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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... popular culture . American magazines and films were big , colourful and glossy , in striking contrast to the essentially mono- chrome British ethos . For the first time , icons from popular culture seemed to have gained a power in ...
... popular culture , the cover of the enormously influential Beatles album Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band . Three years later , Andy Warhol would begin producing silkscreened images of movie stars and pop singers , albeit with no ...
... Pop artist , Blake embraced popular culture with uncomplicated forthright- ness . In works such as Kim Novak Wall ( Private collection ) , painted in 1959 , Blake extolled famous personalities from the popular culture several years ...