Virtual Art Museum: Pop Artist Collection
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Key Artists
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ANDY WARHOL
August 6, 1928 - February 22, 1987
Andy Warhol (/ˈwɔːrhɒl/; born Andrew Warhola; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture, and advertising that flourished by the 1960s.
Pablo Picasso
1881-1973
Pablo Picasso 1881-1973
School of Paris painter, sculptor, etcher, lithographer, ceramist and designer, who has had enormous influence on 20th century art and worked in an unprecedented variety of styles. Born at Malaga, Spain, son of an art teacher. His family moved to Barcelona, where he entered the School of Fine Arts 1895; then entered Madrid Academy 1897.
POP ART: OTHER INFO
Stonard, 2013
America is often seen as the home of Pop Art, but many European artists were producing ground-breaking work, some of which referred to Roy Lichtenstein’s paintings
Richard Hamilton once described Roy Lichtenstein as the most ‘marvellously extreme’ of American Pop artists. More than anything else it was the purity of Lichtenstein’s art that impressed Hamilton, the remarkable way in which his comic book paintings were ‘true to the mass media’.
Lichtenstein’s paintings provided a true picture of contemporary US culture, and indeed were integral to it — not a picture of that world, but the world itself.
(Stonard, 2013)
What is said...
More History
According to Miller (1974) pop art was more a return to a new realism of everyday life. The ideas, images, figures, and personalities popularised by the numerous mass media served as a subject matter and inspiration for pop art. The Art Story (c2017) states that pop art started with New York artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist and Claes Oldenburg. They followed the Abstract Expressionist where art was drawn from the mass media and the popular culture where it took the direction of modernism.
The concept of Pop art was to blur the boundaries between “high” art and “low” culture where there is no hierarchy and art can be borrowed from any source. Pop artists seemingly embraced the post-WWII manufacturing and media boom. Some critics have cited the Pop art choice of imagery as an enthusiastic endorsement of the capitalist market and the goods it circulated, while others have noted an element of cultural critique in the Pop artists' elevation of the everyday to high art: tying the commodity status of the goods represented to the status of the art object itself, emphasizing art's place as, at base, a commodity.
The majority of Pop artists began their careers in commercial art: Andy Warhol was a highly successful magazine illustrator and graphic designer: and James Rosenquist started his career as a billboard painter. Their background in the commercial art world trained them in the visual vocabulary of mass culture as well as the techniques to seamlessly merge the realms of high art and popular culture.
(The Art Story, 2017).
HISTORY/POP ART BASICS
Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the 1950s and flourished in the 1960s in America and Britain, drawing inspiration from sources in popular and commercial culture. Different cultures and countries contributed to the movement during the 1960s and 70s. It began as a revolt against the dominant approaches to art and culture and traditional views on what art should be. Young artists felt that what they were taught at art school and what they saw in museums did not have anything to do with their lives or the things they saw around them every day. Instead they turned to sources such as Hollywood movies, advertising, product packaging, pop music and comic books for their imagery.
In 1957 pop artist Richard Hamilton stated the ‘characteristics of pop art’ addressed to his friends:
“Pop Art is: Popular (designed for a mass audience), Transient (short-term solution), Expendable (easily forgotten), Low cost, Mass produced, Young (aimed at youth), Witty, Sexy, Gimmicky, Glamorous, Big business”
Tate (c2017)
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