The Use Of Factory Machines Into Their Art

Pop artists incorporated mass media and advertisement pictures into their artwork. These artists instantly grabbed viewers’ attention with the use of consumer goods and cleaver statements. Like Abstract expressionism, Pop art avoided traditional painting as well by using factory machines to create their art. Artist Andy Warhol, for example, produced screen printings of already existing photographic images. Roy Lichtenstein’s process combined hand painting with machine reproduction – he hand-copied a cartoon image, projected onto a screen, hand-traced onto canvas and then filled in with Benday dots. Pop artists had no problems letting machines do some of the work for them very common characteristic among Pop artists was the use of appropriation

Mutt.” In the case of Pop artists, all images from Pop culture were fair game for incorporation into their own work – advertisements, photographs from newspapers, consumer goods and the like. Often, Pop artists took the appropriated image and recreated it in a new way to make it their own, such as Tom Wesselmann whose still lifes incorporated hand painting with consumer good imagery and even everyday objects. Unlike Abstract Expressionists, whose work took on expressive, authentic, transcendent meaning, Pop artists created work that presented anything from witty humor to ironic critique. While Roy Lichtenstein took playful jabs at the Abstract Expressionist gesture, other Pop artists used the impact of consumer good labels and military imagery to make a direct critique of mass consumption or political statements. Confused how a comic strip could be considered art? Some critics were outraged at the time. But Pop art represented a truly defining moment in the world of art history. Emerging in England in the late 1950s as artists of the Independent Group rejected the conservative and outmoded British art establishment, Pop artists embraced imagery of popular