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Friday the 13th
Friday the 13th movie poster. -
The Three Graces: Art, Sex and Death
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) -
The Evil Dead
The Evil Dead movie poster. -
"End of the USA", Inflammatory Essays
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) -
Four Forbidden Senses (Taste, Sound, Smell, Touch)
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) -
Six Crimee
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) -
Untitled (Fashion)
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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Creepshow
Creepshow movie poster. -
Pink Floyd: The Wall
Pink Floyd: The Wall movie poster. -
New! New Too!
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/) -
Budweiser
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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Ken Moody and Robert Sherman
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) -
Apollonia 6
Apollonia 6 album cover. (https://guff.com/some-of-the-most-80s-ish-80s-album-covers-of-the-80s) -
Untitled (People with AIDS)
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/) -
The Goonies
The Goonies movie poster. -
Fright Night
Fright Night movie poster. -
Brothers' Sword
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) -
Silence=Death-Project
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) -
I shop therefore I am
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/) -
A Pile of Crowns
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) -
Eat Sugar, Spend Money
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/) -
Untitled (Your body is a battleground)
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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The Little Mermaid
The Little Mermaid movie poster.
