Pop Art

Pop Art

Introduction

Items used in everyday life commercialized in animated form are called popular art . Artists experimented with pop art in the 50 's , but did not become well known until the 60 's . Celebrity 's , music icons , and household items were animated into drawings , rapidly becoming very popular . Pop art is known as Popular Mass Media . Images found in pop art attract consumers belonging to the popular culture . Pop art derived from comic books . Commercialism and advertisements combined with the impact of the current media is the content of

what we call pop art . The media have become an inseparable part of our lives , of their sense of who they are , and of their sense of history . The media provide an even larger part of imagery and sound track of peoples memories (Grossberg , 2006 Pop art commercialism communicates to people drawing out their feelings or emotions associated with the advertised product

Mention pop art and , Andy Warhol 's name and artwork immediately come to mind . His theory is images portrayed on television are a part of everyone 's everyday life . Empty coke bottles and silk screen designs of Marilyn Monroe were repeated in one artwork . Marilyn Monroe 's silk screen imaging was recopied , placed side by side in several rows . Andy Warhol 's technique implied celebrities and coca cola , and many other replicated items were integrated in everyone 's life even when they do not realize it . Everybody in America drinks coke . His first pop art item was a can of Campbell 's soup . Campbell 's soup is in every household in America . He animated the soup can 's design , transforming the realistic image into animation , intending on creating advertisements appealing to emotions . The reasoning behind the advertisement is to get everyone to associate a comical , youthful emotion with the can of soup every time they saw the item in the store . The advertising idea worked greatly for manufacturers (OsterWold , 2003

Famous Pop Art Artists

Warhol was much more concerned with the image , or the message associated with the advertised item through pop art designs . He painted many celebrities on silk screen canvases , such as Marilyn , Elvis , the Beatles . The actual image , or picture audiences actually saw was a vision . In Elvis silk screen art work , about 25 percent of the image was shadowed . Warhol presented the mystique associated with real person Even though Elvis and other famous celebrities were a part of everyone 's life , their real life persona remained a mystery to general public . Only the image , not the real person was available through pop art . Another one of his famous paintings was a self portrait . His identity was hidden in his self portrait . Probably about 50 of his self portrait was shadowed in (OsterWold , 2003

Pop artists Robert Rauschenberg created abstracts and collage artwork Collage art contains many pieces pictures pasted together on one surface , not in any particular . The pictures may be sideways upside down , arrangement Most collage work contains photographs of the...