The Influence of Art Movements on Contemporary

Pop Art Movement

The word Pop Art is an abbreviation for Popular Art . The name says it all . The Pop Art movement wanted to bring art back into the daily life of people . It was a reaction against abstract painting , which pop artists considered as too sophisticated and elite

Pop Art emerged in the mid 1950s in England , but realized its fullest potential in New York in the '60s where it shared , with Minimalism , the attentions of the art world . In Pop Art , the epic was replaced with the everyday and the

mass-produced awarded the same significance as the unique the gulf between high art ' and low art ' was eroding away The media and advertising were favorite subjects for Pop Art 's often-witty celebrations of consumer society . They admired the singular artworks of Pablo Picasso 's Plate with Wafers and Stuart Davis ' Lucky Strike . They also appreciated the work of Marcel Duchamp whose ready-mades , as he called them , added a new sense of completion for the Pop artists . Marcel Duchamp was dismayed that the Pop artists appreciated his work . He stated "I threw the bottle rack and the urinal into their faces as a challenge and now they admire them for their aesthetic beauty (Wikipedia , 2006

Pop Art had an unusual kind of history for a modern art movement it existed in the United States , England , California , and even in Canada For the first few years of its existence , and especially in New York Pop Art went relatively unnoticed . Eventual , recognition of Pop Art began in the early 1950 's and slowly developed over the next few years Pop Art developed mostly because artists began to re-direct their attention to the possibilities of change

The term Pop Art ' was first used by the English critic Lawrence Alloway in a 1958 issue of Architectural Digest to describe those paintings that celebrate post-war consumerism , defy the psychology of Abstract Expressionism , and worship the god of materialism (Pioch 2002 . It was also related closely to Dada , an earlier movement (largely French ) that poked fun at the highbrow and serious nature of the art world and also used everyday objects and mundane subjects . Warhol 's rows of Campbell 's tins of tomato soup are equivalent to Marcel Duchamp 's bicycles and urinals placed in galleries . The artists began to associate more often with one another in the 1960 's . In 1961 , the Pop artists showed their work at the Young Contemporaries Exhibition . The list of artists included David Hockney , Peter Phillips , and Derek Boshier . On the New York side of Pop Art , such artists as Andy Warhol , Roy Lichtenstein , and Tom Wesselmann , began exploring their own aesthetic program . Throughout the 1950 's and 60 's , these artists created work that was deeply rooted in culture , both in the United States and Europe . By 1965 , when Pop artists showed their work at the Milwaukee art center Pop Art had become well defined and regarded . It marked a return to sharp paintwork and representational art . It...