ARTH 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Lawrence Alloway
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In the mid (cid:887)95(cid:886)(cid:495)s there was a reaction that set in to the imageless ness of pollock, kooning, color fields etc. The artists in the uk went the other direction and consciously put images that were very recognizable within the context of their work. Often it was derived from american popular culture. He goes to the extreme of much recognizability. Are these just everyday things or could they be elevated to the status of fine art: the tape recorder, the couch, pans. Here he is criticizing marketing strategies by imitating them. The two figures that are naked are adam & eve in a domestic stetting: their temptations are the consumer culture: all the newest products, television, vacuum cleaner, modern furniture. Adam holds a large placed tootsie pop: from this the english critic lawrence alloway cited when he described this work as pop art thus naming the movement. States (cid:494)everyone has their own (cid:887)5 minutes of fame(cid:495)
