Pop Culture And Pop Art Analysis

In this essay I will be discussing Pop Culture and Pop Art, supporting it with an analysis of two Pop art works. One from Yayoi Kusama an artist whose work spans a period of almost 70 years. The second art work will be that of Takashi Murakami a Contemporary Pop Artist. This era in art was defined by its rejection of previous art movements which focused on abstraction. The Pop art movement was characterized by the mass reproduction of the “sign” which can be linked directly to the time where industry and commercialization of commodities were relevant. Popular Artists of this moment include Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol and Yayoi Kusama.

In order to fully understand Popular Culture you first have to understand what Culture is in general. John Storey

Other factors that influence popular culture include, the user experience and factors surrounding the use of a product. Audience beliefs, these are used by producers of products to shape the experience and need of a particular product. Lastly the fact that something’s produced strictly to make money and in order to feed the masses and their demand for any commodity whether they actually need it or not an example of this being high value gadgets that are currently on the market such as iPhones or Mac books which are desired by people simply for their face

Reproduction of the sign was one characteristic of this brand of art. This reproduction was used to show that we as consumers of “Pop Culture” live excessively whether it’s regarding consumption of products or how we blindly obsess over celebrities.

“Unlike Dada, whose entirely negative aim was to subvert and undermine the values of a bourgeois establishment which they blamed for the carnage of World War I, Pop-art sought to reflect the social values and environment from which it sprang. Thus they focused on the preoccupations shared by most American consumers: food, cars and romance. Typically, this was achieved using brash, or satirical, imagery with strong visual impact. And if they were criticized for concerning themselves with such subject matter, they could simply say they were simply (in Shakespeare 's words) "holding the mirror up to nature", or in their case "modern society". If nothing else, Pop-art was "the" post-war expression of a world wholly preoccupied the pursuit of materialism. “(Visual Arts Cork