Summary of Foreign Literary and Art Aesthetics·School·Pop Art

Literally translated in English as "pop art", some people call it "popular art". Pop is the abbreviation of the word popular. The original word means "popular" and "popular". The term "Pop Art" first appeared in 1956 and was first proposed by critic Alloway. The birthplace of this art is mainly in England and the United States.

Pop art began appearing in exhibitions in New York, London, Paris and Milan in the mid-1950s. By 1964, Pop Art reached its peak due to the new pressing methods adopted by the United States, which was far ahead in the competition with Paris, the old cultural capital of the bourgeois world. The American representative of this genre, Robert Lauberschinger, exhibited their works in Beijing and Tibet in the winter of 1985.

The artistic images created by Pop Art originated from advertising, television, and comic strips. Later, its creators developed towards more intuitive goals according to their own hobbies. Popular painters use trademarks and advertising methods to create bright, eye-catching, and easy-to-understand pictures. Some daily artifact assemblages have changed from window displays for product promotion to fixed combinations with titles. , the producer of the work consciously opposed abstract art, and even wanted to break the boundaries between art and life, objects and images, creating art without art. Kaprow, an artist of this school, said: "The half-hearted, sleepwalking steps of customers in supermarkets are more rhythmic than any movement in modern dance." This tendency to over-worship physical entities has led to the combination of common objects. The result of art. The term "Pop Art" has been accepted because most of the works in this genre use images and objects from popular life, especially from influential propaganda tools (such as film, television and advertising) and commercial Images and objects taken from the design.

Theorists of this school believe that every item can become a work of art under certain circumstances. This is to make the items lose their original meaning and acquire artistic characteristics in combination and interconnection. . Therefore, the task of the painter is not to create artistic images, but to endow daily objects with artistic features by organizing a certain artistic environment, giving the entire physical world aesthetic meaning, and turning it into popular art. Pop artists followed this principle to create their Their works range from large cars and wooden boxes to smaller electric motors, old tires, worn-out leather shoes, cans, as well as old newspapers and other small items picked out from the trash, which have become the original materials for their creations. , and creation is to "combine" these things to make them into works. Rauschenberg's work "Sol Aqua", known as the "Father of Pop Art", is composed of a wooden stick wrapped with felt and a bathtub. Famous representatives of Pop Art all have their own favorite themes and techniques.

Because Pop Art follows the principle of using real objects in life to form artistic images, from the day Pop Art appeared, it was completely different from abstract art. Opposition has objectively become the rebellion of abstract art. The artistic images created by Pop artists make people feel tangible and tangible. It can be said that their works are hyper-real works. Just as the Pop artists themselves believed, this kind of artistic image can be created and appreciated by everyone, and it is ultra-popular.

Pop art has not been around for a long time, but it has become a genre of contemporary art in the West. Artists of this genre want to create beauty from extremely ordinary objects and bridge the gap between life and art. On the surface, this school of art seems to have a strong rebellious spirit, but in essence, some people have long said that it replaces language with commodities, crowds out literature with objects, replaces beauty with utility, and replaces spiritual needs with material desires. Since Pop Art originates from widely influential propaganda tools such as advertising, television, newspapers, movies and other popular culture, painters of this art sometimes pursue pornographic effects, exaggerating pornography and violence in content, and showing a more vulgar expression. This aspect is called Neo-Dadaism in the West.