Pop art

Examples of Pop art in the following topics:

• Pop Art

  • The Pop Art Movement began in the 1960s and questioned the boundaries between "high" and "low" art.
  • One of the goals of Pop Art was to blur and draw into question the boundaries between "high" and "low" art or popular culture.
  • Of equal importance to American Pop Art is Roy Lichtenstein.
  • His work defines the basic premise of Pop Art better than any other through parody.
  • Andy Warhol is probably the most famous figure in Pop Art.

• Abstract Expressionist Sculpture

  • During the postwar period, many sculptors made work in the prevalent styles of the time: Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism and Pop Art.
  • There were numerous artists working in sculpture who were associated with the Pop Art movement.
  • George Segal, another artist associated with the Pop art movement, was best known for his life-size figures made from plaster and bandage casts.
  • Common practices seen in Pop-Art sculptural work include the display of found art objects, representation of consumer goods, the placing of typical non-art objects within a gallery setting and the abstraction of familiar objects.
  • Evaluate how sculpture from 1945-1970 was influenced by abstract expressionism, minimalism, and pop art.

• Who Is an Artist?

  • The Greek word "techne" is the closest that exists to "art" and means "mastery of any art or craft."
  • Generally speaking, the applied arts apply design and aesthetics to objects of everyday use, while the fine arts serve as intellectual stimulation.
  • After the exhibition during the Pop Art movement of Andy Warhol's Brillo Box and Campbell's Soup Cans, the questions of "what is art?"
  • Anything can, in fact, be art, and the term remains constantly evolving.
  • Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans have come to be representative of the Pop Art movement.

• Painting

  • The predominant term for art produced since the 1950s is contemporary art.
  • Another characteristic of postmodern art is its conflation of high and low culture through the use of industrial materials and pop culture imagery.
  • Chief among the proponents of this aspect of postmodernism is the Art Renewal Center with its staunch rejection of all art it perceives to be modern.
  • In general, Pop Art and Minimalism began as modernist movements: a paradigm shift and philosophical split between formalism and anti-formalism in the early 1970s caused those movements to be viewed by some as precursors or transitional postmodern art.
  • It's also seen as a continuation of Abstract Expressionism, New Image Painting and precedents in Pop painting.

• Sculpture

  • Modernist sculpture movements include Cubism, Geometric abstraction, De Stijl, Suprematism, Constructivism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Futurism, Formalism Abstract expressionism, Pop-Art, Minimalism, Land art, and Installation art.
  • In the early 20th century, Pablo Picasso revolutionized the art of sculpture when he began combining disparate objects and materials into one constructed piece of sculpture; the sculptural equivalent of the collage in two dimensional art.
  • The advent of Surrealism led to objects being described as "sculpture" that would not have been so previously, like "coulage" and other forms of "involuntary sculpture. " In later years, Picasso became a prolific potter, leading a revival in ceramic art with other notables including George E.
  • By the 1940s, abstract sculpture was impacted and expanded by Kinetic art pioneers Alexander Calder, Len Lye, Jean Tinguely, and Frederick Kiesler.

• Photorealism

  • Photorealism or super-realism is a genre of art that that began in the late 1960s and early 1970s, encompassing painting, drawing and other graphic media, in which an artist studies a photograph and then attempts to reproduce the image as realistically as possible in another medium.
  • Photorealism, also known as super-realism or hyper-realism, is a genre of art that makes use of photography in order to create a highly realistic art work in another medium.
  • Similar to Pop Art, Photorealism was also a reactionary movement that stemmed from the ever increasing and overwhelming abundance of photographic media, which by the mid 20th century had grown into such a massive phenomenon that it was threatening to lessen the value of imagery in art.
  • While pop artists were primarily pointing out the absurdity of the imagery that dominated mass culture—such as advertising, comic books, and mass-produced cultural objects—photorealists aimed to reclaim and exalt the value of the image.
  • The first generation of American photorealists comprising the art historical movement included such painters as Richard Estes, Ralph Goings, Chuck Close, Charles Bell, Audrey Flack, Don Eddy, Robert Bechte, and Tom Blackwell.

• The New York School

  • The artists of the New York School drew inspiration from surrealism and other contemporary avant-garde art movements, in particular action painting, abstract expressionism, Jazz, improvisational theatre, experimental music, and the interaction of friends in the New York City art world's vanguard circle.
  • The post-World War II era benefited some of the artists who were recognized early on by art critics.
  • Painters, sculptors, and printmakers created art that was termed Action painting, Fluxus, Color Field painting, Hard-edge painting, Pop art, Minimal Art and Lyrical Abstraction, among other styles and movements associated with abstract expressionism.
  • The 9th Street Art Exhibition, otherwise known as the 9th St.
  • Poets drew on inspiration from Surrealism and the contemporary avant-garde art movements, in particular the Action painting of their friends in the New York City art world like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning.

• Categorizing Art

  • Such mediums can include decorative arts, plastic arts, performing arts, sculpture, painting, architecture, music, or literature, to name but a few.
  • An art form is the specific shape, or quality an artistic expression takes.
  • For example, Roy Lichtenstein—a painter associated with the American Pop art movement of the 1960s—was not a pointillist, despite his use of dots.
  • Disputes as to whether or not to classify something as a work of art are referred to as classificatory disputes about art.
  • Anti-art is a label for art that intentionally challenges the established parameters and values of art; it is term associated with Dadaism and attributed to Marcel Duchamp just before World War I, when he was making art from found objects.

• Japanese Art after World War II

  • Participation in the Nitten became almost a prerequisite for nomination to the Japan Art Academy.
  • The arts of the Edo and prewar periods (1603-1945) had been supported by merchants and urban people, but they were not as popular as the arts of the postwar period.
  • Styles of the New York-Paris art world were fervently embraced.
  • After the abstractions of the 1960s, the 1970s saw a return to realism strongly flavored by the "op" and "pop" art movements, embodied in the 1980s in the explosive works of Ushio Shinohara.
  • He draws heavily from anime and related styles but produces paintings and sculptures in media more traditionally associated with fine arts, intentionally blurring the lines between commercial, popular, and fine arts.

• Neo-Expressionism

  • Neo-Expressionism is a style of modern painting and sculpture that emerged in the late 1970s and dominated the art market until the mid-1980s.
  • Related to American Lyrical Abstraction of the 60s and 70s, the Bay Area Figurative School of the 50s and 60s, the continuation of Abstract Expressionism, New Image Painting, and precedents in Pop painting, Neo-Expressionism developed as a reaction against the conceptual and minimalist art of the 1970s.
  • During the 1990s, she received multiple honors, including the College Art Association Distinguished Art Award for Lifetime Achievement, and an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the New School for Social Research/Parsons School of Design.
  • These critiques of Neo-Expressionism reveal that money and public relations strained the credibility of the contemporary art world in America during the same period that conceptual artists, and women artists including painters and feminist theorists like Griselda Pollock, were systematically reevaluating modern art.
  • Brian Massumi claims that Deleuze and Guattari opened the horizon for new definitions of beauty in postmodern art.