El comic como medio de representacion de la vida cotidiana

Abstract

Everyday life has been part of art since its beginnings, artists had adopted it to any form and artistic branch that has been developed in each period throughout history. Which has been portrayed in different ways, either in a reliable way, co-opting reality as it is to the point of abstraction or total distortion of reality. Pop art is one of the artistic movements that emerged from the twentieth century, bright colors, serial products and icons of popular culture, are the elements that characterize this art. At the same time, comics began to have greater strength at this time, not only covering political issues, but also social problems and scenarios of everyday life. Within this artistic movement, the artists experimented and combined different techniques to develop the proposals. Painting and comics opened up a new form of artistic expression within all these forms of artistic expression and a clear example of this are the works of the American artist Roy Lichtenstein. In his works, Lichtenstein made use of the form, color and iconographic of the popular culture of the twentieth century, taking as his main starting point the animated characters of Walt Disney or scenes from the stories that made lucent to the wars of that time. He decontextualized them and showed them in different scenarios, changing the text and colors in order to show a critique mainly of the lifestyle he led in the 60s. In everyday life, not only activities are developed with a positive result, but also activities are generated spontaneously, not at all expected. Which at the time of execution provoke in the person a negative and frustrating reaction, but, with the passing of minutes or hours it becomes funny, thus creating a funny anecdote. The following research project aims to reproduce unfortunate scenarios, but with a funny denouement of everyday life through painting and comics. Both artistic branches are ideal for developing the proposal, as they allow the essence of these scenes to be captured in a comical way. The artistic proposal of the following research project is made up of five canvases, in which each scenario will be represented through bright and flat colors, characteristic of Pop Art. In addition to this, within the composition will be included essential elements in the design of the comic, such as: text balloons, caricature and onomatopoeias.