It is broadly believed that French Rococo art faded as soon as Neoclassicism arose; yet, the aesthetic of Rococo by no means totally disappeared and was so popular that throughout the Second Empire, it was thought to be France’s nationwide fashion. In Germany, the counterpart to the American Pop Art movement was Capitalist Realism, a movement that focused on topics taken from commodity tradition and utilized an aesthetic based mostly within the mass media. The group was founded by Sigmar Polke in 1963 and included artists Gerhard Richter and Konrad Lueg as its central members. The Capitalist Realists sought to reveal the consumerism and superficiality of contemporary capitalist society through the use of the imagery and aesthetic of popular art and promoting inside their work. Polke explored the inventive potentialities of mechanical reproduction and Lueg examined popular culture imagery, whereas Richter dissected the photographic medium.
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