Abstract expressionism Blog 9

Pop Art turned form the highly individual abstraction to images from popular culture. Pop Art was a association from late 1950’s to the early 1960’s, mainly in London and New York. Pop Artists looked at well-liked culture for their source of inspiration.

Another important early example of work that became abstract expressionism is the work of  Northwest artist , especially his white writing canvases, which, though generally not large in scale, anticipate the all over look of Pollock's drip paintings. That is why I also of the view art expressionism embodies what America is. Being able to make art that is an expression of you, which is done through abstract expressionism, is being a true American.Kanayama Akira Akira Kanayama’s painting machine was a four-wheeled device that Kanayama could remote-control to create paintings .The canvas placed on the floor while a machine dripped and poured paint on the picture .The painting machine is an early example of the machine verses man in comparison to the in the role of artist. Kanayama’s remote-controlled painting machine mimics other artist who used the drips painting method .At the same time the machine follows the idea of automation and the physical detachment between artist and painting, bringing it to a new level, but at the same time it makes fun of how far art has come when there are no more live models and artist with a paint brush; art had changed to a man created machine assisting the artist in his or her vision.

Repetition and lack of forefront, middle ground and experience has resulted in loss of reality in the artwork which challenges old-style art. Abstract Expressionism was a highly complicated style of art making and its understanding was top-secret to certain intellectual few. The sudden use of Pop’s banal subject matter had critics up in arms, the Abstract Expressionist was angry that they were not winning their spot light in the art market. Any ordinary person could appreciate Pop Art as a result of the images he depicted and there was a high demand for them by the valuable and well-known. He challenged the rare value of a once-in-a-lifetime artwork and went against the modernists’ idea of the creativity of the artist as he mass produced his artworks. He referred to his art studio as his “factory” and “want(ed) to be a machine” . He had a team of workers to help him produce his silkscreen as a result; Warhol had little person involvement in the artworks. He challenged peoples view on what art really is