POP ART

After dadaism, now we go further to another famous art movement, which is POP ART.
In here writer (me) want to share some information/ articles about what is pop art and who is the famous artists from this art movement and their masterpiece.

Popular Art or we known it as POP ART, is an art movement originated in England on 1950's and then spread to overseas to Unites States during 1960's. This art movement was marked by popular culture reflecting post-war society. I just found that this pop art term was first used by English critic, named Lawrence Alloway in 1958 because he saw that all post-war work was centered on consumerism and materialism and reject the abstract expressionism.

The term Pop art was first used by English critic, Lawrence Alloway in 1958 in an edition of Architectural Digest. He was describing all post-war work centered on consumerism and materialism, and that rejected the psychological allusions of Abstract Expressionism. An attempt to bring art back into American daily life, it rejected abstract painting because of its sophisticated and elite nature. Pop Art shattered the divide between the commercial arts and the fine arts. source: http://wwar.com/masters/movements/pop_art.html

this art movement style, influence the artist who did the picture or image for mass media, advertising, comics, and consumer product at that time.

POP ART has three major distinguishing characteristics:

Firstly,it is both figurative and realist,something that avant-garde had not been since its very beginnigs with Courbet's Realism

Firstly, it is both figurative and realist, something that avant-garde had not been since its very beginnings with Courbet's Realism.

Secondly, Pop was created in New York and London, and the world it looks out on is therefore the very special world of the great mid 20th century metropolis. Pop is routed in the urban environment. Not only that, but Pop looks at special aspects of that environment, aspects because of their associations and cultural level seemed at first impossible as subjects of art. These were: comics and picture magazines; advertisements and packaging of all kinds; the world of popular entertainment, including Hollywood movies, pop music and fair grounds, amusement arcades, radio, television and tabloid newspapers; consumer durables, especially perhaps refrigerators and automobiles; highways and gs stations; foods stuffs, especially hot dogs, ice cream and pie; and, last but not least, money.

Thirdly, pop artist deal with this subject matter in a very special way, on one hand they insist that the comic strip or soup can or whatever is simply a ‘motif', an excuse for a painting, like an apple in a still-life Cezanne. SOURCE: http://www.articlesbase.com/art-articles/characteristics-of-pop-art-2614051.html

if we wanna take a look at the pop art work from the famous artist, we can take a conclusion that characteristic pop art are bright and colorful. this movement was marked by clear lines, sharp paintwork and clear representations of symbols,objects and people from popular culture.

Pop artists also liked to satirize objects, sometimes enlarging those objects to gigantic porportions (see the giant spoon and cherry at the bottom of this page). Food was a common theme, but so were household objects such as chairs and toilets being made of squishy plastic instead of the materials you would normally expect.SOURCE : http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/popart/

if someone asked me who is the famous artist from POP ART I would say ANDY WARHOL, because he brought Pop Art to the public eye. He did the Coke bottles with screen prints technique, and then the famous Campbell's soup tins and film stars that all become the icon of the 20th century. But there is a lot of pop art artist, we can say Roy Lichtenstein,Jasper Johns, Eduardo Paolozzi, Roy Hamilton,RObert Rauschenberg and Claes Oldenburg.