Theme
Found Objects
Context
Art forms that re-contextualise through appropriation and parody to subvert meanings of objects/images. Looking at: Collage, Pop-Art and Contemporary artists such as – Ron English, Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg and Robert Williams as well as the Garbage Pail Kids campaign.
Method
My found object is the coffee cup. Here I am thinking about the process of ‘enculturation’ - how cultures imbue meaning into objects and how these meanings are flexible and interchangeable. I created a visual response that appropriated the style of Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe portraits to a coffee cup - a combination of a found object with a found idea. In adopting this aesthetic choice I also adopt its meaning and draw a parallel. Warhol created these portraits as a comment on celebrity and commodification. I parallel these ideas to the coffee cup as a comment on ‘coffee culture’ that is enacted in popular culture where Coffee becomes a revered substance and habit with a cult like following (not unlike a celebrity).
About This Work
By Ika Jumali
Email Ika Jumali
Published On: 10/04/2019