Exploration Proposal Pop Art

Exploration ProposalI hope to explore the images of comic strips consumerism and symbolism in pop imposture that have been influenced in our everyday lives and how the hatful media, advertising and popular culture are portrayed through pop art. One of the greatest iconic pop culture artists Andy Warhol suggests I like boring things this is a broad indication of a part of how pop culture is based on. It exposes how objects in everyday life move be right in front of us and we as people dont think twice about what we are using. For example, Andy Warhol creates a wooden cutting and painting based on the simplicity of Campbells tomato soup an item he had been consuming for over 20 years frequently. I began to put one over interest in the field of pop art when I was at a younger age I was surrounded by it due to the mass media, constant advertisement imagery and basically elements of consumerism which created connection between the people.I was inspired to continue this art form as i t drives my passion it stems my love for consumerism. People can appreciate everyday objects and bright colours the equivalent way as it derives me. I aim to experiment with a range of materials and techniques throughout my exploration in pop art. Digital photography was by far the most loved personally in my pervious Unit 1 carried in Studio Arts. It is an art media that I can place my skills to map and excel at. A digital single-lens reflex camera was the tool used to photograph objects and the photographs were further dispatchred into an editorial retinue (Adobe Photoshop) and were manipulated to create a completely bleak picture. This technique can further be perused in creating pop art as there are a vast amount of filters found in editorial suites alongside blending pictures, masking, colour and picture correcting and abstracting of photos.Silver gelatin photography is another photographic process, however needed more manual work. Strategies are used to create the desire d pictures required such as amount of light exposure and how long chemicals should be string through. Pop art collages could be perfectly executed with this medium. Acrylic paint and water colour were two materials I continued to suffer with. However, I am looking to immensely improve and adapt them so I can incorporate the two materials into my pop art collaborative pieces. One thing I picked up from in Unit 1 was that its best to think creatively outside the box, extending ideas that come to mind to create a whole new level.Andy Warhol 100 CANS, 1962 Oil on canvas 72 x 52 inches (182.9 x 132.1 cm)The Campbells Soup Cans painting carries historical significance and represents what was happening in America during the 1960s. America had become an industrial culture in which products, machinery, and food were being mass-produced, and it seemed that everything was a commodity. Andy Warhol wanted to acknowledge this phenomenon in his art. He wanted us not to focus on the subject of hi s work, but rather the idea behind it. The idea here is that the mundane, like a can of soup, matters. In addition, the use of repetitive imagery and mechanical processes creates an illusion that art can be mass produced and consumed by everyone. Warhol used the same shapes, dull colours and lines to create his image. The digit that was created has a rhythm, but also repetition because each of the elements is repeated over and over in a recognisable organisation. I can potentially transfer these art elements and principles into making my own artwork that serves consumerism with my own product.Roy Lichtenstein Hopeless, 1963 Oil on Canvas Dimensions 118cm by 111.8cmRoy Lichtensteins comic images of girls with speech balloons was a major slide in the 1960s It contains vibrant colours with bold and wavy lines to add emotion to the scene. I would like to potentially use vibrant colours in collaboration with acrylic paint to express emotions in my own art pieces or create subliminal me ssages that entail emotion to the viewers. Colours and emotions can be used in different parts of the background to present mixed feelings or different views in the image.Richard Hamilton 1956, Just what is it that makes todays homes so different, so appealing Collage Dimensions 26cm by 24.8cmJust what is it that makes todays homes so different, so appealing? Literally elevates kitsch to high art, as symbolized by the framed comic moderate cover against the wall. The body builder on the left and naked woman on the right symbolise the commodification of the human form into just another backing transactionsomething to be marketed to relentlessly, idealised in the name of selling deodorant and toothpaste. All of these things in the collage are placed in the artwork composition for a reason nothing was an accident. Each object was thoughtfully placed to symbolise and have a meaning. I can use this same methodology in my own work by adding many digital/silver gelatin photos and other m ixed media in creating collages to build me own floor and representations in advertising or symbolism.