Irony and sarcasm are my favorite kinds of humor. I call them "smart lies", due to the fact that behind every ironical joke hides the truth, however the addresser may not realize it from the beginning, and think it is just a form of joke.
Even more exciting, when the irony appears not only in verbal similitude, but also in a visual form. The art movement, known as POP ART, uses it to gibe the cliche phenomena, as well as attract attention to a bit monotonous or characterless objects, certain events, products.
POP ART developed differently in America and Britain, as well as in other European countries. However, for the beginning of this movement we have to be thankful mostly for british and american artists. In USA pop art signalized the return of hard-edged composition and representational art, as a response by artists using impersonal, boring reality, parody and irony to defuse personal symbolism and the spontaneous and subconscious creation of Abstract Expressionism. By contrast, while employing irony and parody, pop art was more academic with a focus on the paradoxical figurativeness of American popular culture as powerful and, most importantly, manipulative symbolic devices.
The main feature of Pop Art is that it challenges fine art ( which until then was considered kind of sacred and unequivocal), therefore induced a significant interest and popularity between modern artiest and critics. Due to the concept of it's peculiarities, Pop Art was mostly used in mass culture, such as advertising, graphic novels/ comic books and mundane cultural objects.
Pop Art to me is something pop, trendy, witty, sexy, fast, fun, easy, entertaining, interesting, shocking, ironic, clear & at the same time not fully understood and reasoned. It's like there is some kind of secret in the pop art production, that is known only by the author. And that fascinates!
The ads, which looked like an application with various funny stickers on it, were something that was never seen before! Irony, extravagancy and a certain sense of fun and entertainment is what I like the most from Pop Art production. It is like today in Tate Modern: you see the art piece and think: I could do that! And suddenly someone whispers in your ear: But you didn't!
Even more exciting, when the irony appears not only in verbal similitude, but also in a visual form. The art movement, known as POP ART, uses it to gibe the cliche phenomena, as well as attract attention to a bit monotonous or characterless objects, certain events, products.
POP ART developed differently in America and Britain, as well as in other European countries. However, for the beginning of this movement we have to be thankful mostly for british and american artists. In USA pop art signalized the return of hard-edged composition and representational art, as a response by artists using impersonal, boring reality, parody and irony to defuse personal symbolism and the spontaneous and subconscious creation of Abstract Expressionism. By contrast, while employing irony and parody, pop art was more academic with a focus on the paradoxical figurativeness of American popular culture as powerful and, most importantly, manipulative symbolic devices.
The main feature of Pop Art is that it challenges fine art ( which until then was considered kind of sacred and unequivocal), therefore induced a significant interest and popularity between modern artiest and critics. Due to the concept of it's peculiarities, Pop Art was mostly used in mass culture, such as advertising, graphic novels/ comic books and mundane cultural objects.
Pop Art to me is something pop, trendy, witty, sexy, fast, fun, easy, entertaining, interesting, shocking, ironic, clear & at the same time not fully understood and reasoned. It's like there is some kind of secret in the pop art production, that is known only by the author. And that fascinates!
The ads, which looked like an application with various funny stickers on it, were something that was never seen before! Irony, extravagancy and a certain sense of fun and entertainment is what I like the most from Pop Art production. It is like today in Tate Modern: you see the art piece and think: I could do that! And suddenly someone whispers in your ear: But you didn't!