The Red Shoes and I have been obsessed with Pop Art since we started to learn more about it. Today we present you a painting of one of the most incredible artists of all time and the major figure of Pop Art - Andy Warhol. He profoundly influenced our notion of art and along with it our notion of fashion. Therefore, the shoes and I decided to make a comment about it.
The painting is "Red Jackie" from 1964 by Andy Warhol.
It portrays the face of a woman, Jackie Onassis, in a red background. She is smiling confidently and gracefully Her lips were painted red to match the backdrop. The eyes were painted blue and the hair is black. The brushstrokes of blue outline her black hair and the colors of her face contrast with the red canvas.Warhol used bold, flat colors and created oppositions to stress Jackie's face features.
The notion of appropriation that defined many pop art work's that would become part of the iconography of the 20th century is present in this picture. Warhol used a photograph of the first lady that was taken before the death of a president in a serene moment of her life. He produced art using commonplace objects, celebrities, global icons, showing that they can also be acessible. Even icons are flesh in blood people. He has also proven that everything can be transformed into art, everything can "become pop", and art must be accessible and affordable to everibody. Anything can be a piece of art as long as it has it is original. Originality is the key-word when it comes to the Pop Art movement.
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