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Warhol isn’t well known because he tinted some images but because he chose to use everyday subjects like the Campbell soup can which were then-under appreciated
by thrashh 3y ago
Warhol isn’t well known because he tinted some images but because he chose to use everyday subjects like the Campbell soup can which were then-under appreciated in art and society.
What gives art meaning is how it is a reaction to what was then in vogue at the time of its creation, but if you take art outside of its context, it seems superficial.
For a more relatable example, if you watch 2001: A Space Odyssey now, it pales in comparison to modern sci-fi works but for its time, it was a revolutionary piece.
- freejazz 3y agoThe supreme court didn't say Warhol's work was without value. It said that Warhol's work was derivative of another work and that they could not maintain their alleged fair use defense based upon it being transformative, when it was being commercially used for the same exact purpose.
- anigbrowl 3y agoeveryday subjects like the Campbell soup can which were then-under appreciated in art and society As I already pointed out, Marcel Duchamp did that very thing with a urinal ~60 years earlier. Duchamp talked of found objects as 'readymades; and said they were "everyday objects raised to the dignity of a work of art by the artist's act of choice." Warhol wasn't unoriginal because he appropriated everyday objects and others' artistic works, but because those concepts had been developed by the Dadaists decades earlier. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_(Duchamp) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_(Duchamp)
- thrashh 3y agoBut a urinal is not the marketing on a product.