80's!

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80's!
Alex Rand 6th period
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Art of the 80's

• abstract expressionism freely created abstract
  works of art.
• Painting was very popular
• Art was big there were many active collectors
  and young artists.
• Public arts, feminist arts, and artist run spaces
  grew in importance.

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Art of the 80's
Art of the 80's
"Emerging Styles"

• Neo-expressionism figurative painting, usually
  with a violent or doom laden subject.
• Graffiti hip-hop type of artwork. There are many
  different styles, but all have a connection with
  street culture.
• Appropriation copying or incorporating a
  picture/painting, but representing it in a
  different context.

Appropriation
Graffiti
Neo-Expressionism
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Art of the 80's
Artists
'You Are Not Yourself' -Barbara Kruger

• Neoexpressionist Artists
• Jean-Michel Basquiat
• Susan Rothenberg
• Julian Schnabel
• Graffiti Artists
• Keith Haring
• Jean-Michel Basquiat
• Appropriation Artists
• Gretchen Bender
• Barbara Kruger
• Sherrie Levine
• Robert Longo

'Boy and Dog in a Johnnypump' - Jean-Michel
Basquiat
'Bob's World' - Julian Schnabel
'Primo' -Susan Rothenberg
'DJ' -Keith Harring
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Literature of the 80's

• Literature focused on race and power, while still
  focusing on themes from the 60s and 70s, such
  as lust, feminism and sexuality.
• Certain books focused on certain aspects
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker focused on race
  and power
• Beloved by Toni Morrison focused on race, lust,
  and power
• Bonfire of the Vanities by Daniel Wolfe focused
  on greed, lust racism and power.
• The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood focused on
  feminism and power

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Literature of the 80's

• Best Sellers
• The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum (1980)
• Miss Piggy's Guide to Life by Miss Piggy as
  told to Henry Beard (1981)
• 2010 Odyssey Two by Arthur C. Clarke (1982)

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TV in the 80's

• Popular TV shows in the 80s
• The A-Team
• The Cosby Show
• Dallas
• Dynasty
• Fantasy Island
• Punky Brewster
• General Hospital
• Growing Pains

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TV in the 80's

• Popular Shows
• Growing Pains(85-92)
• The misadventures of a family with a home
  business father and a journalist mother
• Feat. Kirk Cameron, Teen Idol of the 80s
• The A-Team(1983)
• -Four Vietnam vets, framed for a crime they
  didn't commit, help the innocent while on the run
  from the military.
• Stared Mr. T

'Growing Pains'
Mr. T
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Movies in the 80's

• Movies were a very popular pastime they left
  impressions on the culture (i.e. fashion, etc)
• 20 million people attended the movies per week!
• Popular movies included A Christmas Story, Back
  to the Future, Better Off Dead, The Breakfast
  Club, Empire Strikes Back, E.T. Extra
  Terrestrial, Ferris Buellers Day Off,
  Flashdance, Ghostbusters, Just One of the Guys,
  The Lost Boys, Pretty in Pink, Purple Rain, Say
  Anything, Sixteen Candles, Valley Girl.

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Movies in the 80's
Popular Movies

• Back To the Future (1985)
• One of the most popular movies of the 80s
• Michael J. Fox Marty McFly
• Plot In 1985, a doctor creates a time machine,
  and while traveling back to 1955, McFly almost
  prevents his parents from meeting.

Doctor Brown
Marty McFly
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Movies in the 80's
Popular Movies

• Flashdance (1983)
• Another very popular 80s movie
• Reason leg warmers were such as success in the
  80s
• Plot A girl is a steel worker by day and an
  exotic dancer by night.

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Fashion in the 80's

• People of the 80s expressed their creativity
  through their clothes.
• Some men wore heavy make-up and grew long hair,
  women had shorter hair and wore layers of
  clothing

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Fashion in the 80's
Hair Styles

• Huge, gargantuan hair and high teased bangs
• Asymmetrical hair cuts were apart of the New
  Wave movement
• Side ponytails sometimes frizzed by a crimping
  iron
• Rat tails also called rodents or waterfowls
  were popular among everyone.
• Mullets (a.k.a. the Uncle Jesse style)

Teased Hair
Side Ponytail
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Fashion in the 80's

• Popular clothing items were leg warmers,
  parachute pants, add-a-bead necklaces, the
  Madonna look, neon, acid wash jeans, the preppie
  look, members only jackets, layered socks,
  oversized shirts, wayfarer sunglasses, swatch
  watches, jelly shoes (jellies), knit square end
  ties, friendship pins, Reebok high tops, Chuck
  Taylors converse.

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Fashion in the 80's
Madonna

• Leg Warmers-thick, comfy, footless socks.
• The Madonna Look
• hers was the most copied and sought after look
• She wore lots of layers, necklaces and bracelets

Leg Warmers
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Pastimes of the 80's
Pastimes of the 80's

• People of the 80s enjoyed
• Going to the movies
• TV
• Atari/Video Games
• Going to concerts
• Just hanging out (teenagers)
• Aerobics
• Collecting things
• Playing sports (kids/teens)

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Pastimes of the 80's

• Atari
• released in 1972 with pong, and 1977 VCS home
  system was released
• although it was created in the 70s, it was a big
  hit in the 80s
• Pong, Space Invaders, Pac-Man
• defined 80s game play

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History in the 80's

• Presidents 1981-1988 Ronald Regan, George Bush
  1989
• -January 12th, 1986 the space shuttle the
  Challenger Exploded
• -1980 1989 Americans gave 115,000,000,000 to
  charity!
• -1989 the Berlin Wall was physically destroyed
• -status became important people like Donald
  Trump and Leona Helmsley were idolized
• - Famine in Ethiopia was shown to the world on
  our television screens in 1984 1985. This
  caused Americans New ways to help including the
  Live Aid concert and many of the most popular
  stars contributed their time and performed for
  free in cities throughout the world.
• -John Lennon was shot outside his apartment.

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Music in the 80's

• 8 track tapes
• Music was very diverse
• -covers a wide variety and highly diverse set of
  music styles from the good, the bad, and the
  downright ugly.but in each of these categories
  there were jewels- songs and bands that remain
  with us.

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Music in the 80's
Pop Music

• Popular artists Madonna, Tiffany, Michael
  Jackson, Debbie Gibson, Kylie Minogue, Belinda
  Carlisle, the Bangles or New Kids on the Block.
• 80s pop music not only defined a good portion of
  80s music, but it was a theme for the daily
  life.

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Music in the 80's
Music in the 80's
New Wave Music

• evolved from bands like the Ramones and Blondie.
• new wave emerged from punk rock as a reaction to
  pop music.
• Popular New wave bands Heart, A-ha, The b-52s,
  Dead or Alive, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, The
  Go-Gos, INXS, The Police, Soft Cell

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Music in the 80's
Hair Metal Music

• Popular bands Bon Jovi, Cinderella, Motley Crue,
  Def Leppard, Poison, Guns n Roses, Skid Row,
  Great White, KISS, Whitesnake, Quiet Riot, Telsa,
  Van Halen, Iron Maiden, Dokken, Scorpions, Ratt,
  Ozzy Osbourne, Warrant, W.A.S.P.
• About show wore lots of make-up and elaborate
  outfits.

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Number one Billboard Hits ('80-'89)

• 80. Escape (the Pina Colada Song) Rupert Holmes
• 81. Just Like Starting Over - John Lennon
• 82. Physical Olivia Newton John
• 83. Maneater - Hall Oates
• 84. Say Say Say Paul McCartney feat. Michael
  Jackson
• 85. like a Virgin Madonna
• 86. Say You, Say Me Lionel Richie
• 87. Walk like An Egyptian The Bangles
• 88. Faith George Michael
• 89. Every Rose has its Thorn Poison

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80's Song
'Sweet Child o'Mine' - Guns n' Roses
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Sources

• http//kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade80.html
• http//www.thepeoplehistory.com/1980s.html
• http//www.niagara.edu/CAM/special/Art_of_80s/Intr
  oduction/intro.html
• http//imdb.com
• http//www.liketotally80s.com/