🔥 Unusual Vintage Pop Art Psychedelic Disney Mickey Mouse Batik Painting, 1960s for Sale

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🔥 Unusual Vintage Pop Art Psychedelic Disney Mickey Mouse Batik Painting, 1960s For Sale

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🔥 Unusual Vintage Pop Art Psychedelic Disney Mickey Mouse Batik Painting, 1960s:
$475.00

This is a very cool and Unusual Vintage Pop Art Psychedelic Disney Mickey Mouse Batik Painting, dye on finely woven cloth canvas, depicting the portrait of Walt Disney's legendary artistic creation, Mickey Mouse. This piece likely dates to the 1960's - 1970's and has a very striking visual presence. Batik cloth making is an artform originating from Southeast Asia, and its utilization in this portrait painting of a classic American icon is quite impressive. Approximately 16 1/4 x 20 1/4 inches (including frame.) Actual artwork is approximately 11 x 15 1/8 inches. Signed: "Olivia Chandler Walker" in graphite on the matting, in the lower right corner. I could not find any information on this artist, but perhaps you know more about her or her work. Good condition for age, with some mild scuffing and edge wear to the vintage period aluminum frame (please see photos.) Acquired in Los Angeles, California. If you like what you see, I encourage you to make an Offer. Please check out my other listings for more wonderful and unique artworks!
About the Pop Art Movement:
POP ART

Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the 1950s and flourished in the 1960s in America and Britain, drawing inspiration from sources in popular and commercial culture. Different cultures and countries contributed to the movement during the 1960s and 70s.

Emerging in the mid 1950s in Britain and late 1950s in America, pop art reached its peak in the 1960s. It began as a revolt against the dominant approaches to art and culture and traditional views on what art should be. Young artists felt that what they were taught at art school and what they saw in museums did not have anything to do with their lives or the things they saw around them every day. Instead, they turned to sources such as Hollywood movies, advertising, product packaging, pop music and comic books for their imagery.

In 1957 pop artistRichard Hamiltonlisted the ‘characteristics of pop art’ in a letter to his friends the architects Peter and Alison Smithson:

Pop Art is: Popular (designed for a mass audience), Transient (short-term solution), Expendable (easily forgotten), Low cost, Mass produced, Young (aimed at youth), Witty, Sexy, Gimmicky, Glamorous, Big business

Modernistcritics were horrified by the pop artists’ use of such ‘low’ subject matter and by their apparently uncritical treatment of it. In fact pop both took art into new areas of subject matter and developed new ways of presenting it in art and can be seen as one of the first manifestations ofpostmodernism.

AMERICAN POP VS. BRITISH POP

Although they were inspired by similar subject matter, British pop is often seen as distinctive from American pop.

Early pop art in Britain was fuelled by American popular culture viewed from a distance, while the American artists were inspired by what they saw and experienced living within that culture.

In the United States, pop style was a return to representational art (art that depicted the visual world in a recognisable way) and the use of hard edges and distinct forms after the painterly looseness ofabstract expressionism. By using impersonal, mundane imagery, pop artists also wanted to move away from the emphasis on personal feelings and personal symbolism that characterised abstract expressionism.

In Britain, the movement was more academic in its approach. While employing irony and parody, it focused more on what American popular imagery represented, and its power in manipulating people’s lifestyles. The 1950s art group The Independent Group (IG), is regarded as the precursor to the British Pop art movement.