Pop Art - From Soup Cans to Marilyn Monroe

Pop art is one particular of the most properly-identified and fascinating art movements in the twentieth century. Pop art was 1st and foremost a commentary on well known culture and the mass media. The pop art audience was commonly young and glamorous.

The procedures applied to make pop art have been low-expense and the benefits have been mass-developed. The topics have been urban and artificial, generally primarily based on magazines, comic books, Television photos, billboards and newspaper advertisements. For pop artists, disposable garbage and street junk represented society's unconscious, a veritable treasure trove of option realities. Certainly, pop artists developed their own version of distorted reality engineered with visual puns.

The theme of technologies and the machine also played a part in pop art, specially in the operate of Andy Warhol (1928-1987). Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans and his Marilyn Monroe Diptych, each of 1962, mimicked the advertising sector and the repetitious printing of tireless machines. Warhol claimed pointedly that he wanted "to be a machine" and his gimmicky wit was major business for a quick when.

A different pop artist, Jasper Johns, took familiar symbols such as flags, targets, and maps and gave them many levels of which means by way of texture, stenciled words and numbers and other visual manipulations. Johns was popular for incorporating a range of media in his operate such as encaustic wax and plaster relief.

Artists like Robert Rauschenberg, creator of the properly-identified goat-in-a-tire Monogram (1955-9), developed sculptural combinations of distinctive objects and components that have been clearly as opposed to classic stone sculpture in either method or subject matter. Rauschenberg's "combines" have been thoughtful and provocative, but not stunning. He was not attempting to fulfill the regular edict to glorify or immortalize man. Rather, Rauschenberg brought forbidden subjects such as homosexuality to the forefront in a humorously explicit way.

When criticized vehemently as tough to comprehend and extremely intellectual, pop art remains one particular of the most influential movements in the various-faceted history of contemporary art. The emphasis on the self and the conflict in between regular idealism and the occasionally unsightly photos of man's emotional and psychological realities had been played out in complete view for all to see.

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