Friday, January 16, 2015

When Art Took A Giant Step

By Susan Barkley


Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid-1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular culture such as advertising, news, etc. In pop art, material is sometimes visually removed from its known context, isolated, and/or combined with unrelated material. The concept of pop art refers not as much to the art itself as to the attitudes that led to it.

One of the most popular images is The Great Wave at Kanagawa by the Japanese artist, Hokusai. It has been reproduced on greeting cards and as an art print for sale many times. The painting captures the moment when a huge tsunami is in full flight. Other paintings by this artist are available, including pictures of a snow-capped Mt. Fuji and of cherry blossom, a symbol of the resurgence of life in Japan.

People generally were additionally becoming bored with abstract and other advantageous art varieties and the emergence of popular artwork at that time was a refreshing change. Not solely was it new and distinct from every part else people were accustomed to, its vivid and funky colors whether on canvas or on promoting billboards appealed to a broad base of the public. There was no divide between positive and business art any longer. One of the most well known proponents of pop art was Andy Warhol

And it was the design and advertising of that new merchandise that the artists were commenting on, and influenced by, in a manner that no earlier technology of artists had been. They tried to use odd shopper objects of their work to encourage people to view them differently. Additionally they positioned frequent objects in unusual methods to make individuals take notice of them.

But what the artists sought to focus on was the best way well-known people have been treated as objects in the same manner as merchandise were in promoting with all sense of their individuality removed. Though many pop artists had been unwilling to present meaning to their work, and even those who posed questions with their art, left those self same questions unanswered. Jasper Johns, famous for his sequence of paintings displaying the American flag, famously questioned whether or not his personal work was artwork or only a flag.

So what are the traits of Pop Artwork?

The items by well-known pop artists like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein are now amongst essentially the most priceless pieces within the world. An Andy Warhol silkscreen print referred to as "Eight Elvises" was bought to a personal purchaser in 2009, for US$a hundred million, making it one of the prime 10 costliest works ever sold.

You should be able to find something to hang on your wall if you look amongst the works of all these wonderful artists.




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