Ferus Gallery Essays

In the movie Fight Club, we are led to believe that the story itself contains various meanings and impacts for its viewers to grasp. In the beginning, one possible meaning that can be inferred is based on the effects of consumerism in society that dictate one’s worth, self-image, and identity. The narrator's desire for materialistic possessions founded on his belief that “the more one has, the more enriched their life would be” drastically impacted how he viewed himself. His view of having the most

Originally written as a short story published in 1957 and first performed in Paris,France at the Odeon Theatre, Rhinoceros remains one of Eugene Ionesco’s most commonly produced plays. The popularity has not worn off since and there are many criticisms that can be applied to Ionesco’s work, such as biographical criticism and New Historical criticism. There are many parallels of Ionesco’s biography in his fictional story created in Rhinoceros. The play is also used as a mirror to reflect the society

Distrust What kind of society do you live in? It may be peaceful, fun, relaxing, or maybe a little sad caused by a recent event. But, could you even imagine living somewhere where you can’t trust one living thing around you? So much fear and distrust that would lead to hate, violence and maybe even murder. This is very uncommon in the present day, but in Rod Serling’s “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street”, this was their reality. In the 1960’s version, it was about a group of neighbors constantly

Imagine a piece of glass with waves of color being swung on the bottom of a pole, moving like a skirt being twirled. That is the image that glassblowers instill in people’s minds every day. Molding glass to make it look like ruffles on a fabric. Glass artwork can range from vases, windows, ash trays, and even bongs. All around is glass. A cup, window, and a vase are examples. However, glassblowers take a type of sea glass called cullets and place them into a kiln, a heating machine that has a hole

drawings at the Bodley Gallery, and although reviews and sales were poor, some of the less explicit drawing were selected for a show at the New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 1956. In the sixties he began a series of black and white paintings of nose jobs, wigs, television sets, charts of dance steps, all based in cheap ads found in magazines. Then he painted cartoon characters – Dick Tracy, Batman, and Popeye – then a coke bottle. Then, according to legend, a fledgling gallery owner called Muriel Latow

This work consisted of 32 canvases each painted with a different soup can. In the gallery when first presented they were hung on the wall as a regular painting would, but then they were also placed on a shelf, as they would be in a grocery store. Each can was a different flavor of soup from Campbell’s catalog of soups. There really is

destroyed but the second was ‘beautiful and naked’.” (Glaves-Smith 34) With this criticism in mind, Warhol began illustrating numerous comic strips and what would become the start of his legacy of repetitive images. In his first solo show, at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles in 1962, Warhol displayed thirty-two Campbell’s soup can paintings. There were thirty-two paintings, due to Campbell’s having thirty-two different flavored soups. When asked why, Warhol replied with, “It’s the food I have eaten for