This project was a short term one. It was simply to create a mood board and an essay on a chosen decade of your choice. I chose the 1960's merely for the fact that England won the world cup. However when i looked furthur into it, i found out some information that i had absolutly no idea about.
This is my mood board.
1960’s
The 1960’s decade, refers to 1960-1969. It is known as the Swinging Sixties which includes the birth of the British pop music and a whole new style of fashion. Music was so popular in this decade because apparently it helped take away the memories of the ‘cold war’. This is one of the reasons I chose the sixties because so much changed in the space of this decade, some interesting things, such as, the Walt Disney creator of Mikey Mouse died of cancer, the first man in space and first humans to walk on the moon. And also, my personal favourite, England
Fashion was very big in the 1960’s it’s when it was introduced. Things like mini skirts, love beads and Doc Martens boots were very big. The mini skirt was a very big hit, created by Mary Quant, within a year, anybody who had the body for it, was wearing it. On average it was worn about 4-5 inches above the knee. Mary Quant, was a British fashion designer, she took credit for the mini skirt, there were two other creators, André Courrèges and John Bates and there is a disagreement as to who came up with the idea first. However, Quant named the fashion, the miniskirt, she chose this name because her favourite car was the Mini. She loved this car so much, she had one designed for her. Aswell as the miniskirt, Mary Quant is also known and famours for creating the colourded and patterned tights which accompanied the skirt. Throughout the late 1960’s, Quant popularised the hot pants.
In the late 60’s the hippie style had a strong influence. Things like belly-bottom jeans and tie-dye. The belly-buttom jeans were for both men and women. They were jeans that flared out from the knee downwares. They were seen as early as 1964 in the concert film The T.A.M.I. Show, from then till 1967, they went from high-fashion to the hippie movement. And became a very big style with love beads and granny glasses. Both men and women would wear sandles, headbands and workshirts. Some women even went out barefoot, and braless. Towards to end of the 1960’s mens hat became out of fashion and men started to grow their hair longer, and wear bandannas.
The early 60’s, 1962, is a very memorable yeah for many, as it is the year Marilyn Monroe, 36, died. Many theories, including murdur were investigated shortly after her death. However, the reason I have involved this into this essay is because of the art based senario.
Spercifically, I was interested and taken by Andy Warhol. An Aemrican painter, printmaker and filmaker. He was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. After the tradic death of Marilyn Monroe, within the four months of the investigation, Andy Warhol created a piece in dedication to her. 50 small images of the actress, all exactly the same, this image he worked from was a copy from a film she had stared in, Niagara. He did 5 rows and 10 colums, 25 brightly coloured images on the left side and 25 faded black and white images on the right side. This was named, Marilyn Diptych. The aim was to high light the good and bad times of her life, and to remid us all, that like every one of us, we will all eventually fade away.
Another very well-known artist during the 1960’s was Roy Lichtenstein. He was an American pop artist. He grew up with no influence what so ever of an artist. However, turned out to be, next to Andy Warhol, a fantastic figure of the pop art movement in the 1960’s. He had a very intense pop art skill in painting, favourited comic strips. His work was very abstract and at first, people were finding it hard to be posotive about his work. How ever, the idea grew. Arguably, his most famous piece, ‘Whaam!’ was shown in DC Comics' All-American Men of War. This shows a fighter aircraft firing a rocket into a plane full of enemys. Highlighting the piece is bright yellow and red explosions, with the onomatapia, Whaam! Although he used paint and stencils like the old master for his work. He wanted his work to look machine made, he did not want the brush stokes to be seen, and in my own opinion, he did that very well. Lichenstein was always characterized as witty, humourous and ironic. He was very open with comments in interviews with his work. He also showed a sesative side with the words he chose to use. Personally, I am very fond of Lichensteins work, as I like the colour and the abstract view of it. I find it very interesting to look at.
The Beatles. A very well known group. They formed in Liverpool in the 1960s. By 1962, the band consisted of, John Lennon, Paul Mcartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. They were played on radio stations all over the world, they performed concerts which were very quickly sold out, and that was only the beginning. From then on, they became more and more famous working in a range of genres of music, so everybody liked them. One of their first songs and albums was called ‘Please Please Me’ it was recorded on Mono frist, then around a month after was relesed on stero. The CD cover for this album was a picture of all the boys stood on a balcony the angle of the shot is looking up at them, the photographer was Angus McBean.
In conclusion, I chose to concentrate on the 1960’s as I researched a little before on this and this decade was the one that struck out to me, there were so many new things that came around, I have found out so many facts that I had no idea about, and there were so many atchievements that went on, considering it was a crutial time straight after the war.
No comments:
Post a Comment