Contextual and Cultural referencing 70’
Surfing Boom of 70’
ALL ABOUT
70’ Great musitians of 70’!
Muses of 70’ Veruschka
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Artists
Girl Eati ng a
Banana,
1967-68
Woman Woman
Seascape Dropout 1982
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Tom Wesselmann Tom Wesselmann (February 23, 1931, Cincinnati – December 17, 2004) was an American artist associated with the Pop art movement who worked in painting, collage and sculpture. In the late 1960s an increasingly dominant eroticism emerged in works such as Bedroom Painting #13 (1969; Berlin, Neue N.G.), with its more literal but still intense colours and tight, formal composition. The pictorial elements, exaggerated in their arabesque forms and arbitrary colouring, became significantly larger in scale in his works of the 1970s, such as a series of Smoker mouths; enormous, partially free-standing still-lifes moved into sculptural space, and finally became discrete sculptures of sheet metal. In the 1980s he returned to works for the wall with cut-out steel or aluminium drawings, which replicate his familiar, graceful line in enamel on cut-out metal. He was also an innovative printmaker, adapting his imagery to lithographs, screenprints, aquatints and multiples in relief.
Sources: http://sunnydownsnuff.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/tom-wesselmann/ http://crfashionbook.com/post/54227790419/wesselmann http://theredlist.fr/wiki-2-351-861-414-1293-1236-1290-view-pop-art-1-profile-wesselmann-tom.html http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/tom-wesselmann-2134
Watercolor and gouache, lyrical abstract, attributed to Abraham Gerardus van Velde (1895-1981). Signed lower right. 8 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches
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Artists
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Bram van Velde Bram van Velde (Abraham Gerardus) van Velde (October 19, 1895, in Zoeterwoude, near Leyden, Netherlands – December 28, 1981, in Grimaud, near Arles, France), came from a working class family. Bram and his brother Geer became a painters, his sister Jacoba translator and novelist. Bram was a Dutch painter known for an intensely colored and geometric semi-representational painting style related to Tachisme, and Lyrical Abstraction. His artworks from 70’ presenting very snapping, very straight forward, figurative forms and colours, an adult artist.
Sources: http://borzo.com/en/kunstenaars/v/31-tester http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/18852486_bram-van-velde-1895-1981-original-gouache
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Artists
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Rick Griffin
Legend cartonist and surfer Rick Griffin– surfer, cartoonist, psychedelic poster artist, legend. Born near Palos Verdes in California 1944, in surfing culture. Griffin took-up surfing at age 14.
His own surf style became iconic. Through his undeniable talent and connections, Griffin was soon working for surf legend, Greg Noll, among others.
After leaving high school he joined Surfer Magazine as a staff artist – creating the legendary California surf scene character Murphy.
Griffin became a Christian in 70s, which led to fundamental changes in his lifestyle and in the style and content of his art.
Rick Griffin died shortly after a motorcycle accident on August 15, 1991.
Sources:
http://selvedgeyard.com/2009/08/17/surf-60s-psychedelia-born-again-the-trinity-of-artist-rick-griffin/
TO WATCH ABOUT RICK CLICK BELOW:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGQaXvguCn8#t=162
Rick Griffin surfing
PSYCHODELIC SURF ART oF 70’ FROM CALIFORNIA Tales from the Tube - 1974
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... to realize
Founded in Florence by a group of radical young architects SUPERSTUDIO was at the heart of the architectural and design avantgarde through all 70s. In the beginning of decade they started designing unique and moderate projects like Monumento Continuo, for someones images warning of the horrors architecture, for others unifying structures in hopes of putting forth a peaceful, rather than dystopian future. Through their photo-collages, films and exhibitions, it critiqued the modernist doctrines that had dominated 20th century design thinking, suggested would eventually cover the planet (?)
Superstudio, The Continuous Monument: New New York
Sources:
Peter Lang, 2003. Superstudio: Life without Objects. Edition. Skira. http://arch122superstudio.blogspot.co.uk/2012_06_01_archive.html http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2003/mar/31/architecture.artsfeatures
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Artists
cosmic order on earth
Superstudio, Cube of Forest on the Golden Gate, 1970–71, Collage with photogravure and alterations in crayon, 29 1/2 × 42 5/16 in., Collection of the heirs of Roberto Magris
They were convinced that architecture is one of the few ways to realize cosmic order on earth, to put things to order and above all (...) it is a “moderate utopia” to imagine a near future. In their manifest designers said also that “design must disappear. We can live without architecture…” “Of course, we were also having fun” - said Superstudio
Even their destructive philosophy many projects of this young designers was very innovative and straight forward. Critics agree that the work of Superstudio was influential, or even entirely inspirational.
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Art/Cultural Movements
Skateboarding and Zephyr Team
The crew, who began as a surf team, derived their name from the Zephyr surfboard shop in Santa Monica. They brought a revolution in skateboarding. Their freestyle type of skating in drained swimming pools vanished from the public eye, and Z-Boy style would sweep around the world. Sources:
http://www.z-boy.com
The Lightning Field (1977) Is a permamently installed land art work in the desert of New Mexico, created by Walter De Maria. It consists of 400 stainless steel poles with solid, pointed tips, arranged in a rectangular 1 mile Ă— 1 kilometre. Designed to survive winds of up to 180 km an hour. What for? The work is designed to attract spectacular lightening strikes.
The true pioneer of the land art movement, or called also an Earth art was American artist, Robert Smithson. A new wave of art was an artistic protest against the artificiality, plastic aesthetics and commercialization of art at the end of the 1960s in America. In this art movement a landscape and the work of art are linked together. Land art describe an art form that is created in nature, using natural materials such as soil, rock, boulders, stones, organic media logs, branches, leaves, and water with introduced materials such as concrete, metal, asphalt, or mineral pigments. The works frequently exist in the open, located well away from civilization. Many of the first works, created in the deserts of Nevada, New Mexico, Utah or Arizona were ephemeral in nature and now only exist as video recordings or photographic documents.
BUTTONS AT VELZYLAND, NOVEMBER 1974
back to the beach
SURFING BOOM
The great creative years in the evolution of surfing, was early 70s, the era of longboards, different surf style sand technique . 70s radically changed the world’s perspective on what it meant to be a surfer, to push surfing into a new arena. Sources:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/01/fashion/thursdaystyles/01surf.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
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Art Movements Spotting on...
Land Art
in the middle of a crazy electric storm The Lightning Field (1977) Is a permamently installed land art work in the desert of New Mexico, created by It consists of 400 stainless steel poles with solid, pointed tips, arranged in a rectangular 1 mile Ă— 1 kilometre. Designed to survive winds of up to 180 km an hour. What for? The work is designed to attract spectacular lightening strikes.
Sources:
http://megsmcg.wordpress.com/2011/11/17/contemporary-art-conceptual-land-art-by-robert-smithson/
Robert Smithson, Land Art artist
The true pioneer of the land art movement, or called also an Earth art was American artist, Robert Smithson. A new wave of art was an artistic protest against the artificiality, plastic aesthetics and commercialization of art at the end of the 1960s in America. In this art movement a landscape and the work of art are linked together. Land art describe an art form that is created in nature, using natural materials such as soil, rock, boulders, stones, organic media logs, branches, leaves, and water with introduced materials such as concrete, metal, asphalt, or mineral pigments. The works frequently exist in the open, located well away from civilization. Many of the first works, created in the deserts of Nevada, New Mexico, Utah or Arizona were ephemeral in nature and now only exist as video recordings or photographic documents.
“Spiral Jetty” ” 1970, of Smithson is probably one of the world’s most recognised pieces of land art, and one of the best know works of postwar American Art. “Spiral Jetty” it was built entirely from mud, salt crystals, basalt rocks, earth and water on the north-eastern shore of the Great Salt Lake in Utah. The forms has near 1,500-foot-long (460 m)
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Fashion
Sources: http://andlollipops.com/tag/diane-von-furstenberg/ http://victoriapassion.com/?p=919
Wrap dress is in the colle ction of the of the Metro Costume In politan Mus stitute eum of Art.
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Diane Von Furstenberg ‘”Feel like a woman, wear a dress!” A simple statement, a simple idea, a magnificent success. In 1974 Diane von Furstenberg created a dress that was not only to change her life, but also that of millions of other women: the wrap dress. Uncomplicated to wear, both elegant and sexy, it liberated the “working woman” from the androgynous pants suits. In 1970, with a $30,000 investment, Diane began designing women’s clothes. In 1976, having sold several millions of her wrap dresses within a remarkably short time, the designer appeared on the cover of the Newsweek as an icon of women’s liberation and the most profitable fashion designer since Coco Chanel. The New York Times reported that the annual retail sales for the company in 1979 was $150 million. At the time, Diane von Furstenberg was not yet thirty years old.” After the phenomenal success of the wrap dress, Diane was featured on the cover of Newsweek magazine in 1976. The cover was intended to be Gerald Ford, who had just won his first Republican Presidential Primary, but was changed at the last minute.
Diane von F urs Resort 2012 tenberg Collection
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Muses
Veruschka in surrealistic shot, remind about Dali visions.
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Veruschka Veruschka is East Prussia– born model, popular in 60s and 70s with her exotic look and new skinny chic. Veruschka landed on first of eleven Vogue covers for the firts time in 1963. In 2006’s she finally appeared in the series in Casino Royale, movie. In 2014 she has her 75th birthday.
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Music
great 1975 single!
Minnie Ripperton
Sources: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRbQKs_Ekz4 http://lizaellen.com/minnie-riperton-meets-billie-holiday/
WORLD of MUSIC
Claudia Barry Claudja Barry (born 1952, Jamaica) is a singer and actress who has performed in the European versions of the stage musicals Hair and Catch My Soul. Sources: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97iEvuih3Ag
http://www.keepreal.org/2010/11/17/claudja-barry-love-for-the-sake-of-love-social-disco-club-edit/
(1976)
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1971, A Clockwork Orange, Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick is a master of set design. In this film they are so fantastical and bizarre,
Contextual and Cultural referencing 70’
Movies
THE
MANITOU
The Manitou is an American horror movie from 1978 with Tony Curtis and Susan Strasberg, inspired of a 1975 book by Graham Masterton. The movie is based on an old legend about the American Indian spirit-concept Manitou, which is reincarnating himself inside of the body of young woman. Amazing symbolic visions based in old Native American and shaman art + great speciall effects of 70’. Initial release: April 28, 1978 Director: William Girdler Running time: 104 minutes
Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manitou