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The greaser subculture may have emerged in the post–World War II era among the motorcycle clubs and street gangs of the 1940s in the United States, though it was certainly established by the 1950s, when it was increasingly adopted by ethnic urban youth.
[43] [44] Italian-born Pierre Cardin [45] was best known for his helmets, short tunics, and goggles. [45] However, Paco Rabanne has been credited as the one who revolutionized the Space Age fashion. [46] Rabanne was known for his 1966 "12 Unwearable Dresses in Contemporary Materials" collection, [21] made of chain mail, aluminum, and plastic. [47]
After all, the best part of my life began after I turned 60 — a time of hard-earned wisdom, compassion and freedom. My intergenerational friendships, meanwhile, are the daily dose of youthful ...
Romare Bearden (/ ˈ r oʊ m ə r iː /, ROH-mə-ree [1] [2]) (September 2, 1911 – March 12, 1988) was an American artist, author, and songwriter.He worked with many types of media including cartoons, oils, and collages.
Kurt Schwitters, Das Undbild, 1919, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. Collage (/ k ə ˈ l ɑː ʒ /, from the French: coller, "to glue" or "to stick together"; [1]) is a technique of art creation, primarily used in the visual arts, but in music too, by which art results from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole.
Richard William Hamilton CH (24 February 1922 – 13 September 2011) was an English painter and collage artist. His 1955 exhibition Man, Machine and Motion (Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne) and his 1956 collage Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?, produced for the This Is Tomorrow exhibition of the Independent Group in London, are considered by critics and ...
Fluxus encouraged a "do-it-yourself" aesthetic, and valued simplicity over complexity. Like Dada before it, Fluxus included a strong current of anti-commercialism and an anti-art sensibility, disparaging the conventional market-driven art world in favor of an artist-centered creative practice.
The collage painting It's a Man's World I (1964) juxtaposes images of male icons The Beatles, Albert Einstein, Lenin, Muhammad Ali, Marcel Proust and other men. In It's a Man's World II (1965–66) she redisplayed female nudes from fine art and soft-core pornographic sources to signify newly liberated "female eroticism". [ 24 ]