Visual Culture and Identity Japan and the Global View 26 November 2014
We covered the start of globalisation from the opening and closing of Japan's borders in the 16th century. Then the fashion for everything Japanese in 19th century Europe which in turn started the exchange of art and cultural ideas across the world.
Our task is to give examples of how artists, reject, celebrate and criticize the growth of global brands in todays society. The Pop Art movement, the Sots Art movement in Russia and the birth of the Political-pop or Cynical Realism in China explores these ideas. African artists are also beginning to show their criticism of the amount of money China is pouring into the country when money from the international monetary fund has so many constraints and China is very free with its loans.
Lenin and Marilyn Munroe by Leonid Sokov
Marilyn Munroe by Andy Warhol 1962
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/2b/8f/07/2b8f076c3595ba89f42be5bd76aba024.jpgWarhol 1962
Great Criticism series-Campbell's Soup 2000 by Wang Guangyi
Untitled (Soup Can) 2000 by Michael Craig-Martin http://www.saatchigallery.com/imgs/artists/thumbs/craigmartin_michael/20141027015314_soupcan.jpg
Nutsy's McDonald's 2001 by Tom Sachs
This is my Blood 2001
This is my Body 2001
Lenin and Coca-Cola 1982
above three images by Alexander Kosolapov
China Loves Africa Series by Michael Soi 2012/13
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