Looking at art from the the more modern era I stumbled across a painting titled "Just What Is It that Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?" by Richard Hamilton. Created in 1956 this collage became the first piece of "pop art" to become iconic. The collage is created from a variety of images from various American Magazines. In the collage, one can see a television, a beautiful woman, a strong man, with a staircase in the background with a window pearing out on to the lights of the theater in the city. The collage paints a picture of the new lavish lifestyle people began to live during the 50's and 60's. The sterotypical American Dream in the suburbs was being born at this time. Having a beautiful house with a wife at home and the exciting city just a quick car ride away was the dream. It fascinates me to see how such a collage could capture what life was like back in those days. When I think of making a collage today I probably would imagine it filled with iPods, Iphones, Laptops, the latest clothes, moveis, etc with maybe the 3-d Avatar playing in the background. The dream of the suburban life is not as it used to be with the younger generations leaving the suburbs and rual areas for the cities. Times have changed now, from our daily lives to the happenings around the world. Whether or not times have changed completly for the better or for the worse can be debated, but it surely has evolved into something no one could have seen decades ago.
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