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POP ART. By Maijo Juncosa. What is it?. Pop art emerged in the mid-1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States . P opular culture such as advertising, news, etc.
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POP ART By Maijo Juncosa
What is it? • Pop art emerged in the mid-1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. • Popular culture such as advertising, news, etc. • Material is sometimes visually removed from its known context, isolated, and/or combined with unrelated material.
Pop art is aimed to employ images of popular emphasizing the banal or kitschy elements of any given culture, most often through the use of irony. • Much of pop art is considered incongruent.
ANDY WARHOL • Warhol is the central figure of the American Pop Art movement. • He started his career as a commercial artist, advertising for local and national companies through his humorous spin on his illustrations. • Andy Warhol was a workaholic.
Claes Oldenburg • Famous for his live artworks displayed all around the world, international landmarks, Claes turned the world around taking Pop Art to a whole new level…3D!!!
Roy Lichtenstein • Comic adaptations. • Has lived a very colorful life as a family man, an educator, a war soldier and an artist. • His most famous works of art were the large scale comic-type ones complete with the dots similar to the ones in comic books.
Peter Blake • Is known as one of the best British Pop Artists. • Much of Peter Blake’s art is based on advertisements, wrestlers, and music hall entertainment and includes many collaged elements.
Let’s become Pop Artists! • http://www.phixr.com/photo/userindex • http://ipiccy.com/ • http://fotoflexer.com/