While on a work trip to Vienna last month I visited the fabulous Albertina museum to see the (on view until July 14, 2024). I was so inspired by the exhibition that all I’ve wanted to wear ever since has been my vintage Screen Stars/Flying Fish Lichtenstein tee, purchased online last year. Little did I know that posting a photo of myself to Instagram wearing it would cause the kerfuffle it did! The graphic on the tee displays a distraught woman holding her head in her hand as the text bubble above her reads, ” Most people ran to my DMs to enquire as to the origins of the tee whilst proclaiming, (And FYI if you are one of those people, I found another one and it’s linked in this article.
) On the other, less fun side of the internet coin, people told me that I would end up alone with no loving family and nothing but my “shallow paintings of shoes” to comfort me. Thankfully, through a patented mix of retinol and consistently posting on the internet for ten years, I’ve grown a thick skin. The out-of-line comments were not taken to heart, but they did get me thinking.
..what about Pop Art makes an outfit “pop”? Artists such as Lichtenstein and Warhol looked to advertisements to shine a light on the most shameless and threatening parts of our culture.
Lichtenstein pointedly explored and then ironically displayed the clichés of femininity and masculinity. This tension, along with the graphic nature of the subject matter of Pop Art starts a dialogue that most clothin.
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