Pop Art Information

Pop art is a visual art movement that emerged in the mid 1950's in Britain and in the late 1950's in the United States. Pop art uses mass produced visual commodities of popular culture and removes material from its context and isolates the object, or combines it with other objects. The whole concept of pop art refers more to the attitude that led to it, not so much the art itself.

Characterized by themes and techniques drawn from popular culture, such as advertising and comic books. Pop art is widely interpreted as a reaction to the then dominant ideas of Abstract Expressionism, as well as an expansion upon them. It is also associated with the artists' use of mechanical means of reproduction or rendering techniques. Below are some well known artists and paintings.

Examples of Art

Andy Warhol- Marilyn Munroe 

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Andy Warhol- Campbell's Soup Cans

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Jasper Johns- Flag

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Wayne Thiebaud- Three Machines

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Tom Wesselmann- Still Life

http://www.directoriodearte.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/still_life_mixed_media_work-tom_wesselmann-1962.jpg