Pop Art
Painting
mid 1950s in England, mid 1960s in America –Andy Warhol, David Hockney ... Photographers influenced by the Pop artists are:
Oliver, Vit Madr
The most extraordinary innovations of 20th-century art were Cubism and Pop Art. Both arose from a rebellion against an accepted style: the Cubists thought Post-Impressionist artists were too tame and limited, while Pop Artists thought the Abstract Expressionists pretentious and over-intense. Pop Art brought art back to the material realities of everyday life, to popular culture, in which ordinary people derived most of their visual pleasure from television, magazines, or comics.
Pop Art emerged in the mid 1950s in England, but realized its fullest potential in New York in the '60s where it shared, with Minimalism, the attentions of the art world. In Pop Art, the epic was replaced with the everyday and the mass-produced awarded the same significance as the unique; the gulf between “high art” and “low art” was eroding away. The media and advertising were favorite subjects for Pop Art's often witty celebrations of consumer society. Perhaps the greatest Pop artist, whose innovations have affected so much subsequent art, was the American artist, Andy Warhol (1928-87).
“Star” by artist Andy Warhol
“Elvis” by artist Andy Warhol
photo collage by Madr
photo collage by Madr
photo by Oliver
"Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy" by artist David Hockney
