Thursday, 15 January 2015

The History Of Pop Art

By Donald Stoneman




A number of the most nicely-recognized artists of the Pop Art phenomenon, corresponding to Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg, were born in the 1920's which was a boom time within the USA with money to spare and jazz music starting to make it is mark. But in 1929 the inventory market crashed and the US entered a depression that lasted till the mid-1930. Maybe probably the most well-known of all pop artists, Andy Warhol, was born at the beginning of that depression.

British pop artwork can trace its roots again to the mid 1950s. A small impartial group comprising notable artists at that time together with critics within the art world put collectively an exhibition which was held at the White chapel Artwork Gallery in 1956. This exhibition was a deal with the topic of low cost consumer merchandise and the position that they played in fashionable life. Though it did not seem to be it then, the exhibition was a serious step ahead within the art world and a huge departure from what had gone earlier than it. The erstwhile critic, Lawrence Alloway (1926-1992) hailed it because the delivery of something new and in 1958 he christened this distinctive model of artwork as "Pop Art".

Key figures within the British pop art scene that adopted were Richard Hamilton (b. 1922) whose work depicted cars, pin-up fashions and electrical appliances, amongst others. Peter Blake (b. 1932), then again, targeting comedian strips and pop singers while the journal collector Eduardo Palazzos (b. 1924) produced impressive collage prints by recycling and integrating old advertisement material with comedian-strip images.

As for the US, throughout the Nineteen Fifties the artwork world was dominated by "Abstract Expressionism". It was till the early Sixties when art critics and American artists alike started to embrace Pop Art and provides this new style of art their very own inimitable American "take". In 1962, an exhibition entitled "New Realists" was held at the Sidney Janis Gallery in New York. This was ground-breaking in America, not least as a result of the exhibition featured work from artists together with Andy Warhol (1928-1987), Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997), Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929), Jim Dine (b. 1935) and James Rosenquist (b. 1933). Of those, Warhol, Lichtenstein and Oldenburg went on to turn out to be key figures on the pop artwork world. Warhol became a household name.

Certainly, Warhol's fame elevated in 1962 after his "Campbell's Soup Cans" work was produced and featured in separate works - firstly as individual "cans" and then the same cans aligned in immaculate rows.

So what are the traits of Pop Artwork? Just because the world by which we dwell is endlessly different, so Pop Artwork used a wide range of strategies however the frequent characteristics that define works as Pop Art are as follows:

Graphic Model: Clearly defined shapes and colors with hard edges such because the Lichtenstein comic book kinds and David Hockney's works. Funny and Lighthearted: Rejecting art and the fairly critical approach of earlier artists. On a regular basis Products and Brands: together with foodstuffs, cars and images from promoting and films. Collage: and likewise different methods inside one work.



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