aesthetic<\/span><\/a> use of everyday objects, rather than critique them as consumer objects. He once said: \u201cI dislike labels in general and ‘Pop’ in particular, especially because it overemphasizes the material used. There does seem to be a tendency to use similar materials and images, but the different ways they are used denies any kind of group intention.”<\/span><\/p>\nThe artist, however, was clearly in dialogue with his Pop predecessors and contemporaries, among them Lichtenstein and Warhol, with whom he shared an interest in the commodification of the female form and still life. <\/span><\/p>\nIn addition to being widely known for his paintings of “The Great American Nude”, Tom Wesselmann was a master of the still life. The creation of settings in his works, as opposed to the representation of a lone object is primarily what sets him apart from the other pop artists, and the pop movement. He was a modern-day Matisse who made use of Pop imagery. <\/span><\/p>\nIn this week’s Work Of the Week! (WOW), Still Life with Liz,<\/i> Tom Wesselman is taking Andy Warhol’s Liz Taylor and placing it in his painting as nothing more than an object in a room, \u00a0 <\/span>He is creating a familiar and recognizable setting, in which you can imagine yourself walking into a home, and seeing a console with a vase positioned next to a painting.<\/span><\/p>\nBy using Warhol\u2019s Liz Taylor<\/i>, Wesselmann is not only affirming Andy Warhol\u2019s place in art history as a pop artist, but also using Warhol\u2019s iconic pop art image as an everyday object, solidifying Andy Warhol\u2019s artwork as a work of art.\u00a0 <\/span>In other words (in a reversed or opposite sort of way), Tom Wesselmann is applying the very same concept to his art work that Andy Warhol did.<\/span><\/p>\nWarhol took everyday objects and turned them into art.\u00a0 <\/span>We call his style of art \u201cpop art\u2019.\u00a0 <\/span>Tom Wesselmann took Warhol\u2019s image of Liz Taylor and turned it into an everyday object by placing this image in his artwork.\u00a0 <\/span>The image of Liz in this still life is no different than a 7up bottle or a package of Wonder Bread in other still life works by Wesselmann.<\/span><\/p>\nAndy Warhol made Liz Taylor accessible by allowing us to hang her on our wall.\u00a0 <\/span>He is credited with democratizing art.\u00a0 <\/span>Tom Wesselmann affirms this concept showing us just that.\u00a0 <\/span>He has taken a pop art painting and turned it into a painting of pop art.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Wesselmann Still Life with Liz 1993 Screenprint 59 1\/2 x 57 in. Edition of 90 Pencil signed and numbered Tom Wesselmann never considered himself a Pop artist. He would point out that he made aesthetic use of everyday objects, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[79,14,84,25,248,8,83,9,15,102,73,46,47,56,88,222,17,89],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":958,"href":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions\/958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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