Pop Art
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A Western modern art trend.
It originated in the United Kingdom in the early 1950s and flourished in the United States in the mid-1950s. Pop is the abbreviation of Popular, which means popular art and popular art. The term Pop Art first appeared between 1952 and 1955. It was first coined by the independent society discussion held by a group of young artists at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, and was determined by critic L. Alloway. They believe that the urban culture created by the public is an excellent material for modern art creation. Faced with the impact of commercial civilization in the consumer society, artists must not only face it squarely, but also become singers of popular culture. The artist who effectively promoted the development of this trend of thought in practice was R. Hamilton. In 1956, he exhibited a collage of tennis players holding the letters "POP" at his first solo exhibition "This Is Tomorrow" (Whitcher Pyle Gallery). This work became a banner of Pop Art. Representative figures of British Pop Art include: E. Paolozzi, J. Tilson, D. Hockney, R.B. Kitay, R. Smith, and A. Jones.
Pop art in the United States appeared slightly later than that in the United Kingdom. It inherited the spirit of Dadaism in its artistic pursuits. In its works, a large number of waste materials, product posters, film advertisements, and various newspaper and magazine pictures were used to create collage combinations. Therefore, it is also called Neo-Dadaism.
American Pop artists claimed that the popular art they engaged in was similar to the primitive art and Indian art of the Americas, and was the continuation and development of American cultural traditions. In 1965, a Pop Art held at the Milwaukee Art Center The art exhibition is titled "Pop Art and American Tradition." The founders of American Pop Art are: J. Johns and R. Rauschenberg. The most influential artists are A. Warhol, J. Dane, R. Lichtenstein, and C. Oldenburg. Ge, T. Wesselman, J. Rosenquist and sculptor G. Siegel.
Collection art and incidental art are generally considered to be two branches of Pop Art.
In Pop Art, the most influential and representative painter is Andy Warhol (1927-1986). He is the founder and main advocate of the American Pop Art movement. He became famous in 1962 for his exhibition of "sculptures" of soup cans and Brillo soap dishes. His painting patterns are almost the same. He used images taken from mass media, such as Campbell's soup cans, Coca-Cola bottles, dollar bills, Mona Lisa and Marilyn Monroe's head, as basic elements to repeatedly arrange them in the painting. He tried to completely eliminate the manual element in artistic creation. All of his works are produced using silk screen printing technology, and the image can be repeated countless times, giving the picture a unique dull effect. Regarding his works, Harold Rosenberg once jokingly said: "The pillars composed of Campbell's soup cans are numbly repeated, like a humorless joke told over and over again." He prefers repetition and copy. "I've been eating the same breakfast for twenty years," he explained. "I guess it's the same thing over and over again." For him, there is no "original" at all. His works are all copies. It is to replace the status of the original work with countless copies. He deliberately eliminated the color of personality and emotion in his paintings, and calmly listed the most ordinary images. He famously said, "I want to be a machine," in stark contrast to Jackson Pollock's declaration that he "wanted to be nature." His paintings are almost inexplicable, "and thus arouse boundless curiosity - a slightly terrifying vacuum that needs to be filled with chatter and talk." In fact, in Andy Warhol's paintings The unique monotony, boredom and repetition convey a certain feeling of indifference, emptiness and alienation, expressing the inner feelings of people in the contemporary highly developed commercial and civilized society.
Marilyn Monroe’s head is one of the most concerning motifs in Warhol’s works. In the painting "Marilyn Monroe" painted in 1967, the artist used the head of the unfortunate Hollywood sexy movie star as the basic element of the painting, repeatedly arranging it row by row. The simple, neat and monotonous Monroe portraits reflect the helpless emptiness and confusion of people in modern commercial society.
Pop Art, also known as "Pop Art", is an art movement that originated around the 1960s and centered in London, England and New York, the United States.
British painter Richard Handelton once summarized the characteristics of Pop Art as: popular (designed for the public), ephemeral (short-term solution), forgettable, cheap, and massive. Produced, young (targeting young people), slick, sexy, deceptive, charming and big business-like.
Pop Art, also known as Pop Art, is an art movement that explores the relationship between popular culture and art. Pop Art attempted to overthrow abstract art and turn to concrete popular culture themes such as symbols, trademarks, etc. The term Pop Art was coined by the British art critic Laurence Alloway in 1956.
Pop art is also an extension of satire and the greedy nature of the philistines. Simply put, Pop Art is the predecessor of today’s lower-level art market. The mass reproduction and printing of artworks by Pop artists resulted in considerable commentary. Some early Pop artists fought for museum collections or sponsorship opportunities. And using a lot of cheap paint, the work soon became unsaveable. This also caused some controversy. In the 1960s, the influence of Pop Art began to spread in the United Kingdom and the United States, creating many contemporary artists. Late pop art almost always explores American popular culture.
The special thing about Pop Art is that it has a very special and long-lasting influence on fashion. Many fashion designers and graphic designers have directly or indirectly obtained or plagiarized inspiration from Pop Art.
Famous Pop artists include:
Richard Hamilton
Keith Haring
David ·Hockney en: David Hockney
Jasper Johns en: Jasper Johns
Yayoi Kusama en: Yayoi Kusama
Roy Lichtenstein en: Roy Lichtenstein
Peter Maxen: Peter Max
Claes Oldenburgen: Claes Oldenburg
Robert Rosenbergen: Robert Rauschenberg
James Rosenquist
Wayne Thiebaud
Andy Warhol