1960's

In my opinion was the year of the extreme, everyone wanted to compete, weather it was to create the most powerful weapon or if it were who was going to first land on the moon.

Womans fashion was more form fitting than 1950's, women were starting to show more skin

The fashion was clean cut/ conservative, which may have been thanks to the barbie faze.

 Barbie came out 1959, which constantly promoted negative or unrealistic views to figures and women, this may sound bias however if you do some research on the doll around 1960's you will find out some quite shocking things for something aimed at young children

for example;

An outfit entitled 'Barbie Baby-sits" came with a small book which was called 'how to loose weight" which advised not eating, the same book was also reused in a 'slumber party set', along side the book was a weight scale set at 110 lb (or 7 stone 8 ) permanently.

Card Machines had begun to be used, giving people more money on hand to spend.

Op or optical as well as Acid colours were very popular on this time as the "hippie" or "recreational drug" based fashion was filled with psychedelic colours and patterns.

Bands like the rolling stones helped the fashion industry to start showing off legs, as well as wearing platform shoes and men having long hair, all inspired by this new peace loving phase

Youtube video; Pop goes the Easel

For some reason i could not find it within the youtube search on blogger so you get only a link.

It is quite interesting, it shows part of the life of some artists in the 60's and some possible influences including each other. 

This video shows a side in which the presenter is convinced the 60's were where everything went wrong, the wrong choices were made and the wrong attitude was there, so far we have heard alot of positives from this time so it is good to look into the negatives also, however alot of it seems personal opinions, including fashion and their opinions on flats and towers are what 'destroyed' towns and centers thanks to a french architect whose idea was that homes are just 'machines to be lived in'.

1960's was a very sexualised year, sex was starting to become a more open thing, showing on movies and posters, on the down side of this women were becoming more conscious of how they looked thanks to the media portraying these slimmer models. 

However there was a boom in unplanned pregnancies.

These sculptures were also made in the 60's and are still controversial to this day, however in this video it does clear a few things up, even though the presenter is pretty bias before it starts.

the artist says how he does base his work on the feminine form, he has also said that it was meant to break how artists view art, even sayin that he does not see them as women, they are just art.

A few videos would not load properly on the website i get them from however these are the ones i skimmed through, the shorter videos were watched with a finer comb.

Though i do like the acidic fashion of the 60's, however i do want to learn more about influences via television, posters and so on.