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Pop Art

            
            
             Pop art took over the culture of the 1960s and became intertwined with the lifestyle of its time more than any other aesthetic movement of the 20th century. In London in 1957 the screenprint workshop Kelpra Studio was founded. It began as a commercial shop printing posters for organizations such as the British Arts Council and quickly became a magnet for artists interested in exploring the screenprint's capacity for coupling photographic elements with vibrant colors. English artist Richard Hamilton was among the first to convert to this medium. Richard Hamilton is considered the father of Pop art because of his early collage, which offered a critical commentary on the world of conspicuous consumption.
             Pop Art first emerged in Britain as part of the general Pop movement. In 1963 the Beatles had three number one hits in Britain and their American tour the following year would establish Britain as the dominant world leader of youth culture. In the mid 60s boutiques opened in cities throughout Britain and soon became popular with the youth because of the inexpensive trendy clothing they sold. The interior of these shops was dimly lighted and pop music played loudly the whole time. From British and American pop music and the commercial adoption of the hippie movement came the language and culture of "flower Power" which, all together, influenced commercial art, fashion and the experimental furniture of a number of designers.
             In America, teens realized that they no longer wanted to live in the same interior space decorated by their parents. They began to become more independent and wanted their personal spaces to reflect that. Teens started decorating their rooms with posters and owned items like records and record players. Young people could be found hanging out by jukeboxes and going to drive-in fast food outlets that were newly designed just for them. Artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Claes Oldenburg popularized Pop Art in America with some of their works.


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1. Art In Society

... . For the first few years of its existence, and especially in New York, the new "Pop Art- movement went relatively unnoticed. The eventual recognition of Pop Art as a movement took the majority of the 1950's but early Pop art was very interesting and unique to the art world. "When Pop art was recognized as a shared phenomenon, there was hesitation as to what to call it- . "Some suggested New Realism ... every day culture and created something new with it and something that works on many levels. In a 1963 interview with Gene R. Swenson, when asked if he thought Pop art was "despicable- Li...

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2. The Influence of Pop Art

... and its dire state of affairs. They viewed the alluring imagery of American popular culture and its consumerist lifestyle with a sense of irony and a little bit of envy ("Pop Art - The Art of Popular Culture.") Despite lingering flaws such as racial and gender inequality, American culture appeared free from restrictions of class and freedom of expression was exalted (in theory, at ... the everyday, his imagination turned to the more shocking: scenes of car wrecks and electric chairs. Andy Warhol's 1962 Gold Marilyn Monroe was a perfect example of the ironic essence of Pop Art. His appr...

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3. Pop Art Movement

... of artists in the images of mass media, advertising, comics and consumer products. Pop Art is an abbreviation of Popular Art, the images used in Pop Art were taken from popular or "pop" culture. Pop art was "a dazzling celebration of life in a world recovering from war."# Pop art is in some ways hard to define. Pop art does not describe a style but rather a collective term for an artistic phenomena where ... are however essential characteristics which make artworks part of the Pop Art Movement. These characteristics are the subject matter, forms and media of Pop Art. Pop art was entirely...

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4. Pop Art

... have to change them yourself." Andy Warhol could not be truer when speaking of his generation and movement. Warhol was part of one of the largest movements in modern art; Pop. Pop Art was a 20th century art movement that utilized the imagery and techniques of consumerism and popular culture as well as mass media and advertising, often in an ironic way. Works of Warhol, Lichtenstein ... a retreat from major to minor quality. Observers and critiques today are now left questioning just whether or not the quality of art decreased, as well as the type of affect Pop Art had on society, and li...

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5. Pop Art

... pleasurable entertainment for male viewers, as much past artworks often did. This paper will attempt to explain the changes made during the "pop art" movement, in addition to the specific roles women played in pop art. First, we must discuss what is "pop art"? "Pop art," as defined by the Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, is a movement that emerged at the end of the 1950s as a reaction against ... in the United States during the later 1940s and 1950s. During the later 1950s, there were many indications that American painting would return to a new kind of figuration. Pop art bro...

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6. Dissertation on K-Pop Music

... or the advancement of cultural norms to better suit the majority instead of the elites. Adorno argues that true art is not beholden to the demands of anyone other than the creator. This is not the case with mass media, and the K-pop industry, as it generates song productions, stylings and choreography based on what is the trend of the day. It ... Frankfurt school bemoaned the existence of song recording mechanisms, believing that it diminished the impact of the live performance of art by making it re-playable at will – but the living and breathing product that is a K-pop idol is a con...

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7. The Beginnings of Pop Art

... led to the Woodstock Festival and so on. The print industry was booming, with machines and quality on a rise. The culture was in change because within the years 1859-1952 (pop art era), things that were very expensive became popular but people paid for them. They were seeing things that were very valuable as a way of life now. A notion of luxury change ... against comic era. You can see as the pop art culture was changing and how it had been changed through time. Pop art gave people a sense of optimism, especially after the war that had just occurred. It was a fun art, a hopeful art, a ...

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8. Pop art and post modernism

... It That Makes Today's Home So Different, So Appealing?" in 1956 by the British artist Richard Hamilton. It was a satiric collage of two absurd figures in a living room where the pop art marks of exuberance, absurdity, crudeness, and humor are emphasized. In 1960, the British artist David Hockney produced Typhoo Tea, one of the earliest paintings to portray a brand-name commercial product ... , an American, constructed the first of his gaudy, humorous plastic sculptures of hamburgers and other fast-food items. At the same time Roy Lichtenstein, a well-known pop artist, extended the range o...

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9. Father of Pop Art

... on famous people such as Marilyn Manroe (focusing on her sexual features of hair, lips and eyes), Jackie Kennedy, Liza Minnelli, Jimmy Carter, Albert Einstein and Elizabeth Taylor. In starting pop art Andy called upon everything he had learned from advertising. Television was also a place where the dollar sign and the gun were predominate symbols and he used them for subliminal messages ... and look at the images that had become invisible in their familiarity. Warhol's style made him so memorable and because it was inventive, helped bring about the whole essence of pop art. Not only did...

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