The pop art movement beginning in the mid-1950s was one of the biggest modern art movements ever. Pop art is often associated with comics and different vibrant colors. Roy lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, when it comes to both of these artists everyone instantly thinks of Pop Art, it’s the work of this pair that immediately jumps to mind. Both artists are in separate art worlds in their own interesting ways. Pop art is an art movement that emerged in Britain and the United States during the mid to late 1950s. The movement presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular and mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural objects.
Andy Warhol was from Oakland, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Warhol …show more content…
The closest we get are the damsels in distress of his Romance series, but these are sappy teen images really, rendered all the move uninvolving by a deliberately deadpan painting style. “I’ve never done an anguished picture in my life,” admitted Lichtenstein. He also quoted that art doesn't transform, it just plain forms. The same certainly could not be said of Warhol. Those who know him only know him for his Coke bottles and brillo boxes paintings, and his silkscreen Marilyns and Elvis Presley’s. In the early sixties, there was great darkness and depth to Warhol, too. In his death and disasters series, for instance, he startled the world with silkscreened photographs of suicide leaps, fatal car crashes and electric chairs. These were followed by equally unsettling pictures of race riots and atomic bomb detonations. In his way, Warhol was an American history painter. He once quoted, that art is what you can get away with.
Lichtenstein involved the use of stencils, he wanted to bring the look and feel of commercial printing processes to his painting and prints. Through the use of primary colors, thick outlines, and Benday dots, Lichtenstein endeavored to make his hand-made art look machine-made. Warhol frequently used silk-screening, his later drawings were traced from slide projections. At the height of his fame as a painter, Warhol had several assistants who produced his silk-screen multiples, following his directions to make different versions and
Andy Warhol was from Oakland, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Warhol …show more content…
The closest we get are the damsels in distress of his Romance series, but these are sappy teen images really, rendered all the move uninvolving by a deliberately deadpan painting style. “I’ve never done an anguished picture in my life,” admitted Lichtenstein. He also quoted that art doesn't transform, it just plain forms. The same certainly could not be said of Warhol. Those who know him only know him for his Coke bottles and brillo boxes paintings, and his silkscreen Marilyns and Elvis Presley’s. In the early sixties, there was great darkness and depth to Warhol, too. In his death and disasters series, for instance, he startled the world with silkscreened photographs of suicide leaps, fatal car crashes and electric chairs. These were followed by equally unsettling pictures of race riots and atomic bomb detonations. In his way, Warhol was an American history painter. He once quoted, that art is what you can get away with.
Lichtenstein involved the use of stencils, he wanted to bring the look and feel of commercial printing processes to his painting and prints. Through the use of primary colors, thick outlines, and Benday dots, Lichtenstein endeavored to make his hand-made art look machine-made. Warhol frequently used silk-screening, his later drawings were traced from slide projections. At the height of his fame as a painter, Warhol had several assistants who produced his silk-screen multiples, following his directions to make different versions and