Pop art

Andy Warhol’s thirty-two canvases titled 32 Soup Cans was created in 1962. This renowned American Pop Artist, known for his repeating reproductions and gaudy colors, produced this piece using the printmaking method. Warhol didn’t want his paintings of mass-produced commercial goods to be conceptually stimulating. He wanted to make his work relatable so that viewers could approach them and have a clear interpretation. Warhol replicated the appearance of manufactured objects and famous icons for…

Pop art is a very eclectic, fun period of art that started in Britain in the 1950’s and became extremely popular in the 1960’s, in cities such as New York. The pop art movement became popular very quickly because of how pop art artists used and glorified well-known items into art. During the 1950’s and 60’s television became very popular, people experienced movie stars such as Marilyn Monroe, and items such as food and house hold items, etc. Pop artists, like Andy Warhol, used bold primary…

of Andy Warhol. The art was displayed so the viewer could experience each piece or collection individually from the others. His prints invoke feelings unlike the feelings I have ever felt when looking at abstract art. The gallery was divided into six sections with each section depicting different ideas that he wanted to create. Some of his most famous prints were displayed like his sets of Marilyn Monroe and the Campbell soup cans. Andy Warhol started becoming interested in art until he was 8…

Erin Hicks Professor Daniel Quiles Art history 1002 20 April 2018 On Number One and Little Race Riot Andy Warhol is notoriously well known as one of the pioneers of pop art. His legacy continues to live on today for his ability to de-symbolize well known objects and strip them of their meaning or purpose. “He exposed and exploited a new way of being in a world of commodity-images where frame is often subsumed by celebrity, newsworthiness by notoriety, aura by glamor, and charisma by hype: a…

Art has always fascinated me in many ways. It is all around and can be seen almost anywhere. I have always found art interesting because of the attention to detail, scale of the projects, and plain beauty involved in some pieces. A very important person in my life introduced me to the beauty of art and from that time on, I have been interested ever since. One time me and my friend went on a road trip to further our interests in art. We went to the Cleveland Museum of Art. I had an amazing time…

Sadaja Oliver 4th block  Pop art is a 1950s art movement that began in Britain. In the late 1950s pop art started in the United States. The term pop art refers to the artist’s attitude behind his or her art. It is sometimes referred to as the reaction to abstract expressionism. The people that started the pop art trend in Britain were Eduardo Paolozzi and Richard Hamilton. Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns started it in the United States. Pop art has been used in many…

of the Soviet Union), 1975 Emerging during the economic affluence of the United States post World War II, Pop Art is a movement during the late 1960s that can be characterised by the appropriation of commercial and highly recognisable images, bright colours, and the blurring of boundaries between ‘high’ and ‘low’ art. Tom Wesselman’s Still Life No. 35 may be seen as an example of Pop Art – the use of bright colours and visible prominence of several brand-names may even deceive viewers into…

Pop Art The Pop Art movement began in the 1950’s. It was the art of popular culture. The visual imagery of pop art created a sense of hopefulness during the post war of the 1950’s and the 1960’s. Pop art was a revolt against abstract expressionism. The goal was to bring art back from it’s obscurity of abstraction into the real world again (www.artfactory.com) Andy Warhol was a famous artist of the Pop art movement. He was against the idea of craftsmanship as a way of expressing an artist…

grew up in a time of economic scarcity and political upheaval to a tendency “to give top priority to economic and physical security” (215). Perhaps it was why the world was so ready to embrace this movement of Pop Art that emerged in the mid-1950s, just as World War II ended in 1945 (“Pop Art Movement”). It’s important to consider this period of the Great Depression that troubled most of the country economically, then transitioning into a time of war that stressed the importance of recycling and…

Keith Haring was a famous artist in Pop Art and Graffiti Art. His works were deemed as quite controversial as it touched on subjects that were seen as a taboo at the time, such as sex. Toward the end of the 1980s, Keith Haring created this painting to face the absurd stereotypes surrounding the AIDS illness. The main spark of this movement is that many of his friends were dying of AIDS. He is strongly committed to fighting this disease and put his notoriety on the line for this cause. He also…