealism side and the pop art side. Rene Magritte was the best artist of the surrealism side of art whereas Roy Lichtenstein was the best artist of the pop art side of things. Surrealism is a 20th century avant-garde movement in art and literature which is sought to release the creative potential of the conscious mind; for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images. Whereas pop art was a movement in the late 1950’s – 1960’s that reflected on everyday living and common objects. …show more content…
Magritte was born on the 21st of November 1898 in Lessines, Belgium. He passed away on the 15th of August 1967 at the age of 69 years old. He was well known for his witty and thought-provoking images that would fall under the category of surrealism. Rene Magritte’s surreal artwork had reflected on his witty and unique sense of humour. His art pieces consisted of ordinary objects and people that were placed into the most realistic settings. Magritte was about 50 years of age when he finally got recognised for his art pieces and that was when his fame in the art industry commenced. To support himself throughout the years he hadn’t been recognised, he spent majority of those years working extremely hard as a commercial artist. A commercial artist is of the creative services, referring to art created for commercial purposes, primarily …show more content…
Lichtenstein was born on the 27th of October 1923 in Manhattan, New York City, United States. He passed away on the 29th of September 1977 at the age of 54 years old. In the 1960’s Roy Lichtenstein became a leading figure of the new pop art movement. Lichtenstein’s bright graphic work has imitated popular American culture and the world of art itself. Roy’s work was greatly inspired by both popular advertising and comic book style. In the early 1960’s Lichtenstein became the leading figure of the new art movement alongside James Rosenquist, Jasper Johns and Andy
During Vincent Van Gogh’s childhood years, and even before he was born, impressionism was the most common form of art. Impressionism was a very limiting type of art, with certain colors and scenes one must paint with. A few artists had grown tired of impressionism, however, and wanted to create their own genre of art. These artists, including Paul Gaugin, Vincent Van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Paul Cezanne, hoped to better express themselves by painting ...
Claes Oldenburg was born in 1929 in Stockholm, Sweden. His father was a Swedish Consul General, and because of his job they moved to Chicago in 1936 where he became an American citizen. When he graduated Yale University in New Heaven, he took up the job as working as a reporter in 1946. Later on in 1952 Oldenburg attended Chicago Art Institute. While he was there he published some drawings in magazines and started to paint pictures. He was inspired by Abstract Expressionism. Then in 1956 he moved to New York and met Jim dine, two years later he met Alan Kaprow and a couple other artists. All of them were interested in art and pushed the question “What is art?” They started to stage “happenings”. That was the start of the Pop Art Movement. Pop Art is the products of mass media. From 1958 -59 he arranged and designed his first sculpture. After that he started to replicate food, like hamburgers, ice-cream and cakes. Oldenburg’s first exhibit was in 1958. There was a selection of his drawings that were included in a group show at the Red Grooms’ City Gallery. A year later, Oldenburg had his first one-man show. He had sculptures at the Judson Gallery. Then in 1962 he had his art work in the “News Realist” which helped define the Pop Art Movement. He also had other exhibitions in 1964, a one man show at the Sidney Janis Gallery and also in 1968 at the Museum of Modern Art. In the mid-1960s he also began making creation for huge monuments.
...rovence. A year after his death in 1907 his paintings were displayed in Paris in a large museum-like retrospective. This viewing affected the direction of new and upcoming artist, which elevated him to his position as one of the most significant artists of the 19th century and to the creation of Cubism.
Surrealism was a important tool for Dali, using it he could express his feelings, dreams and political standings. His art sometimes seemed as if it was a way ...
In order to discuss pop art I have chosen to examine the work and to some extent lives of Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol who were two of the main forces behind the American movement. I intend to reflect the attitudes of the public and artists in America at this time, while examining the growing popularity of pop art from its rocky, abstract expressionist start in the 1950s through the height of consumer culture in the 60s and 70s to the present day.
The surrealism movement took place during the aftermath of WWI and started in primarily in France. Surrealism was more of a broad range cultural /social project interested in liberating the human society from conscious and logical thinking to create a utopian society, than an art movement. The surrealism movement was in search of a gateway into society’s subconscious, the break down of rational and logical thinking, (The marvelous.) Surrealist artwork concentrated on individualism, subjective visions and states of disorientation, nihilism, chaos and irrationality of modernity to break down the society’s consciousness. The following artwork played a major part in the search of the marvelous: Salvador Dali’s, Accommodations of Desire created in 1929, which I’ll compare to Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel’s Un Chein Andalou created in 1929. I’ll also examine the works of Andre Brenton, ‘Exquisite Corpses’ created in 1930 by Andre Brenton, Tristan Tzara, Valentine Hugo and Greta Knutson and If you please by Andre Brenton and Philippe Soupault created in 1919. Both Andre Brenton and Salvador Dali were major player in the surrealist movement. Andre Brenton is considered the father of surrealism and Salvador Dali is considered the surrealist artist of our time.
Roy Lichtenstein was born in New York City on October 27th, 1923. He described his childhood as quiet and uneventful. His father was a realtor; his mother was a housewife. Art was not taught at the school Roy attended, but when he turned fourteen he began taking Saturday morning classes at the Parson’ School of Design. After he graduated from high school in 1940 he attended the School of Fine Art at Ohio State University. He was drafted however in 1943 in the middle of his education at Ohio State. While he was in the military he served in Great Britain and Europe. When he returned to the U.S. in 1946, he completed his studies for his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree at Ohio State University in 1949. After he got his degree he immediately began teaching at Ohio State and kept teaching there until 1951. He then taught at New York State University College, Oswego from 1957 until 1961 when he transferred and began teaching at Douglas College of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ he stopped teaching there in 1963. Later that year Roy moved to New York where he was commissioned by the architect Philip Johnson to produce large format painting for the New York State Pavilion at the World’s Fair in New York. This year he also had his first one-man exhibition in Europe at the Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris. He was given his first American retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Cleveland in 1963 also. Other exhibitions where Roy was represented in ...
In the mid-1950s in Britain and late 1950s in the United States pop art is a movement that rise. Eduardo Paolozzi and Richard Hamilton in Britain, and Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns in the United States Shaped the pop art movement among the early artists. Art itself refers not as much as to the attitude behind the art. Mass culture, such as advertising, comic books, and mundane cultural objects of pop art employs shape, form, value or line. As well as in expansion of those ideas, pop art interpreted as a reaction to the then-dominant idea of abstract expressionism. Art movement that precede postmodern art, or are some of the earliest examples of postmodern themselves are known as post art and minimalism.
Pop art is an experimental art which surfaced in Great Britain in the early 1950’s. One of the major art movements of the twentieth century, it came into its own in the United States in the late 1950’s. This art form incorporated photographs in ways that had not been utilized before. It utilized mass-culture imagery and iconography, in contrast to the traditional tendencies of fine art. Pop art is considered to be one of the last modern art movements and served as a precursor to postmodern art. The art form is characterized by themes and techniques derived from mass culture, including advertising and comic books. Perhaps one of the most famous Pop artists, is Andy Warhol.
Surrealism was the 20th century phase in art and literature of expressing subconscious in images without order or coherence, as in a dream. Surrealist art went beyond writing or painting objects as they looked at reality. Their art showed objects in distorted forms, colors, and movements, like in a dream. Dali’s surrealistic art was based on the belief that there were treasures hidden in the human mind. The word fantasy cannot accurately describe surrealism. Rather, surrealism is better described as a grander reality. In this grander reality, the conflicts faced in life could find resolution. Salvador Dali believed that the truth, by its own nature, was hidden. Due to this, much of his work was based on this belief. Salvador Dali defined surrealism in the way he lived his life, and in the art he created.
In the beginning, Surrealism was primarily a literary movement, but it gave artists an access to new subject matter and a process for conjuring it. As Surrealist paintings began to emerge, it divi...
René Magritte’s art influenced a change of movements from Surrealism to Pop Art for his use of repetition in his art works as well as of his art works. The repetition of his surrealist works influenced the use of repetition in Pop Art, though the reason behind why each of the movements incorporated them are
So in turn his style wasn't created but rather taken from processes already familiar to people living in the modern communications system and put into new context. According to Jonathan, “Lichtenstein made realistic paintings of an unreal world. His art is gloriously paradoxical – and the cleverest paradox is that, as in Whaam! , the unreal world turns out to have echoes in the actual one. Very early on, he hit on his comic book subject matter, and this gave his art a look it never lost – an enlarged, precise graphic style that incongruously translates efficient designs created for the page on to the generous scale of American abstract art.
The Pop art movement, was a movement where medium played a huge part in the society, with it reflecting on advertisements, comic strips and even celebrities, like Marilyn. This movement also has a large background and artists that are deeply connected. The pop art movement didn’t just take place in the United States, it actually started in Britain. It started with an independent group, with a mixture of different types of artists, from sculptors to painters. Though by the mid 1960’s, the United States pop art had taken on the movement and it was so popular and bold, that it soon influenced other countries such as Britain.
Surrealism and the surrealist movement is a ‘cultural’ movement that began around 1920’s, and is best known for its visual art works and writings. According to André Berton, the aim was “to resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality into an absolute reality, a super-reality” (Breton 1969:14). Surrealists incorporated “elements of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and ‘non sequitur”. Hence, creating unnerving, illogical paintings with photographic precision, which created strange creatures or settings from everyday real objects and developed advanced painting techniques, which allowed the unconscious to be expressed by the self (Martin 1987:26; Pass 2011:30).