POP ART

DEFINITION AND MEANING

• Art that is based upon popular culture
• As well as mass media
• Pop arts most recognizable imagery includes:
• Uses bright colors and recognizable imagery
• from media or products

CREATION

• Pop art began as a movement in Britain
• During the mid 1950's
• Through the independent group a movement that would create pop art
• It began heavily inspired by comic book style art

VARYING TYPES OF POP ART 1

• Pop art has many varieties
• These varieties include
• Using items in an innovative way to make a sculpture
• There is also the use of a flat image in a comic book style
• (With the print lines clearly visible)

VARYING TYPES OF POP ART 2

• Another use is the print of
• a recognizable image in different
• Colors or patterns

NOTABLE ARTISTS

• Andy Warhol
• Billy Apple
• John McHale
• Peter Blake

RECEPTION

• Pop art was adopted into many countries
• with varying diffrences in every country
• Major Countries include: Spain,Japan
• Italy, the UK and the U.S.

RECEDING OF POP ART

• The pop art movement ended
• In the early 1970's and for a time
• was forgotten. However now pop art
• has re-emerged and gained new followers

SOURCES:

• http://arthistory.about.com/od/modernarthistory/a/Pop-Art-Art-History-101-B...
• http://arthistory.about.com/cs/namesww/p/warhol.htm
• http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_art