Friday, January 16, 2015

Andy Warhol - American Hero

By Donald Stoneman




For art buyers around the globe looking for a pop artist Nashville has some good ones to choose from. These artists work in a style that popped onto the popular art scene in the 1950s in both the United Kingdom and the United States of America. Today, the style is still very popular and is being created by a variety of artists. The "place of birth" of the Pop Art movement was Britain in the mid 1950s', but it was present in the United States by the late 1950s'. The purpose was to challenge tradition, and assumed that the visual elements of the mass-media from the popular culture can be considered fine art. 4. Pop art relies on extracting material from its context and isolating it or associating it with other subjects for contemplation.

5. Pop Art coincided with the pop music phenomenon of the '50s and 60s' and it's highly associated with the swinging and fashionable image of London. For example, Peter Blake created the cover designs for The Beatles and Elvis Presley. More than that, he included actresses like Brigitte Bardot in his works, similar to the way Andy Warhol used Marilyn Monroe as a model. The style marries fine art with popular culture. The artists often borrow images from newspapers, comic strips, advertisements and other objects that are seen everyday and take them out of their typical context. They use fine art materials such as paint and canvas to create a new context for these images.

Key figures within the British pop art scene that adopted were Richard Hamilton (b. 1922) whose work depicted cars, pin-up fashions and electrical appliances, amongst others. Peter Blake (b. 1932), then again, targeting comedian strips and pop singers while the journal collector Eduardo Palazzos (b. 1924) produced impressive collage prints by recycling and integrating old advertisement material with comedian-strip images.

As for the US, throughout the Nineteen Fifties the artwork world was dominated by "Abstract Expressionism". It was till the early Sixties when art critics and American artists alike started to embrace Pop Art and provides this new style of art their very own inimitable American "take". In 1962, an exhibition entitled "New Realists" was held at the Sidney Janis Gallery in New York. This was ground-breaking in America, not least as a result of the exhibition featured work from artists together with Andy Warhol (1928-1987), Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997), Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929), Jim Dine (b. 1935) and James Rosenquist (b. 1933). Of those, Warhol, Lichtenstein and Oldenburg went on to turn out to be key figures on the pop artwork world. Warhol became a household name.

Certainly, Warhol's fame elevated in 1962 after his "Campbell's Soup Cans" work was produced and featured in separate works - firstly as individual "cans" and then the same cans aligned in immaculate rows.

So what are the traits of Pop Artwork? Just because the world by which we dwell is endlessly different, so Pop Artwork used a wide range of strategies however the frequent characteristics that define works as Pop Art are as follows:

The buyer can look online and in galleries to find the pieces. There are many fine galleries online where you can find fantastic pieces of art at great prices, that you can get shipped to you framed.




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