Pop Art: Colour LibraryPop Art was one of the most revolutionary art movements of the twentieth century. During the years of the Macmillan and Eisenhower administrations, a period of peace and prosperity - and complacency - the first Pop artists attempted to deflate the established order. Their audacity at first scandalized the Establisment, but by the mid-1960s their work dominated the world art scene. In the 1950s, a group of artists in Great Britain and the USA, rather than despising popular culture, gladly embraced both its imagery and its methods. Photographs, advertisements, posters, cartoons and everyday objects formed the basis of their art. Roy Lichtenstein (1923-) painted scenes lifted straight from comic strips. Andy Warhol (1928-87) took photographs from newspapers and silkscreened them onto canvases in shocking, fluorescent colours. James Rosenquist (1933-), a billboard painter by training, borrowed banal images from advertising ant put them together to make absurd juxtapositions. More than any other art movement before or since, Pop Art exerted a strong influence on popular culture; its bold graphic style and insolence was widely imitated by the very media that had inspired it. |
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... portrait Blake forthrightly advertises himself as a lover of the American youth culture . He is dressed in American blue ... portraits of the most popular rock singer of the day ) . At the time , it was almost an act of defiance for the ...
Colour Library Jamie James. 41 ANDY WARHOL ( 1926-86 ) Self - portrait Fig . 26 BILLY NAME Photograph of Andy Warhol at the Factory with self - portraits and large bananas , 1966 1967. Synthetic polymer paint silkscreened on canvas , 183 ...
... portraits of Jacqueline Kennedy , Marilyn Monroe , and other famous figures , but she has chosen her own , personal ... portrait of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas entitled Let Us Now Praise Famous Women ( Private collection ) ...