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What: depiction of a pipe with a caption
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How: painting/drawing - figurative - scriptletter - looks like schoolboard
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Why:
> Modernism: completely new way of creating art - not according to academic rules
> Surrealism: interbellum - strange combination of realistic objects - inspiration: Freud & dream analysis - René Magritte (Belgium)
> Link to Dada: coincidence, absurdity
> Comparison to other modernist styles: figurative, not abstract (like Kandinsky)
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What: multiple prints of 50's actress Marily Monroe (bright colours + black/white)
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How: silk screen technique (or copied) - striking, happy colours
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Why:
> Pop Art (sixties): popular art - topic: popular objects or celebrities become art
> Link to mass consumerism of sixties (reaction: subculture of hippies)
> Pop artists like Andy Warhol: art should be accessible and fun
> Contrast to Abstract Expressionism: Pop Art is figurative and easier to understand -> already referencing to Postmodernism.
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What: home design - banister
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How: whiplash curve - strong reference to nature (twigs, leaves, flowers)
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Why:
> Art Nouveau - around 1900 - new style - connected to atmosphere of that era (inventions, expectations of new century)
> No reference to past - designers wanted to create something new
> Inspiration: nature
> Link to Victorian Style/Arts & Crafts: Art Nouveau was not inspired by past (medieval times
