Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the United Kingdom and the United States during the mid- to late-1950s. The movement presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular and mass cultures, such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural objects.
Andy Warhol
Alive between 1928 and 1987, Andy Warhol was an American artist, director and producer. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, advertising, and celebrity culture and span a variety of media, including painting, silkscreening, photography, film, and sculpture. Some of his best-known works include the silkscreen paintings Campbell’s Soup Cans (1962) and Marilyn Diptych (1962), the experimental film Chelsea Girls (1966), and the multimedia events known as the Exploding Plastic Inevitable.
Andy Warhol’s paintings are known for being portraits of famous people, painted with very bright, contrasting colours, and often in a big series of paintings comprising of the same face, but with different colours.
Some of the mediums and techniques that he used to make his artworks were; acrylic paint, charcoal, pencils, pen, synthetic polymer paint, silkscreen, and photography.
Some of the artists and art movements that influenced him were; Brigid Berlin, Roy Lichtenstein, Abstract Expressionism, and Pop Art.
Some of the major world events in his lifetime were; World War 2 between 1939 and 1945. The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. The Vietnam War between 1955 and 1975.
I love Andy Warhol and his art. He was such a unique person, he really sold art to the masses, and made it cool.
Keith Haring
Alive between 1958 and 1990, Keith Haring was an American artist whose pop art and graffiti-like work grew out of the New York City street culture of the 1980s.
Haring’s work grew to popularity from his spontaneous drawings in New York City subways, chalk outlines of figures, dogs, and other stylized images on blank black advertising-space backgrounds. After public recognition, he created larger-scale works, such as colourful murals, many of them commissioned. His imagery has “become a widely recognized visual language”. His later work often addressed political and societal themes, especially homosexuality and AIDS through his own iconography
Some of the mediums and techniques that he used to create his artwork were; graffiti, acrylic paint, and silkscreen.
Some of the artists and movements that inspired him were; Pop Art, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Jean Dubuffet, Jackson Pollock, Mark Tobey, and Pierre Alechinsky.
Some of the major world events in his lifetime were; The Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. The Vietnam War between 1955 and 1975.
I really like his work, it is funny and playful, and it has a lot of character.
Roy Lichtenstein
Alive between 1929 and 1997, Roy Lichtenstein was an American pop artist. During the 1960s, along with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and James Rosenquist among others, he became a leading figure in the new art movement. His work defined the premise of pop art through parody.
His work defined the premise of pop art through parody. Inspired by the comic strip, Lichtenstein produced precise compositions that documented while they parodied, often in a tongue-in-cheek manner. His work was influenced by popular advertising and the comic book style.
Some of the mediums that he used to create his artworks were; oil paint, acrylic paint, Magna (acrylic resin paint), and enamel paint.
Some of the artists, movements, and other things that inspired him were; cartoons, comic strips, popular advertising, Hoyt L. Sherman, Cubism, Abstract Art, Contemporary art, Abstract expressionism, Modern art, and Expressionism.
In 1918, a worldwide influenza epidemic struck; by 1920, nearly 20 million were dead. World War 2 between 1939 and 1945. Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. The Vietnam War between 1955 and 1975.
I love his artwork.
Research
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_art
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Warhol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Haring
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Lichtenstein
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_(paint)
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