Week of Feb. 4th

Andy Warhol is the name which I thought about as we discussed postmodernism and pop culture because his art was a combination of the two. His images of Marilyn Monroe take an already existing popular image of a star and give it new perspective. He did the same with store products. Advertising is a form of business which uses art as medium to sell a product or company name. Warhol takes the Campbell’s Soup can and uses different colors to display it. By taking an already existing image and putting a new look on it, we have different ways to look at an old image in a new way.
Even though collages are different, I believe they can have a similar effect. By taking images that exist in magazines or other photographs and combining them with each other, they create a new meaning. I have made collages before with teen magazines, and the final piece looks like images which or culture pushes us to look and act like. This is why the media is criticized for the ideal body appearance. The images of the ‘beautiful woman or man’ are pushed in our faces through advertising and other products which “will make us perfect.” The presentation of old images in a new form is a self-reflexive form of art which makes the viewer question what is beauty and art.