What is Pop

Art?
Pop Art is a modern art
movement, which uses the
imagery, styles, and themes of
advertising, mass media, and
popular culture.
Pop Art is an art form that
reflected a return to material
realities of peoples’ everyday
life. It actually means the
return to popular culture, thus
the name “pop.”
Emerging in the mid 1950s
in Britain and late 1950s in
America, pop art reached its
peak in the 1960s.
Pop art is widely interpreted
as a reaction to the then-
dominant ideas of abstract
expressionism.
The term Pop-Art was
invented by British
curator Lawrence
Alloway in 1955, to
describe a new form
of "Popular" art - a
movement
characterized by the
imagery of
consumerism and
popular culture
Characteristics of
Pop Artimagery drawn from popular
recognizable
media and products
bright/bold colors
 clear lines
flat imagery influenced by comic
books/newspaper photographs
images of celebrities or fictional characters
 American
Pop Art British Pop Art
• Pop style art was a • the movement was
return to art that more academic in its
depicted the visual approach while
world in a recognizable employing irony and
way parody
• pop artists were more • pop artist's used to
interested with the work with popular
ideas behind the culture and technology
movement mostly at themes or
metaphors
 Andy
Warhol
• Born August 6 1928
• American artist
• One of the most
influential artist of his
time.
• His works explore the
relationship between
artistic expression,
celebrity culture and
advertisement
 Campbell's
Soup Can
1964

Manilyn
Monroe
1967
 Roy
Lichtenstein
• Born October 27 1923
• American Pop Artist
• best known for his
boldly-colored parodies
of comic strips and
advertisements.
 The Drowning
Girl
1963

Whaa
m!
1963
 Jasper
Johns
• Born May 15 1930
• American Artist
• Early works was
composed using simple
schemes of flags, maps,
letters, targets, and
numbers
• Wanted to create
meaning through the use
of symbols
 Flag
1954

Target with Four

Faces
1955
Richard
Hamilton
• Born February 24,
1922
• English artists
• known for producing
some of the earliest
works of Pop Art
• the most influential
British artist of the
20th century
Just What Is It That
Makes Today's
Homes So Different,
So Appealing?
1956