On the Historical Position and Function of Pop Art

Pop art is an art school against tradition, history, elites, classics and wisdom. It often uses some vulgar mass social graphics to copy and reproduce the original life as the basic element of its artistic creation.

Pop art first appeared in Britain in the 1950s. Richard hamilton, an English painter, made his first pop art work with street posters and pictures for the first time: What makes life so beautiful.

From the perspective of transcending the modern significance of art, Hamilton's pop art completely disintegrated the modernity of art in many directions with a playful and vulgar artistic language. Therefore, the development of art has entered a post-modern period with diversified spirit and value due to the argument of deconstruction theory and pop art, and this so-called post-modern stage representation is certainly not the spirit of transcendence and development in the traditional sense. If we don't understand this key point, the confusion of contemporary art will never be solved.

Therefore, the understanding of pop art can not be explained by traditional concepts. If you can't get rid of your obsession with tradition, then your conclusion about the Vientiane of contemporary art must be foggy, because the reverse deconstruction of standards is the main feature of pop art.

The Works of American Pop Art Master andy warhol

American Pop Artist Jeff Koons's Works

Although pop art was born in Britain, due to the strong recommendation of American pop art, a large number of famous pop artists have appeared in the United States since 1960s and 1970s, such as the famous andy warhol, Rauschenberg, Odenburg, Richard Dunstein, Wiezell Mann, Jasper Jones, Jeff Conte, etc. The scale and momentum of pop art have long forgotten the birthplace of pop art in Britain or richard hamilton.

Nowadays, when it comes to American culture, American pop art cannot be bypassed. Looking back on the development of American culture, we can indeed establish American pop culture at one stroke while avoiding the shortness and deficiency of our own cultural history, so as to seize the opportunity of the times and go global. It can be said that it not only attacks the modernity with historical continuity, but also covers up our own cultural and historical defects, which is a great win-win situation.

As an anti-elite, pop art has produced so many elite masters strangely, and its anti-elite concept inevitably seems to be just a strategy (compared with the original advocacy concept, it cannot be taken too seriously).

Followers of pop art are pouring into the field of contemporary art in China. When you go to art parks or galleries, you can see a large number of pop art works on display. During the Cultural Revolution, those vulgar and flashy artists and politicians were also used in the works of art, which all reflected the spiritual characteristics of pop art. It is said that the West particularly recognized these pop arts in China, so only pop artists in China knew the fact that China pop art was bought by the West.

There is a misunderstanding in the world. A famous China art critic confuses China's symbols with China's graphics, which is really sad. Symbols and graphics are quite different in semantics and actual visual concepts. Confusing symbols with graphics has also exposed so many years of artistic criticism. You can't even understand symbols and graphics, which shows how blind the field of artistic criticism in China is. As for China's critical graphics during the Cultural Revolution, it is obviously different from the symbolic graphics. Perhaps critics need to make up lessons to understand the concept before discussing the problem, otherwise they will be confused, hoping to show the bad consequences of mentally retarded people. By the way, the graphics of China during the Cultural Revolution were not unique to China, but graphic styles and symbols under the will of some socialist countries all over the world, which had nothing to do with the symbols of China.

With the continuous transcendence and rebellion of modern art against traditional culture in the past, some famous artistic sayings have emerged, such as "Everyone is an artist" (it is said that the German artist Boyce said). However, the spirit of promoting the development of art has not changed. However, the emergence of deconstruction theory and the popularization of pop art have dismantled the humanistic feelings of this utopia. Therefore, "everyone is an artist" shows how confusing the contemporary saying is, and it is of course regarded as a classic by pop art theorists.

Pop art can also be said to be popular art, and its idea is to break the boundary between art and life, or to sew up the historical gap between life and art according to pop artists. "Life is art" is another beautiful universal slogan. So, what stopped us from becoming artists?

Everyone can become an artist, and contemporary art has entered an anti-traditional post-era. Anti-tradition also means technical and expressive problems in anti-traditional art, so don't be afraid that you haven't studied art. As long as you have inspiration or ideas, it doesn't matter what means you use to express them, and it doesn't matter how you express them. The key is to be in the name of art, so no matter what industry you studied before, as long as you are willing to go to art, you are an artist, and maybe you are really a genius.