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Pop art is so named because of its focus on popular culture. This is what makes it one of the easiest and most fun art forms--you get to draw stuff you see in everyday life. Fine lines, excruciating detail and other stuff that makes you want to throw away your marker in despair aren’t found in the pop art movement. You can draw... more »
GIMP is an open source and FREE image-editing rival to Adobe Photoshop. It has a number of unique tools that allow the photographer to make images into print art. If your images have enough resolution, they can be transformed into limited edition prints that can be signed and sold as original pieces of art. If you plan to do this, it... more »
Nobody understood the cult of celebrity better than Pop Art superstar Andy Warhol. In his exploration of American pop culture and mass media images, he transformed himself into a celebrity as well.
His prints were the perfect medium to explore the notion of media imagery and packaging, because he was able to create multiples and... more »
The year was 1917. A young punk by the name of Marcel Duchamp decided to inject a little humor into the modern art scene, in the name of Dada. He assembled a readymade sculpture from a urinal. "Fountain," signed with the pseudonym R. Mutt, profoundly pissed off the public. Duchamp gained instant notoriety, and his... more »
When people think of modern art, the most sensational images often gain lasting attention, such as Andy Warhol's silkscreened prints of soup cans or Coca-Cola bottles. In reality, however, modern art owes its history and vitality to movements that flowered after the chaos of World War I, such as Cubism and Expressionism, to name just... more »
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Pop Art from Spain took much from American Pop Art (its use of mass media communication, cartoons and popular images), but to fully understand... more »
Contemporary Japanese art has been strongly influenced by postwar American pop art and by Western music and film. Like American Pop Art, Japanese... more »
Pop Art in the USA emerged from the works of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. You can recognize the roots of American Pop Art in John's... more »
Pop Art is an artistic and cultural phenomenon that began in Britain in the 1950s, spread to America in the 1960s and became one of the major art... more »
Artists like Roy Lichtenstein and the always-collectible Andy Warhol are among those who gave birth to the pop art movement. Coming into its own... more »
:This is about the art movement. For other uses see Pop art (disambiguation).
Pop art is a visual art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States.pop>Livingstone, M., Pop Art: A Continuing History, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1990 Pop art challenged tradition by asserting that an artists use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of fine art. Pop removes the material from its context and isolates the object, or combines it with other objects, for contemplation.pop>Livingstone, M., Pop Art: A Continuing History, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1990 ages>de la Croix, H.; Tansey, R., Gardners Art Through the Ages, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1980. The concept of pop art refers not as much to the art itself as to the attitudes that led to it.ages/>
Pop art is an art movement of the twentieth century. Characterized by themes and techniques drawn from popular mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural objects, pop art is widely interpreted as a reaction to the then-dominant ideas of abstract expressionism, as well as an expansion upon them.iha/> Pop art, aimed to employ images of popular as opposed to elitist culture in art, emphasizing the banal or kitschy elements of any given culture, most often through the use of irony.ages/> It is also associated with the artists use of mechanical means of reproduction or rendering techniques.
Much of pop art is considered incongruent, as the conceptual practices that are often used make it difficult for some to readily comprehend. Pop art and minimalism are considered to be the last Modern Art movements and thus the precursors to postmodern art, or some of the earliest examples of Postmodern Art themselves.
Pop art often takes as its imagery that which is currently in use in advertising.http://www.the-artists.org/movement/Pop_Art.html Product labeling and l read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop+art
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