Masters Of Pop Art


By Dick Wolf


Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid-1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular culture such as advertising, news, etc. In pop art, material is sometimes visually removed from its known context, isolated, and/or combined with unrelated material. The concept of pop art refers not as much to the art itself as to the attitudes that led to it.

One of the most popular images is The Great Wave at Kanagawa by the Japanese artist, Hokusai. It has been reproduced on greeting cards and as an art print for sale many times. The painting captures the moment when a huge tsunami is in full flight. Other paintings by this artist are available, including pictures of a snow-capped Mt. Fuji and of cherry blossom, a symbol of the resurgence of life in Japan.

Other widespread themes in Pop Artwork were comedian books and the well-known people of that period akin to Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe, who will likely be forever related to Warhol's work. Andy Warhol used display screen printing techniques for his work and usually made several copies of the same image.

The superior aesthetic qualities apart the opposite aspect of that recognized with audiences was its use of on a regular basis items, pictures and icons to emphasize and redefine certain parts in our culture.

But what the artists sought to focus on was the best way well-known people have been treated as objects in the same manner as merchandise were in promoting with all sense of their individuality removed. Though many pop artists had been unwilling to present meaning to their work, and even those who posed questions with their art, left those self same questions unanswered. Jasper Johns, famous for his sequence of paintings displaying the American flag, famously questioned whether or not his personal work was artwork or only a flag.

For lovers of Surrealism, Salvador Dali reigns supreme. His bizarre dream like pictures puzzle as much as they delight. Works for sale include Swans Reflecting Elephants, The Persistence of Memory, and Soft Watch at the Moment of First Explosion. Salvador Dali lived a bizarre life much like his paintings.

Just because the world by which we dwell is endlessly different, so Pop Artwork used a wide range of strategies however the frequent characteristics that define works as Pop Art are as follows: Graphic Model: Clearly defined shapes and colors with hard edges such because the Roy Lichtenstein comic book kinds and David Hockney's works.

Different basic examples of had been when Andy Warhol designed one based mostly on the Campbell canned soup images. Roy Lichtenstein was one other pop icon who created artwork which looked like comic strips. Until this present day the Warhol pop artwork model and the Lichtenstein pop artwork style are the 2 dominant kinds emulated by artists all around the world.




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