...Good morning to Miss Liana and fellow classmates, my name is Chua Wen Yee and the topic I’m going to talk about today is K-Pop. First of all, I’ll start off with some basic facts. K-Pop is a musical genre originated from South Korea. The pioneer of K-Pop is Seo Taeji and The Boys, which one of the member is the CEO of YG Entertainment, home of Big Bang and 2NE1 now. K-Pop was strongly criticized by a lot of people, including me. However it has been rising day by day and not only conquered the Asia music market but it is also globalized in the sense that there are K-Pop fans all over the world. According to my research, in year 2012, 68 K-Pop groups made their debut compared to 12 in year 2008. From hate to love, from critics to praise, how does this happened? I think everyone of you definitely has a friend who is a hardcore K-Pop fan. Most of you must have suffered a lot because they like to share their K-Pop information and ask you to watch funny videos very much. Thanks to them, you’ll slowly found out that you are starting to love K-Pop and soon you’ll become one of them. Seriously, some of you may wonder why people love K-Pop so much? The reasons are simple. First of all, the songs are really nice. There are three main components in a song, melody, choreography and visual. Catchy and repeated chorus is one of the reasons why K-Pop songs can be viral and popular. For example, “Wow, fantastic baby”, “because I’m shadow, shadow, shadow”, “bwara Mr. simple simple” or “I...
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...in the 21st Century. She gets in her car and immediately turns on her favorite pop radio station on the way to work. Her friends from college invite her to a party after her shift ends, and she invites a few friends as well. In the car on the way to the party, while chit chatting over upbeat background music, one of them exclaims, “Oh! I love this song!” One of them turns the volume up and they all sing together to the catchy tune and the easy words of “Young, Wild, and Free” by Wiz Khalifah, “Roll one. Smoke one. When you live like this you’re supposed to party…” This line in the song is extremely easy to learn because it has been repeated several times in less than three minutes, and is set to the sound of a catchy tune. Perhaps pop music has been designed to fit into this modern lifestyle, where one is always on the go, and wants to stay active and energetic. Who has time to really listen to what the song is saying if it has rhythm and is easy to sing along to? Without listening, we tune out the important form of expression that is musical lyrics, and this drop in emphasis encourages a lack of investment in song composition. American Pop music’s language is digressing to the point where it is more offensive, repetitive, and shallower than ever. Offensive language in modern pop music is becoming more normal. The modern American parent can be easily deceived by the “happy” nature of a pop song and think nothing of their eight year old listening to it, but after hearing...
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...05/03/16 POP ART -realism had been gone for a long time but pop art brought it up -comprehensible, straight forward -Roy Lichtenstein - Robert Rauschenberg, canyon – abstract, consumer culture and materials of everyday mixed -tom wesselmann, landscape no. 4 – reproduces Mt. Hood (albert berstadt), typical landscape of foreground/middle/background, faces in car not carrying about the scenery of nature, car represents machine -mark Rothko -warhol’s 50’s work – contrast, rigorous serial composition, confident line work -andy warhol’s brillo box vs. duchamp’s fountain: -> brillo box just fake found object, no mediation, just the damn box but Duchamp turned urinal upside down to create interest ->brillobox stacked in gallery ->warehouse? -warhol starts to hand paint in 60’s -> later his style gets more edgy, sharp (tomato soup, etc) -everything you eat and wear, mass produced -pop art seem ambivalent, recognizable but hard to read the meaning -jan davidsz, sumptuous Still Life with parrorot vs. tom wesselmann, still life ->parrot still life is very realistic vs. flatness of t.w’s still life -> wildlife fruits vs. daily life packaged factory products -warhol’s Marilyn Monroe series: gold halo (her hair) represents the religious/celebrity, repetition represents exposure -warhol’s red race riot: mistitled this work, piece is about technology of production, we were made not to feel outraged of man’s inhumanity because the imagery makes viewers’ eyes move around...
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...the world wide history of art? "Everything is beautiful. Pop is everything." Everything is allowed in Pop Art. Abstract Expressionism held sway for fifteen years. But in the early sixties, a group of artists occurred. They were much more different from all other artists since their subjects were Coke bottles, beer and soup cans, comic strip characters and hamburgers. Having to do with so common things mostly everyone has and being so popular objects their movement was labeled Pop Art. Pop Art is basically a 20th century art movement that utilized the imagery and techniques of consumerism and popular culture. It was really easy of it to develop since by the mid to late 1950s the economic and social climate was changing enormously, and so it was really easy for new generation of painters to interest society. Pop Art developed in the United States and in Britain mostly. In the United States the artists were responding to the nation’s consumer society well as in Britain the style had a more nostalgic flavour. The main difference in my opinion of British Pop art and American Pop art is that in the first we have an overtone of melancholy which was not been shared yet in the second. Andy Warhol One of the most significant and influential artists of the second half of the twentieth century, and by far deserved being called “king” of pop art. Andy Warhol and Pop Art go hand in hand it is really hard to imagine pop art with out Andy Warhol. During July 1980, Warhol was...
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...Project #3 – Modern Art Periods Pop Art Introduction to Art 05/05/2010 Pop art is a visual art movement that began in the mid-fifties in Britain and the late fifites in the U.S. Pop art challenged tradition by saying that an artist's use of the mass-produced objects of popular culture is compatible with the perspective of fine art. Pop Art removes the material from its context and isolates the object, or combines it with other objects, for contemplation. The concept of pop art refers not as much to the art itself as to the attitudes that led to it. Many of the themes and techniques of this movement come from popular mass culture, such as adverstising, comic books, and other cultural items (Pop Art, in Wikipedia). A few of the important painters of this movement are Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Andy Warhol. In the sixties, a group of artists, led by Andy Warhol invented a “new American realism” called Pop Art. Pop represented American life at that time, with ubiquitous Campbell’s soup cans, Coca-Cola bottles, and comic strips. One of the chief tactics of the Pop artists was to “transform the everyday into the monumental”. According to Sayre, Pop Art left behind traditional artistic media like painting, and turned instead to pieces made with mechanical reproduction techniques, such as photolithography. These methods evoked commercial illustration more than fine art (Sayre, 512-13). Andy Warhol was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who became...
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...Canton pop music is very popular in Hong Kong, especially from the 1970s to 1990s. In 1970s, there was a rise of television industry, TV theme songs were very popular. For 1980s, it is a golden age of canton pop music, followed by 1990s’ 4 Heavenly Kings era. However, people think that nowadays canton pop gradually cannot reflect Hong Kong culture as they all are very similar in terms of themes. Nevertheless, I can still recognize some canton pops can reflect Hong Kong culture. Today I would like to introduce one to you. It is called “I love cha chann teng” sang by Kay Tse. “I love cha chann teng” reflected how people in Hong Kong viewed cha chann teng. The lyrics explains why cha chann teng is popular among Hong Kongers. It points out that cha chann teng offer a variety of food in reasonable price and meet Hong Kongers’ demand for convenience and flexibility. Besides, there is usually a cha chann teng within a walking distance. The above all give listeners a sense of resonance. In this song, polyphonic texture is used as there is more than one melody at a time and they are competing with each other. The melody is mainly played by electric bass guitar and drum set and sung by vocalist, Kay Tse. Drum set is used in order to keep the beat and rhythm and present this song vividly. By doing so, listener can feel the fast paced living style in Hong Kong. The form of this song is simple, AA’BA’B’B’’B’’’, which B part, as the chorus, is repeated for 4 times throughout the song...
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...Primarily in New York in the early 1940’s, a group of artists developed a stylistic diverse collection of art that began a drastic new development in the artistic realm that guided/shifted the perception of art across the globe. Abstract expressionism broke away from the conventional thought in both subject matter and technique, changing the focus to a more inner spiritual expression of impulsiveness and improvisation; the work of abstract expressionist resisted the stylistic labeling that was commonly based upon dynamic movement in contrast to reflection with an open palette of color. Imagination and artistic creativity was the overall basis of abstract expressionism. Even when depicting realistic subject matter the artist utilized extremely spirited, messy brush stokes or no brushes at all, simply dripping/flinging paint onto the canvas with overlapping inspirational sources. Critics of this era did not viewed or even consider abstract expressionism as art, which is similar to every new artistic form that emerged before them. Many of the initial artists of this movement lived in New York and met in a tavern located in Greenwich Village, thus, the movement was also given the name The New York School. One of the most notorious members of this group was Jackson Pollock, who became so well known for his dip and splatter form that many gave him the nickname “Jack the Dripper;” Pollock utilized drips and lines to stimulate emotion versus portraying distinctive subject matter...
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...have messages about sexual relationships. James C. McKinley Jr. talks about a recent study of popular song lyrics at the State University of New York in Albany that shows that not only do the messages about sexual relationships dominate the songs at the top of the charts, but also that songs about sex sell much better than other songs. Not surprisingly, the study found that there were gaps in between music genres. Successful country songs tended to have messages about long-term commitment to marriage, parenting children, breaks-ups, and then oaths of fidelity. But, on the other hand, the top three themes in POP songs were, in order, the singer’s sex appeal, a person’s promiscuity, and one-night stands. For the popular R & B songs, the most frequent themes were the singer’s sex appeal, boasts about the singer’ wealth, and descriptions of erotic acts. Although most POP music songs have promiscuity, some songs show it explicitly, while others imply it through their lyrics. One example of such songs is the song “If You Seek Amy” by Britney Spears. This song very subtly spells out the...
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...The Pop Art movement began as a reactionary statement against the long running streak Abstract Expressionism held on popular art. It began the late 1950s, though it truly prospered during the sixties and early seventies. Pop artists utilized the imagery and techniques of consumerism and pop culture as a subject matter. As a style, it was based on using bright imagery and reproduction, to show the beauty of everyday objects. The movement set out to break down the distinctions between good and bad taste. Most importantly it broke down the distinctions between fine art and commercial art. One of the most well known artists of the Pop movement was Andy Warhol, a young commercial illustrator from Manhattan. Warhol’s use of popular icons and brands as the focus of his art is what made him famous. As an artist, Warhol used techniques that had rarely, if ever, been seen in the art world. He often combined painting and photography, by painting canvases silk screened with an image with bright abstract colors. Though he often used his own photography, he was also known for using the photography of others when he wished to portray a subject he never had or never would have the opportunity to photograph. The painting is a portrait of a young woman’s face which has been silk screened on to the canvas. You can see very little of her clothing, because of the tight crop of the painting, however she appears to be wearing a garment that ties behind her neck. Her hair is short, yet falls close...
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...Do you agree that Pop art is a critique of the values of post-War urban culture in the United States or is there some validity in the arguments that suggest that Pop art is another representation of profit-based propaganda? Select works from two or three artists to examine this question. Pop art was born out of the needs of Post-war America and its capitalist driven economy, where consumption was key and everything was a commodity that had to be readily available. The diversity within the movement arose from how the Pop artists approached this culture of post-war America, whether it was through parody, fetishization, or just pure replication; as well as what aspects of the culture they chose to reflect on. The sheer diversity of themes and styles covered by the various pop artists means that one cannot be too reductive when analysing this art movement. It is therefore with this in mind that this essay will examine just two Pop artists, Andy Warhol and Tom Wesselmann, to examine both artists’ use of commercial methods teamed with images borrowed from popular culture and how they established their own unique technique and style to reflect on the capitalist culture rising in America. Post-war America was a time of great growth and development, as America moved into a position of political and economic leadership, newfound pride in the American way of life and American culture flourished. The economic boom meant newfound freedom for Americans, as having money and freely spending...
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...Turkish pop music For nearly 50 years, pop music has been one of the most popular branches of music in Turkey. This is in the broad musical spectrum, of music in Turkey. Popular music because of the fact that, primitive music could not be related to either the traditional ottoman music or from the western form of music. Popular music were sung by chiefly the non-Muslim women. In the 1960s, there was fusions of the pop music and the Ottoman psyche which was particularly common in Turkey. In the 1970s, Sezen Aksu a female song writer and singer became popular and changed the scene of the music scene (Richard, T. 1999). In the 1990 pop music began to find its true meaning, this is because, it is not merely a type of music as it may be considered, but as a culture, it became part of everyday city-life that cannot be separated with the lifestyle and sentiments of city life. During the Ozall administration, in the 1980s, the free market economy which became a state policy, brought new acceleration to the Turkish music industry. World class studios and consumer ideology to the youth, this brought a new, fast rhythmic urban life and pulse (Simon, B. 1999). After 1990s, the most influential form of sentimental style and perception was pop music. It affected the mode of dressing to trends of entertainment. Unbelievable variety sprung up each and every day. Momentary incidents of joy, disappointment and the relationship were based on the sensibility of pop music as...
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...example known as "Simcheongga".[note 1] During the Japanese rule (1910–1945) popularity of changga songs rose as Koreans tried to express their feelings against Japanese oppression through music. One of the most popular songs was "Huimangga" (희망가, The Song of Hope). The Japanese confiscated the existing changga collections and published lyrics books of their own.[41][third-party source needed] The first known Korean pop album was "Yi Pungjin Sewol" (This Tumultuous Time) by Park Chae-seon and Lee Ryu-saek from 1925 and contained popular songs translated from Japanese. The first pop song written by a Korean composer is thought to be "Nakhwayusu" (낙화유수, Fallen Blossoms on Running Water) sung by Lee Jeong-suk in 1929.[41] In the mid-1920s, Japanese composer Masao Koga mixed traditional Korean music with Gospel music that American Evangelists introduced in the 1870s. This type of music became known as Enka in Japan, and later in Korea as Trot (Korean: "트로트").[42][43] These songs became extremely popular.[41][third-party source needed] Later, in the 21st century K-pop singers rediscovered the genre of trot, for example singers like Daesung from Big Bang and several members of Super Junior produced trot...
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...The Evolution of Pop Art by Marius Janavicius Critical and Cultural Studies Caroline Archer August 2011 During the 1960s Art Deco and Art Nouveau already were already established movements, which did not have the labels of “contemporary” styles. People were looking for something new, and shocking. Reactions towards established moral standards, social tensions which included race relations, sexual mores, women’s rights gave birth to total reassessment of old values. It was born twice: first in England and then again, independently, in New York. During the early 1950s, several London artists transformed the artifacts and mass media imagery of American popular culture into critical, satirical art works. They were responding to a flood of American postwar export of consumer goods, movies, magazines, comics and advertising. However, Pop Art became popular movement in United States. After the Second World War came the birth of the consumer society. The American way of life, with its emphasis on growth, quantity, consumption and fun, dominated western values. However, underneath many of the same old dark forces raged on: war - Berlin, Korea, Vietnam; racial unrest; the political intolerance of the early 1950s. Among the young, new values awoke, and protest movements sprang up. Pop art mostly opposed abstractionism, represented by Jackson Pollock. It was said that Pollock’s work terminated all connections with visible reality. Young artists blamed him for making...
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...THE HISTORY OF ROCK AND POP "POP" is short for "popular" and there has always been popular music. But until the 1950s there wasn't a style of music just for young people. That all changed when rock and roll began. Since then, hundreds of styles and stars have come and gone. Musical technology has changed a lot too. Here, we look at the highlights of rock and pop's forty-year history. The '50s Rock and roll began in America. Some of its first big stars were black - for example Chuck Berry, Fats Domino and Little Richard. They brought traditional "rhythm and blues" to a big new TV audience. Then, white singers began to copy them. One of the first was Bill Haley. He and his band, The Comets, recorded an early rock and roll classic, "Rock Around The Clock". There were other white "rockers", too, like Jerry Lee Lewis and Buddy Holly. But the most popular of them all was Elvis Aaron Presley. Elvis wasn't like the American singers of the '40s and early '50s. He wasn't neat, sweet and safe. He was rough, tough and dangerous. His music was dangerous, too. He called himself "The King of Rock and Roll" and played an electric guitar. Teenagers all over the world fell in love with this new style. They bought millions of his records. Suddenly the younger generation didn't just have money, cars and televisions - they had a hero, too. The '60s Pop exploded in the '60s. After Elvis, hundreds of new groups and singers appeared. In Britain, two groups quickly became more...
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...and a triangle pediment are what architectural elements are taken. The columns help support the buildings frame on the White House and Parthenon. The musical industry also takes a hard hit on the replicating of the past. Jean Ritchie, born in 1950, was a singer/song writer in American Folk music. A song he wrote ‘Nottoruan Town’ was recreated by Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan took Ritchie’s song, and instead of changing the melody, he just changed the lyrics. Therefore, he stole the song. Although most artists just recreate past artists, some artists have unique techniques relevant to their time periods. For example, Andy Warhol. Warhol invented a new type of art called pop art. This type of art takes figures or objects and makes them colorful and abstract. No other artists before him has ever done that art style like Pop Art. Another example of unique art is Leonardo DaVinci. “Leonardo tried to create faithful rendissions of life.” (3) “Leonardo’s desire to paint things realistically was bold...
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