Essays on Pop Art

Pop Art is an art, where everyday objects are used (comics, cans, burgers, etc.) as a subject, and often included into the work. The Pop Art is the direction of the Visual Arts in Western Europe and the United States of the late 1950-1960-ies. The term “Pop Art” was firstly used by Lawrence Alloway in his critical article, but in the meaning of “pop culture”. Pop Art is characterized by the portrayal of all features of pop culture and has a powerful influence on modern life; images are taken from the mass media and especially advertising. Although critics characterized ...

Abstract

The birth of art had served humanity in a variety of purposes. And this purpose has changed throughout the course of human history. Humans use art to showcase their religious belief, to express emotions, to depict the beauty of an individual or a particular landscape, to record a significant event and for propaganda. Moreover, the way humans perceive art are constantly changing. Cultural art arises from the need to express emotions and the different aspects of cultures. On the other hand, modern-day contemporary art is inclined to make use of various objects and to combine genres which make the ...

Compare and Contrast

Compare and Contrast

For a better part of 19th century, various expressive art forms such as orchestral music, Shakespearean drama, sculptures, paintings, and opera enjoyed mass popularity and high-cultural status. However, in America, people shared a culture that was less organized (hierarchically), and less divided into rigid adjectival categories. With time, American arts became increasingly renowned for a growing chasm of “high” and ‘low” culture. Specifically, highbrow culture appeals to the affluent sections of the society who have enough disposable incomes to spend on services and goods that are more expensive and of higher quality. It requires a culture ...

Retroactive I is a silkscreen painting that Rauschenberg made in 1963. He used silkscreen and oil on a canvas to come up with this painting. This silkscreen work is considered the best of Rauschenberg's works of this nature. It falls within a series of similar paintings done by Rauschenberg between 1962 and 1964. This piece of art is drawn from the popular press and is, therefore, a representation of Pop art. Rauschenberg was keen in representing American iconography and Pop culture (Shanes, 175). He was, throughout his career, identified with Pop culture. He developed a style that emphasized on ...

Works of art can communicate critical information on the times in which they were created. Different time periods and different cultural backgrounds provide the stylistic and media elements of a work of art. There may be no specific intent to portray the times, but that is what happens when the artist creates a work of art in a particular artistic period. Examples of art works from two distinctly different times and cultures will demonstrate how the art in the Medieval period of European history and Pop Art from the late mid-20th century differ. The Medieval period in art history ...

An art movement is a specific period characterized by artists who are driven towards a common goal. The fashion industry has made numerous attempts over the years to associate itself with visual arts and popular artists (The Art Story Foundation, 2016). The collaboration between artists and fashion is mutually beneficial for both parties. Fashion applies art more than most practices in the world to reach a wider and a more popular audience. These collaborations have seen the fashion design industry evolve, innovate and provoke its numerous designs and collections (Blechman, 2013). These collaborations have further been encouraged by common ...

The Free Stamp sculpture is a monumental Pop Art sculpture, which was designed by an American Swedish artist, called Claes Oldenburg. His late wife Coosje van Bruggen assisted him in designing it. The sculpture is strategically placed at Willard Park in Cleveland, Ohio (Oldenburg, 57). The sculpture is a Gulliver-sized rubber stamp with the words FREE written in the stamping area. Aluminum and steel are the materials making up the sculpture and painted with polyurethane enamel. It was commissioned by SOHIO in 1982 but was installed nearly ten years later due to the opposition, it faced from BP since ...

The Japanese artist Takashi Murakami was born in Tokyo in 1962. Takashi Murakami studied the art of Nihonga (traditional Japanese painting) within the National University of Fine Arts and Music in Tokyo. The unique and self-sufficient style of the author is expressed through many mediums, including painting, sculpture, industrial design or fashion. He is an artist of the pictorial language, one of those which were strongly influenced by both popular culture and the formal characteristics of traditional art, such as flatness, applying a boss and abundant ornamentation. In 1990, Murakami was introduced to contemporary art with the artist Masato ...

The exhibition in the Fort Collins Museum of Art is the final part of a bit community art project. The works are designed by ‘both professional artists, student artists and more casual artists whose daily endeavors are directed elsewhere’ (FTCMA.org). 200 ceramic forms of masks left museum completely blank and were returned as individual work of art that is now a part of exhibition and action. The community aspect in this project is extremely valuable, as the Museum is not just raising the money but encouraging and promoting art and young artists. Masks are often associated with the tribal ...

Introduction

Pop Art or Popular Art originated in the Great Britain around 1950s. The word pop was first used to define popular culture existing but as the artist started using popular culture in their artwork the Pop art was created. Although the Pop art movement started in Britain, it achieved its full expression in U.S. American soil nurtured the movement providing a solid base for Pop art. It flourished so much in America that it became an integral part of American everyday life. The art found its way into things like newspaper photographs, Advertisements, Coco cola bottles, used car parts ...

The essay discusses three famous artists, Louise Bourgeois, Andy Warhol and Vincent Van Gogh.

Louise Bourgeois The work of Louise Bourgeois is influenced by traumatic events from her childhood and manifested a feminist-inspired body art that carried a strong influence on other artists. It is the highly personal content in her artwork that relates to sexual desire and the body. Perhaps she sought a therapeutic process in her art and developed a highly personal visual language. One finds the use of archetypal imagery in her works based on the adoption of objects such as cages, spiders, medical tools, and spirals that symbolize the feminine psyche and psychological pain. Bourgeois juxtaposes her materials to ...

The Modern period from the late 19th to the early phase of the 20th century served as the catalyst for the beginning of avant-garde works of different artists whose works isolated their styles from the rest of the artistic movements that emerged in the previous eras. These new designs spearheaded the development of the comic book art wherein the iconography of the subjects attempted to portray the real world yet in an animated way without closely resembling the reality. The artists who popularized these method includes Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, and Larry Rivers each of the defined the early ...

In the mid-1960s and already on the peak of his popularity Andy Warhol carried the products of mass-production and, usually, highly popular among the consumers products into the realm of sculpture. The stack of boxes can remind a factory, in fact, the boxes were made by carpenters he employed and painted ‘with assistance from Gerard Malanga and Billy Linich and silkscreens the with logos’ [Warhol.org]. The gallery with the sculptures looked more like a warehouse with different products as the boxes were very similar to the real ones. The work of art was so ordinary and mundane it caused ...

Marcel Duchamp was a French and American painter, chess player, sculptor, and writer who worked with conceptual art, Cubism, and Dadaism. He is mostly famous for the influence he had on the art of the twentieth century and especially Pop Art represented by Andy Warhol, Jim Dine, etc. Duchamp to Pop is the Norton Simon Museum’s exhibition aimed to show the impact of Marcel Duchamp over Pop Art and its artists. The purpose of this paper is to analyze one of Duchamp’s works, Boîte-en-valise, and discover the way it influenced on the Pop Art movement. Boî ...

Who would have ever imagined, in their wildest dreams that a simple splatter of paint, a solid coat of one single colour painted on a canvas, or even an infant like sketch that would take 10 seconds to complete, would in the right hands sell for millions and millions of dollars? Is this even possible in today’s vast and sweeping art market? It most certainly is, and records for highest priced artworks sold over the last century continue to be broken to this very day. However it is our intention to explore specifically as to why such simple ...

Marta Minujín is a conceptual artist who created works of art that are specific to pop art current, depicting, through the use of irony or humor contemporary events, which she referred to as “happenings”. Her artistic career reflects different historical and creative movements that define her versatile, free floating style. Two different artworks that summarize Minujín’s challengeable and pliable artistic style, while also illustrating her creative singularity, are “Parthenon of Books” and “Sweet Bread Obelisk”. The works of Marta Minujín debate social happenings, aspects that have influenced the reality of Argentina and Buenos Aires in ...

Undoubtedly, Bob Dilworth's paintings Daniel and James became a significant part of the exhibition "Memories of Inhabited Spaces" at the Klaus Art Center. The picture can be described as a bright and extraordinary work of art performed in the style of Pop Art. The artist used several different techniques to create his works, which makes it innovative automatically. Owing to the bright colors and unusual details, the picture immediately attracts attention so that the observers cannot take their eyes off it for a long time, analyzing the symbols and values ​​of the composition. If one talks about the colors ...

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The inter-reliability between art and, culture through the course of civilization has been immense. Art has played some defining roles in the course that the human race has responded to situations by either perpetuating existing perceptions and ideas or by promoting a new way of doing things and approaching situations. Art has also found immense in its primary use as a form of entertainment, where communities appreciative of art visit galleries and marvel at the various artworks in ...

Abstract

Pop culture of the 60s that originated in Britain and spread to US followed a string of philosophical and theoretical movement turning into mass culture. Pop culture has had many proponents in fashion, music and literature as well as numerous characteristic features. Studying the 60’s fashion design trends in ...

2014 Frieze Art Fair: Yoshimoto Nara from Japan to the Great Britain Japan is a country that has undergone an extraordinary (for more than a century) and a strong modernization following the Western model: it has, now, reached a unique style which seem to be quite eclectic. Japanese culture surprisingly developed more and more its visual culture in a strong and characteristic way. Passing through different artistic styles, contemporary Japanese artists want to be recognized for their true nature and not for old stereotypes. No surprises, therefore, that the recent animations works of Hayao Miyazaki are exported all over the world with great success, leaving ...

- Art is not empty. Art is a matter, a substance; it is a Concept, it is an Argument. Picasso said “painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy” (Boeck & Sabartés 1955, p.505), and rightly so. Picasso explains that Art has a purpose, specifically a voice of defiance and logic. But to hang it up as a one-dimensional item hollows the function of artmaking. I know art has the power to influence our thoughts and our actions because Art is conceived from an idea. And that idea could not be defined in ...

Introduction

Art has over the years been used as a form of expression. It is through art that various artists have been able to present their thoughts and feelings regarding various events, peoples, cultures, and occurrences to their audiences. In Preble’s Art forms Chapter 5, the author builds on the idea that arts are based on various objectives and motives by their artists. The Chapter argues that there are three theories upon which the creation of art is based. This paper will first of all discuss these three theories and apply these theories to the artwork Violet faces Red Side ...

Introduction

The art and architecture pieces selected for comparison are Ruscha's "Standard Station" and "Randy's Ballroom" by Joe de la Cruz, a local artist. Edward Ruscha is known to create vibrant signature styles by mixing words, images, objects, and he has been associated with Pop art in the 1960s and Conceptual art in the 1970s. The gasoline station remains one of the most iconic images from the artist. Joe de la Cruz, a local artist, is inspired by the series of screen prints and roadside markers that inform drivers of gas stations, eating joints and any other information. The Standard Station sign ...

It’s about living in the now. It’s about not taking life too seriously. It’s about going out with a bang. This is pop art and it exploded through classical and traditional art. Pop art is modern, ironic and colorful with a twist of reality. While looking at pop art, instant gratification burst and it caused a release of endorphins. It’s fun, sassy, and bright. It is art with an attitude. Pop artists created their works using vivid images of everyday modern life. It was art that society could easily relate. The pop culture was able to penetrate to ...

Communication

Some paintings can make people mad, make them ask questions, and make them see things differently (Heppermann, 2001). In the case of Andy Warhol, he was known for being the “Prince of Pop Art” when he first started during the 1930s in Pittsburgh, where he spent most his childhood. He rose to fame in 1966 and became a visionary artist with his innate qualities of perseverance, hard work and dedication. As a young artist, Warhol was often seen drawing pictures of flowers in his sketch pad based on his autobiography. Long before Warhol’s “pop art” was born, he was able ...

Analysis of an Artwork

Pop Art is probably one of the most intriguing and interesting elements in today’s age. Several artists initiated this genre in the late 1950’s and the 1960’s but none was more prominent than Andy Warhol. Although there have been several critics who have criticized his work as being without any form or sense of direction, posterity has shown otherwise. Works of art such as ‘Telephone’, ‘Marilyn Monroe’ and other pieces have fetched tens of millions of dollars as wealthy collectors have paid huge sums of money to acquire these iconic works. ‘Telephone’ is one such work, ...

There is a remarkable change regarding the extent of art in history. In the past, art paid attention to the natural art and beauty solely. However, the majority of art has continued to flow on different directions and has crossed different oceans. Many years ago, arts that depict the environment has captured interest and it has developed as an imperative center of contemporary investigation of arts. Together with environmental principles, art has turned to be an element of the wider variety of environmental investigation as well as environmental activities and endeavors. This development has sustained, understanding environment in ...

Pop art emerged in the United States in 1950s and soon afterwards this artistic movement has spread to Great Britain. The new art movement emerged from the increased fascination of the popular culture that reflected wealth of society in post-war period. The main feature of pop art was the celebration of beauty of the everyday objects such as soup cans, cosmetics, soda bottles or soap powder by turning them into symbolic icons. Pop art supported the development of many talented artists. Two of the most famous of them are Richard Hamilton and Robert Rauschenberg. Despite a lot of differences in ...

Introduction

Artists Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol were among the first Pop artist in America; their artwork made them very famous in America and across the globe. Pop art is referred to as an art movement that began in 1950s in Great Britain and later spread to United States of America in the late 1950s.It is a type is art that showcases challenge to cultures of fine art through involving imagery from renown cultures like news, advertising and many others. This paper will clearly show the comparison between the motives for painting, personal life, works of art, style of painting and ...

Introduction

In the 19th and 2oth centuries, artists found new ways of representing their work that was opposed to the conventional way in which art was done. Many of them developed new styles that incorporated modern art which sought to highlight the aspect of postmodernism in the ways of life of the people. Such art was different from what was identified in the centuries that were prior to the 18th, especially what was the case in the renaissance. The artists curved art and offered continuity if what their predecessors had left, but only did so with a sense of freedom and ...

Introduction

The ideas and art of Marcel Duchamp that occurred in 20th century had possibilities of influencing other artists that succeeded him. The uniqueness of Duchamp artistic process associated with surrealism and Dadaism remained influential to his succeeding artists. The concept of readymade altered the understanding of artists regarding the object of art. Duchamp refused to accept the existing standards of art hence leading to the development of a newly recognized style. Duchamp left a profound impact to the oeuvre of artists who succeeded him later in the century (Kuenzli, Rudolf, Francis and Naumann, 55). As will be analyzed in this paper, ...

The art story tells of creating paintings or sculptures of mass culture, and their aim of the pop art movement was to remove any confusion and lines between high art and low culture. The concept is that there is no hierarchy in the cultures and that art can borrow from any culture regardless of their most influential characteristics. It could be said that while abstract artists looked for trauma for the soul, the pop artists looked to express the same trauma through cartoons, and imagery at large. It is true to suggest that pop artists were among the first ...

Andy Warhol was an artist in the pop art. He explored the relationships between advertisement, celebrity culture, and artistic expression. Warhol was very successful as an illustrator of commercial art. He is however known for being controversial in art. His artwork is composed of different types of media such as painting, photography, hand drawing, printmaking, music, film, sculpture, and silk screening. He also pioneered computer generated art. He used collaborators to help him in accomplishing his art (The Warhol, 2013). Warhol focused on the popular people or items to form the subject of his art. Warhol focused on producing ...

Examining the vital and distinct differences between street art and pop art, it is necessary to look at several examples. Andy Warhol’s portrait of Che Guevara, created in 1968, is a perfect example of pop art – a genre that Warhol himself innovated. In this work, nine differently colorized images of Che Guevara are presented in a tiled manner, each of them having a different brilliantly neon color scheme. This particular image is pop art due to its appropriation of pop culture imagery in order to make an artistic statement in a formal, artistic exhibition context; the use of Che’s iconic image in ...

Kara Walker’s painting is a clear combination of techniques which can be said to have imbued the American psyche. The issue of racism is quite clear and one can feel it in the title which is ‘The Rich Soil Down There’ where the inherent racism which permeates the piece is demonstrated by its clear allusion to the agricultural labourer’s history especially in the Antebellum South. The work which is currently on display at the Museum of Fine Arts has a lot in common with other works which Walker has exhibited at a number of important museums. These include the ...

The pop culture syndrome is a facial extreme that permeates every element of social environment. Hamilton’s collage enhances a variety of factors that make homes appealing in regard to pop culture. The Hamilton collage collection outlines a catalogue of pop artistry from comics to adverts. One intriguing element in the art form is the black and white variance of the white chapel gallery of 1956. The element displays a heralding gap between personal understanding of culture and the new generation inspiration. The element of Jasper Johns reveals a different dimension of art in the manner that it becomes elitist. The object is an ...

Arguably, the exotic Art Deco was an exceptional style that dates back to the 1920’s a time when fashion had hit the predominant art industry. Commonly referred to as the boom of the roaring, Art Deco affected many forms of art in decorative arts, design, fashion, transport and product design, film and fine arts. Similarly, the exotic art was the new trend that hit the art industry influencing numerous forms of art. It largely touched almost all parts of contemporary life such as dancing with girls, tropical birds and animals, lotus flowers and even crossed borders to change native ...

[Subject/Course] [Submission Date] Richard Hamilton, a British painter and printmaker, renowned for his valuable contributions in Pop Art. This movement popped up during the1950s and 1960s in both his native country and United States of America and used metaphors from popular culture ("Richard Hamilton"). Hamilton was not only an experimenter and a historian but also the pioneer of great art. He is famous for his unique digital media usage (Weston). Moreover, he is also well-known for portraying interiors that were extremely stylized “with human figures who hide their rear identities behind a “waxwork” exterior image to match the style of ...

Introduction:

Art is always subjective but the way it has developed in recent years does show a certain tendency for the cubist and realist elements to be at the forefront. However one can observe how art changed from the middle 19th century to the avant garde preoccupations of Picasso which have demonstrated the changing face of art. We have also moved on to the modern exhibits such as those of Andy Warhol who demonstrates an original way of depicting artistic visuals. The change can be seen by comparing Gustav Courbet’s ‘The Meeting’ with Picasso’s ‘Le Demoiselles de Avignon’. ...

Analysis of Andy Warhol’s Marylin

Andy Warhol is considered to be one of the most famous artists of the 20th century. Actually, he is the leader of the pop art movement, which balances on the verge of artistic expressions, celebrity culture (mainly, movie stars) and advertisement. Pop art marked the consumerism mood among art lovers and artists. Unsurprisingly, it appeared in America and Britain, where consumers are famous for their active position. And Andy Warhol was their icon and so to say spokesman. In his work he combined different materials and techniques: he used hand drawing, oil painting, printing, photographing, silk screening, filming, using ...

Introduction

An art manifesto is defined as a public declaration of views, intentions and motives of artistic movement or of an artist showing standard features of the modernist avant-garde. It is noted that art manifestos are generally extreme in the way they are written and are intended to achieve a revolutionary effect. A manifesto is literary an address to the whole world with the pretense of discovering a cure for artistic, political, agronomical, parliamentary, astronomical and literary disease that has been ailing the society. Warhol’s manifesto centers on the change that is inevitable and has been embraced by all people of all ...

Silent Cries: A Look at the Influences on Art that impacted the United States Before, During, and After the War Aras Through Four Pictorial Portholes History: it really is his-story. What better way to tell a story than to make sure there are pictures in it? After all, a “picture is worth a thousand words” as the adage goes. Paintings, statues, photos, even architecture, from a given time periods such as the early American Colonial days give new meaning to an event in history. On the flip side, knowing the historical background of a piece of art creates deeper meaning for it and ...

TIME CAPSULE

Time Capsule Letter to the Future Generation Dear Future Reader/s, As you read pass this electronic mail, perhaps you are using a highly sophisticated gadget and you might need a document translator to be able to read through this text. Notwithstanding, I would like to share with you a common life in our times. I am a wife and the mother to six beautiful children, with two sets of twins included. I have three daughters and three sons ranging from ages six to twenty. My days are full of excitement as one can only imagine. Every day is different ...

Introduction

Andy Warhol represent popular culture type of art or “pop art,” an art movement which was very popular in the second half of the twentieth century. While he is famous for his unique paintings of Marilyn Monroe and Campbell's soup cans, he also created tons of inspiring artworks which included silk screens, commercial advertisements and films. "Pop" is a shortened term for popular art which became an important art ethos in the late 1950s (Delves, p. 12). It is also considered as an art movement which intends to “blur the boundaries between "high" art and "low" culture” (Scherman & ...

Andrew Warhola was born August 6, 1928, in Pittsburgh, to Slovakian immigrants. He grew up in a devout Byzantine Catholic family, within an Eastern European neighborhood in the city. When he was eight, Andy developed chorea, a condition of the nervous system that kept him in bed for months. This was the time when he received his first drawing lessons from his mother, who was a skillful artist. When he was nine, his mother bought him a camera, and he took up the hobby of photography as well. When he was 14, his father passed away, but he left his life savings to ...

Pop art:

Abstract: This is a form of art whereby traditional art is fused with popular culture. Popular culture refers to advertisements, celebrities, popular destinations and movies. This art movement had its roots in the United States and Britain in the 1960s. Pop art uses different elements that are evident in modern pop culture as a form of art. This include comic strips as well as advertisements and product names and brands,. It is believed that the movement rose in order to rebel against the ideas on traditional expressionism and postmodern art that were constrictive.

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Pop Art Movement

Pop art movement refers to an artistic movement that begun in Britain in the mid 1950s and spread to the United States in the late 1950s. Although it first emerged in Britain, pop art became one of the biggest ever artistic movements of the time in the United States after Abstract Expressionism. It challenged the people who were engaged in fine art. Lawrence Alloway, a British curator, is acknowledged as the inventor of the term Pop art. Pop art was a part of the popular culture and consisted of the use of imagery of consumerism. It enabled the artists to overcome ...

One of the most incredible and prolific art collections in the world resides in Houston, Texas - The Menil Collection. Cubist, Surrealist, Modernist, Abstract Expressionist, Byzantine, Minimalist, Pop Art: all of these styles and more can be found at this art museum, the result of decades of collecting by a fascinating family whose forward thinking and deep connections in the art world led to this incredible collection. Their art collecting was fueled by a deep and powerful philosophy that guided their work, leading to a seemingly random collection that nonetheless carried significant purpose and weight. The Menil Collection currently stands as one ...

Andy Warhol was an American painter. He was a leading influence in the development of Pop Art. Warhol’s original name was Andrew Warhola, and he was born in Pittsburgh, in Pennsylvania. Early in the 1960s, Warhol started experimenting with artistic representations of various media, including adverts, newsprint headlines and other images from popular culture in the US. In 1962, he started working on his series of Pop Art portraits of Marilyn Monroe. He also worked, in a similar style, on portraits of other celebrities including Elvis Presley (News History, 2012). Also in 1962, Warhol partook in the New Realists ...

In the early twentieth century, the curiosity of a child, Frank Epperson, marked the commencement of a popular icy dessert course known as the Popsicle. This is a sugary treat that occurs in a variability of savours. It started with experimentation on a chilly night. Numerous years later, it was promoted. Since that time, it has become a staple in domestic freezers all over the world. Frank Epperson, In 1905, then 11-years-old, discovered a mixture that would function as the constituents for the ultimate Popsicle. He variegated soda water powder into water and left the concoction outside overnight. Frank however kept the stirring stick within the ...

Question Number 1

The title of each image contains three main aspects of a painting meant to communicate vital information about the image. The title contains the artist name, the image name and the year on which the painting was done. The image viewers can obtain the theme and the intentions of the painting since individual artists are renowned of communication on various themes for instance infidelity. The images are named according to circumstances and individuals so; the appreciators can depict the meaning of the image with the name. The years mentioned shows the artistic period on which the image painting occurred. The ...