Pop
What links them is a refusal to be embarrassed by mass produced imagery and loud color, a stance that turns up in art, furniture, characters and interiors alike.
Dictionary entry
- Pop Art 1950s–1960s / Style
Amplifies the vocabulary of ads and comics until mass culture itself becomes the picture.
- Memphis 1980s / Style
Laughs off functionalism and enjoys the dissonance of shape and color.
- Kidcore 1990s nostalgia / Style
Recalls toys, stickers and school supplies in unconditionally bright color.
- Kawaii 1970s– / Aesthetic
Japan's aesthetic of round contours, big eyes, pastel and looseness that summons the urge to protect. From girls' handwriting and fancy goods it softened the surface of an entire society, from public signage to corporate mascots.
- Tiki Style 1934–1960s / revival / Aesthetic
The Polynesia dreamed up by American bars and restaurants. Carved figures, bamboo, torches and mai tai glasses gave style to a postwar wish to escape. It is an imaginary South Seas, and it should be read together with its history of borrowing from Pacific cultures.
- Chicago Imagists mid-1960s–1980s / Style
Chicago painters who compressed comics, advertising, folk art, sideshows, and ornament into distorted bodies, hard contours, acidic color, and intensely personal hand-painted image worlds.
- Figuration Libre 1980s / Style
A 1980s French return to figuration that released comics, rock, television, advertising, and graffiti into fast contours, saturated flat color, painted stories, walls, and posters.