Essay On Pop Art Influence On Society

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It can be said that art influences society, does it in different ways and through different types and as a social phenomenon and be immersed in the society, generating different opinions within it, even on the same work, and that is what is precious: with the same work you can have different views and opinions in which stopping to reflect and to experience different emotions and feelings but, most importantly, calls us to think. The artist is a social and therefore being somehow influenced society. Art, or more precisely the artist, it is considered to be a social force, is say that the artist has a social responsibility, and must be "committed" to its time. It is a reflection of the society of his time, although this also leads us to think if produced art is a pure reflection of reality. This often is distorted by the artists to produce their art and generate different types of emotions, so it contains a high degree of subjectivity and is to be taken …show more content…

An example of this, there are artists who entered into Popular Art or Pop Art of the 20th century. These artists expand their audience through art, expressing themselves on a daily basis with the Viewer to reflect on the social and cultural effects of advertising; show ease that provides media massively reproduce an image, as it is the case of the picture of Da Vinci, the Mona Lisa, that play everyone knows memory since his image appears to us in countless times, whether in texts, advertising and even cans of sweet. Andy Warhol, creator of Pop Art, used images and techniques of reproduction in the cultural industry, and carried forward this concept of mass reproduction. “Art in a Material World.” The show’s basic tenet is that “Warhol’s most radical lesson is reflected in the work of artists of subsequent generations who have infiltrated the publicity machine and the marketplace as a deliberate strategy.” (O’Brien,

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