Pop Art Myth
Roy Lichtenstein was one of the foremost practitioners of an American Pop Art.
Roy Lichtenstein was a painter:The majority of his paintings were about consumer society. His speciality was to use primary colors.He also crtitizes the contemporary world. Lichtenstein studied painting at Art Students League from 1939 to 1940 and later at Ohio State University in Columbus. In columbus he was influenced by Hoyt Sherman s ideas that art is a system of organized perception. At the beginning of his career he was earning his life by being an art teacher. As an artist he decided to mix cubism and expressionism. He threw a show in Cleveland in 1951 but was not a success. Between 1957 and 1960 his work succumbed to the influence of the prevailing movement in American art of the time of Abstract Expressionism. He created a new type of painting which came to be called pop inspired by the themes and images of the new society that was emerging in the United States.
Personally I think that It embodies a myth specially an urban myth because at this time woman couldnt show parts of their bodies, it was shocking to see a woman undressed in a bath. That why I think it has become a myth.Furthermore I think it illustrates the heroism of the character because as a woman she hase a lot of courage to show herself undressed In q bath. I know it is only a picture but I think it it the representation that counts, what it means. We have to put ourselves back to this period.
Moreover it can represent a hero because the illustration represents a beautiful woman who can be seen qs a representation of Aphrodite the most beautiful of the goddess. Aphrodite is the goddess of beauty and is a mythological character.
For me this picture is beautiful it because it represents estheticism. I Like the mix of the comic strip and drawings as well as the use of few colors which accentuate the vintage origin of the picture.
its relevance of modern mythology is that it can embodies the Feminism movement currently there as been a lot of protests movements demonstrations from the women who fight for their rights for example they fight to earn the same some of mopey as the men when they have the same status.
