Whaam!

Whaam! is a 1963 painting by Roy Lichtenstein.

Whaam!

The painting is large in scale, measuring 4.0 x 1.7m and we can easily see dark tones combined with vivid colors. It is considered one of Lichtenstein’s war paintings by conveying "brilliant color and narrative situation". 

In fact, this painting is an adaptation from a comic-book panel from a 1962 issue of DC Comics' All-American Men of War.

Lichtenstein altered the source so that the exploding plane was more prominent than in the original relative to the dominant conquering plane.

Even the title of this painting is in true connection with the painting by conveying the idea that the crash of both planes would emit the sound Whaam! .

Original comic book panel

By dealing with a comic book panel, this painting easily illustrates Pop Art’s ideals, that everything, even things that could be considered useless, could, in fact, become art. Pop Art was in the 60’s a movement that broke free from all the previous ideals of art and that, in one way or another, influenced the way art is appreciated nowadays.

Pop "Meme" Art

   Hello followers, namely Mrs. Helena Rodeiro. Unfortunately this might be my last post and for that I will show you my full potential as an artist critic!

   Did you ever looked at Nyan Cat and think, “Man, this would make for an awesome painting hanging on my wall.” Some people have, and now thanks to California-based Gallery 1988, internet memes are getting the pop art treatment.

   
   The art gallery features work from various artists who are selling paintings and framed prints all inspired by popular internet memes. Everything from “First World Problems” (above) to “Hipster Ariel,” a take on trendy Disney princesses, have gotten an artistic pop-art makeover, turning memes into collector’s items. Check out a few of the art pieces available for sale on their website.

   "First World Problems", made by Aled Lewis. With Lichtenstein style crying woman inspired by the ‘First World Problems‘ meme (explained here). 420 x 594 mm (16.5 x 23.4 in) 4 colour screen print on Sirio 350gsm. It portraits a blond women crying with a speech balloon saying: "MY SANDWICH IS TOO FULL --AND NOW IT'S HARD TO EAT". The colors (yellow, red, blue) are Bold N' Vivid. The Ben-Day dots (the hallmark of Lichtenstein) are obvious.

   This example, once again, reflect the quick recognition art that pop artists tried to convey. It can be drawn a clear line between the old "fine art" with the "commercial art". Compared to the "fine art", this is easy to do, you just need ideas, accessible to everyone, heedlessly to his/hers social situation. For the first time, art it's not UNIQUE. For example, at the moment you can buy two "First World Problems" paintings, meaning, that there isn't only one example of this art, there are two available to be bought, two people can have the same art in the pleasure of their homes. The concept of art, forever, has been revolutionized. 

YouTube

   In the back in the days, there weren't many ways to a musician become famous. You had: radio; tapes; later, television; but the ultimate and latest means of "popularity" is the INTERNET, and by that, YOUTUBE.With that have your "tube" (channel) where you can publish/share almost everything you desire. By that , a new world of the music and television industry has been born.
 
   Nowadays, YouTube is a very serious company with a lot of money invested on. There are several well made and devoted on, series made purposely to the YouTube viewers. Series as good and better than those seen on the television.

   The music industry has been also changed, because, beside having good music, you need a complementary videoclip. Without that, isn't likely to have any recognition. My favorite artists known in and by YouTube are: Epic Rap Battles of History, Gwatsky and Ronald Jenkees.

   

Pop Art

Pop Art

Still Life #20, in 1962, by Tom Wesselmann(February 23, 1931, Cincinnati – December 17, 2004).

He was an American artist associated with the Pop art movement who worked in painting, collage and sculpture.

The method is very similar to Richard Hamilton.

This image is of a drawing, painting, print, or other two-dimensional work of art, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the artist who produced the image, the person who commissioned the work, or the heirs thereof. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of works of art.

To Tom Wesselmann, to history of paiting and to pop art:

-This is a historically significant work that could not be conveyed in words.

-Inclusion is for information, education and analysis only.

-Its inclusion in the article(s) adds significantly to the article(s) because it shows the subject, or the work of the subject, of the article(s).

To 20th century Western painting: 

-The image is low resolution and unsuitable for commercial purposes.

-A subject of the article.

-Its use enhances the reader's understanding of the topic.

-No free-use equivalent is available or can be made.

The idea is to understand this image subjectively, without any objectivity.

These are characteristics of pop art in 60’s, mass-produced, celebration of daily object, bright colors, collage, among others.

“Rebel without a cause” Sheng’s Version

“Rebel without a cause” Sheng’s Version

In the Observatory Jim and John (Plato) solved their problem, but Jim Stark knows that Plato as shot many people, and has the notion that it wouldn’t end good for himself to, so he made a plan to escape with him and Judy.

Jim said “The first part of the plan is to use my jacket with a heavier thing, which is similar to a person, with the function of bait. It can catch their attention and they will point all illumination to it, so we could have space to escape, but we must be quick! After this we could be free! We just need some money and we can go to other city or even other country!” Plato and Judy in spite of being still scared they simultaneously said “Okay!” because they liked Jim and wanted to stay with him.

As they expected, when Jim threw the jacket outside the window everyone pointed the flashlights to it and in that moment three teenagers escaped quietly without being noticed.

Judy understood that after this situation nobody could come back home “Now we have no home and we need money to survive. Ah! We can take this opportunity to assault people in the street or even people on their home. Why not now? As we know the police are all over there. This is our chance. Plato! We can use your gun.”

(…)

In this night they easily obtained money and started their travel. But before that Jim said “We need to be conscious that we will never come back again, so I will give you 20 minutes to go home, write something to your parents and prepare yourself! Hence 20 minutes we gather here with my car.” With no more talk everybody went home.

(…)

Of course they all have left a farewell message to their parents. The 20 minutes quickly passed. Jim came back to the same place and Plato and Judy were already waiting for him. They will finally start their travel. As money may not be enough, along their path they will rob and attack rich people to get some money.

(To be continued…)

Rebel Without a Cause

Plato while hide, starts thinking about all the problems that he had in life. The absence of his parents were the most important issue that came to his mind. He realized that he couldn’t become like his parents. After hours of reflection, he decided to give up, many weak thoughts and solutions came to his mind, like suicide. However, he managed to, in the middle of all that fear and anger, realize that it would not solve the problem. He wanted to help. To help those in the same situation that he was.

Plato found his friends, and together they faced the fear and told the truth to the police. After 2 long years of trials and investigations related to Buzz’s death, they were free. Free to live the lives that they never had the possibility to live.

They solve the situation with their parents. No, they didn’t live happy forever. They explained their situation and decided to move on with their lives far from the parents that were never truly present.

The group of friends created an association in order to help children in the same situation, so that they could have someone to talk to. It was an astonishing success and managed to help hundreds of child and, also, use the problems that they had as something that could be turned into something helpful.

New "Rebel Without A Cause" 's Ending

   Hello folks, today I will bring you a different theme. It's about the movie "Rebel Without A Cause" but with a twist in the end, hope you like it!

   

   Plato, microseconds before being shot, his hole life flashed in his mind, all the good memories and of course all the bad memories, everything came to his mind, for a single moment he had peace and saw everything clearly.

   Suddenly he woke up, two days later, in a stretcher with Jim crying at his feet and Judy was hugging Jim, also crying.  When they realize that Plato is waking up, Jim immediately call the nurse to take care of him. After he was fully awaken, Jim and Judy explained him what happened and that he was paraplegic  because he was shot near the spine. For now on he had to use a wheelchair. Frightened, stunned, he cried, cried a lot, he was lonely, left over, at least that's what he was thinking, but he was wrong, because for that moment on he will live with Jim's family, he couldn't leave his friend like this. After all, that was what Plato always want, paid a high price, but for him, was worth it.