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Peter Blake
Patrick Caulfield
Richard Hamilton
Keith Haring (1958 - 1990)
David Hockney (1937 - ....)
Robert Indiana
Jasper Johns (1930 - ....)
Yayoi Kusama
Roy Lichtenstein (1923 - 1997)
Peter Max
James Rosenquist
Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987)
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Pop Art
Pop Art is an artistic movement that has been created as a rejection of
Abstract Expressionism, which was labeled pretentious and over-intense.
Pop Art, which is short for Popular Art, makes heavy use of mass culture
themes and techniques such as billboard advertisements, consumer
product packaging, comic strips and celebrities. Before the term Pop
Art was invented by a British critic named Laurence Alloway in 1956, this
art movement was called Neo-Dada, which of course was a strong reference
to Dadaïsm.
Pop Art first saw daylight in the 1950's but didn't really become popular until
the 60's. The 60's were the golden years for Pop Art, and Pop Art realised
it's full potential in New York where it got all the attentions from the art world.
As already being said in it's name, Popular Art was a bridge for the normal
person, a bridge between High and Low art.
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Andy Warhol
Perhaps the most famous Pop Art representative is Andy Warhol. In the 1960's he started painting famous American consumer products like Campbell's Soup and Coca Cola. Then he switched his production method to silk screen prints, so he would not onlu make art from mass product items, but also mass produce art itself. For making this all happen he created his own art studio known as "The Factory" and located in New York. "The Factory" also became a great meeting place for artists such as Lou Reed and Mick Jagger.
To the right you see an examples of Andy Warhol's Pop Art; this can of Campbell's Soup may as well be one of the best works to describe Pop Art.
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