The Marvel Universe – image marvel.wikia.com
For centuries, visual arts have been used by artists as means of communicating their knowledge about the world. Drawings, paintings and sculptures contain a certain quota of information that is shared with viewers who chose to be confronted with the work.
Art is created by human emotions and observations; for many artists the only way of expression. For one person, it could be a way of escaping from the reality; for someone a way of showing their feelings. But what has an influence on such a frame of mind? Culture has a huge impact on what we feel and how we perceive the world.
Culture is the characteristics and knowledge of a particular group of people, defined by everything from language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and arts. Both culture and art have a strong relation to each other. Art and Culture are symbiotic. Culture doesn’t exist without art, and art without culture. A great example worth mentioning is the Marvel Comics era. For some people, comics are not art, but I believe that art is a wider concept; everything that is ‘spoken’ in a creative way could be defined as art.
The phenomenon of Marvel Comics started almost a century ago when William Blake created the first super hero – Namor the Sub-Mariner. Ruler of Undersea, ‘The offspring of a sea captain and an Atlantean princess, he has been both a hero and a villain to the surface world.’ Creating superheroes in the early 1940s was not accidental. The cold time of World War II pushed people to create a character that was strong, courageous and brave enough to stand out and to be a leader. To create The Man who will protect the world from any catastrophe.
But Marvel Comics were not just about characters. They were a way of visibly showing them. ‘Bright vivid colours often accompanied bold, simplistic shapes and soft lines for a distinct and recognisable shape.’ The genre of printed drawn narrations slowly penetrated into high art which resulted in creation of Pop Art movement. It was also when commercial art and advertising started turning into art.
Jeff Coons
Pop Art is sometimes seen as the zone of terrifying truth and beautiful graphic; through it, artists protest against traditional themes of morality, religion, and history. Well-known artists of the twentieth century as Roy Lichtenstein, Keith Haring, Jeff Coons and Andy Warhol widely used this technique in their work. Their art was different from previous periods. In that time, it was something unexpected and by many not understandable. How could straightforward irony and simple drawings be an art?
Marily Monroe – Andy Warhol
In the times of Romanticism, Impressionism, Expressionism, art was a hidden book of undiscovered stories and speculation, so in contract the pop art movement was ‘easy readable’ art. But who is the right person to judge? Artists in each period have their own ‘followers’, and they are often inspired by precursors but who wanted to ‘improve’, add and move forward the art.
If Pop Art had successors, then graffiti was surely one of them. The Graffiti Movement appeared as one of the logical continuations of the pop art tendencies. I have no doubt that whenever someone call something graffiti what comes to minds are such associations as witty limericks, obscene drawings, and colourful slogans – and the well-known British graffiti (street art) painter: Banksy, considered by some, one of the 21st century’s most significant artists.
Banksy
For some people, Banksy is considered as one of the 21st century’s most significant artists. No Face, No Rules, just ‘truth’. ‘The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It’s people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.’ Banksy, Wall and Piece
Going back to the initial question on how Marvel Comics influence modern culture… Each form of art, whether widely recognised eg Marvels Comics or less popular, have an irreversible impact on other art movements. This is clearly visible in the transition process of the art movement from the Marvel Era to the Graffiti Period.
Marvel Comics covers – image source.superherostuff.com
Pop art is HOT and the superheroes trend is even making venues like JPR Media STK Ibiza literally pop with massive comic book paintings placed on walls for events such as the A-list attended Global Gift Gala launch hosted by Eva Herzigova.
Article by Magda of JPR Media Group
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