Pop art

The 1960s art movement was a disease, spreading fast and affecting many people. The art brought upon a new way for people to view life because the artists wanted to brighten this rough era. It helped people get out of the slumps from the post-war and started a trend with a new art form. The art movement of the 1960s played an important role during the decade, because it surfaced pop art, Andy Warhol, and how pop art is still affecting today’s culture. Pop art fully embodied the decade of the…

drawings, art has been around since the beginning of man, and will still be around for the end. Throughout history, there has been numerous art movements that have shaped mankind for who we are today. Even without thinking about it, we are influenced by art everyday. Without it, there would be no movies, comics, or even colorful packaging on simple everyday items such as cereal boxes. Life would be bland. Most people don't realize how important art is, or how many different types of art…

Popular culture, or Pop Art was a time when simple objects of everyday life were made into fine art, but more often Pop art is a statement on mass advertising and the customer culture after WWII. It also was a means to demonstrate against future conflicts as well. During the world’s recovery of WWII magazines and newspapers were full of advertisements of what to buy, and how the perfect house hold should look like. People tried to live above their means in order to fulfil what they thought they…

Ed Ruscha is an American artist whose oeuvre joins parts of the dialect and iconography of Pop Art with deft Reasonable execution. With a practice that traverses drawing, painting, photography, film, printmaking, and distributing, Ruscha's experience as a visual creator is obvious in his excellent eye for typography and design. He is maybe best known for his craftsman's books, for example, Twentysix Gas Stations (1963)— a pictorial investigation of the fuel stations he experienced on an…

Pop Art versus Abtract Expressionism The Pop Art movement can be considered as a rejection or critique on it’s predecessor Abstract Expressionism. It differs both conceptually, and in its subject matter; and just like most art movements, it borrows and expands on all previous movements, creating its own path and style. While the the one evoked emotion simply with color and very little subject matter, the other veered away from the personal feeling but rather commented on the societal…

historical events of the 1960s affected pop art in many ways. Some of the biggest historical events of the 1960s were Marilyn Monroes death, US sends troops to Vietnam, and the assassinations of JFK and MLK. After midnight August 5th, 1962, Marilyn Monroe was found in her home in LA dues to an overdose of sedative drugs. Due to the Gulf of Tonkin incident of August 2nd and 4th, 1964, President Lydon B Johnson sent US troops to Vietnam. On March…

Modern Art and Modern Fame Pop art, the product of fame and modern art, was created by Andy Warhol. Warhol’s early explorations in art was a result of catching chorea, making him bedridden for extended periods of time. His mother, another artist, taught him how to draw. His career was filled with ups and down, but this gave way to the birth of pop art. Influenced by the lesser known British artist who invented the start of pop art, Warhol made an Americanized version of pop art. Warhol used art…

August 6th, 1928. Warhol began his art career as a successful magazine and ad illustrator. He then went on to become the leading artist in the Pop Art movement. Prior to his success, Andy Warhol had experienced art at approximately eight years old. He was sick with a rare disease called Chorea. This left him stuck in bed for several months. It was then that his mother, who was a skill-full artist herself, gave him his first drawing lessons. He quickly became a fan of art from there. He was…

bedroom.” -Andy Warhol. Andy Warhol, icon of his time, and one of the most successful artists of the 20th century, Andy Warhol was truly transcendent. His early works of commercial art and magazine spreads changed the way the world viewed magazines and newspapers. Andy Warhol has made a long lasting impact on the pop culture with his abstract paintings? Born Andrew Warhola on August 6, 1928, in Oakland in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Andy Warhol's parents were Slovakian immigrants. His father,…

The AGO exhibition for the Super Real: Pop Art from the AGO collection presented a variety of artwork from large silkscreen image to a cardboard burger sculpture sitting in the middle of the space. The exhibition has a small collection but has iconic pieces that are central to the story of the pop art movement of the 1960s. The works that stood out the most is the Andy Warhol’s 1963 Elvis I and II silkscreen painting. It showed 2 Elvis’ on one side with colour, then another 2 Elvis’ on one side…