fig.1
This is an image that is an example of pop art from the 1960's and 1970's by Roy Lichtenstein. This is also an example of manipulation of scale. The image is a frame from a comic book that has been enlarged and put on canvas and displayed in a gallery. Much of Lichtensteins work was very similar. The aim of this work was to bring what used to be considered the high and low cultures and bring them together to form a unified culture. By taking a small frame from a comic, a medium considered to be a part of low culture, and enlarging it and putting it on canvas and displaying in a gallery, where high culture is normally displayed, he attempted to show that the work that goes into a single comic frame, though considered insignificant by the higher cultured is in fact on par with that of the high culture. This aimed to show that their beliefs in high and low culture was unfounded and that the world only had one level of true culture to which everyone belonged.
References
fig.1 Roy L.(1963) "Drowning Girl" Retrieved October 7 2011, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Roy_Lichtenstein_Drowning_Girl.jpg
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