The Emergence of Pop Art
The events that took place after Second World War contributed to the emergence of pop art which was considered by Lawrence Alloway as a popular art. Since then, it has been considered as a playful, ironic art. The art which came into existence in the late 1950s is linked with mass media and advertisement, and is believed to have been a response to the abstract expressionism. The book, 'I was a rich man's play thing' provides a collage under the pop art in which a woman admits opening up the secret of the magazine that had the collages' cover. The presentation of the magazine "Intimate Confessions" gives off the visual ideology that the women in the post-war era are treated as objects of desire, just like a cherry pie.
Conceptual Art
Source: Paolozzi, Eduardo
Conceptual art
Sol Lewitt, a minimalist artist, brought the conceptual art movement to life after the article "Paragraphs on Conceptual Art." Under this movement, the idea behind the art is most valued compared to the object presented in the art itself. For instance, when one viewed a work of art, what they saw would not just be the object, like drawing, a map, language, a photograph or a chart, but the thought process of the artist. Essentially, not much attention would be placed on the document, as the document may at times not be produced.
Joseph Kosuth's "One and Three Chairs"
One of the notable works of art under the movement was Joseph Kosuth's "One and Three Chairs." In this artwork, the artist presents photograph in which a physical chair is placed between a scaled photo of the chair and a printed definition of the "chair" as a word. In his opinion, Kosuth noted that the art presented an inquiry into the art's nature in which an idea, a photograph, and a physical object can remind the people to reconsider of what may constitute a chair.
Works Cited
Source: Kosuth, Joseph
Kosuth, Joseph. "Moma | Joseph Kosuth. One And Three Chairs. 1965". Moma.Org, 2017, https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/joseph-kosuth-one-and-three-chairs-1965.
Paolozzi, Eduardo. "'I Was A Rich Man'S Plaything', Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, 1947 | Tate". Tate, 2017, http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/paolozzi-i-was-a-rich-mans-plaything-t01462.
