What was the Influence of non-western culture on pop art?

Question

help! i don't have a clue.... it would be a great help if any one could clarifly this for me

Answer 1

None a far as I can see. Bollywood (Indian film industry) has some influence but very limited thus far.

Answer 2

I really don't think Pop Art was influenced much, if at all, by non-Western cultures.

Unlike Picasso and Cubism, with it's roots in primitive African art, or Van Gogh and Impressionism, which was influenced by art from Japan and China, Pop Art in America was driven by it's own American culture.

Pop Art was an answer to, a mirrored image of, good old American commercialism and product endorsements. Pop Art lampooned the American concept of it's own environment, it's ideal life, it's own icons and value systems.

Pop Art was the first so-called art 'movement' that was purely American.

Answer 3

Think you'd have to start by asking what was the effect of non-western culture on Impressionism - i.e oriental influence - line drawing, 2-dimensional graphics, flat planes of colour, unconventional composition (for the West) - affected everyone - Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, Degas, Manet, Toulouse Lautrec - in fact, too many to mention.
From there, advertising developed in US and Europe, which used line drawing, simple flat planes of colour. By the sixties, the environment was flooded with advertising images which inspired the pop artists, who made refined and 'ironic' simplified versions of same (Lichtenstein, Rauschenberg, Peter Blake....)

Answer 4

The use of a limited set of usually vibrant colours like red, yellow, blue, green.

Certainly dots to build up shade and texture and lines to outline figures or component parts and lines to build in form.

Dots are used by the aborigines.