HIGH ART
L'art pour l'art:Wikipedia defines it as:
the usual English rendering of a French slogan from the early 19th century, "l'art pour l'art", and expresses a philosophy that the intrinsic value of art, and the only "true" art, is divorced from any didactic, moral, or utilitarian function. Such works are sometimes described as "autotelic", from the Greek autoteles, "complete in itself", a concept that has been expanded to embrace "inner-directed" or "self-motivated" human beings.
POP CULTURE
Wikipedia definition:the entirety of attitudes, ideas, images, perspectives, and other phenomena within the mainstream of a given culture, especially Western culture of the early to mid-20th century and the emerging global mainstream of the late 20th and early 21st century.[citation needed] Heavily influenced by mass media, this collection of ideas permeates the everyday lives of the society. The most common pop culture categories are: entertainment (movies, music, television, games, memes), sports, news (as in people/places in news), politics, fashion/clothes, technology, and slang.[1] Popular culture has a way of influencing an individual's attitudes towards certain topics.[2]Popular culture is sometimes viewed as being trivial and "dumbed down" in order to find consensual acceptance throughout the mainstream. As a result, it comes under heavy criticism from various non-mainstream sources (most notably religious groups and countercultural groups) which deem it superficial, consumerist, sensationalist, or corrupt.[3][4][5][6][7]Oxford Dictionaries entry (click the read more tag for more examples):
APPLIED TO ORIGINAL ARTIST
David Bowie is a good example, he has actually said what he does as a musician is turn high art into low art, what he calls popular culture. Though the wider market of rock music, a pop music genre, he wanted to
be the instigator of new ideas, I wanted turn people on to new ideas and new perspectives, I always wanted to be that kind of catalytic kind of thing. (Source)he was:
only using rock and roll as a medium.APPLIED TO SUEDE
There's a tension to produce pop music and music that's artistically relevant, they now seem to have gone down the direction of arthouse.
More example sentences:
- ‘The subjects of his art are pop culture, not the fleshy Renaissance portraits of his predecessors.’
- ‘Its got pop culture and a cheeky little thesis without being too serious.’
- ‘I mention this only to indicate I still have one toe clinging to current pop culture.’
- ‘Instead, pop culture, European legends and dramatic arts are clearly traceable.’
- ‘I suppose news is part of our pop culture in that it's generally news that makes the culture.’
- ‘The popularity of Korean pop culture, appropriately enough, is soaring in East Asia.’
- ‘Here's an interesting piece looking at the psychology of one of pop culture's greatest icons.’
- ‘If the current pop culture barometer is any indication, I may be one of the coolest people alive today.’
- ‘Call me low-rent, but I've got a thing for pop culture and those who study it.’
- ‘As far as I can see, American pop culture only ever has room for one joke about the French.’
- ‘The wild images of two new New Zealand novels are influenced by the giddy spirit of American pop culture.’
- ‘My housemate was never more right than when it comes to my tastes in pop culture.’
- ‘In pop culture practice is this emphasis on personal and subjectively intuited spirituality new?’
- ‘I'm curious to know what others think about the current pop culture depiction of human machines.’
- ‘The series also does a fine job of juggling references to pop culture and high culture.’
- ‘Or maybe it is simply to display your talent for cheap cynicism and catchy pop culture low talk?’
- ‘It's a lively locus of geekery, pop culture and technology activism.’
- ‘As wonderfully absurd an image as you could wish of recent Kiwi incursions into the wider pop culture world.’
- ‘The beginning of January can be a tenuous time for those of us who habitually follow pop culture.’
- ‘I am in the latter camp - I love lowbrow pop culture, the seamier and seedier the better.’
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