Looking Beyond Modernity

Popular subtlety refers to the modern collective preference. In resemblance to the deviceistic world it involves representations and appropriations of true issues that are deemed relevant in the modern world. This frequent ideas matter was brought on by a reaction to the modernist era, and the immense transformations exhibited in the 20th century. The peak of universal culture otherwise referred to as come forth-culture, however was reached in the sixties with stratagemistryist such as Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and Claus Oldenburg acting as the pioneers for the newly avant-garde movement. These artists indicatively of pop-culture were heavily influenced by mass media, notions of consumption and political, frugal and social factors at the time, expressing this through their controversial adaptations of preceding forms.\nThe military unit that popular culture had, at influencing almost every human face of society became an almost facile tool for communication. In coincidence to the art world, it did this by embracing the most immediate and noted aspects of our lives, in tern bringing it to the general public. The success as a movement was attributed to its ability to not exclude, contrary to previous art that purely sought to pass water attention from the elite otherwise referred to as high art. Pop-culture known as culture of the people was so efficacious as it infiltrated the everyday, bringing art into the public sphere. Roy Lichtenstein was an extremely predominant artist during the 1960s whose panache was indicative of both pop-culture and pop art. Known for his famous animated cartoon comic style appropriations, Lichtenstein uses reductivism to simplify already previously developed images and change in that respect context in severalize to critic the changes in society. This is exemplified in Whaam! (1963) Adapted from a 1962 DC comic All American Men Of War a painting with an included legend I pressed the drive out cont rol... and ahead of me rockets blazed through the sky.....