Pop

Korean pop music. Korean pop music, more widely known as K-pop, has been a driving force in the Hallyu 2.0 wave since the late 1990s. The Korean idol pop aspect of K-pop, in which performers sing and dance simultaneously, has grown into an international phenomenon, winning the hearts of countless people, both native and foreign to South Korea. These Korean idols are perceived as healthy and happy by the general public. However, due to their contracts, this may not be the case. Although Korean…

What is Pop Art? As we all know, Pop Art is an art movement that started in the mid 1950’s in Britain and was spreading through the United States in the late 1950’s as as a reaction against the imagery of abstract expressionism. Pop art is considered to be one of the most interestingly elements that has ever happened in this contemporary world. The movement is often memorable with commonplace objects for any subject such as comic strips, soup cans, traffic signs and all types of food (…

Pop art originated from Britain in the 1950s. This genre of art has become one of the most influential genres. It has originated from Britain in the 1950s but gained the majority of its popularity in America in the 1960s. It had continued to gains its popularity until it was considered a dead genre in the 1970s. Despite this fact pop art is used for advertising in the current period of time. Pop art is most commonly referred to with the major artist of its peak such as Andy Warhol, Roy…

My popular culture “obsession” would be Korean popular culture. K-pop is and abbreviation of Korean pop, which is a music genre, originated from South Korea. K-pop can be a phenomenon, however, it can also be a subculture, where Asian pop would be the phenomenon and k-pop is the subculture. My interest began when I first heard K-pop songs while I was buying milk tea. Korean music is different from the music in America. In my opinion, the Korean artists have unique musical and performances styles…

easily find the many different kind of pop art pieces in there. On the second floor, there have many arresting pop art collections, like Roy Lichtenstein’s portrait paintings, Andy Warhol’s soup cans, Keith Haring’s untitled acrylic work, etc… Each one was play the most important role in the modern history in many ways or has the profound impact in the art, fashion and commercial filed, nowadays. For this essay, the direction is aim to one of the first Pop artists — Andy Warhol and his piece…

He was an artist during the Pop Art era and he mass produced his artwork. Pop Art was speaking about the culture and society around the artists. A few pieces of his artwork are Four Marilyns, Gold Marilyn Monroe, and Twenty Jackies, which were all made around 1962. A good amount of his artwork was very…

appropriation and how the progression of appropriation continued into Pop Art and what that could’ve translated into American society. I will look at appropriation in art to compare to the cultural values at the time and to go in depth about what it meant to Americans during the 1960s. During the 1960s, the time Pop Art was emerging in America, a war-consumed society was transitioning into a mass cultural embrace of media and art. Pop Art was the art of popular culture. It was the visual art…

The mainstream music scene of this time was dominated by auto tuned pop music and hip-hop. Artists such as Brittany Spears and Kanye West held the forefront of the music industry and made the big bucks. The adolescent popularization of emo music also made bands like My Chemical Romance and Blink 182 shine. There was also…

Two of the most unique and influential new art movements of the twentieth century were pop art and abstract expressionism. While they both emerged roughly ten years apart, in the 1950’s and the 1940’s respectively; on the surface they’re two vastly different though, in reality they are more alike than they may seem. Abstract expressionism is what most would think of when they hear the words “abstract art.” When you first look at a work of abstract expressionism there seems to be no…

The United States saw the Pop art movement start in New York during the mid-1950s. It started with four main artists, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenguist, and Claes Oldenburg. Pop art was one of the biggest art styles to emerge from the Mid Modern era and to influence a lot of other artists of the era. The subject matter of this movement was far from traditional, they drew upon popular images and reintroduced these images with their own twists to them, they wanted to celebrate people…