Pop Art, Kitsch and Pop culture

What is Pop culture?

• Pop culture, short for popular culture, describes the lifestyle and tastes of the majority of mostly younger people.Popular culture is the entirety of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, memes, images and other.

What is pop art?

• Pop art is an art movement from USA and UK.It´s mass producede and makes ordinary objects seem extraordinary.

What is Kitsch?

• A word Kitsch is actually a loanword.It´s taken from German word "verkitschen etwas" which means to "knock something off".Kitsch is overly sentimental, pretentious, over decorated or banal.It´s so bad that it´s good in an ironic way.

Example of pop art: This is my favourite pop art.It´s from Andy Warhol who became known for his portraits of celebrities and commercials.You can see her majesty queen Elizabeth II in this picture.I have choosen this picture because it´s really colourful and it portraits her majesty in a different way we are used to see her.

 

My example of pop art: Here you can see my pop art.I was inspired by Roy Lichtenstein´s painting in comic style which I really like.

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Examples of kitsch: There´s a little stuffed teddy bear on the first picture.You can´t see it very well on the photo,but it´s really small,cute and a bit kitsch, but I like it and I think that many people do too.

On the second picture is a kitsch I found on the internet.It´s called "The Widow" and I like it because it´s very sentimental and has a mass appeal.

Validation

Validation is a hilarious short movie also called as: a story within a story.The main character is a man called Hugh Newman who is a park assistant, and he wants to make people smile.He becomes popular because it seems to be no one that he cannot make smile. Until he meets Victoria.She is a photographer and she never smiles. Even Hugh can´t make her smile. He lost his energy. However one day as he´s walking in the park, young couple stops him and ask if he can take a picture of them, but their smile isn´t very sincere.Hugh tells them how great an how beautiful they are, so they are happy and smile and Hugh finds his will and energy as he sees them smiling. Almost immediately one professional photographer notices him and soon Hugh is taking photos of many famous people.

One day he takes a photo of an old lady in a wheelchair who is ill. He takes a picture of her and tells her how beautiful and great she is and the women smiles. One day he meets Victoria again and founds out that the women in the wheelchair was Victoria´s mum.She made her happy and she smiles so Victoria smiles also.Hugh is amazed. After all Victoria tells him she stopped smiling when her mom got ill, but Hugh made her smile so Victoria started smiling too. Now they are smiling together :)

This is just a short explanation of this freat short film.If you wuld like to smile too, here´s the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbk980jV7Ao