Thursday, January 8, 2015

Masters Of Pop Art

By Dick Wolf


A number of the most nicely-recognized artists of the Pop Art phenomenon, corresponding to Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg, were born in the 1920's which was a boom time within the USA with money to spare and jazz music starting to make it is mark. But in 1929 the inventory market crashed and the US entered a depression that lasted till the mid-1930. Maybe probably the most well-known of all pop artists, Andy Warhol, was born at the beginning of that depression.

One of the most popular images is The Great Wave at Kanagawa by the Japanese artist, Hokusai. It has been reproduced on greeting cards and as an art print for sale many times. The painting captures the moment when a huge tsunami is in full flight. Other paintings by this artist are available, including pictures of a snow-capped Mt. Fuji and of cherry blossom, a symbol of the resurgence of life in Japan.

People generally were additionally becoming bored with abstract and other advantageous art varieties and the emergence of popular artwork at that time was a refreshing change. Not solely was it new and distinct from every part else people were accustomed to, its vivid and funky colors whether on canvas or on promoting billboards appealed to a broad base of the public. There was no divide between positive and business art any longer. One of the most well known proponents of pop art was Andy Warhol

The Art Noveau movement had a gifted ambassador in Austrian artist, Gustav Klimt. The Kiss is one of the most reproduced images in the world. Other prints include The Tree of Life, Mother and Child and The Three Ages of Women. Impressionism is another movement that still resonates today and Claude Monet art prints are particularly popular. Water Lilies and Poppies are familiar works. Monet was well traveled and his Sunset in Venice is a fine example of his foreign excursions. When he was home in Giverny in France, he often painted his garden as in Le Pont Japonaise a Giverny.

It began appearing in the mass media, in advertising, movie posters and even on music album covers. It suddenly grew to become stylish and cool and plenty of celebrities began asking artists for his or her own. Marilyn Monroe's prints by Andy Warhol after her dying still remain some of the iconic prints ever.

So what are the traits of Pop Artwork?

One of the greatest pop artists was Roy Lichtenstein During the 1960s, along with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and James Rosenquist among others who became a leading figure in the new art movement. His work defined the basic premise of pop art through parody. Favoring the comic strip as his main inspiration, Lichtenstein produced hard-edged, precise compositions that documented while it parodied often in a tongue-in-cheek humorous manner. His work was heavily influenced by both popular advertising and the comic book style. He described pop art as "not 'American' painting but actually industrial painting". His paintings were exhibited at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City.

Funny and Lighthearted: Rejecting the fairly critical approach of earlier artists. On a regular basis Products and Brands: together with foodstuffs, cars and images from promoting and films. Collage: and likewise different methods inside one work.



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