How Eduardo Paolozzis Sculptural Collages Shaped American Culture

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Artist: Eduardo Paolozzi Topic: Eduardo Paolozzi's Impact on American Culture Art comes with the application or expression of individual creative skills and imagination. Such creative skills remain best expressed through painting or sculpture in most cases. The result defines beauty and emotional power as expressed through the artistic work. However, because art involves expressing creative skills, any other activity like composing and performing songs, photographing, poetry, and writing are also forms of art that express the artist’s creative thinking before compiling and delivering them in any situation. Eduardo Paolozzi was a prominent, prolific, and inventive Scottish sculptor and artist whose creative skills defined his ability to communicate his message through artistic work. Paolozzi's works depicted biomorphic forms to demonstrate the relationship between humans and machines attributed to technological advancement (Coldwell, 1-2. Paolozzi is an artist whose influence on the American culture remains well expressed through the impacts of the progressive technological advancement in all odds of life with particular attention to artworks. An artist is anyone with defined abilities in creative thinking and expression of such thought through any art form like songs, paints, poems, sculptures, etc. Paolozzi was born in Scotland and produced large-scale figurative sculptures, collages, and prints made from magazines and other scrapheap objects (Martin, 2. Therefore, one can argue Paolozzi was a man who used traditional high-end materials to express his creative skills in making sculptures and graphic works which justifies him as an artist. In a post in "The Economist" 1843 magazine by Jane Morris, the author confirms that commercial packaging from his parents’ ice-cream parlor surrounding Paollozi's childhood played a significant role in inspiring his screen print artistic work (Morris, 1. However, the availability of the scrapheap from the ice-cream parlor allowed this artist to explore his abilities by appreciating different cultures through his piece. Paolozzi made collages mixing trashy magazines cut-outs with wartime postcards and American adverts (Morris, 1. Such creative combinations prefigured works of more famous American artists like Roy Lichtenstein, speaking loud to the American culture that artists had a significant role in shaping the future of their economies even though it was a period of war. Progress and technology theme remains well defined in his first pieces of art as he started his sculptor work using concrete and advanced to trashy magazine cut-outs speaking to American on the impact such a popular culture may have in the future. Paolozzi has expressed great love for American culture since his childhood. The collection of his artistic works involved cut-outs featuring Hollywood stars or military vehicles like airplanes which prompted a life-long fascination with both American culture and the relationship between machinery and humans (Coldwell, 2. The artist urged to communicate the effects that technology would have in defining the relationship between humans and machines aimed at influencing the American artists in current and in future on the need to work out their minds to make their message well communicated through the available resources with improvements from time to time In expressing American consumer culture, Paolozzi employed the available used American magazines to cut colorful images, cartoons, and photographed images of attractive women used to market products and assembled them to communicate the extent of effects that such an American culture may have in the competitive market (Theartstory.Org) The love this artist had for the American culture led him to direct so much energy of his art work to tell American artists that they had the power to rule globally regardless of whatever material was available back then while working on their art. To this effect, this artist influenced both the young American and British artists, giving them all the reasons to consider...