I didn't realise before my research just how drab the 60's were. We're told that the singing sixties was the best generation for music, young people, culture and architecture. The reality was anywhere outside a small triangle of London was not "swinging" but just the same as the 50's, the majority of people actually listened to some pretty bad music and the architecture of the time was depressing and the landscape looked grey with tower blocks on the horizon.
Pop art came through from abstract expressionism and was focused on popular culture. It was a joke to artists such as Andy Warhol who played on the consumerism surrounding America at the time. despite this I still really like the bold and colourful style of artists such as Roy Liechtenstein. I've looked previously at Peter Blake in earlier projects because of his collage style of work and still like it after looked further into it.
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