When most think of the Nazi party, the first World War, Germany in the early nineteen hundreds the thought of art prospering in one of the most modern, creative driven buildings the world had seen. Bauhaus is a school that was originally founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar, Germany. The building itself was a work of art and within the school everything was focused, driven and geared in the direction of art. During the fourteen years the original school was in operation it moved between three cities and was under the control of three different directors.
To think of the impact that the Pop Art movement has had on our country it is hard to imagine that citizens today would be totally unaware of the true reasoning behind the movement. I have to apologize for being one of those post modern, unaware, people. When I would think of Pop Art I thought population, popularity, popular entertainment; anything but the truth. The true origin of the name came from a 1956 art collage by Richard Hamilton which pictured a naked man holding a Tootsie Pop over his private parts. The Pop popped and the name stuck.
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