Pop Art
Pop Art is an expression of art that shows objects or scenes from daily life and uses methods of commercial art and trendy illustration (Dictionary.com, 2009). The pop Art movement began in the late 1950’s in the United States. Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg were two of the highly acclaimed painters during this era (Wikipedia, 2009). Johns and Rauschenberg were famous for Neo-Dada art because of the way they used recent materials, well-liked imagery, and abstracts. During the 1920’s, British artists which included Gerald Murphy, Charles Demuth, and Stuart Davis created paintings from everyday products (2009).
“American popular culture has quietly become inhabited by all sorts of talking animals and dancing products that are used as a communication system by advertisers”(Phillips, 2005, p. 258). The United States was not the only place that had its own pop art movement. Great Britain, Italy, Spain, and Japan had pop art movements as well with contrasts that ranged from similar and unusual styles. In Great Britain the Independent Group was known as the leader in the pop art movement in 1952. The Independent Group consisted of artists from various areas of pop culture and their art was influenced by for example, mass marketing and movies (Wikipedia, 2009). Italy’s pop art movement started in the mid 1960’s and it included the works from artists such as Mario Schifano and Piero Manzoni. The art in Italy is called Neo Pop, which is a recreation of the innovative pop art. Spain’s pop art uses mass media as an influence for an artist’s work while Japanese pop art is mostly based on anime, customary techniques, and graffiti (2009).
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Wikipedia. (2009). Neo-Dada. Retrieved April 30, 2009, from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Dada
Wikipedia. (2009). Pop Art. Retrieved April 30, 2009, from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_art
Andrew,
ReplyDeleteI must say I never really gave it a thought about how pop started or where. Actually, I thought maybe it started in the US. I suppose that was a bad assumption on my part. I like that part where you said that pop culture was influenced by mass marketing and movies, how true. I like how every country has a different name for pop art and how they are each differently are influenced by different things.
Andrew,
ReplyDeleteThe above comment was made by me, Teresa Bryant. I forgot to list that at the bottom of the comment.