Not exact matches
Often incorporating
popular iconography, the artist attempts to shed light on the relationship
between man and monument, coexisting as representations of one another.
Using bold, easy to recognize imagery, and vibrant block colours, Pop artists like Andy Warhol (1928 - 87) created an
iconography based on photos of
popular celebrities like film - stars, advertisements, posters, consumer product packaging, and comic strips - material that helped to narrow the divide
between the commercial arts and the fine arts.
His work juxtaposes symbolic elements borrowed from pre-Columbian mythology, religious
iconography, and
popular culture to highlight cultural and historic collisions
between Western and non-Western cultures that includes borders and immigration issues based on the artist's concepts of reverse Modernism and reverse anthropology.