Pop Art (updated)

The Pop Art Movement came to life during the 1950's and 60's in Britain and the America it was the style of the popular culture and the mass media. 

The mass media includes:

• paintings
• sculptures 
• graphics 
• comics 
• advertising

Based on the research that i have done pop art is a descendent of Dada and the Movement was more about removing materials from its context and isolating the objects and than combining them to other objects. 

The movement is also known to be reaction against the ideas of abstract expressionism.

The colours that were used for the Pop Art Movement were extremely bright when comparing it to other movements and the Pop Art  artists made strong use of the primary colours.

Pop Art was the art of popular culture. It was the visual art movement that characterized a sense of optimism during the post war consumer boom of the 1950's and 1960's. It coincided with the globalization of pop music and youth culture, personified by Elvis and the Beatles. Pop Art was brash, young and fun and hostile to the artistic establishment. It included different styles of painting and sculpture from various countries, but what they all had in common was an interest in mass-media, mass-production and mass-culture.

Pop art is now most associated with the work of New York artists of the early 1960s such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, and Claes Oldenburg, but artists who drew on popular imagery were part of an international phenomenon in various cities from the mid-1950s onwards. Following the popularity of the Abstract Expressionists, Pop's reintroduction of identifiable imagery drawn from mass media and popular culture was a major shift for the direction of modernism. The subject matter became far from traditional "high art" themes of morality, mythology, and classic history; rather, Pop artists celebrated commonplace objects and people of everyday life, in this way seeking to elevate popular culture to the level of fine art. Perhaps owing to the incorporation of commercial images, Pop art has become one of the most recognizable styles of modern art.Pop Art - the art of popular culture. 2014. Pop Art - the art of popular culture. [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.artyfactory.com/art_appreciation/art_movements/pop_art.htm. [Accessed 3 February 2014].

Associated with :

• ·         Rock music
• ·         Hippy lifestyle
• ·         Psychedelic images made to recreate the sensation associated with mind expanding drugs.
• ·         Distorted imagery and illegible lettering in garish colours applied to posters and magazine and album covers.
• ·         In the 60’s there was a populist vulgar and fanciful commercial graphic design.

Pop art Examples 

References

Pop Art - the art of popular culture. 2014. Pop Art - the art of popular culture. [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.artyfactory.com/art_appreciation/art_movements/pop_art.htm. [Accessed 2 February 2014].

Pop art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 2014. Pop art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. [ONLINE] Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_art. [Accessed 03 February 2014].