Consumerism within art.
Steve Cuts social media
When I look at this image it plays on the world as a zombie state. In fact it echoes the comic walking dead everyone is lost and being led by their phones they have become a slave to their phones have become their world and sucked the life out of them . With the technology giants displayed in the back an apple Samsung. The utilisation of a comic style image like walking dead draws you into want to see the next chapter if there is one ,showing how the nation is enslaved , presented in the dystopian animation of another world. The escape through comics is now shining back as reality
Andy Warhol Campbell's Soup Cans 1965
This art piece looks mass production of a product how it enters our lives becoming a part of society engraved in our minds that often we don’t even question. The power of what is placed before us, a commercialised brand. It appeals to you as it is familiar and homely. It is a piece of genius. Where does the boundary cross between a product and art? What does this art piece mean? Does it mean a mass scale of something so the commercial finds a place in the world beyond? The production line runs through this piece. How can a product become art? What does this mean? Andy Warhol piece was said to have been one of the first displays of pop art of the time when things began to copy originality. Although it’s still out there this was the beginning of something profound. He was mirroring back the reality of mass buying of things which had become a household name although they did not hold any weight in gold. The world was changing, buying these now new latest trends packaged and sold in a way that had the world believe it was buying into status, a way of being . This all happened after the war potentially giving people a sense of hope, sculpting their lives for what was known as the American dream.
