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Pop Art Movement In The 1950's

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Pop art is an art movement that came from the mid-1950’s in Britain, also in the United States in the late 1950’s. Pop art was formed by four guys. Eduardo Paolozzi and Richard Hamilton came from Britain and Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns are from the united states. Pop art is not mostly about itself, it's what is behind the art. Pop art uses imagery and usually advertises things and shows the news, and using imagery was a challenge in fine art.Pop art is very interpreted as a reaction to the then dominant ideas of abstract expressionism. Pop art originated from different places. Like North America and Great Britain, but North American was developed differently.Then it was in the U.S, it was return to representative art and hard-edge composition. …show more content…

Andy passed away on February 22,1987 in New York. Andy was American draftsman, he was a filmmaker, he painted,and he was also print marker. He mostly worked between his 50 and 50 years old age.One of the most successful and highest paid comerial illustrator in New York was Andy Warhill. That was before he made art destined for galleries.He came from a poor immigrant family in Pittsburgh to a high class worker for Bohemian and became very famous from that as well some types of drawing were mostly comic, decorative and last but not least whimsical. It’s a whole other tone from his pop art. Then, Warhol retired in 1965 from the medium to concentrate on making experimental films. These films attracted widespread interest. Later on in 1968, his career declined when he was shot by Valerie Solanas, and it basically the end of Andy

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