A few thoughts on my own Artwork.

This is a piece I created as part of a class I was taking in university. My idea was to continue my love for pop art and pay homage to my favourite pop artists by combining and reworking some of there well known works and adding in a few of my own images. The Campbell's Soup Can and the General Mao are works by Andy Warhol while the Untitled Girl in the top corner is piece by Roy Liechtenstein. Twiggy and the rendition of the Roman Coliseum are my own creations. Although I generally make art for the purpose of entertainment and not to provoke thought, there are a few things I feel this painting is saying. It is a comment on culture, power and the ways in which people attain power or are granted power. Mao, obviously the largest image in the compilation, is a representation of how he had the most power in his time. As communist leader of China in the 1960's, Mao had a huge amount of power and global influence, but this power was self-proclaimed and self-attained, not granted or given to him, and this is why I have put him in the background. He was famous, but people did not like him or respect his power. Twiggy, on the other hand, was a famous fashion model in the 1960's and her celebrity was granted by the people. She was and still is adored by the public as a fashion icon, but I made the image of her transparent, as a symbol not necessarily of her character in particular but in the false sense of power and influence we give celebrities in general, and how their power is completely at the will of the common people. The reason behind the hot pink ancient ruins was more of visual interest than deep meaning. When we think of the coliseum, we think old crumbling stones and I wanted to modernize these ruins by "pop-artifying" them and bringing them into todays world. In a way the painting also shows a passage of time from left to right with each image being a little later in time.  Tell me what you think of my art and what this image mean to you. Keep looking out more of my work in this blog in the future.