Pop Art

POP ART
What is pop art? Asadon & Tabamo
one of the interesting and most exciting art movement of 20th century do you want me to give you a clue
this art movement was inspired by celebrities advertisements billboards and comic strips that were
famous at that time their works ranged from paintings to posters to collage to three-dimensional
assemblage and installations are you having an idea now this art movement is called the popular art
pop art is an art movement that aroused in the united kingdom and the united states of America during
the mid to late 1950s the movement presents a challenge to traditions of fine arts by including imagery
from popular and mass culture such as advertising comic books televisions magazines food and
mundane must produce cultural objects that were becoming popular at that time which led to the
emergence of the term popular art.
Characteristics of pop art and sculpture
1. pop artists use common images from everyday culture as their sources including advertisements
and consumer goods celebrities and photographs and comic strips
2. pop artists reflected 60 culture by using new and different materials in their artworks including
acrylic paints plastics fluorescents and metallic colors silk screen ink canvas and rubber for
sculpture vinyl and photographs
History of pop art- Nogales & lee
Importance
Representatives of pop art
Examples of outstanding pop art works and artist- Agapay
1. Andy Warhola popularly known as the central figure of the American pop art movement he
became famous worldwide for his avant-garde pop art paintings and screen printings he started
out in advertising and was also a commercial illustrator and was highly successful and they were
all referred to himself as a re-creator rather than a creator of art famous masterpieces
2. another leading figure of pop art movement is Roy lichtenstein was an american pop artist he was
born on october 27 1923 his first painting in the style of a comic strip was a painting of mickey
mouse and donald duck which she copied from a book changing just a few details
lichtenstein adapted a commercial art style showing everyday objects in a comic book style by
using bold and bright colors prominent black outlines balloons of speech or thought or music and
patterns of dots to create distinctive popular artworks he also created artwork for time magazine
commenting on important events that occurred
3. clay oldenburg as a pop artist claise oldenburg celebrates the everyday object with a keen sense
of humor he takes a banal object and transforms it into a sculptural form by representing it using
radically different materials and scale he liked the way a small object seemed much more
important when it was a gigantic monument the following are the super-sized pop sculptures of
Oldenburg
we have corridor pin 1999
spoonbridge and cherry 1988
thrown away apple core 1992
and the flying pins 2000
Modern Art in the U.S. Pop Art Movement

Pop art movement started in the mid-1950s in some parts of the United Kingdom
(Britain), this art movement would later spread to other parts of the world such as United
States of America (New York) in the late 1950s. the pioneers of this movements were Andy
Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg and James Rosenquist. Pop art was something that
the artists wanted to use to pass the most significant societal messages. For instance, since it
used imagery and other important aspects of visual arts, it was very common to the advertising
parties. It is up to now very common and much more an inspiration to the new and emerging
artists (Amaya, 1965).
Pop art had very meaningful message(s): the world has been a breeding point of all
kinds of discriminations. People are never the same, this is in terms of wealth, physical
appearance, intelligence and many others. Due to this reason there existed a very wide gap
between the most privileged (high) and the less privileged (low) (1), it is this widening gap
between these two groups that the artists of the pop art movement sought to address (Lucie-
Smith, 1995). They did this by; creating arts and other related disciplines that encompassed the
mass objects from all cultures meaning that we are living in the same world and that nobody is
more important than the other, people are only more privileged than others. It is correct to
argue that the Abstract Expressionists that existed during this period, actually after the second
world war which was the most important aspect that was affecting the society at the time,
searched for a certain trauma in the soul.
While these pop art movements were in search of the same trauma, it created an
opportunity for mediating the adverts world, popular imageries and cartoons all together. Pop
artists had very strong beliefs on the fact that everything in the universe must be
interconnected or exhibits a certain interconnection with one another. It is for this reason that
through t5heir work sought to address this issue. For this reason, these famous artists can be
precisely described as people who believe in no unmediated access to anything.
The pop artist in one way or the other were trying to put to surface some very
important social or political statements. For instance, Andy Warhol, one of the artist and who
happened to pass on the year 1987, left a legacy that the media society is the platform that the
community derives it morals and also borrows the various trends of living. For this reason, the
media arts and the modern artists should put to concern various decisions on what to present
to the society as this is the backbone to the reality of what happens on the day to day world.
The society also has a very quire behavior of following what is trending, what those capable of
accessing the media houses and other broadcasting firms post. Due to this reason, the artists
gave a good example in compiling their artistic works to suit the norms and the various cultures
of the society. The pop art movement did their work in such a way that the world could borrow
messages of fair co-existence and be able to judge each other on the basis of the good set
examples.
Another socio statement that was being put across was the issue of passing information.
Among the elements in this was advertising, entertaining, motivating and even mocking among
others. The pop movement artists were not only after uniting the society, to remove the
widening gap between the rich and the poor or the high and the low. They also wanted to pass
some important information on; now, that people are living well together, no cases of
discrimination, racism and all those evils, what is the possible mechanism to start educating
them, to give them information and guide them? This is the question they answered when the y
sought to advertise and make their arts inclining to these aspects. For example, the nature of
people and maybe businesses were that people unless made aware of the current situation in
the market, could not make purchases or if they did it was an environment of low purchasing
power. It is advertisement that solved this problem. People through paintings of the cultures of
different places learned to embrace and accept each other, got motivated to work harder e.g.
when the painting shown hardworking elements.
References:
Amaya, M. (1965). Pop Art...: And After... Penguin Books.
Compton, M., & Copplestone, T. (1970). Pop Art: Movements of Modern Art. Hamlyn.
Lucie-Smith, E. (1995). Movements in art since 1945: issues and concepts. Thames & Hudson.

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POP ART

What is pop art? Asadon & Tabamo

Characteristics of pop art and sculpture

and consumer goods celebrities and photographs and comic strips

History of pop art- Nogales & lee

Representatives of pop art

Examples of outstanding pop art works and artist- Agapay

we have corridor pin 1999

spoonbridge and cherry 1988

thrown away apple core 1992

and the flying pins 2000

Modern Art in the U.S. Pop Art Movement

artists (Amaya, 1965).

searched for a certain trauma in the soul.

precisely described as people who believe in no unmediated access to anything.

when the painting shown hardworking elements.

Amaya, M. (1965). Pop Art...: And After... Penguin Books.

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