Weekend Economists Celebrates Psychedelia - March 14 - 15

[Demeter]

56. PSYCHEDELIC ART

Marilyn Monroe was a frequent subject...her suicide left a mark on the American psyche.

...Pop Artists such as Andy Warhol and David Hockney. The pop artist create pop art as an art movement in its own right.

The use of pop art techniques meant that the work could be reproduced and printed very easily. The pop artist work was often amusing and used everyday objects such as coke tins, dollar bills and comic strips as their subjects. Pop art also used the faces of well known people such as Marilyn Monroe, again as their subjects.

Now I want to describe one of the most famous pop artist, Andy Warhol. He originally worked as a ‘commercial artist’ and his subject matter was derived from the imagery of mass-culture: advertising, comics, newspapers, TV and the movies.

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...His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture and advertisement that flourished by the 1960s. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became a renowned and sometimes controversial artist.

Warhol embodied the spirit of American popular culture and elevated its imagery to the status of museum art. He used second-hand images of celebrities and consumer products which he believed had an intrinsic banality that made them more interesting. He felt that they had been stripped of their meaning and emotional presence through their mass-exposure.

Warhol’s paradoxical statements such as, “I am a deeply superficial person” or “art should be meaningful in the most shallow way” are echoed in his work. The left hand panel of his ‘Marilyn Diptych’ is a crudely colored photograph of the actress whose sense of ‘self’ is degraded through the repetition of her image, whereas the right hand panel is a physically degraded black and white image that reflects the ephemeral qualities of fame. Their combined panels are a memorable discourse on the nature of celebrity and its power to both create and destroy its acquaintances. The ‘diptych’ format was originally used in medieval painting for religious images of personal devotion, an appropriate choice considering Warhol’s fascination for Marilyn Monroe.

https://caecilliamarianatasha.wordpress.com/2013/11/13/pop-art/

Guy Peellaert, The Michelangelo of Pop Art

Peellaert believed everything went better with Coke, including Marilyn...



... The Brussels-born artist Guy Peellaert was a painter, illustrator, graphic artist and photographer, whose work has been exhibited around the world. He made his debut as a theatre decorator and as a comic strip artist and was one of the first artists to embrace the Pop Art movement that began in the late 1950s. Peellaert made no distinction between high art and low art. He approached the pop culture and mythology as a true fan. His style was influenced by comics, American Pop Art and psychedelic art. He painted using a very photo-realistic style and collage techniques. In 1974, Elle magazine called him the “the Michelangelo of Pop”.

http://coca-cola-art.com/2008/11/22/guy-peellaert-the-michelangelo-of-pop-art/

Marimekko Fabrics from Finland also incorporated "pop"...I made drapes for my NH house with several of their designs....

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Roy Lichtenstein’s Life, Works and Success Story

https://famouspopartists.wordpress.com/2011/06/16/roy-lichtenstein%E2%80%99s-life-works-and-success-story/

Yet another Marilyn-like rendering

Psychedelic Stella from the Playboy, January 1960 issue where Stella Stevens appeared as the centerfold http://cedar-and-willow.blogspot.ca/2012/06/dean-yeagles-mandy-chickie-and-1970s.html?m=1



Pop Art also manifested in furniture, like this plastic hand-chair