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Pop Art Facts: Fast Fact Sheet
Fast, fun facts and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)
about the Pop Art.
What is Pop Art? Pop Art is a modern art
style, a new form of "Popular" art that drew
inspiration from cultural icons such as
movie stars or popular, mass media imagery
as used in comic strips, advertisements and
product labels. Artists believed that art
could be anything, and made out of anything.
When did Pop Art start?
Pop Art started in the mid 1950's, gaining
in popularity in the 1960's.
What are the characteristics of Pop Art? The
characteristics of
Pop Art include bright, vivid, quirky
colors, repetition of shapes, dark bold
lines, simplistic shapes and the use of the
collage technique. The images were generally
presented with a combination of humor,
criticism and irony.
Who were the main artists of Pop Art?
The most famous artists who adopted the Pop Art
style were Andy Warhol, David Hockney,
Roy Lichtenstein and Peter Blake. Names of
other main artists include Eduardo Paolozzi,
Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, Claes
Oldenburg, Jim Dine, Tom Wesselmann, Kurt
Schwitters, May Wilson, James Rosenquist and
Alex Katz.
Pop Art - Famous Artists and their
work
American artist Andy Warhol is the most
famous artist of the pop art movement who created iconic works with
paintings of popular American products like Campbell soup cans. Andy
Warhol also produced celebrity-centered work featuring movie stars
such as Marilyn Monroe. English artist Peter Blake achieved world
wide fame when he created famous celebrity-centered album cover for
the
Beatles “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart Club Band”. America Pop
artist Roy Lichtenstein created a distinctive comic-strip style that
parodied consumerism and American popular culture inspired by comic
strips and advertisements. Another important contributor to the Pop
art movement was English artist David Hockney.
Pop Art was Influenced by
Dadaism
The roots of Pop Art were inspired by an earlier
movement called Dadaism (1916 -1923) which flouted conventional
aesthetic and cultural values. Dadaism rejected traditional art
forms and mocked the established art world by appropriating images
from the street and the commercial world.
Pop Art Facts
for kids
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Pop Art
Facts - 1: Pop Art emerged in
the mid 1950's and flourished in the 1960s in both
America and Britain. It was a cultural revolution in
which artists moved away from conventions and conformity
creating art directly from everyday items, consumer
goods, and mass media.
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2: Pop artists such
as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein favored realism,
using everyday, mundane imagery combined with heavy
doses of humor, irony and wit.
Pop Art
Facts - 3: The movement reflected the
changing times and the rise of consumerism, advertising, celebrity,
experimentation, pop music and rock and roll.
Pop Art
Facts - 4: Comic books were enjoying a
revival and artists began to make use of panels, balloons (speech
bubbles) and characters in their work.
Pop Art
Facts - 5: Characters such as Batman were
extremely popular and the 1960's TV series was produced as a pop-art
campy comedy in which cartoon style balloons were interspersed with
the plt and the actors.
Pop Art
Facts - 6:
Roy Lichtenstein painted Look Mickey in 1961, based on
Mickey Mouse, and created a distinctive comic-strip
style which achieved fame with his 1963 work entitled
Crying Girl. In "Sweet Dreams Baby!" Lichtenstein
created a cartoon character whose movement was
emphasized by the word "POW!"
Pop Art
Facts - 7:
The youth counterculture was emerging. Bill Haley, Jerry
Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley popularized rock and roll.
Television replaced radio as the dominant media outlet
and Marilyn Monroe, James Dean and Marlon Brando were
the favored movie stars.
Pop Art
Facts - 8:
Andy Warhol created work featuring the celebrities of
the era. The image of Marilyn Monroe, based on a
publicity photo, is repeated again and again, with
variations of color and printing quality. His triple
image of Elvis Presley depicts the rock 'n' roll
heartthrob as a cowboy, armed and shooting from the hip.
Andy Warhol's iconic repeated image of Marlon Brando
strongly conveys the sexual appeal of the star in his
leather jacket.
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9:
Andy Warhol, initially from a commercial art background,
also created work based on popular American products
like Campbell soup cans and Coca-Cola bottles. Warhol
frequently used silk-screening and his later drawings
were traced from slide projections.
Pop Art
Facts - 10: Andy Warhol also produced sculptures,
his most famous sculpture was his 'Brillo Boxes' created
on silk-screened ink on wood replicas of the large,
branded cardboard boxes used to hold 24 packages of
Brillo soap pads.
Pop Art
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11: Jasper Johns was
one of the leading forces to the form known as
minimalism. Jasper Johns is best known for his painting
'Flag' , which he painted after having a dream of the
American flag. He went on to create other images
featuring maps, targets, letters and numbers. His
distinct style, and its simplicity, had never been seen
before and captured the imagination of the public
Pop Art
Facts - 12: Tom Wesselmann was famous for
his "Great American Nude" series and his huge canvas paintings of
household objects. Wesselmann also became known for the "Smokers"
series, focusing on disembodied presentations depicting close-ups of
lips (think Rocky Horror Picture Show)
Pop Art
Facts - 13: The work of American sculptor
Claes Oldenburg featured very large replicas of everyday objects
such as typewriters, lipstick and flashlights
Pop Art
Facts - 14: American artist Jim Dine used
repeating themes including those of the body, personal identity and
memory. His early images on canvas were extremely unusual as he
attached three-dimensional objects such as articles of clothing and
garden tools to his work
Pop Art
Facts - 15: American artist
and feminist May Wilson is best known for her collages
and her "Ridiculous Portrait" series which included the
Statue of Liberty
Pop Art
Facts - 16: English artist
Peter Blake, the "Godfather of Pop Art", was
famous for his celebrity-centered album cover for the
Beatles "Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart Club Band".
Pop Art
Facts - 17: James Rosenquist, originally a a
billboard painter, took fragmented, odd images and
overlapped and combined them to create visual stories on
canvas.
Pop Art
Facts - 18: American painter
Robert Rauschenberg used photographs which he
transferred to the canvas by means of the silkscreen
process.
Pop Art
Facts - 19: The Psychedelic
art movement of the late 1960s followed on from the Pop
Art movement. Psychedelic art was inspired by
psychedelic experiences induced by taking drugs such as
LSD during the
Hippie Counterculture era.
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