1. Mid-Century Modern And Pop Art
Mid-Century modern is an architectural, interior,
product and graphic design that generally describes
mid-20th century developments in modern design,
architecture and urban development from roughly
1933 to 1965.Many consider Frank Lloyd Wright's
principal movement of organic architecture combined
with Arts and Crafts as an American jumping–off
point for the
aesthetic of
Mid-Century
Modern.
However, one need only visit a Wright house
interior to realize the Mid-Century modern
movement in the U.S. was really an American
reflection of the International and Bauhaus
movements.
Pop Art is an art movement that emerged in the mid-1950s in Britain
and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art presented a
challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular
culture such as advertising, news. The origins of pop art in North
America and Great Britain developed differently. In the United
States, it marked a return to hard-edged composition and
representational art as a response by artists using impersonal,
mundane reality, irony and parody. By contrast, the origin in post-
War Britain was more academic with a focus on the dynamic and
paradoxical imagery of American popular culture as powerful,
manipulative symbolic devices.
Roy Lichtenstein's Drowning Girl (1963) on display at the
Museum of Modern Art, New York.
