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(1956) is one of the earliest works to be considered pop art.
Pop art is a visual History of art that emerged in the mid 1950s in UK and in parallel in the late 1950s in the United States. The coinage of the term
Pop Art is often credited to
United Kingdom art critic/
curator,
Lawrence Alloway in an essay titled
The Arts and the Mass Media, but this is false - the term that he uses is "popular mass culture" Lawrence Alloway, "The Arts and the Mass Media," Architectural Design & Construction, February 1958. Nevertheless, Alloway was one of the leading critics to defend mass culture and Pop Art as a legitimate art form. Pop art is one of the major art movements of the twentieth century. Characterized by themes and techniques drawn from
popular mass culture, such as advertising and
comic books, pop art is widely interpreted as either a reaction to the then-dominant ideas of
abstract expressionism or an expansion upon them. Pop art, like
pop music, aimed to employ images of popular as opposed to elitist culture in art, emphasizing the banal or kitschy elements of any given culture. Pop art at times targeted a broad audience, and often claimed to do so.
Much of pop art is considered very academic, as the unconventional organizational practices used often make it difficult for some to comprehend. Pop art and minimalism are considered to be the last
modern art movements and thus the precursors to postmodern art, or some of the earliest examples of postmodern art themselves.
Origins
In that it marked a return to sharp paintwork and representational art, pop art was a response to abstract expressionism. However, it also was a continuation of certain aspects of abstract expressionism, such as a belief in the possibilities for art, especially for large-scale artwork. Similarly, pop art was both an extension and a repudiation of
Dadaism. While pop art and Dadaism explored some of the same subjects, pop art replaced the destructive, satirical, and anarchic impulses of the Dada movement with detached affirmation of the artifacts of mass culture.
Pop art in the USA
.Temporally, the British pop art movement predated the American; however, American pop art has its own origins separate from British pop art.Piper, David.
The Illustrated History of Art, ISBN 0753701790, p486-487. During the 1920s American artists Gerald Murphy, Charles Demuth and Stuart Davis (painter) created paintings prefiguring the pop art movement that contained pop culture imagery such as mundane objects culled from American commercial products and advertising design. New Yorker article, accessed online August 28, 2007Wayne Craven,
American Art: History and Culture, p.464. accessed online August 28, 2007
Pop art in Spain
In Spain, the study of pop art is associated with the "new figurative." which arose from the roots of the crisis of informalism. Eduardo Arroyo could be said to fit within the pop art trend, on account of his interest in the environment, his critique of our media culture which incorporates icons of both
mass media communication and the history of painting, and his scorn for nearly all established artistic styles. However, the Spaniard who could be considered the most authentically “pop” artist is
Alfredo Alcaín, because of the use he makes of popular images and empty spaces in his compositions.
Also in the category of Spanish pop art is the “Chronicle Team” (
El Equipo Crónica), which existed in Valencia (city in Spain) between 1964 and 1981, formed by the artists Manolo Valdés and
Rafael Solbes. Their movement can be characterized as pop because of its use of comics and publicity images and its simplification of images and photographic compositions.
Filmmaker Pedro Almodovar emerged from Madrid's "La Movida" subculture (1970s) making low budget
Super 8 mm film pop art movies and was subsequently called the Andy Warhol of Spain by the media at the time. In the book "Almodovar on Almodovar" he is quoted saying that the 1950s film "Funny Face" is a central inspiration for his work. One pop trademark in Almodovar's films is that he always produces a fake commercial to be inserted into a scene.
Pop art in Japan
Pop art in Japan is unique and identifiable as Japanese because of the regular subjects and styles. Many Japanese pop artists take inspiration largely from
anime, and sometimes
ukiyo-e and traditional Japanese art. The best-known pop artist currently in Japan is
Takashi Murakami, whose group of artists,
Kaikai Kiki, is world-renowned for their own mass-produced but highly abstract and unique
superflat art movement, a surrealist, post-modern movement whose inspiration comes mainly from
anime and Japanese street culture, is mostly aimed at youth in Japan, and has made a large cultural impact. Some artists in Japan, like
Yoshitomo Nara, are famous for their
graffiti-inspired art, and some, such as Murakami, are famous for mass-produced plastic or polymer figurines. Many pop artists in Japan use surreal or obscene, shocking images in their art, taken from Japanese
hentai. This element of the art catches the eye of viewers young and old, and is extremely thought-provoking, but is not taken as offensive in Japan. A common metaphor used in Japanese pop art is the innocence and vulnerability of children and youth. Artists like Nara and
Aya Takano use children as a subject in almost all of their art. While Nara creates scenes of anger or rebellion through children, Takano communicates the innocence of children by portraying nude girls.
Paintings and Sculpture
Image:Jasper Johns's 'Flag', Encaustic, oil and collage on fabric mounted on plywood,1954-55.jpg|
Jasper Johns, 1954-1955
FlagImage:Campbells Soup Cans MOMA.jpg], 1962
Campbell Soup CansImage:'Still Life -20', mixed media work by --Tom Wesselmann--, 1962, --Albright-Knox Gallery--.jpg],
1962 Still LifeImage:WayneThiebaudThreeMachines.jpg], 1963
Three MachinesImage:Soft Bathtub.jpg],
1966 Soft BathtubImage:Hockney, A Bigger Splash.jpg],
1967 A Bigger SplashImage:Alex Katz's 1970 painting of his son 'Vincent with Open Mouth'.jpg],
1970 Vincent with Open MouthImage:'The Robe Following Her - 4', oil on canvas painting by Jim Dine, 1984-5.jpg],
1984-
1985 The Robe Following Her
Notable pop artists
See also
References
(1956) is one of the earliest works to be considered pop art.
Pop art is a visual
History of art that emerged in the mid 1950s in
UK and in parallel in the late 1950s in the
United States. The coinage of the term
Pop Art is often credited to United Kingdom
art critic/
curator,
Lawrence Alloway in an essay titled
The Arts and the Mass Media, but this is false - the term that he uses is "popular mass culture" Lawrence Alloway, "The Arts and the Mass Media," Architectural Design & Construction, February 1958. Nevertheless, Alloway was one of the leading critics to defend mass culture and Pop Art as a legitimate art form. Pop art is one of the major art movements of the twentieth century. Characterized by themes and techniques drawn from
popular mass culture, such as advertising and
comic books, pop art is widely interpreted as either a reaction to the then-dominant ideas of abstract expressionism or an expansion upon them. Pop art, like
pop music, aimed to employ images of popular as opposed to elitist culture in art, emphasizing the banal or
kitschy elements of any given culture. Pop art at times targeted a broad audience, and often claimed to do so.
Much of pop art is considered very
academic, as the unconventional organizational practices used often make it difficult for some to comprehend. Pop art and
minimalism are considered to be the last modern art movements and thus the precursors to postmodern art, or some of the earliest examples of postmodern art themselves.
Origins
In that it marked a return to sharp paintwork and representational art, pop art was a response to abstract expressionism. However, it also was a continuation of certain aspects of abstract expressionism, such as a belief in the possibilities for art, especially for large-scale artwork. Similarly, pop art was both an extension and a repudiation of Dadaism. While pop art and Dadaism explored some of the same subjects, pop art replaced the destructive, satirical, and anarchic impulses of the Dada movement with detached affirmation of the artifacts of mass culture.
Pop art in the USA
.Temporally, the British pop art movement predated the American; however, American pop art has its own origins separate from British pop art.Piper, David.
The Illustrated History of Art, ISBN 0753701790, p486-487. During the 1920s American artists Gerald Murphy, Charles Demuth and Stuart Davis (painter) created paintings prefiguring the pop art movement that contained pop culture imagery such as mundane objects culled from American commercial products and advertising design. New Yorker article, accessed online August 28, 2007Wayne Craven,
American Art: History and Culture, p.464. accessed online August 28, 2007
Pop art in Spain
In Spain, the study of pop art is associated with the "new figurative." which arose from the roots of the crisis of informalism. Eduardo Arroyo could be said to fit within the pop art trend, on account of his interest in the environment, his critique of our media culture which incorporates icons of both
mass media communication and the history of painting, and his scorn for nearly all established artistic styles. However, the Spaniard who could be considered the most authentically “pop” artist is
Alfredo Alcaín, because of the use he makes of popular images and empty spaces in his compositions.
Also in the category of Spanish pop art is the “Chronicle Team” (
El Equipo Crónica), which existed in
Valencia (city in Spain) between 1964 and 1981, formed by the artists
Manolo Valdés and
Rafael Solbes. Their movement can be characterized as pop because of its use of comics and publicity images and its simplification of images and photographic compositions.
Filmmaker Pedro Almodovar emerged from Madrid's "La Movida" subculture (1970s) making low budget
Super 8 mm film pop art movies and was subsequently called the Andy Warhol of Spain by the media at the time. In the book "Almodovar on Almodovar" he is quoted saying that the 1950s film "Funny Face" is a central inspiration for his work. One pop trademark in Almodovar's films is that he always produces a fake commercial to be inserted into a scene.
Pop art in Japan
Pop art in Japan is unique and identifiable as Japanese because of the regular subjects and styles. Many Japanese pop artists take inspiration largely from
anime, and sometimes
ukiyo-e and traditional Japanese art. The best-known pop artist currently in Japan is Takashi Murakami, whose group of artists, Kaikai Kiki, is world-renowned for their own mass-produced but highly abstract and unique superflat art movement, a surrealist, post-modern movement whose inspiration comes mainly from
anime and Japanese street culture, is mostly aimed at youth in Japan, and has made a large cultural impact. Some artists in Japan, like
Yoshitomo Nara, are famous for their graffiti-inspired art, and some, such as Murakami, are famous for mass-produced plastic or polymer figurines. Many pop artists in Japan use surreal or obscene, shocking images in their art, taken from Japanese
hentai. This element of the art catches the eye of viewers young and old, and is extremely thought-provoking, but is not taken as offensive in Japan. A common metaphor used in Japanese pop art is the innocence and vulnerability of children and youth. Artists like Nara and
Aya Takano use children as a subject in almost all of their art. While Nara creates scenes of anger or rebellion through children, Takano communicates the innocence of children by portraying nude girls.
Paintings and Sculpture
Image:Jasper Johns's 'Flag', Encaustic, oil and collage on fabric mounted on plywood,1954-55.jpg|Jasper Johns, 1954-
1955 FlagImage:Campbells Soup Cans MOMA.jpg],
1962 Campbell Soup CansImage:'Still Life -20', mixed media work by --Tom Wesselmann--, 1962, --Albright-Knox Gallery--.jpg],
1962 Still LifeImage:WayneThiebaudThreeMachines.jpg], 1963
Three MachinesImage:Soft Bathtub.jpg],
1966 Soft BathtubImage:Hockney, A Bigger Splash.jpg], 1967
A Bigger SplashImage:Alex Katz's 1970 painting of his son 'Vincent with Open Mouth'.jpg],
1970 Vincent with Open MouthImage:'The Robe Following Her - 4', oil on canvas painting by Jim Dine, 1984-5.jpg], 1984-1985
The Robe Following Her
Notable pop artists
See also
References
