In a recent work entitled «Custom Interior» (2011), Si - Qin repositions the way we perceive the
products of commercial culture by way of genetic and memetic relations between the body and consumer products.
Section three, «Everyday,» looks at production from 1950 - 1970, when artists like Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, and Richard Hamilton turned to commonplace objects to explore the
influence of commercial culture on the arts.
Secondly, he found inspiration and source material in the visual
language of commercial culture, using not only imagery taken from advertising and product packaging (like the Campbell's soup cans), but also by employing techniques and methods typically used by commercial industries — like silkscreen printmaking — to mass produce his work.
The ceramic pieces have a handmade quality that effect the senses both desire driven and dismal, while the colors suggest the
glitz of commercial culture.
In the 1960s, art for the first time embraced the brash
world of commercial culture, advertising, and mass media — images of shiny newness, youth, and seduction.
Nilsson was among the original members of the Hairy Who, a group of young graduates of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago who, in the mid-1960s, established themselves as id - and - laughter - fueled
excavators of commercial culture.
While this impulse is characteristic of Lichtenstein's fully developed paintings, editions such as Ten Dollar Bill were his first to elevate such quotidian
forms of commercial culture to the status of fine art.
Now 77, the German artist Thomas Bayrle was for many years a revered professor at Frankfurt's Städelschule and he continues to be appreciated by European curators and critics for own art's radical acceleration of Warhol's serial
appropriation of commercial culture.
In this video, Legal Week «s John Malpas talks to Honeycomb Forensic Accounting managing director Jeffrey Davidson about how GCs can move beyond box - ticking and act as a
driver of commercial culture.