Art movements: pop art
Characteristics of pop art:
Pop art is art that is based on modern popular culture and the mass media, especially as a critical or ironic comment on traditional fine art values. Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the United Kingdom and the United States during the mid- to late-1950s. The movement presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular and mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural objects. One of its aims is to use images of popular culture in art, emphasizing the cliché elements of any culture, most often through the use of irony. It is also associated with the artists' use of mechanical means of reproduction or rendering techniques. In pop art, material is sometimes visually removed from its known context, isolated, or combined with unrelated material.
Key design elements:
Some of the more striking key elements of Pop art are comic strips using the color dots and flat tones of commercial printing; meticulously literal paintings and silk-screen prints of soup-can labels, soap cartons, and rows of soft-drink bottles. The predominant colors used by Pop Art artists are yellow, red and blue. The colors used are vivid.
Pop Art artists:
I found these next three Pop art artists on the internet seen as I wanted one person who was well known for doing pop art and two other people who were less known for doing pop art or a version similar to it.
Jim Dine: Jim Dine is an American painter, graphic artist, sculptor, and poet who emerged during the Pop art period as an innovative creator of works that combine the painted canvas with ordinary objects of daily life.
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Julian Opie:Opie became well known in the British art scene in the 1980s through his highly inventive series of painted metal sculptures. These sculptures humorously combined loosely painted imagery with steel shapes. By the end of the decade his sculptures became larger, more austere and minimal, and were often based on a relationship between art and architecture.
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Andy Warhol:
Andy Warhol was an American artist, director and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture, and advertising that flourished by the 1960s, and span a variety of media, including painting, photography, film, and sculpture. Some of his best known works include the silkscreen paintings Campbell's Soup Cans and Marilyn Diptych, the experimental film Chelsea Girls, and the multimedia events known as the Exploding Plastic Inevitable.
Examples of Andy Warhol's work:
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How was pop art influenced by world events:
Pop art was influenced from popular and commercial culture which it coincided with the globalization of advertising, pop music, movies and the media. The consumer boom in the 1950's and the sense of optimism throughout the culture, influenced the work of pop artists. As more products were mass produced and marketed and advertised, artists began creating art from object found in the media.