Archive pourA concoction between POP ART and STREET ART

The new Pop: Craking art

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   The goal of the topical movement is to construe contemporary preoccupations, especially environmental problems. The cracking is a process who makeover oil in plastic. Those artists use humour and irony, a kitsch iconography and monumental sculptures or “coned” to stimulate consciences. Their first demonstration was “SOS world”: 8 giant tortoises was present in the 49th biennial of Venice in 2001. One of its have been sold for 2400 euros in Rome in 2004. Omar Ronda is the leader and theorist of the movement.

Bansky

All his work

Bansky,

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                    banksy2.jpg                  In England,  sometimes, you could be very lucky if your accomodation was the target of graffiti artist . Angelina Jolie, Kate moss spend milions for houses signed by the anonymous artist. But his success is well-justified: The mysterious Bansky works during the night to meddle irony and political activism.

English POP ART

by Richard HamiltonEven if the American artist Andy Warhol remains the emblematic figure of POP ART,  this artistic movement uprises in England during the 50’s. The termination “pop” is due to Lawrance Alloway, a critical of art. At this moment, relations between man and technology was the matter of concern of  the independent group, whose Richard Hamilton  is among.

Pop artists lean upon billboards, advertisement, magazine culture and supermarket products but uses elements of American materialism.

pop graphism

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