- Pop Art is a 20th century art movement that utilized the imagery and techniques of consumerism and popular culture. Pop Art favoured figural imagery and the reproduction of everyday objects, such as Campbell Soup cans, comic strips and advertisements. The movement eliminated distinctions between "good" and "bad" taste and between fine art and commercial art techniques. The artists were responding to the relationship between life and art.
- The pop art work is very bright, vibrant, brash, bold and simple.
- The artists began to associate more often with one another in the 1960's. In 1961, the Pop artists showed their work at the Young Contemporaries Exhibition. The list of artists included David Hockney, Peter Phillips, and Derek Boshier. On the New York side of Pop Art, such artists as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Tom Wesselmann, began exploring their own aesthetic program. Throughout the 1950's and 60's, these artists created work that was deeply rooted in culture, both in the United States and Europe. By 1965, when Pop artists showed their work at the Milwaukee art center, Pop Art had become well defined and regarded.
- Overall I think Pop Art is a very striking and meaningful, expressive type of art as it is a response to the relationship between life and art. Also it shows its elegance which some people fail to see.
- Andy Warhol was, and still is a very famous artist. He was born in 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. but unfortunately had died in 1987
- Andy Warhol believed in the medium of photography, and worked on screenprints.
- When we speak of Andy Warhol pictures we are speaking of not only two kinds of pictures but of a distinctive era in American culture, of artists, models, and of factories turned into the-place-to-be studios. He created his pictures under the influence of brand name industry designs.
- Warhol liked to use bright colours which were mostly printed.
This is Warhol’s most famous piece of pop art. It is a piece of Marilyn Monroe but stylized, contrasted in bright vibrant colours. The things I like about this picture is that he has taken a real life image and changed it to make it look cartoon-like. On the other hand, I don’t like the way it looks as a whole. In my honest opinion I think it looks a bit vulgar. It was probably meant to look like that, but I don’t think it looks attractive.
