... movement. Both their styles where very different but encapsulated the point of Pop Art and its look on pop culture and consumerism. Warhol is best known for his piece's "Marilyn Diptych", "Coca-Cola Bottles" and "Soup Cans" and his technique of using ... illustrator for advertisement and this is where he got his ideas for pop art. He was interested in the objects of mass culture and consumerism of a post-war United States. He was interested in the way these objects were packaged, advertised and presented to a mass culture in which material goods were a necessity. His ideas are seen ... ...

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... Scharf. Kenny Scharf was also briefly a graffiti artist. He, however, grew tired of this and moved on to create whole environments. These environments were largely influenced by popular culture television; they were filled with modified electronic gear and other appliances. Everything in these environments was influenced by television science fiction, in that they closely resembled the quasi-futuristic backdrops ... it apart. Also the use of limited, flat colors helped to perfect the theme. It could be said also that Lichtenstein mildly parodied these images so familiar to the American p...

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... from everyday life and employs techniques of commercial art and popular illustration. It was based on everyday life and the popular culture around everyone, for instance, magazines, comics, celebrities and objects. Although pop art did start to emerge in the 1950's in England, the time it really hit everyone was in the 60's, ... colour and simplicity in it. So little detail, yet it resembles her tremendously. Colour and simplicity. Yet it is so amazing and eye-catching. The reason pop art has to be my most favourite type of art. How everyday objects can be so fascinating to look at once o...

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... an international movement; it symbolized and acknowledged the growth of new "popular culture." Pop Art was recognized as a style that outdid art on the canvas to include everyday life. The emerging mass-media culture of advertising, movies and television, and consumer goods would all take part in the subject for this ... technique also referred as silk-screening. Warhol was an American, and did all his work in New York, U.S. Warhol started his career in Pop Art around 1960 and was active in his art and filmmaking until the late 80's. He then experienced some health problems and died as...

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Roy Lichtenstein was a pioneer of the Pop Art Movement best known for his oversized comic book-style images. "Roy's style was known around the world. He took things that everyone thought they knew and made something original ... once said. -The difference is often not great but it is crucial."" Lichtensteins paintings reached past what was considered "art- to create a new form built on clichés of a consumer culture. The comics Lichtenstein used as sources were relatively unknown but they were of decided typologies - war and romance. In 1963 Lichtenstein moved from New Jersey to New York, ha...

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