Visual Arts History 1044A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mimmo Rotella, Mario Schifano, Roy Lichtenstein
28 Feb 2017
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It (pop art) moves the authority of the work away from the artist and toward the viewer. Depicted an everyday meeting, and was painted on a very large scale which, at the time, was reserved for historical depictions. Courbet was trying to undermine the ideas of size and scale. He was trying to (cid:498)even the playing field(cid:499) Peter blake(cid:495)s work pays homage to gustave courbet(cid:495)s *the meeting* This is what caught blake(cid:495)s eye from the original, the attitude behind it. Attach as many points from the lecture to hamilton(cid:495)s work as you can. Pop artists are still making a nod to the history. Their contemporary works vs. realism in the first half of the 19th century. On par with freudian thinking finding greater meaning in everyday objects. Trends will come and go; the turnover rate is incredibly fast. A better reflection of social values than high art is.
