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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... Museum of Art ) , 1968 Andrew Forge , Rauschenberg , New York , 1969 Henry Geldzahler , New York Painting and ... Modern Art and Popular Culture ( catalogue of an exhibition organized by the Museum of Modern Art , New York ) , 1990 John ...
... Museum of Modern Art , New York 3 JASPER JOHNS 4 Flag 1955. Encaustic , oil and collage on fabric mounted on plywood , 107.3 x 153.8 cm . Museum of Modern Art , New York ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG Bed 1955. Combine painting , 191.1 x 80 x 20.3 cm ...
... Museum of Art , New York 12 ANDY WARHOL Black and White Disaster 1963. Acrylic and silkscreen on canvas , 243.8 x ... Modern Art , New York 24 ED RUSCHA Twentieth Century Fox with Searchlights 1962. Oil on canvas , 169.5 x 338.5 cm . Whitney ...