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pop art
origin
Emerging in the mid 1950s in Britain and late 1950s in America, pop art reached its peak in the 1960s. It began as a revolt against the dominant approaches to art and culture and traditional views on what art should be.
who started pop art?
Andy Warhol, David Hockney, Richard Hamilton and Roy Lichtenstein are among those viewed as the original Pop Artists. Richard Hamilton has often been labelled the founding father of British Pop Art for outlining the aims and ideals of the movement as listed above.
artists
1900's
when they started to when they ended
Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
Keith Haring (1958-1990)
Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997)
Tom Wesselmann (1931-2004)
Mimmo Rotella (1918-2006)
Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008)
Richard Hamilton (1922-2011)
James Rosenquist (1933-2017)
background on pop art
The movement was inspired by popular and commercial culture in the western world and began as a rebellion against traditional forms of art. Pop artists felt that the art exhibited in museums or taught at schools did not represent the real world, and so looked to contemporary mass culture for inspiration instead.
characteristics of pop art
Bold Use of Colour and Imagery.
Incorporation of Consumer Culture.
Repetition and Seriality.
Irony and Critique of Society.
Playful Techniques and Innovation.
Use of Everyday Imagery.
Blurring of High and Low Art.
Celebrity and Iconography.
what were the main influences for pop artists?
Pop Art artists took inspiration from advertising, pulp magazines, billboards, movies, television, comic strips, and shop windows for their humorous, witty and ironic works, which both can be seen as a celebration and a critique of popular culture.
why do pop artists use dots?
These dots, often associated with commercial printing techniques, lent a mechanical and repetitive quality to the artworks, echoing the mass-produced nature of the consumer products they depicted. Dots are used within Pop Art as a homage to mass production and consumer culture.
