Marie Vorobieff - Homage to Friends from Montparnasse

The first "female cubist painter" Marie bronislava Vorobieff releases ''Homage to Friends from Montparnasse". Interesting to note that at the peak of the cold war, in the Americas any communist painters at the time were more than likely demonized. However there were other wars being fought in the 60's, the war against hatred (one which still wages to this day) being one of them. Some things are universal, love, family, art....and i believe this painting is an affirmation to these notions.

Henry Moore "Knifes Edge"

 

English artist Henry Moore releases "Knifes Edge". Moore was famous for his abstract work which mostly featured abstractions of the human body/mother /child figures.

Current Events 1962

- On July 2, 1962 an eighteen year old Jimi Hendrix (my muse of sound) was discharged from the United States Army and stood outside the gates of Fort Campbell at the Tennessee-Kentucky border. Knowing only how to play the guitar, Hendrix would go on to play on an infamous venue  called the "Chitlin' Circuit", and  began to play back up guitar for legends such as B.B King and Little Richard.

- Oct 15 Through November 20th The world endures the Cuban missile crisis

-The first US rocket Ranger IV lands on the moon on April 26th

-Marilyn Monroe is found dead on August 5th after apparently overdosing on sleeping pills

- Kmart and Walmart both open they're first shopping centers

- "On July 10, 1962, the first television image was transmitted to space and back. The American flag waving in front of Earth Station was seen across the United States at four thirty-five that morning. AT&T declared their partnership with NASA in 1960. AT&T designed the satellite and NASA agreed to launch it. Within thirty minutes of Telestar's launch, the satellites was capable of sending out faxes, high-speed data, and live and tapped television. Telestar was the beginning of accelerated exchange of information across the globe. Because of television's capabilities for rapidly exchanging information, it gave the media a whole new dimension, the ability to infiltrate our lives with visual culture.'"

Andy Warhol "The Pop Art Movement"

'"Pop Art, initiated in England in the mid 1950s, becomes an accepted style in the United States. New York artist Andy Warhol has his first gallery exhibition of Pop paintings in Los Angeles, where he shows the landmark series of 32 Campbell soup can paintings. This exhibition, New Paintings of Common Objects, was the first American museum exhibition of Pop Art, organized by the Pasadena Museum of Modern Art (now the Norton Simon Museum.) This new art style valued the everyday life of popular and mass culture. As a result of the rise of Pop Art, printmaking became a basic part of the creative and economic activity of major European & American artists of the 1960s because print media fit the current styles: flat color, crisp edges, fluorescent inks, metallic papers, and an emphasis on reproduction."

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 The above portrait of Elizabeth Taylor reportedly sold for over 23,000,000 Dollars

Introduction

Welcome to my research blog! 

The 60's marked a revolutionary shift in consciousness for mankind. To some it may have very well been the golden age.Not only for art, cinema, and music ... but for a generation who chose to embrace change and radical new ideas.  In the posts to come i will be detailing various artists,events,and other interesting material that came out of the year 1962.