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Friday the 13th movie poster.
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On display at the Whitney Museum of American Art, this 1981 piece by Robert Colescott brings together art with two of the topics that inspire it the most: death and sex. (https://www.whitney.org/WatchAndListen/1431)
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The Evil Dead movie poster.
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The work of Jenny Holzer is interesting as it differs drastically from what one would normally think when referencing to visual art. Rather than using scenery or abstract imagery to get her point across, the majority of the work that she produced between 1979 and 1982 was simple text. The text was "consistently provocative and occasionally frightening", taking on both issues from culture and world news to make her point. (https://caviar20.com/products/copy-of-jenny-holzer-top-secret-32-2012)
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Mark Tansey's Four Forbidden Senses (Taste, Sound, Smell, Touch) is an interesting piece that takes on the impression of a film still. (https://www.riverfronttimes.com/stlouis/greed-was-good/Content?oid=2463549)
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As one of his better known pieces, here's Six Crimee was Jean-Michel Basquiat’s way of expressing not only the every day struggles that he went through, but the struggles for the Black community on a regular basis. (https://www.sartle.com/artwork/six-crimee-jean-michel-basquiat)
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One of many entries in a ektacolor photographic collection snapped by Richard Prince between 1982 - 1984, Untitled (Fashion) is a nod to the world of pop culture at the time the image was produced. (https://www.artsy.net/artwork/richard-prince-untitled-fashion)
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Devo album cover. (https://beat.media/best-album-covers-of-the-80s)
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Creepshow movie poster.
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Pink Floyd: The Wall movie poster.
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Like with many others of his time, Jeff Koons created New! New Too! in 1983 not only as a satire of the rise of specific advertisements trends in the early 1980s, but the long term obsession that American consumerist culture has had with bringing in "the new". (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/are-you-buying-what-theyre-selling-180968251/)
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The world of print advertisement took a shift toward the heavily minimalistic in the 1980s. The majority of the ads released during the decade were straightforward in the point that they wanted to get across, and either focused "on the female as the primary consumer" or women as the selling point for products. (https://blog.designcrowd.com/article/269/the-100-year-evolution-of-print-ads#)
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Bruce Springsteen album cover. (https://beat.media/best-album-covers-of-the-80s)
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This black-and-white piece by Robert Mapplethorpe was meant to bring together not only the rise in popularity in photography as art during the 1980s, but a want to express gender and cultural identity. (https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/2740)
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Apollonia 6 album cover. (https://guff.com/some-of-the-most-80s-ish-80s-album-covers-of-the-80s)
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Gretchen Bender was one of many who produced art during the 1980s that focused upon the AIDS epidemic. First introduced in 1985, Untitled was targeted at "corporate America" and the influence that it had over the crisis. (https://bombmagazine.org/articles/gretchen-bender/)
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The Goonies movie poster.
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Fright Night movie poster.
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Revealed in 1986, Ross Blecker's Brothers' Sword is a throw back to a more traditional art style while also incoorporating modernistic approaches that were gaining traction during the 1980s. (https://www.thebroad.org/art/ross-bleckner/brothers-swords)
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SILENCE=DEATH was one of the many prominent pieces created by art activist Gran Fury in response to a massive lack of awareness in relation to the AIDS crisis throughout the 1980s. The original image was displayed throughout the streets of Manhattan in February of 1987 before being applied for window installation at the New Yorker New Museum later that year. (https://nomoi.hypotheses.org/198)
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The first of her notable work, Barbara Krueger aspired to call to attention issues with consumerism and feminism with her pieces. While meant to be a satire of a materialistic world in regards to shopping, this piece of work has been used more than once on shirts and other store bought items, ironically going against the point Brueger was originally trying to make. (http://tstuber.digitalscholar.rochester.edu/gsw100/zzheng/i-shop-therefore-i-am/)
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One of the most important artists of the 1980s and of modern times, the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat is as interesting as it is timeless. (https://www.artsy.net/artwork/keith-haring-a-pile-of-crowns-for-jean-michel-basquiat)
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Recently on display at Hrishhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, Jessica Diamond created this interesting piece to showcase how media marketed to the masses throughout the 1980s, and how those being marketed to lived on a daily basis. (https://www.flickr.com/photos/anokarina/40653583262) (https://hirshhorn.si.edu/exhibitions/brand-new-art-commodity-1980s/)
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Barbara Kruger challenged the world with her art pieces through the 1980s. Pulled together in 1989 for the Women's March on Washington, Untitled (Your body is a battleground) calls to attention the long running battle for reproductive and gender rights in the United States. (https://www.thebroad.org/art/barbara-kruger/untitled-your-body-battleground)
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De La Soul album cover. (https://beat.media/best-album-covers-of-the-80s)
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The Little Mermaid movie poster.
