Pop Art
Intro to Pop Art Video
Pop Art: Appearing in Britain in the mid 1950s and in the United States a few years later, pop art challenged aesthetic tradition by equating fine art with an artist's use of mass-produced visual commodities. Pop art removes the subject material from its context to isolate the object, and/or combine it with other objects or genres.
Pop art employs aspects of mass culture such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural objects. Found objects and images recall the theory of Dada. Pop art emphasizes the banal or common elements of a culture, as opposed to high or refined art. It uses irony, incongruity, and associates itself with the mechanical means of reproduction or rendering which can make its meaning aloof or difficult for the viewer.
Pop Art: Appearing in Britain in the mid 1950s and in the United States a few years later, pop art challenged aesthetic tradition by equating fine art with an artist's use of mass-produced visual commodities. Pop art removes the subject material from its context to isolate the object, and/or combine it with other objects or genres.
Pop art employs aspects of mass culture such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural objects. Found objects and images recall the theory of Dada. Pop art emphasizes the banal or common elements of a culture, as opposed to high or refined art. It uses irony, incongruity, and associates itself with the mechanical means of reproduction or rendering which can make its meaning aloof or difficult for the viewer.
Andy Warholare just some of many pop artists.
Roy Lichtenstein
Takashi Murakami
Jasper Johns
Keith Haring
Eduardo Paolozzi
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