Pop Art? Any Body Understand?

Question

This Year I Am Sitting A Exam In Art I Have Been Advised To Pop Art But Im Struggling To Find The True Deffioniton Could Somebody Help Me Please?

Answer 1

Hi
Roy Lichtenstein defined pop art as:'the use of commercial art as the subject matter in painting' -he must be counted, together with Andy Warhol, who was raiding graphic and mass- media sources about the same time and more or less independently, as one of its leading protagonists. We could in fact state that Pop Art took everyday icons of the era and turned them into an art form.
We could divide it up into the following categories:
Mass produced Art: Andy Warhol, using his silk screen printing techniques
Painting: Roy Lichtenstein, Large scale cells from comic strips.
Sculpture: Claes Oldenburg, with his giant clothes pegs, and soft sculpture cookers and fridges.
May I suggest that you refer to the following :
'Art' edited by Dr Robert Belton published by Flame Tree Publishing 2002
ISBN 1-903-817-994
'Techniques of the Modern Artists' by Collins,Welchman, Chandler and Anfam. published by Greenwich Editions 2001
ISBN 0-86288-190-0

Hope you find this helpful.

Answer 2

Pop Art is a style of art which explores the everyday imagery that is so much a part of contemporary consumer culture. Common sources of imagery include advertisements, consumer product packaging, celebrity photographs, and comic strips.

Leading Pop artists include Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, and Roy Lichtenstein.

Answer 3

Pop comes from popular, meaning related to all items or people that a broth public is already familiar with from their daily life, choose by the artist to be put into in a specific art-form (sculpture, painting, photography...) :
Best example the 'Campbell's Tomato Soup' a silk print painting by Andy Warhol or his Marylin Monroe portraits,
Jeff Koons work or Roy Lichtenstein's with his blown up painted cartoons...

Answer 4

Pop Art is art which represents the quick-fix, media orientated culture of modern capitalism.

It is meant to be disposable and forgettable to indicate the shallowness and triviality of advertising and modern living. It is, paradoxically, meant to be shallow but also demonstrates how shallow society is, which gives it depth and political connotations.

I'd define it as a very clever paradox.