"Making money is art, and working is art, and good business is the best art." -Andy Warhol

Wow...interesting stuff in those last two chapters. I particularly enjoyed the comparisons of advertising art to that of the Holy Roman Empire. Thought out, and presented very well. Here we have a writer, as opposed to Klein, the rabble-rouser. He articulately presented his ideas in an objective and comprehensive manner. Nice job Mr. Twitchell.

Several things in the reading really sparked some ideas/memories for me. This blog may be kind of scatter shot, but hopefully interesting. Please excuse any rambling. I've slept little over the last week. Thursday thanks to...

RUSH

Sorry, just wanted to practice link-making....anyway...back to business.

As I've stated before I love the concept of the High vs. Low arts. The penultimate chapter of ADCULT accurately discussed the melding of the two, in comparison to selling religion during the Renaissance. Now, as we look back at art through the age of advertising we find many antique advertising artists praised as high art:

Alphonse Mucha

George Petty

Then came the pop art movement. These artists actually took advertising, graphics and comic art and made it high art:

Where Andy Warhol turns everyday items like a Soup Can and Box of Brillo pads into art. Or Roy Lichtenstein uses supremely low-brow comic book imagery to captivate the critics.

Now we have the high art world of film taking from comic books to be critically acclaimed:


And even garner Oscar-calibre films:



I have to say, I find many advertisements more interesting than this trash by one of America's financially more successful artists, Michael Godard.

And finally, for all of you pop art fans, here we have the complete blending of art and commerce:

Andy Warhol




More about the Art Cars

This is funny to see:



Salvador Dali, or should we say, SELLvador Dali?





And finally, it all comes together, early branding meets the arts. Song should have done their homework...Interestingly, branding, art and sports join to become one here:






"I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money. "

-Andy Warhol