Andy Warhol was a leading artist in the movement. Among his many painting are his CampBell 's soup cans and Heinz Ketchup bottle. He painted everyday object over and over again to prove America was a consumer Society (Gyure 1). Warhol’s subjects were everyday products and famous movie stars. Andy Warhol was an important individual in American Art, because he started a new movement in art called Pop Art.
Another commonly recognized and extremely renowned member of the pop art movement is Roy Lichtenstein. His paintings are commonly characterized by their resemblance to a comic strip. This act of taking commercial comic strips and transforming them into artwork is why Lichtenstein is one of the most known artists of the pop art movement. Early on in his art career, he mostly depicted cartoon characters that people could easily recognize, like Mickey Mouse for example (Wolf). Later on, he most famously made generic women the subject of his paintings.
The art in the 1940’s was full of strange ways of expression. It consisted of many abstracts and many strange pictures, this art style becoming “Abstract Expressionism”. Many tried to express their feelings and thoughts through paintings. The paintings consisted of many colors and many shapes and images. Some of the more famous artists being Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pallock, and the famous sculptor David Smith.
(Subject Matter) Roy Lichtenstein’s famous pop art painted in 1963 was known as the Whaam! The pop art itself was described as a powerful and uncanny modern version of the battle paintings that historically decorated European palaces and council chambers. It is on a grand scale, divided across two panels that together measure more than four meters in width (4). (Forms and Organization)
The time period between 1880s and 1940s is regarded as the Golden Age of the American Illustration. Many excellent illustrator arose and created a large amount of works that are nowadays seen as magnum opus, with styles, techniques, and intensity surpassing any age predeceasing it. The distinct characteristics that stands out the Golden Age to its previous eras that were considered as a productive in art achievements, such as Renaissance and the Enlightenment Movement, is that the public coverage and audience viewing these artworks were eminently huge. With the advancement of technology in the printing industry, the possibility of duplicating high-quality, namely accurate in hues, shapes, resolution, of the original artworks allowed artists to move their canvas to newspaper, covers of magazines, advertisement posters and etc. The achievement from the first Industrialisation brought about economic growth and as well as population growth; thus it led to growing public demand for advertisement and entertainment that now required more colorful and vivid presentations.
He normally creates pop art, especially ones with numerous pictures of the same piece of art. The culture around the 1960s had celebrity culture and advertisements that Warhol used in his art. He took a liking to taking one photo of an ordinary object and changing the colour or replicating it. The pop culture had begun in the 1950s and Warhol was becoming famous for his whimsical shoe paintings and advertisements. The heavy pop culture of 1960 has influenced his art to be more innovative than the regular paintings.
This culture started in 1956 in England. This type of art hasn’t really died out in the nation yet. Some of the famous artists of the pop art culture include Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, and their paintings. Andy Warhol is one of the famous artists in the pop art culture. He is most famous for his “Twenty-Five Colored Marilyn’s” piece of artwork.
Charleton Goodwin 4th Block Compare and Contrast of Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein Pop art was a movement that occurred in the 1950’s in Britain and late in the 1950’s in the United States. There were many artist who contributed to the pop art scene. In Britain there were people like Eduardo Paolozzi and Richard Hamilton, but in America they had Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. Pop art does not refer to how it looks it 's the attitude.
The Father of Pop Art “Pop art looks out into the world. It doesn’t look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself”(“Famous Quotes”). Roy Lichtenstein was a Pop Artist throughout the mid 1900’s. Bubble-gum wrappers, comic books, newspaper ads, and pages from the phone books were all part of Lichtenstein’s most famous paintings.
Pop art era originated in New York during the mid-1950s and ended in the early 1970s. It focused on familiar places in citizen’s day to day life, creating commercial images and during this time Pop art boomed because of the media World War II was receiving. Roy Lichtenstein’s painting “WHAAM!” would mostly fall under the category of the Pop art era for the reasons being that it is based on an image from a DC comic “All American Man of War” which was published by DC comics in 1962. Lichtenstein presented a powerfully charged scene in an impersonal manner, leaving the viewer to decipher the meaning for themselves. The painting is in a comic style of art (Pop Art) and depicts two fighter jets (one owned by the United States the other owned by the Soviet Union) in the air with one shooting a missile towards the other jet with a humongous “WHAAM!”
At Pepperdine University, The Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art showcases a collection of Andy Warhol’s timeless and famous paintings. According to the Weisman Museum, Andy Warhol was a committed member of the Catholic Church. However, his ties to the Catholic faith were, “something the artist always hid from his friends and the public” . Through careful observation of Warhol’s artwork, the use of abstraction suggests his Catholicism may have not been so carefully hidden after all. Warhol’s abstract art can be best compared with the existential belief and worldview of St. Thomas Aquinas, a celebrated Theologian and glorified soul of Catholicism in the late thirteenth century.
When he first was working in New York, Warhol was a commercial artist; he then defined and perfected Pop Art, during the 1950s’. At this time Andy Warhol’s artworks were original and unlike anything else seen at this time. His art became very popular at this time particularly loved by younger people. Warhol’s art was very funky and gimmicky.
In the 1940’s, a new art movement appeared in New York City called abstract expressionism which emphasizes on spontaneous and subconscious creation. Because of this, New York City was put at the center of the western art world and the first American movement to achieve international notoriety. Expressionism can be defined as freedom of self-expression as an artist aims to paint something of its interior perception. A painting by Jackson Pollock, No. 5, is one example of abstract expressionism that we will look at later. In the mid to late 1950’s, the pop art movement arose in Britain and the United States which challenged the traditions of fine art.
Rauschenberg can be accepted as a bridge between Abstract Expressionism and Pop art. American Pop art started in 1962 and center of American Pop art was consumerism after the war. American Pop artists took their material directly from society such as television, advertising and they criticized distinction between high and low art. They mostly reproduced images of American culture. American Pop art was mentioned with Roy Lichtenstein and Andy
Something else that he did was that he masked the canvas, so that the natural edges of the canvas could be seen. According to an article written on pahnation.com, numerous critics said that this feature made the painting look like a polaroid picture. Pop art was known as the art of popular culture, it fit in with the globalization of pop movement and youth culture. It contains different types of sculptures and paintings from different countries.
