Spray...

Hello...again! My english teacher has been really really active about making us work like dogs (JK!)...So, this week she asked us to make an analysis of a pop art painting, and here it is:

This is “Spray”, a piece of work created in 1962 by Rob Lichtenstein, an American pop artist born in 1923.

In this image we see things in a very literal way, meaning that it is shown a red spray can, held by a white woman, with the nails painted in red. The colours of painting are basically red, white and yellow, all vivid colours that represent the radicalism and modernism of the 60s. Even the name of the painting it's exactly what we see, a spray (can).

One of the characteristics of pop art is the representation of everyday objects, like soup cans, bottles, drinks...so we can conclude that this characteristics fits perfectly this image – a spray can is another example of an everyday object, associated to women.

Sexy and glamorous are two other particulars of pop art portrayed in this painting: the red nails of the woman fill this masterpiece of glamour, seduction, beauty, appeal and charm.

Finally, this type of art is said to be “for everybody, not just for the elite”, as it was before (Abstract Expressionism). The painting of a spray can clearly illustrates this topic endorsing its trustworthiness – a spray can could be used by any citizen independently of its status or social position.

Bye Bye dear readers!!

                                                                                          XOXO, Oh My Gossip,

                                                                                          Sara

3 coke bottles...

Hi there sweet readers! I've been thinking all week about the way I should start writting about pop art...yes, 'cause that's this week's theme! (you're right, our teacher has no mercy for us...). Well, after thinking that much, I've decided not to be very original and talk about a painting of Andy Warhol. Hope you like it…

            “3 coke bottles” is the name of this painting of 1962, created by Andy Warhol (like I said before), a leading figure and artist of pop art, an art movement thet emerged in the 50s.

            In this piece of art we see some characteristics of that movement. The colors used are red, black, white and green, some vivid colors representative of the young and rebel character of this type of art.

            The tittle of the painting reflects the direct, objective and literal character of pop art - we observe exactly "3 coke bottles" in the image.

            "Repetition" is also a particular of this art movement and, in this specific work, it is pretty clear - we do not see one, but three bottles of coca-cola. This is also a painting that makes publicity to a well-known international brand (coca-cola), showing pop art's purpose concerning publicity.

            To conclude, we may check that this movement points out a low-cost type of art, that is now "for everybody", by representing a bottle of some drink that everyone could have access to, contrasting with the previous art movement, Abstract Expressionism, that was only for the elites.

            Well, it is now time to say goodbye and leave you with a big...

XOXO, Oh My Gossip

Filipa

Jim's new ending...

       Sweet readers, after all this time without hearing news from me, I hope this text I'm about to share with you compensates my default and also the fact that you've missed me so much (or not, eheh).

Well, this week our english teacher has ordered us (in a super-demanding-way...JK! :p ) to recreate the ending of the movie "Rebel without a cause" (calm down girls, the HOT HOT HOT James Dean is now dead. Sorry 'bout that...)..so, here it goes:

       "Plato, Jim's bestfriend, asks him his gun back, but Jim knew he had one last bullet in it, but no one else did. Plato insists but Jim seems very nervous and reticent. His friend asks him what's going on but Jim doesn't answer. His look gets more and more psychotic and Plato is about to take the gun  out of Jim's hands when he shoots himself. Plato's bestfriend was dead and he saw himself alone, in a cruel world, in a cruel society.

       After months of depression, Plato decides that his bestfriend couldn't be forgotten, so he had to do something. Judy, Jim's girlfriend, decides to help Plato in his mission and they both start overspreading pictures of Jim with different messages for all the teenagers that were tired and didn't fit the society they lived in, just like him. "Be brave!", "Be yourself!, "Fllow your own rules! and even "Don't be a chicken!" were some of the messages portrayed in Jim's pictures. Due to this (successfull) mission, Jim, even dead, became a legend and inspired many teens in the 50s!"

       Well, hope U liked this alternative ending of the  movie and...se U next week with an "artistic" text! :D

XOXO, Oh My Gossip,

Filipa

Judy's new ending...

           Hello hello! We haven't spoken in a while! I hope you've missed my texts (at least, I hope you, dear teacher, have missed my texts...).

           

            We have no time to waste...I have a question for you: have you ever seen the (awsome) movie “Rebel without a cause”? Yes, the one in which our beloved James Dean plays Jim, a guy tired of his society, tired of his father who is submissive to his mother, tired of the world he's living in, as many other teenagers in the 50s.

           

            Well, we were asked by our english teacher to create a new ending for the movie and that's exactly what I'm about to do...let's start!

            Jim and Plato were in the planetary of the university and Jim had his friend's gun. When they were leaving that place, Plato asked him to give it back to him. When Jim gives Plato his gun back, Judy appears and Plato, thinking he had no bullets in the gun, starts playing with it, and accidentally shoots Jim's girlfriend. She is immediatly taken to the hospital, and after a few days in a coma, she dies.

           

            Plato can't stand the fact that he was the one responsible for her death, even because he saw her as the mother he never had. The remorse he felt for that sad moment led him to made a proposal to Jim : he wanted  to write a book about Judy, about her wonderful characteristics, that made her sooo special ( uhuh, I wanted to be like Judy )!

           

            So, they wrote a book, that, even in that specific time, made a huge success, and the beautiful girl that was characterized remained forever in their minds.

             During the rest of his life, Jim takes care of Plato, and plays the role of the father  he never had.

            I hope you liked this great story ( a little bit sad... ), but stories can never end wonderfully well!!

                                                                      XoXo, Oh My Gossip,

                                                                                                                                                                                                               Sara Costa