Albums and art work, youth culture of the 50-60's

Albums and art work, youth culture of the 50-60's

                     

The music of the 1960s dawned an electric, psychedelic version of rock, thanks largely to Bob Dylan and his use of the electric guitar.
The newly popularized electric sound of rock was then built upon and changed into psychedelic by artists like 
Pink Floyd and the Beatles

The '50s and '60s were a great time for album cover design. 
The great Blue Notes and Prestige LPs, for one. 

Pop Art

Pop art is an art movement which developed in the 1950's and progressed for decades after and is still a popular art movement today.

 The traditional pop art style consists of the use of very bright colours and bold black outlines, relating to that of a comic book style.

 It was usually used as part of advertising in the 50's. 

The two most well known and popular pop artists are Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol.


         


( ROY LICHTENSTEIN, left , ANDY WARHOL, right ) 

 When pop art is mentioned these are the two artists you immediately think of because of their iconic art works such as Andy Warhol's Campbells Soup can and Marilyn Monroe and Roy Lichtenstein's Crying Girl. 

    

 (CAMPBELLS SOUP CAN, left, CRYING GIRL, right)

The pop art movement has been a huge influence on visual arts and still is to this day. Alot of albums of this time used bright colours and pop art esque styles this was common of the time as it was popular.

(CREAM, DISRAELI GEARS)

(LOVE, FOREVER CHANGES)

One of the ways Pop Art differed themselves from traditional art was by combining the mass-produced imagery of advertising with fine art.

Minimalists

Minimalists sought to create pure, geometric, abstract art in which the physical properties of space, scale, and materials were explored as ends in themselves rather than as metaphors for human experience.

Many Minimalist artists used industrial materials such as aluminum, plywood, sheet metal and Plexiglas. 

This challenged the notion of what constituted “fine art” and shared the Pop artists’ interest in using non-art materials.

( A sculpture by  Donald Judd)

I could apply various points from the art in the  50s and 60s to my own work. I could do this by studying more on minimalism  and applying it to my own work as I tend to over think my own work and try adding to much into it. I think if I take a step back and constructively criticise my own work I will be able to adapt and expand on my own work.