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For this weeks discussion, please answer the 2 questions below and post a peer response.
1.Which work of art from this weeks content did you find to be the most interesting and why?
2.Which work of art from this weeks content did you find to be the most challenging to understand?
and this is class mate’s answer, you can use this as example/
.1. I find Green Coca-Cola Bottles by Andy Warhol (silkscreen) fascinating. It is visually stunning and a perfect example of POP Art. The repetition of bottles and the uniformity reflects the mass production of the bottles (and product). Also, commenting on the sheer volume of consumption. It makes sense that the green and colors would be inconsistent because it would be difficult to manage the paint in the silk screening process. Warhol is commenting on consumer products, much like the Campbell Soup Cans. However, I would like to not why this is especially interesting to me. In Mexico, Coke can still be found in green bottles (glass bottles with cane sugar), further Mexico has the highest consumption of Coke in the world. There are advertisements for Coke everywhere including walls of schools, billboards, hospitals and unregulated graffiti. I guess what struck me is that in this image Coke is glorified (in the US) and when I am in Mexico I see it as the plague.
2. For this selection, I chose the same artist as above and the same artist style of POP Art. I did this to express that art subject matter is more complex than the period it is created. Andy Warhol, Gold Marilyn Monroe, Silkscreen ink on synthetic polymer paint on canvas, is a photocopy of the last photo of Marilyn Monroe that was authorized by the artist At the time this work was created Marilyn was not an icon, though she would become an icon (no argument with that fact). According to the class notes, “plays on the idea of an icon, placing Marilyn’s face on a very large golden-colored background…reminiscent of Byzantine religious icons.” What I find challenging is the Video (art historian scholarship) compares this image to the Virgin Mary. I think that this assumption of meaning is a reach. I do not care for this piece from a visual perspective either. I am confused.