Culture in the Artworld through time.
... all things’- Goncourt 1860’s. It was even classified to an extent to be called ‘partie carree’ a popular designation for a pleasurable gathering of two men and two women in Paris. ‘Le dejeuner sur pherbe’ was rejected from the Salon, but was elected to be shown in the Salon de Refuses it became an opportunity for the public to judge the judges. It was believed the painting scandalised Paris. However critics were not unanimous in declaring the juxtaposition of a naked woman with clothed men singularly offensive. In all, culture in the Parisian art world was evolving in confrontations created by the challenging perspective of new artists like Manet as soon enough modernism was introduced in 1880. A period what applies to artists who from the late 18th century onwards till the 1960’s, forged a new and diverse principle to escape the tyranny of previous historical styles. Alain Jacquet (1939) a French artist in Modernism, pioneered from the 60s in mechanical art/mec art movement. He is classified as a Pop artist through the use of new and industrial machines and adaptations of fine art. Finely exampled in his master work ‘le Dejeuner Sur Pherbe’ 1964. A serigraph and adapted from Manets ‘Dejeuner sur Pherbe’ (luncheon on the grass) of historical fine art. The positioning of the figures remain the same through out Jacquets composition but other objects have changed just like the culture through the times. For instance compared to the original instead of a lake is a pool or what seems to be an artificial lake. Showing the change in environment, the growth in development. But it also reflects on past culture showing to this day Parisian picnickers with a controversial image of the juxtaposition of the nude. In Jacquets generation fine art, music, literature and popular and mass culture had become intermeshed to form a ‘cultural revolution’. Pop art being a contender of this revolution holds up a mirror to industrial, mass society with its technological progress, media, and commercialisation of popular culture. Popular culture comes from mass culture what the mass found relevant and used. In its process it trivialized reality and reduced it to a consumer product. Leading through this commercial intermesh their was a particularly intimate connection and interaction between art and pop music. Many pop groups where founded by past art students. Thus linking to the idea of the already established relationship between art and music in pop art, we note in 1981 Photographer Andy Earl and designer Nick Egan created the image for the album cover of Bow Wow Wow, In the post modernism period. A period from 1970 to present is considered to challenge mainstream, they adapt and recycle old styles and images. Post modernism is modern modernism, an enriched modernism. “Rock music’s uneasy alliance between art and glitz gets played out time and time again whenever photography gets involved. British photographer Andy Earl occupies something of a middle ground, but does so oft-gorgeously, as evidenced in his collection of rock stars. He’s best at capturing the style and substance of musicians.” -Michael Pelusi. Critic. Andy Earl was encouraged to use photography as an artistic expression. His work is diverse, often incorporating dramatic natural backdrops to create a surrealistic effect. The familiar work of Manets ‘le dejeuner sur l’herbe’ is the source of composition, (of Andy Earls Bow Wow Wow photograph), with the picnickers and nude woman. Therefore it recycles and adapts the image. It is created for a commercial promotion for the sells of the album in mass or popular culture. As from the late 19th century globalisation and multi cultural commun...