Post WWII Art Analysis - 675 Words

Post WWII Art Analysis Authors name Authors institutional affiliation Authors note Post WWII Art Analysis The piece of art that the paper will analyze is Sleeping Girl. Roy Lichtenstein painted Sleeping Girl in 1964, as part of his work in pop art pop culture. Another artist who painted in the style of pop art was Andy Warhol, just to add context with whom Lichtenstein kept artistic company. Sleeping Girl is a seminal work in a series of paintings in comic book style. Comic book culture saw a huge surge after WWII and so did pop art. These artistic forms expressed a desire to escape from the horrors and great changes around the world after the war. Artists such as Lichtenstein tapped into these desires producing mash-ups of popular art forms to express an even more layered message. Sleeping Girl is directly influenced by DC Comics, as it is a rendition of an image found in Girls Romances, #105. It was a very bold statement in the 1960s and in the 21st century, to bring a popular culture form into the realm of high art. This painting, while one in a series with similar aesthetics, Sleepi ng Girl is additionally a painting with a similar theme across Lichtensteins entire body of work the idea of the sleeping female muse. The subject of the painting is a blond Caucasian woman. It is a close up of her face. The frame contains her face and most of her lush hair. The womans face is facing the bottom of the frame and her eyes are angled down as well. HerShow MoreRelatedModern Architecture in Japan and India1532 Words   |  6 Pagesof international views and standards in juxtaposition to defining a modernity in architecture that is reflective of culture. 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