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Eduardo Paolozzi – I was a Rich Man’s Plaything 1947
May 28th
Eduardo Paolozzi – I was a Rich Man’s Plaything
Eduardo Paolozzi was one of the founders of the “Independent Gruop”, the gruop that became one of the biggest forces for the artistic trend ‘Pop’ development. Even, this was the first work that used the concept of ‘pop’, from a magazine clipping that became part of the Collage. The idea was to get together different objects found in the everyday life, building a work to assemble a representation of what constituted the society of that time.
Eduardo Paolozzi also expoended much of his talent in the sculpture creation. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1924
Origins and meaning of the Pop Art
Apr 26th
Pop art is an artistic movement that finds its origins in the mid-twentieth century, in the 1950s, and had its initial forces in the United Kingdom and the United States. This type of art that soon became an entire artistic movement founded by a strong critique of the artistic ways of that times. The art in general was elitist and at the same time, had become a device too elaborated and abstract. The Pop Art thus became an expression of ‘popular art’, based on the usage of images of everyday life, especially cities life, to build a new aesthetic that criticized the consumer society and commercial consumption.
However it is in the 1960s where we can find the real development of Pop Art as an art movement, leaving increasingly it’s nature of casual demonstrations of artistic groups. Its works are constantly driven to the use of everyday objects of consumer society, market products, goods in general. This not just let the Pop Art to make a direct criticism of that social model, but also allowed it to become popular and expanding their audiences.
