The Popular Movement During The 1950's

During the 1950’s the pop movement emerged on the art scene, it was a movement that consisted of artist incorporating various aspects from popular culture, into their artworks, whether it be material goods, celebrities, comics or other things from media. In 1956, English Painter Richard Hamilton created his famous work of art “Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?”, a collage composed of various cutouts from other works of art or media. When the cutouts were all placed together, the image depicted a man and woman inside of their home surrounded by various material goods and objects from the culture. The collage was meant to satirize the modern day life in 1956, a time when people where very fond of the idea of
He is depicted holding an enlarged tootsie pop, a very popular product of the time. The woman in the image was Jo Baer, a very popular artist of the times, she is posed nude on the couch. The decision to have her posed nude on the couch could have been to show the transition of women starting to posses more sexuality in society. Throughout the home of the man and women are various popular objects of the time, such as the new Hoover vacuum model that was made during the time. Also sitting on the table was a canned ham, another popular object during the 1950’s. Behind the ham is a television of a popular brand from the time. Throughout the house are many other objects popular to the 1950’s as well, each one representing material goods that many of the people possessed during the
This era of transition lead to the Northern Renaissance movement in art, a movement that consisted of creating images of aspects of society, focuses on the surroundings of the times. The artwork created by the artists of the time focused on the surroundings in culture by painting images with great detail and focusing on the objects in the background as well not just the main focus of the image, by using these details they were able to create accurate scenes of the material world at the time. A main contributor of the movement was Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck. In the middle of the 1400s, she did a portrait for the wealthy Giovanni Arnolfini. The image depicted Arnolfini and his wife standing inside of their home. Jan van Eyck was able to exemplify the wealth of the couple by incorporating objects into the image such as the golden chandelier, the expensive drapes and curtains, and the expensive clothing the man and woman are wearing. All the expensive objects exemplified the materialist world the people were living in at the time. Jan van Eyck also used exquisite detail when creating the face of Arnolfini, such detail was relatively new to the time. Throughout the painting are various religious objects since religion was very characteristic of the Renaissance movement. In the background of the image, religious beads can be seen as well as the