Pop art
Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid-1950s in Britain and the late 1950s in the United States.
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Early artists
Among the early artists that shaped the pop art movement were Eduardo Paolozzi and Richard Hamilton in Britain, and Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns in the United States.
Altered context
In pop art, material is sometimes visually removed from its known context, isolated, and/or combined with unrelated material.
Mass culture
Pop art employs aspects of mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural objects.
One of its aims is to use images of popular (as opposed to elitist) culture in art, emphasizing the banal or kitschy elements of any culture, most often through the use of irony.
Mass culture elements and concerns presented a challenge to traditions of fine art.
Mechanical techniques
It is also associated with the artists' use of mechanical means of reproduction or rendering techniques.
Reaction to abstract expressionism
Pop art is widely interpreted as a reaction to the then-dominant ideas of abstract expressionism, as well as an expansion of those ideas.
Found objects, similar to Dada
Due to its utilization of found objects and images, it is similar to Dada.
Preceding postmodern art
Pop art and minimalism are considered to be art movements that precede postmodern art, or are some of the earliest examples of postmodern art themselves.
Advertising
Pop art often takes imagery that is currently in use in advertising.
Product labeling and logos figure prominently in the imagery chosen by pop artists, seen in the labels of Campbell's Soup Cans, by Andy Warhol.
Even the labeling on the outside of a shipping box containing food items for retail has been used as subject matter in pop art, as demonstrated by Warhol's Campbell's Tomato Juice Box, 1964.
See also
External links
- Pop art @ Wikipedia
