Contemporary art after the Second World War

Contemporary art, like the rest of the disciplines and facets of society, was eminently paralyzed during the Second World War. But then it resurfaced, it came to the surface with strength and with renewed energy. This is how the second avant-garde emerged: American abstract expressionism or minimalist art. Artistic creation became an object of consumption and collecting skyrocketed. And in that context, minds and brushes like Andy Warhol's began to shine.

Those considered minor arts, such as comics, illustration or graphic design, ceased to be such and began to become objects of worship and of the masses. The art became pop and began to be called pop art. And Andy Warhol became a rock star; He even illustrated album covers for some of them: he designed the famous banana that decorated the no less remembered album by The Velvet Underground.

Perhaps this current is one of those that has accumulated the greatest significance, since its echoes are still heard today in other disciplines, such as photography. You only have to look at the series that Piepaolo Ferrari shot for the Cervezas Alhambra create/without/hurry platform to see it: they are pure pop reminiscence.